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rial, worn for ornament on other parts 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.…

Dressed; hooded; covered; wearing a kerchief. Milton.

Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.

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

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

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.

A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also curch.] Jamieson.

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

A handkerchief. [R.] percival.

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.

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

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

A kerchief. [Obs.] He became . . . white as a kercher. Sir T. North.

A kerchief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.

A handkerchief. [Obs.]

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