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Clothe
CLOTHE, v.t. pret. and pp. clothed, or clad. [See Cloth.]
1. To put on garments; to invest the body with raiment; to cover with dress, for concealing nakedness and defending the body from cold or injuries.
The Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them. Gen 3.
2. To cover with something ornamental.
Embroidered purple clothes the golden beds.
But clothe, without the aid of other words, seldom signifies to adorn. In this example from Pope, it signifies merely to cover.
3. To furnish with raiment; to provide with clothes; as, a master is to feed and clothe his apprentice.d
4. To put on; to invest; to cover, as with a garment; as, to clothe thoughts with words.
I will clothe her priests with salvation. Psa 132.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov 23.
Let them be clothed with shame. Psa 35.
5. To invest; to surround; to encompass.
The Lord is clothed with majesty. Psa 93.
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Psa 104.
6. To invest; to give to by commission; as, to clothe with power or authority.
7. To cover or spread over; as, the earth is clothed with verdure.
CLOTHE, v.i. To wear clothes.
Care no more to clothe and eat.
clothe appears in definitions for these words:
About Accident Air Amice Apostolics Apparel Appareled Apron Arraiment Art Attire Attrap Augustins Back Bare Bareness Basket Bed-clothes Bedaggle Bedstaff Bernardins Beverage Black Bloom Bosom Botcher Bring Buck Budge-bachelors Bundle Bureau Burn Button Capuchins Cassocked Change Clad Clean Cloke Cloke-bag Cloth Clothe Clothes Clothing Coat Coated Cockroach Cost Cover Covered Cradle-clothes Deck Devested Devesting Dirty Disarray Disarrayed Disarraying Divest Dress Dressed Dresser Dry Duds Enrobe Ermined Everyday Fashion Fethered Fethery Find Fineness Finery Fix For Foul Free Frippery Frock Garb Gestation Gird Gown Grave-clothes Grave-stone Habit Habited Hanging Harl Hastily Heater Holyday Honor Huddle Humidity Hurt Incarnate Indue Indued Inofficial Invest Invested Investment Lace Lap Larva Launderer Laundress Laundry Lay Livery Loth Majesty Mantle Miller Much Naked Neat On Out Palliate Passion Penguin Petition Pin Play Present Punishment Pupa Put Rag Ragged Raggedness Reapparel Reappareled Rend Revest Revested Rinse Rook Sackclothed Safeguard Salesman Scarlet Shabbily Shabby Shield Shift Shirt Sitting Slattern Slipper Slop Slopseller Slut Sluttery Something Spare Stain Strip Suit Sumpter Surcoat Swaddle Swaddled Swaddling Tailor Tar Think Thredbare Tighter Trick Truism Tumble Unappareled Unclad Unclothe Unclothed Uncover Uncovering Undress Uninvested Verdurous Vest Vested Vestment Wardrobe Wash Wash-tub Washer-woman Washing Wear Wearing Wedding-clothes Woolly Wring
About Accident Air Amice Apostolics Apparel Appareled Apron Arraiment Art Attire Attrap Augustins Back Bare Bareness Basket Bed-clothes Bedaggle Bedstaff Bernardins Beverage Black Bloom Bosom Botcher Bring Buck Budge-bachelors Bundle Bureau Burn Button Capuchins Cassocked Change Clad Clean Cloke Cloke-bag Cloth Clothe Clothes Clothing Coat Coated Cockroach Cost Cover Covered Cradle-clothes Deck Devested Devesting Dirty Disarray Disarrayed Disarraying Divest Dress Dressed Dresser Dry Duds Enrobe Ermined Everyday Fashion Fethered Fethery Find Fineness Finery Fix For Foul Free Frippery Frock Garb Gestation Gird Gown Grave-clothes Grave-stone Habit Habited Hanging Harl Hastily Heater Holyday Honor Huddle Humidity Hurt Incarnate Indue Indued Inofficial Invest Invested Investment Lace Lap Larva Launderer Laundress Laundry Lay Livery Loth Majesty Mantle Miller Much Naked Neat On Out Palliate Passion Penguin Petition Pin Play Present Punishment Pupa Put Rag Ragged Raggedness Reapparel Reappareled Rend Revest Revested Rinse Rook Sackclothed Safeguard Salesman Scarlet Shabbily Shabby Shield Shift Shirt Sitting Slattern Slipper Slop Slopseller Slut Sluttery Something Spare Stain Strip Suit Sumpter Surcoat Swaddle Swaddled Swaddling Tailor Tar Think Thredbare Tighter Trick Truism Tumble Unappareled Unclad Unclothe Unclothed Uncover Uncovering Undress Uninvested Verdurous Vest Vested Vestment Wardrobe Wash Wash-tub Washer-woman Washing Wear Wearing Wedding-clothes Woolly Wring
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