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Word Meanings - VESTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from L. vestire to clothe, dress. See Vest, v. t., and cf. 1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs,

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from L. vestire to clothe, dress. See Vest, v. t., and cf. 1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope. The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre. Seizin; possession.

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  • HABITURE
    Habitude.
  • CAPARISON
    1. To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand. Dryden. 2. To aborn with rich dress; to dress. I am caparisoned like a man. Shak.
  • 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.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • RAIMENT
    1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney.
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • HABIT
    habiten to dwell, F. habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently, to 1. To inhabit. In thilke places as they habiten. Rom. of R. 2. To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden. 3. To accustom;
  • APPAREL
    1. To make or get ready; to prepare. Chaucer. 2. To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out. Ships . . . appareled to fight. Hayward. 3. To dress or clothe; to attire. They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings'
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • CLOTHESHORSE
    A frame to hang clothes on.
  • CLOTHIER
    1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
  • DRESSING
    An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
  • ATTIRE
    The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. Johnson. (more info) 1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. Earth in her rich attire. Milton. I 'll put myself in poor
  • HABITUATION
    The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
  • HABITABLE
    A dwelling place. Chaucer. Southey.
  • HABITUATE
    1. To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize. Our English dogs, who were habituated to a colder clime. Sir K. Digby. Men are first corrupted . . . and next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices. Tillotson. 2. To settle as an
  • HABITATION
    1. The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham. 2. Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house. The Lord . . . blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov. iii. 33.
  • CLOTHING
    See CARD (more info) 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
  • HABITUDE
    1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. South. The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else
  • DRESSY
    Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
  • 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.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • UNATTIRE
    To divest of attire; to undress.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • COHABITER
    A cohabitant. Hobbes.
  • INHABITATIVENESS
    A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • NECKCLOTH
    A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
  • BROADCLOTH
    A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
  • UNCLOTHED
    Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
  • REDRESSIVE
    Tending to redress. Thomson.
  • INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
    The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of

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