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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Clothe

Clothe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothed or Clad; p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. clāðian, clæðan. See Cloth.] 1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

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. Prov. xxiii. 21.

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

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. Watts.

His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer.

Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.

Clothe (klōt͟h), v. i. To wear clothes. [Poetic]

Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.