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3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a
garment; as, to clothe one with authority or
power.

Language in which they can clothe their
thoughts.

Watts.

His sides are clothed with waving wood.

J. Dyer.

Thus Belial, with with words clothed in
reason's garb.

Milton.

Clothe (?), v. i. To wear
clothes. [Poetic]

Care no more to clothe eat.

Shak.

Clothes (? or ?; 277), n. pl. [From
Cloth.] 1. Covering for the human
body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever
covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or
comfort.

She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good
clothes.

Shak.

If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be
whole.

Mark. v. 28.

2. The covering of a bed;
bedclothes.

She turned each way her frighted head,

Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.


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