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clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

To disrobe; to strip of apparel; to make naked. Drink disapparels the soul. Junius (1635).

To clothe again.

To divest of clothing; to strip. [Obs.] Donne.

To clothe or array; to dress. [Archaic] Tecla . . . addressed herself in man's apparel. Jewel.

Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. Dryden.

ll cry for sorrow of heart. Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. Shak.

To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck. Dressed myself in such humility. Shak. Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return. Shak.

Harborous. [Obs.] A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous. Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2)

Newfangledness. [Obs.] Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.

See Apparel. [Obs.] "In the parail of a pilgrim." Piers Plowman.

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

Apparel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

; as, to proclaim war or peace. To proclaim liberty to the captives. Isa. lxi. 1. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak. Throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held. Milton.

A change of apparel; a second or different suit. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag. [Spelled also sachel.] The whining schoolboy with his satchel. Shak.

The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.

maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. [Conscience] is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 (Rev. Ver.).