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Body cloth. See under Body.
-- Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or
partially of threads of gold. -- Cloth
measure, the measure of length and surface by which
cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is
usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth
paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and
finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer,
one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous
nap.

Clothe (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Clothed (&?;) or Clad (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] [OE.
clathen, clothen, clethen, AS.
clāðian, clæðan. See
Cloth.] 1. To put garments on; to
cover with clothing; to dress.

Go with me, to clothe you as becomes
you.

Shak.

2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed
and clothe a family; to clothe one's self
extravagantly.

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with
rags.

Prov. xxiii. 21.

The naked every day he clad,

When he put on his clothes.


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