'Clothing' definitions:
Definition of 'clothing'
(from WordNet)
noun
A covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn: clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment]
Definition of 'Clothing'
From: GCIDE
- Clothing \Cloth"ing\, n.
- 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. [1913 Webster]
- From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. --Ps. xxxv. 13 [1913 Webster]
- 2. The art of process of making cloth. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mach.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Clothing'
From: GCIDE
- Clothe \Clothe\ (kl[=o][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothed (kl[=o][th]d) or Clad (kl[a^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. cl[=a][eth]ian, cl[=ae][eth]an. See Cloth.]
- 1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. [1913 Webster]
- Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. [1913 Webster]
- Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. --Prov. xxiii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. [1913 Webster]
- Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. --Watts. [1913 Webster]
- His sides are clothed with waving wood. --J. Dyer. [1913 Webster]
- Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Clothing'
- Cloth,
- Clothe,
- Clothed,
- Clothes,
- Cloths,
- Bearing cloth,
- Body cloth,
- Body clothes,
- Body cloths,
- Bolting cloth,
- Card clothing,
- Cheese cloth,
- Cloth measure,
- Cloth of gold,
- Cloth paper,
- Clothes moth,
- Composition cloth,
- Emery cloth,
- Empress cloth,
- Face cloth,
- Feed cloth,
- Floor cloth,
- Glass cloth,
- Gold cloth,
- Goring cloth,
- Grass cloth,
- Gunny cloth,
- Henrietta cloth,
- Hessian cloth,
- Horse cloth,
- Incombustible cloth,
- Italian cloth,
- Janus cloth,
- Lady's cloth,
- Long cloth,
- Long clothes,
- Milled cloth,
- Mort cloth,
- Nettle cloth,
- Pack cloth,
- Pad cloth,
- Pilot cloth,
- Pina cloth,
- Pyx cloth,
- Quarter cloths,
- Race cloth,
- Rubber cloth,
- Store clothes,
- Swaddling cloth,
- Thibet cloth,
- To spread cloth,
- Tracing cloth,
- Vellum cloth,
- Wax cloth,
- Waxed cloth,
- Weather cloth,
- Wire cloth,
- Zephyr cloth,
- article of clothing,
- bed clothing,
- carborundum cloth,
- chamois cloth,
- civilian clothing,
- cloth cap,
- cloth covering,
- clothes basket,
- clothes closet,
- clothes conscious,
- clothes designer,
- clothes drier,
- clothes dryer,
- clothes hamper,
- clothes hanger,
- clothes peg,
- clothes pin,
- clothes tree,
- clothing store,
- drop cloth,
- evening clothes,
- ground cloth,
- man of the cloth,
- man's clothing,
- monk's cloth,
- piece of cloth,
- plain clothes,
- sponge cloth,
- street clothes,
- suede cloth,
- suit of clothes,
- sunday clothes,
- swaddling clothes,
- tea cloth,
- terry cloth,
- tray cloth,
- woman's clothing,
- Corpus Christi cloth,
- Match-cloth,
- Top-cloth,
- casemaking clothes moth,
- cloth-bound,
- half-clothed,
- webbing clothes moth,
- winding-clothes,
- work-clothes,
- work-clothing,
- Grass-cloth plant,
- queensland grass-cloth plant,
- togged dressed esp in smart clothes