cloth-breech 
cloth-breecht, clqth-breechest, . A country- 
man, or a man of the lower classes, iis distin- 
guished from the people of the court. 
Yet country's cli>th-t,rf,-ct, ami i-mnt \rlvi-t hose 
I'utt Ixitll alike liiliai-co (liroiiuli tin e 
Wits' BcmMttou, n... i. (Sares.) 
clothe (kloTH), r.; pret. uml pp. clutln-d or <-lml. 
ppr. clothing. [Formerly also i-luntli, r/nntln, 
dial, also clad and rind ; < MK. rlotln-n, <-l,,,l, ,,. 
clathcn (also rlrthni, > K. dial, and Si-, i-lunl, 
i-lml, q. V.) (pret. clnthi-ili; i-liitlml, i-lmlili , 
I'/, I/I/I', flllll,, 1-1,1:1, pp. I'llltllllt, ,-1,1:1, <//),< AS. 
cldthian (= I). L(t. l-li-rdm = MlHi. (i. kl, l, n 
= Icel. kUetha = Sw. kliiiia. = Dan. l.iml, i, 
clothe, < cldth, a cloth, a garment: see clotli, n., 
and cf. r/<>Mi, r.] I. (/. 1. To put garments 
on; invest with raiment ; dress; attire. 
t'nto A.I.-LIII also ami to his uif.< <li.I thr I.i.r.l lioil ruak. 
coats of skills, and r/..//,. ./ tlirm. Qen. iii. --'I. 
Hi- l-Uiijah] had i'l:i:l hinisi-lf \\illi a new garment. 
1 Ki. .vi. _>!>. 
Tn the Temple is the IIIIIIKC ..r Apnllo rl,,nth,;l, with a 
t. ';!!. 1. I'll,-:-/,,!.',, I'ilxriiiiage, p. 80. 
Hence 2. To cover as if with clothing; over- 
spread or surround with any covering, literally 
or figuratively ; invest . 
I will also clothe, her prii st with salvation. Pa. cxxxii. 16. 
And the | r wi-rti linl jia|'i-ls In- employed 
To clothe tobacco, or some cheaper drug. 
/;. ,/II/MU/I, Apol. to Poetaster. 
Satan's clontl,,,,:, himself with 'I'l-rrur when he prepares 
for the Combat ia truly sublime. 
Adilimn, .Sjxjctator, So. 321. 
On either aide the river lie 
Long fields of barley and nf rye, 
That clothe the wold and meet the sky. 
Tennyson, Lady of Shalott. 
3. To furnish with raiment; provide with 
clothing: as, to feed and clothe a child or an 
apprentice. 
Whanne I waa clothles je me cledde, 
gc wolde no sorowe vppon me see. 
1'nrk Plays, p. 608. 
= Syn. To attire, array, apparel. 
U. in trans. To wear clothes. [Rare.] 
Care no more to clothe, and eat. 
.S/ijt., t'ymheline, iv. 2 (song). 
clothed (klOTHd), />. a. [Pp. of clothe, r.] 1. 
Covered with garments ; invested with or as if 
with clothing. 
Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Pa. civ. 1. 
The pastures are clothed with flocks. Pa. Ixv. la. 
Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity. 
Tennyson, Oodiva. 
Specifically 2. Naut., said of a mast when 
the sail is so long as to reach down to the deck- 
gratings. [Eng.] 3. Iii her., same as vested. 
clothes (kldTHz), n. pi. [< ME. clothes, earlier 
clathes (occasionally coutr. close, cloysse; cf. 
the common mod. careless pron. kloz, and see 
So. clans), < AS. cldtha.i, pi. of cldth, a garment: 
see cloth.'] 1. Cloths: the older plural of 
cloth, now used only in composition, and in- 
cluding usually senses 2 and 3, as in clothes- 
basket, clothes-horse, clothes-line, etc. 2. Gar- 
ments for the human body ; dress ; vestments ; 
raiment ; vesture. 
And as it is the custom and maner, 
Anone they were arrayed ill clothis blake. 
(ieneri/des (E. E. T. S.), 1. 242. 
If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 
Mark v. 28. 
3. Materials for covering a bed ; bedclothes. 
'A bade me lay more clothes on his feet. 
Shak., Hen. V., U. 3. 
She turned each way her frighted head, 
Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. 
Prior, The Dove. 
Long clothes, clothes for a young infant, made much 
longer than the body. 
clothes-basket (kloTHz'bas'ket), , A large 
basket for holding or carrying clothes or house- 
hold linen for washing. 
clothes-brush (klpTHz 'brush), . A brush 
adapted for brushing clothes. 
clothes-dryer (kl6THz'dri'6r), . Any device 
for drying wet clothes. 
clothes-horse (kloTHz'hdrs), n. A frame to 
hang clothes or household linen on, especially 
for drying. 
clothes-line (kloTHx.'lin), n. A rope on which 
clothes are hung to dry after being washed. 
clothes-moth (kloTHz'mdth), . A name com- 
mon to several moths of the genus Tinea, whoso 
larva? are destructive to woolen fabrics, fea- 
t hers, furs, etc. , upon which they feed, using the 
material also for the construction of the cases 
in which they assume the chrysalis state. See 
out in next column. 
07 
Clothes-moth (Tixra ftlluntllal, 
with picrc <if cloth attacked by larva. 
(Cross and line show natural sizes.) 
1057 
clothes-pin 
(kloTiiz'pin), n. A 
forked piece of 
wood or a small 
spring-clip for fas- 
tening clothes on :i 
clothes-line. 
clothes-press 
(kloTHy/pres),M. 1. 
A wardrobe, clos- 
et, or cupboard in 
which clothes are 
plaeed ; an ar- 
moiro. 2. A press 
in which clothing 
is creased ami 
smoothed. E. II. 
Knight. 
clothes-sprinkler 
(kloTH/. ' spring '. 
k!6r), n. A per- 
forated vessel by 
means of which a fine shower of water is sprin- 
kled upon clothes to dampen them for ironing, 
clothes-wringer (kloTllz'ring'er), . A me- 
chanical device for wringing the water from 
wet clothes. It is commonly a frame containing two 
i lactic rollers in contact and turned by a crank, i< 
which the clothes an- passed to squeeze out the water. 
Cloth-hall (kldth'hal), n. A hall or local in- 
stil ut ion forming a center of the trade in 
woolen cloth, as at Leeds, Bruges, etc.; a 
market for the sale of woolen cloths. The 
cloth-halls were formerly of great importance 
iu the trade. 
The importance of these cloth-halls may be seen from the 
fact that the merchants of Novgorod, after having several 
times received defective pieces of cloth from other places, 
determined that no cloth but that from the hall at Bruges 
should be allowed entrance into the Baltic ports and the 
Eastern markets. English GUds (E. E. T. 8.), p. cvi. 
clothier (kloTH'yer), n. [< clothe + -i-er, as in 
brazier*, grazier, sawyer, etc.] 1. A maker or 
seller of cloth or of clothes; specifically, a 
dealer in ready-made clothing. 
The clothiers all, not able to maintain 
The many to them 'longing, have put off 
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., L 2. 
2. A fuller. Pickering. [TJ. S.] 
clothing 1 (klo'THing), n. [< ME. clothing, clo- 
thing (also clething, > E. dial, and Sc. cleading, 
deeding) (= D. Weeding = G. kleidung = Daii. 
kla'dning), verbal n. of clothe, v. : see clothe.] 
1 . Garments in general ; covering for the per- 
son; clothes; dress; raiment; apparel. 
Looke, suche clothyny as thou shall weerc 
Keepe hem as clenly as thou can ; 
And all the Remenant of thy geere ; 
For clothyng oftc maketh man. 
Boolce of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 110. 
My clothing was sackcloth. Ps. xxxv. 13. 
2f. Livery; corporation. 
That ther he ordeyned a atronge comyn cofur w* vj. 
keyes, to kepe yn ther tresour, oou keye therof to be de- 
lyuered to the high Baillye, and another to oon of the 
Aldermen, and the iijde to the chamlterleyn chosyn by 
the grete clothynge. English Gilds (E. E. T. 8.), p. 377. 
3. In steam-engines, same as cleading, 2 (a). 
4. Sheets of leather studded with wire, used 
to form the cards of a carding-machine. Also 
called card-clothing. 
Clothing'-'t (kloth'ing), . [Verbal n. of cloth, 
.] The making or manufacture of cloth. 
The king took measures to instruct the refugees from 
Flanders in the art of clothiny. Kay. 
cloth-lapper (kloth'lap'er), . A person who 
laps or folds cloth, generally with the aid of 
some mechanical contrivance, 
clothlesst, a. [ME. clothles (= Icel. MmfJUdllM) ; 
< cloth + -less.] Without clothing. See extract 
under clothe, I., 3. 
Seint Paul ... in famync, and in tliurat, and colde, 
and clothles. Chaucer, Parson's Tale, p. 289. 
cloth-markt (kldth'mark), n. A seal, usually 
of lead, appended to a roll or piece of cloth by 
a duly appointed officer (see alnagcr) as evi- 
dence of its quality or length. 
cloth-measure (kloth'mezh'ur), . A measure 
of length and surface, in which the yard is 
divided into quarters and nails : formerly em- 
ployed in measuring cloth sold by the yud, 
but now practically out of use, the yard being 
divided into halves, quarters, sixteenths, etc. 
Clotho (klo'tho), n. [NL., < L. Clotho, < Gr. 
K/<j6Vj, one of the three Fates, lit. 'the spin- 
ster' (the three being also called K?o&r, 'the 
spinsters'), < K/<J&W, spin.] In zool. : (a) A 
genus of mo Husks. Fatijas de Saint-Fond, 1808. 
clotter 
(6) A genus of tuliitc -l;iri;in spiders, of the family 
I./"'* iiidir: :i syiioinn; of Oroctea. \\"<il,-l,i<,n ,'. 
l-.n'.l. [Not in use. J (>) A j/enns of venomous 
African sci-peni family I // //,(. , 
tn Is the pu 
C. MAiV-. IIM is another Afri< . -.-. :i* tin 
river-jack. ././.. (,fj A genus of hum- 
niin^-liinls. .I//// .///, 1875. 
cloth-paper (klotli'pa]i'j. . Coarse glazed 
paper used t.,r pressing and finishing w. 
cloth. 
cloth-plate (kloth'plut), . In u sowing-ma- 
chine, the- nit-till plate nil wlii'-h I lie work rests 
ami through whii-li tin- QI edle passes. 
Cloth-preSS (klotli')H-es). ;i. A hydrostatic press 
in which woolen cloths are subjected to pres- 
sure. /-.'. //. Kiiiiiht. 
cloth-prover (klMh'wC'vte), . A form of 
magnifying glass useain numbering the threads 
of weft in a given space of cloth. 
clothredt, l>i>- A Middle Knglish variant of 
I'llllll-rril. < 1,11,1:: I. 
cloth-shearer (kloth'sher'er), . One who 
shears cloth to free it from superfluous nap. 
My father is a poor man, and by his occupation a clotk- 
shearcr. liaketcill, Apology, p. 486. 
cloth-shop (kldth'shop), n. A bookbindery de- 
voted to i-nsi -work or binding in cloth. 
Cloth-Stitch (kldth'stich), . A close stitch 
used in the decorative patterns of pillow-laces, 
in which the threads are woven together like 
those of a piece of cloth. It is not strictly 
speaking a stitch, but is woven with bobbins. 
cloth-stretcher (kldth'strech'er), n. One who 
or that which stretches cloth; specifically, a 
machine having a series of rolls and bars over 
which cloth is drawn to stretch it. 
cloth-tester (kloth'tes'ter), n. A machine for 
testing the strength of cloth by a direct pull. 
cloth-walkt, v- i- [ME.: see cloth and walk.] 
To full cloth. 
Wher they be peraones yuogh and people to the same, 
to dye, canic, or spyiine. weve, or cloth-walke, withyn the 
seid cyte. Kmjlith (iiW* (E. E. T. S.), p. 388. 
Cloth-wheel (kl&th'hwel), n. 1. A grinding or 
polishing wheel covered with cloth charged with 
an abrading or polishing material, as pumice- 
stone, rotten-stone, chalk, putty-powder, etc. 
E. H. Knight. 2. In a sewing-machine, a feed- 
movement in the form of a toothed or serrated 
wheel which projects upward through the cloth- 
plate and has an intermittent motion. 
cloth-worker (kloth'wer'ker), 11. A maker of 
cloth. 
He got this cold with sitting up late, and singing catches 
with cluth-wurkcrs. B. Jonson, Eplccene, iii. 2. 
No cloth icorker was allowed to bring his wares for sale in 
these halls, unless he had served a seven years' appren- 
ticeship. JSiifflitk Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. clxxi. 
Cloth-workers' Company, one of the twelve great livery 
companies of London. 
clothy (kloth'i), a. [< cloth + -01.] Resem- 
bling cloth; having the texture of cloth. M. 
C. Cookc, British Fungi, p. 5. [Rare.] 
cloth-yard (kloth'yard), H. An old measure for 
cloth which differed somewhat in length from 
the modern yard. See yard Cloth-yard shaft 
or arrow, an arrow having the length of a yard, cloth- 
measure : the longest shaft ever used in European arch- 
ery. The length of the shaft used depended upon the 
length and flexibility of the how, because it was always 
considered necessary that the arrow should be drawn 
nearly to its head. A long arrow was, however, more easy 
to aim truly ; hence the long and flexible bow with a long 
shaft was a more effective weapon than a shorter bow. 
He had a bow bent in hia hand. 
Made of a trusty tree ; 
An arrow of a cloth-t/ard long 
Up to the head drew bee. 
Chevy-Chase (Percy's Rellquea, p. 143). 
God keep the kindly Scot from the clolh-;mrd shaft, and 
he will keep himself from the handy stroke. 
Scott, Monastery, ill 
clotpate (klot'pat), . Same as clotpoll. 
clotpollt. clotpolet (klot'pol), . [ Var. of clod- 
pott.'] 1. A clodpoll; a blockhead. Shak.,1. 
and C., U. 1. 2. A head : used contemptuously. 
I have sent Cloten'a clotpoll down the stream. 
Shak., Cymbeline, IT. 2. 
clottt (klot), n. An early modern English form 
of eloft. 
clottert, v. t. [< ME. cloteren. clotren, clofhren 
(=MD.Wo,ferai); freq. of clofl, v. See clutter^.] 
To clot ; coagulate : the earlier form of clutter*. 
The clothred (var. clotered, clotred] blood, for eny leche- 
ci-aft, 
Corrumpeth, and is in his Iwtik ilaft (left]. 
Chnuctr, Knight's Talc, 1. 1887. 
Slldd'ring through clattered blood and holy mire. 
Dryden, .Bneid. II. 
