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nk, office, or the like. Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shak.

A dressing gown, or morning gown.

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

omen, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing saek. [Written also sacque.]

To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. "My sea-gown scarfed about me." Shak.

Long; large; extensive. [Obs. or Scot.] Shak. His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg. Laneham. Side action, in breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that turns sidewise. -- Side arms, weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet, pistols, etc. -- Side ax, an…

which secretes the material of silk, as in spider or a silkworm; a sericterium. -- Silk gown, the distinctive robe of a barrister who has been appointed king's or queen's counsel; hence, the counsel himself. Such a one has precedence over mere barristers, who wear stuff gowns. [Eng.] -- Silk grass (Bot.), a kind of g…

The part of a garment which covers the arm; as, the sleeve of a coat or a gown. Chaucer.

; as, to slip off a coat. -- To slip on, to put on in haste or loosely; as, to slip on a gown or coat.

Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.

An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket. [Obs.]

which . . . no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown. Macaulay.

to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. Addison.

gistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. -- Toga virilis Etym: [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.

a Christmas tree. A rotten building newly trimmed over. Milton. I was trimmed in Julia's gown. Shak.

A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.

The back of a woman's gown in which one or more very broad folds are carried from the neck to the floor without being held in at the waist, while the front and sides of the gown are shaped to the person and have a belt or its equivalent.

of cloth. -- To wear on or upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" Chaucer. -- To wear out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days." Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wea…