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essing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.

The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.

of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners. Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains. Pope.

A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially:

eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird. -- Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which i…

Pertaining to, or suggestive of, a horse, or of horse racing; as, horsy manners; garments of fantastically horsy fashions. [Colloq.]

e knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages. [Written also heuk and hyke.] [Obs.] Bacon.

ss; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time.

Something inserted or set in, as lace, etc., in garments. [R.]

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.

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

harp protuberance; a denticulation. Arethuss arose . . . From rock and from jag. Shelley. Garments thus beset with long jags. Holland.

ic having both sides dressed, the sides being of different colors, -- used for reversible garments.

A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric (as stockinet).

An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front. Fairholt.

A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.

A loose upper garment; as:

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]