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Same as Underclothes.

A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

cid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

A fine cotton cloth of India.

European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic] Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel.

A material object (vaguely designated). A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne.

A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes Massinger.

Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.

he ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

er, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle.