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A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief; a neckcloth.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. Thackeray.

A handkerchief. [R.] percival.

; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

A handkerchief.

A handkerchief. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chapman (1654). Shak.

threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

oad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.

s of the person; -- mostly used in compounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief. He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her black hair strained away To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin. Mrs. Browning.

A handkerchief. [Obs.]

To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.

A handkerchief.

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]

A handkerchief. [Obs.] Shak. Napkin pattern. See Linen scroll, under Linen. -- Napkin ring, a ring of metal, ivory, or other material, used to inclose a table napkin.

A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.

A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." Longfellow. And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. Macaulay.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.