Part 301

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. Prior.

Body clothes. See under Body. -- Clothes moth (Zo÷l.), a small moth of the genus Tinea. The most common species (T. flavifrontella) is yellowish white. The larvŠ eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.

Syn. -- Garments; dress; clothing; apparel; attire; vesture; raiment; garb; costume; habit; habiliments.

Clothes"horse` (-h˘rs`), n. A frame to hang clothes on.

Clothes"line` (?), n. A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Clothes"pin` (? or ?), n. A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

Clothes"press` (?), n. A receptacle for clothes.

Cloth"ier (?), n. 1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.

Cloth"ing (?), n. 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.

From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton.

As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. Ps. xxxv. 13

2. The art of process of making cloth. [R.]

Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing. Ray.

3. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.

4. (Mach.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.

Clot"hred (?), p. p. Clottered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Clot"poll` (?), n. See Clodpoll. [Obs.] Shak.

Clot"ted (?), a. Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips.

When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Clot"ter (?), v. i. [From Clot.] To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.

Clot"ty (?), a. [From Clot, n.] Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.

||Cl˘`ture" (?), n. [F.] (Parliamentary Practice) See Closure, 5.

Clot"weed` (?), n. [See Clote.] Cocklebur.

Cloud (kloud), n. [Prob. fr. AS. clūd a rock or hillock, the application arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or air.] 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.