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Wearing slippers. Shak.

Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper.

Wearing or having a snood. "The snooded daughter." Whittier.

Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles. As spectacled she sits in chimney nook. Keats.

Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

lidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity. The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. Taylor. To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens.

Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.

Having or wearing a stole. After them flew the prophets, brightly stoled In shining lawn. G. Fletcher.

Wearing a surplice.

Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. [Obs.] "Three-piled people." Beau. & Fl.

Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.

Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M. Sandys.

Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

Having three crowns; wearing the triple crown, as the pope.

Wearing trousers. [Obs.]

Wearing a turban. " A malignant and a turbaned Turk." Shak.

Not having, or not wearing, a gown.

Not wearing a helmet; without a helmet. Sir W. Scott.

in clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform. F. W. Robertson. In full uniform (Mil.), wearing the whole of the prescribed uniform, with ornaments, badges of rank, sash, side arms, etc. -- Uniform sword, an officer's sword of the regulation pattern prescribed for the army or navy.