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Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. "A motley fool." Shak.

upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.

Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. Deep mourning. See under Deep.

uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable. And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies. Milton. To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.

Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.

To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple. [Colloq. U.S.]

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general. [Obs.] Gayton.

A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.

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.

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense. There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudit…

Cloth made waterproof by oil.