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called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.

uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable. And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies. Milton. To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.

Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense. There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudit…

Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.

ctory or rejoicing. A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands. Rev. vii. 9.

Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.

oolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.

ted and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.

; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. Fuller.

Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. "A poor vessel." Clarendon.

se, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.

alled pussy cat. Pussy willow (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American Salix discolor; -- called also glaucous willow, and swamp willow.

rom land; as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the p…

A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.