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A clasp for fastening garments in front. Fairholt.

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

To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment. [Rarely used except in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.] Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.

; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like. Mourning bride (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads. -- Mourning dove (Zoöl.), a wild dove (Zenaidura macr…

of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. South. The face lies muffled up within the garment. Addison. He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. Dryden. Muffled up in darkness and superstition. Arbuthnot.

A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.

Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.

Formmg the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Cor. iv. 16.

ive; too much or too great; -- chiefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat, over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.

An outer garment, or slop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

as those worn, tied about the waist, by Mohammedan men and women; by extension, a similar garment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.

A stripe or band, as on a garment. Chaucer.

A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

e whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

s of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.