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article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

Clothing; dress.

An outer garment.

A garment worn below another.

it; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

des to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

External 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.

A hole for the arm in a garment.

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

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as Babylonic garments,carpets, or hangings.

Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. "A Babylonish garment." Josh. vii. 21.

A garment for the back; hence, clothing. A bak to walken inne by daylight. Chaucer. Behind one's back, when one is absent; without one's knowledge; as, to ridicule a person behind his back. -- Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), players stationed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's bac…

part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.