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Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden.

The grasscloth plant (Boehmeria nivea); also, its fiber, which is very fine and exceedingly strong; -- called also China grass, and rhea. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

Not trimmed, covered, or folded under; as, the raw edge of a piece of metal or of cloth.

Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.

To clothe again.

To clothe again.

A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.

ce of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon. (b) An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc.

Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.

To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law. Restoring and rehabilitating the party. Burke.

An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.

by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.

n applied, either by acting machanically in preventing the color, etc., from reaching the cloth, or chemically in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. F. C. Calvert.

by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.

To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe. Her, nathless, . . . the enchanterrevest and decked with due habiliments. Spenser.

Vesture. [Obs.] Richrevesture of cloth of gold. E. Hall.

The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.

A prominent line or ridge, as in cloth.

Furnished or formed with ribs; as, a ribbed cylinder; ribbed cloth.