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Clothing in general. The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge. Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century. 2. External

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Clothing in general. The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge. Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century. 2. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • BADGELESS
    Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
  • EXCUSEMENT
    Excuse. Gower.
  • DIVESTITURE
    The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
  • DIVESTMENT
    The act of divesting.
  • STRIPPING
    The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
  • HABITURE
    Habitude.
  • BADGE
    A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
  • BADGERING
    1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
  • UNIFORMISM
    The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
  • JUMBLEMENT
    Confused mixture.
  • SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
    The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
  • FASHION-MONGERING
    Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
  • FASHIONED
    Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
  • FASHION-MONGER
    One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
  • HABITED
    1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
  • EXCUSE
    1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
  • UNIFORMAL
    Uniform. Herrick.
  • FASHIONABLY
    In a fashionable manner.
  • BADGER
    An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • UNATTIRE
    To divest of attire; to undress.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • COHABITER
    A cohabitant. Hobbes.
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.

 

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