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To clothe or cover up. [Obs.]

A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons. [Eng.]

Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a second-rate champion. Dryden.

Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.] Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn…

The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.

A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

sten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. Mark ii. 21.

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The dean was so shabby." Swift.

The saddlecloth or housing of a cavalry horse.

Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.

A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders. India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. -- Shawl goat (Zoöl.), the C…

ip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

on of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

cted by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances. Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain. Pope.

To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically:

Cotton or linen cloth suitable for bed sheets. It is sometimes made of double width.