| n. | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| 2. | The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. | ||||||||||||||||
| 3. | The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth? The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom.
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| Noun | 1. | cloth - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" |