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A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India]

To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. Shak.

To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]

A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.

A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be…

(Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.

rom one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.

Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

ton. To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." Milton. -- To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.

ng; looking or being in good condition; becoming. [Obs.] I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth. Chaucer.

The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance. -- Throm*bot"ic, a.