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glofs, and leaves a dull fpot, difagreeable to the eye. 
Theglofs may be reftpred by palling in a proper dire&ion 
over the wafhed part of the cloth, a brnflt wetted with 
water in which a fmall quantity of gum is diffolved, and 
then laying upon the part a (heet of paper, a piece of 
cloth, and a pretty considerable weight, which are to re¬ 
main there until the cloth is quite dry. 
To. CLOTHE, <v. a. pret. 1 clothed, or clad ; part, cloth¬ 
ed, or dad. To invert with garments; to cover with 
drefs, from cold and injuries.—The Britons, in Caefar’s 
time, painted their bodies, and clothed themielves with the 
{kins of hearts. Swift. 
With fnperior boon may your rich foil 
Exuberant nature’s better bleflings pour 
O’er every land, the naked nations xloihe. 
And be th’ exhauftlefs granary of a world. Tbotnfon. 
■ To adorn with drefs.—We clothe and adorn our bodies: 
indeed, too much time We beftovv upon that. Our fouls 
alfo are to be dothed with holy habits, a'nd adorned with 
good works. Ray. —To invert, as with clothes.—I put on 
righteoufnefs, and it dothed me. Job. 
If thou beert lie ; but O how fall’n ! how chang’d 
From him, who in the happy realms of light. 
Cloth'd with tranfcende'nt brightnefs, didrt outfiiine 
Myriads though bright! Milton. 
To furnifh or provide with clothes.-—Drowfinefs {hall 
clothe a man with rags. Proverbs. 
To CLOTHE, v.n. To wear clothes—Care no more 
to dothe and eat. Shakefpeare. 
CLO'THIER,/ A maker of cloth.—Clothiers are to 
make broad cloths of certain lengths and breadths, within 
the lifts ; and (hall caufe their marks to be woven in the 
cloths, and let a foal of lead thereunto, {hewing the true 
length thereof. Stat. 4 Ed. IV. c. 1. 27 H. VIII. c. 12. Ex- 
pofing to file faulty cloths, are liable to forfeit the fame; 
and clothiers {hall not make ufe of flocks, or other deceit¬ 
ful ftuff, in making of broad cloath, under the penalty of 
five pounds. Stat. 5 & 6 Ed. VI. c. 6. Juftices of peace 
ire to appoint fearchers of cloth yearly, who have power 
tv> enter the honfes of clothiers; and perfons oppofing 
them {hall forfeit ten pounds. Stats. 39 Eliz. c. 20. 4 Jac. I. 
c. 2. 21 Jac. I. c. 18. All cloth {hall be meafUred at the 
fulling-mill, by the mafter of the mill, who {hall make 
oath before a jullice for true meafuring; and the mill- 
man is to fix a feal of lead to clotjas, containing the length 
and breadth, which {hall be a rule of payment for the 
r>uye.r. Stat. 10 An. c. 16. By ftat. 1 Geo. I. c. 15. broad 
cloths muft.be put into water for proof, and be meafured 
v>y two indifferent perfons chofen by the buyer and feller. 
And clothiers felling cloths before fealed, or not contain¬ 
ing the quantity mentioned in the feals, incur a forfeiture 
of the fixth part of the value. Perfons taking off or coun¬ 
terfeiting feals, forfeit twenty pounds. By ftat. 12 Geo. I. 
«. 34. if any weavers of cloth enter into ahy combination 
for advancing their wages, or leffening their Ufual hours 
nf work, or depart before the end of their terms agreed, 
or return any work unfinifned, they fhall be committed by 
two juftices of peace to the houfe of correction for three 
months: and clothiers are to pay their work-people their 
full wages agreed, in money, uqder the penalty of ten 
pounds. InlpeCtors of mills and tenter-grounds to ex¬ 
amine and leal cloths, are to be appointed by juftices of 
peace in feflions; and millmen fending clothiers any cloths 
Before infpefted, forfeit forty {hillings, the infpeClors to 
be paid by the clothiers twc-pence per cloth. Stat. 15 
Geo. I. c. 23. If any cloth, remaining on the renters, be 
itolen in the night, and the fame is found upon any per- 
’ fon, on a juftices warrant to fearch, fuch offender fhall 
forfeit treble value, leviable by diftrefi?, &c. or be com¬ 
mitted to jail for three months; but, for a fecond bffence, 
lie {hall fuffer fix months imprifonment; and, for the 
third offence, be trafoported as a felon. Stat, 15 Geo, II. 
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CLO'THI NG,f. Drefs; vefture; garments! 
Thy bofom might receive my yielded fpright, 
And thine with it, in Heaven’s pure ddlh'ing dreft. 
Through cleareft Ikies might take united flight. Fairfax. 
CLO'T.HO, the youngeft of the three Parcfe, daughters 
of Jupiter and Themis, was fuppofed to prefide over the 
moment that we are born. She held the diftaff in her 
hand, and {pun the thread of life, whence her name y.?,c j- 
0 ;u, to fpin. She was reprefented wearing a, crown with 
ieven {tars, and covered with a variegated robe, llefod. 
CLOTITSHEARER,/. One who trims the clotn, and 
levels the nap.—My father is a poor man, and by his oc¬ 
cupation a clothjhearer. Hakewill. 
CLOTH'WORKER,yi A manufacturer of cloth. The 
clofliworkers were incorporated 22 Hen. VIII. anno 1530, 
and is the twelfth company of the city of London. Their 
arms are fable, a chevron crmbi in chief, two crabbets ar¬ 
gent, in beife or beazel or. Their fupporters are two grif¬ 
fins, tlieir creft a ram on a torce and helmet; their motto. 
My truft is in God alone. Their hall is on the eaft fide of 
Mincing-lane, London. 
CLOTNPZA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lublin: eighteen miles wert-fouth-vi’eft of Lublin. 
CLOTTOLL,/. Thicktkull; blockhead.—What fays 
the fellow there? call the clotpoll back. Shakefpeare .— * 
Head, in foorn: 
I have fent Cloten’s dotpoll down the ftream, 
In embaffy to his mother. Shakefpeare. 
To CLOT'TER, <v. n. \kl6tteren, Dutch.] To concrete j 
to coagulate ; to gather into lumps: 
He dragg’d the trembling fire, 
Slidd’ring through clotter'd blood and holy mire. Dryd . 
CLOT'TY, adj. Full of clods ; concreted ; full of con¬ 
cretions.—The matter expectorated is thin, and mixt with 
thick, dotty, bluirti, ftreaks. Harvey. 
CLOUD , f. [the derivation is not known. Minfhevr 
derives it from claudo, to {hut; Somffe'r from clod ; Ca- 
fiubon from otyjvc, darknefs; Skinner from kladde, Dut. 
a fpot.] The dark collection of vapours in the air.—As 
a milt is a multitude of fmall but folid globules, which 
therefore defcend; fo a vapour, and therefore a watery 
cloud, is nothing elfe but a congeries of very fmall and 
concave globules, which therefore afcend to that height 
in which they are of equal weight with the air, where 
they remain fufpended, till, by fome motion in the air, 
being broken, they defcend in folid drops ; either frriall, 
as in a milt ; or bigger- when many of them run together, 
as in rain. Grew. — Clouds are the greateft and moil con- 
fiderabie of all the meteors, as furniihing water and plenty 
to the earth. They confift of very fmall drops of water, 
and are elevated a good diftance above the furface of the 
earth ; for a cloud is nothing but a mift flying high.in the 
air, as a mift is nothing but a cloud here below. Loc-ke. 
The dawn is overcaft, the morning Iow’rs, 
And .heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addifon. 
The veins, marks, or ftains, in ftones or other bodies. 
Any ftate of obfourity or darknefs: 
How can I fee the brave and young 
Fall in the cloud of war, and fall unfung? Addifon. 
Any thing that fpreads wide ; as a crowd, a multitude.—• 
The objection comes to no more than this, that, amongft 
a cloud of witnefles, there was one of no very good repu¬ 
tation. Atierbury, 
Although it be generally allowed that the clouds are 
formed from the aqueous vapours, which before were 
fo clofely united with the atmofphere as to be invifible: 
it is, however, not eafy to account for the long continu¬ 
ance of fome \iery opaque clouds without diffoiving; or 
to affign the reafon why the vapours., when they have once 
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