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1,795 words match “LOT”

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

ing a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

CHEESE CLOTH n.

A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

CLOT n. 3 definitions

oncretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

CLOTBUR n. 2 definitions

The burdock. [Prov. Engl.] Prior.

The common burdock; the clotbur. [Obs.] Wyclif.

CLOTH n. 3 definitions

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

CLOTHE v. 4 definitions

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

CLOTHES n. 2 definitions

s made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.

CLOTHESHORSE n.

A frame to hang clothes on.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

CLOTHESPRESS n.

A receptacle for clothes.

CLOTHIER n. 2 definitions

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

CLOTHING n. 4 definitions

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

Clottered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Clodpoll. [Obs.] Shak.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.