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To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature. This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. Milton.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

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

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

To clothe; to invest; to install. [Obs.] "Monks . . . investured in their copes." Fuller.

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.

Masked; clothed as with a mask.

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.

y of London. A Haberdasher and a Carpenter, A Webbe, a Dyer, and a Tapicer, And they were clothed all in one livery Of a solempne and a gret fraternite. Chaucer. From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of Com. Prayer. Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackst…

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

iness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns. The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty. Ps. xciii. 1. No sovereign has ever represented the majesty of great state with more dignity and grace. Macaulay.

robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope. [The] children are clothed with mantles of satin. Bacon. The green mantle of the standing pool. Shak. Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree. Burns.

ful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. Tatler.

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