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verb

Clothe v. t. (past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing)

1.

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. "Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you."

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." "The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes."

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." "His sides are clothed with waving wood." "Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb."

Clothe v. i. (past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing) To wear clothes. (Poetic) "Care no more to clothe eat."

noun

Clothing 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." "As for me,... my clothing was sackloth."

2.

The art of process of making cloth. (R.) "Instructing (refugees) in the art of clothing."

3.

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

4.

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

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Etymology of 'Clothing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clothing" Quotes from Famous Books

... so intense and real that I fled from place to place. Not unfrequently I came to myself during these epochs of madness and found that I was a hundred or more miles from home, without friends, respectable or even sufficient clothing, or money—a bloated and beastly wreck. I know not how I ever found my way back, or why I prolonged my life under such circumstances; but it seems the instinct called self-preservation was yet stronger than the ills which assailed ...

— Fifteen Years in Hell • Luther Benson

... shone with an unnatural yearning. The immense scope of her desires suddenly brought a smile to his lips that he checked in time. He had remembered offering his Idumeans in women's clothing for her diversion. ...

— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller

... conscious astral career. If we think of the world as we know it here and then imagine all that is material to have vanished from it we shall gain some comprehension of the situation. Eliminate the necessity of providing food, clothing and shelter and nearly all of the labor of the race would cease. The tilling of the soil, the mining, the building, the manufacturing, and the transportation and exchange of the products of field and factory, constitute nearly the whole ...

— Elementary Theosophy • L. W. Rogers

... come in part from the possibility of the drapery catching on some roughness of the surface of the slope, and so producing pressure on the sexual organs. The effect is still produced, however, even without any clothing, if the slope is supposed to end in a deep drop, so that the idea of falling is strongly presented. I cannot recollect any early associations that would tend to explain these feelings, except that jumping from a height, which I used frequently to do as a child, has ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... in respect of which we have to feed the hungry; while the other is relieved by liquid food, viz. thirst, and in respect of this we have to give drink to the thirsty. The common need with regard to external help is twofold; one in respect of clothing, and as to this we have to clothe the naked: while the other is in respect of a dwelling place, and as to this we have to harbor the harborless. Again if the need be special, it is either the result of an internal cause, like sickness, and then we ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

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