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kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side. "Robes of frieze." Goldsmith.

To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes. "You fur your gloves with reason." Shak.

of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. Pope.

tanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military. He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. Dryden.

mson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple. All in a robe of darkest grain. Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain. Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection.…

A grooved director for a probe or knife.

For him was lever have at his bed's head Twenty bookes, clad in black or red, . . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. Chaucer.

d plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)

an not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. F. W. Robertson.

ality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

tion of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

nvest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.

Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices. "Inquisitorial robes." C. Buchanan.

s intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

per blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.

To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.

-- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

A kind of loose robe or gown tied with a sash, worn as an outer garment by Japanese men and women.

oldsmith. That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. F. W. Robertson.