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A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

To put on, as clothes; to draw on. The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.

To tuck up; to truss up, as the clothes. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.

To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts.

cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline. Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. Piers Plowman.

Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.

Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.

oolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

ted and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. Fuller.

Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. "A poor vessel." Clarendon.

se, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.