clad

UK /klæd/ US /klæd/
adj 3verb 3

Definitions

adj

1

Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!

Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.

2

Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.

On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]

Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]

3

Adorned, ornamented.

verb

1

To clothe, to dress.

At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do fly.

Muſicke and Poetry is his delight, / Therefore ile haue Italian Maskes by night, / Sweete ſpeeches, Comedies, and pleaſing ſhowes, / And in the day when he ſhall walke abroad, / Like Siluian Nimphs my Pages ſhall be clad, […]

2

To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).

[M]any bitter and extreme frosts at midsummer continually clothe and clad the discomfortable mountaines; […]

He ſcarce had ſaid, when the bare Earth, till then / Deſert and bare, unſightly, unadorn'd, / Brought forth the tender Graſs whoſe verdure clad / Her Univerſal Face with pleaſant green, […]

3

To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

Moſt mercifull father, we beſeche thee ſo to ſende vpon theſe thy ſeruauntes thy heauenly bleſſyng, that they maye be cladde about with all iuſtice, & that thy worde ſpoken by theyr mouthes, may haue ſuch ſucceſſe, that it may neuer be ſpoken in vain.

O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad.

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