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To clothe. [Obs.] Holland.

An order of the Entomostraca.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee.

Clad or crowned with heath.

Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.

Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor. Sir W. Scott.

A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

Covered with vines.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad. This day will be launched . . . the first armor-plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain. Times (Dec. 29, 1860).

Clad with armor.

Decked or adorned; clad. [Archaic] Chaucer.

and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll. -- Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

lants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

vagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.

Clad in a cope.