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The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

Dressed in a gown; clad. Gowned in pure white, that fitted to the shape. Tennyson.

One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.

A nightgown.

, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.

Wearing a coarse gown or shaggy garment made of rug. Beau. & Fl.

A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. Shak.

A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.

To strip of a gown; to unfrock.

Stripped of a gown; unfrocked.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.

tached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

me; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.

Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns." Milton.

A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns. [Obs.]

he streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman. [Cant] Her . . . daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns. Goldsmith.

A garment worn throughout the Levant, consisting of a long gown with sleeves reaching below the hands. It is generally fastened by a belt or sash.

A hood; especialy, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.