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Cloth or other material for bags.

shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." Hood.

A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.

A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. Shak.

t includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.

Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats. Beaver rat (Zoöl.), an aquatic ratlike quadruped of Tasmania (Hydromys chrysogaster). -- Beaver skin, the furry skin of the beaver. -- Bank beaver. See under 1st Bank.

tinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the…

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.