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The quality of having a nap; abundance of nap, as on cloth.

The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.

ven rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.

Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.

Cloth made waterproof by oil.

Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.

Attached to the body, as clothing or ornament, or for use. "I have boots on." B. Gonson. He put on righteousness as a breastplate. Is. lix. 17.

ally for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter. Ure.

A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.

Waving. [Obs.] Ounding, paling, winding, or bending . . . of cloth. Chaucer.

To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other. "If I the night outwear." Pope.

A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.

- Packing ring. See Packing, 2 (c), and Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] Simmonds. Pad cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing. -- Pad saddle. See def. 3, above. -- Pad tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. Knight.

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.

An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.