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That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog. Rug gown, a gown made of rug, of or coarse, shaggy cloth. B. Johnson.

A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

A nappy cloth. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Cloth or clothing of a russet color.

To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak.

ng and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

Linen or cotton cloth such a sacks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

Clothed in sackcloth.

Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. "Sad-colored clothes." Walton. Woad, or wade, is used by the dyers to lay the foundation of all sad colors. Mortimer.

To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.

A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.

An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.

lations. See Saltfoot. His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt. B. Jonson. -- Acid salt (Chem.) (a) A salt derived from an acid which has several replaceable hydrogen atoms which are only partially exchanged for metallic atoms or basic radicals; as, aci…

To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloth.

Anything of a blood-red, as cloth. [Obs.] In sanguine and in pes he clad was all. Chaucer.

The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc. [Written also sarpelere.] Tyrwhitt.