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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clothe \Clothe\ (kl[=o][th]), verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clothing \Cloth"ing\, noun
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. --Milton.
As for me, . . . my clothing was sackloth. --Ps. xxxv. 13
2. The art of process of making cloth. [R.]
Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing. --Ray.
3. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. --Knight.
4. (Mach.) See {Card clothing}, under 3d {Card}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
clothing
noun: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn: {article of clothing}, {vesture}, {wear}]
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