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To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to clothing; wearing clothes. Ld. Lytton.

A garment; an article of clothing. Camden.

lly of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.

mbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

cable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.

act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.

Covering; clothing. [R.] Woodward.

That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler. And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thing that on the field is found. Drayton.

The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.

The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury. Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson.

-- Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary. -- To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [Obs.]

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen. Linen draper, a dealer in linen. -- Linen prover, a small microscope for counting the threads in a given space in linen fabrics. -- Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of…

Linen goods collectively; linen underwear, esp. of women; the clothing of linen and cotton with its lace, etc., worn by a women.

That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.; especially: