n. [ OE. clot, clodde, clod; akin to D. kloot ball, G. kloss clod, dumpling, klotz block, Dan. klods, Sw. klot bowl, globe, klots block; cf. AS. clāte bur. Cf. Clod, n., Clutter to clot. ] A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. “Clots of pory gore.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clotting. ] To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a clot or clod. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into, or cover with, clots; to cause to coagulate; to make into a slimy mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Clote. ] 1. The burdock. [ Prov. Engl. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as Cocklebur. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. clāte: cf. G. klette. ] The common burdock; the clotbur. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cloths except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (klōthz or klōz). [ OE. clath cloth, AS. clāþ cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klæði, Dan. klæde, cloth, Sw. kläde, G. kleid garment, dress. ] 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dress; raiment. [ Obs. ] See Clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth? Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Body cloth. See under Body. --
Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold. --
Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. --
Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth
shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clothed it>or Clad p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing. ] [ OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. clāðian, cl&aemacr_;ðan. 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 ]

v. i. To wear clothes. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Care no more to clothe eat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. wearing clothing. [ Narrower terms: adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate); appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed; arrayed, panoplied; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent ] [ Narrower terms: dight ] [ Narrower terms: dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up ] [ Narrower terms: gowned ] [ Narrower terms: habited ] [ Narrower terms: heavy-coated ] [ Narrower terms: overdressed ] [ Narrower terms: petticoated ] [ Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed ] [ Narrower terms: surpliced ] [ Narrower terms: togged dressed esp in smart clothes) ] [ Narrower terms: turned out ] [ Narrower terms: underdressed ] [ Narrower terms: uniformed ] [ Narrower terms: vestmented ] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows
Syn. -- cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped. [ WordNet 1.5 ]