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A double bar marking the end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

n body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.

, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.…

est complement of eggs of a bird. Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.

A place where charcoal is made. [U. S.]

A wall made of clay mixed with straw.

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]

A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. Cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.

The beverage made from the roasted and ground berry. They have in Turkey a drink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.

Cordage or cables, made of this material.

[Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

A salad made of sliced cabbage.

The report of the act made by the proper officers.

ich is inferred. [Obs.] We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton.

college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor.