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A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.

A cloth of sky-blue color. [Obs.] "A long surcoat of pers." Chaucer.

A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

Nap of cloth. [Obs.]

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.

es of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.

Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.

receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, ship biscuit. -- Pilot cloth, a coarse, stout kind of cloth for overcoats. -- Pilot engine, a locomotive going in advance of a train to make sure that the way is clear. -- Pilot fish. (Zoöl) (a) A pelagic carangoid fish (Naucrates ductor); -- so named…

ted and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

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.

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…