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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOTHING, ppr. Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering.
CLOTHING, n.
1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psalms 35.
2. The art or practice of making cloth.
The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn: clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 13th century garments in general; also covering

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. clothes collectively.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clothe Clothe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothedor Clad; 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clothing Cloth"ing, n. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Clothing is the things that people wear. Some locals offered food and clothing to the refugees... What is your favourite item of clothing?... Wear protective clothing.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Garments, See clothes.