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A cloth band for a gown. [Obs.] With kerchief starched, and pinners clean. Gay.

hite color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.

A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.

A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.

Plaid cloth.

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison.

c. A mixture of this with butter, water, and salt is called Plasmon butter, and resembles clotted cream in appearance.

The entire clothing of a bird.

he plumes himself on his skill. South. Plumed adder (Zoöl.), an African viper (Vipera, or Clotho, cornuta), having a plumelike structure over each eye. It is venomous, and is related to the African puff adder. Called also horned viper and hornsman. -- Plumed partridge (Zoöl.), the California mountain quail (Oreortyx p…

A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.

; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. Fuller.

it in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.

Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. "A poor vessel." Clarendon.

A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with the hands. [Obs.]

Cloth worked in eyelet holes. [Obs.] Homilies.

Decorative perforation of cloth. [Obs.]

A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

se, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth and presses it down upon the table of the machine.

One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.