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A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.

A frame to hang clothes on.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

A receptacle for clothes.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

Clottered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Apron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

A cloth worn around the breech.

A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

A cloth used for washing dishes.