cloth

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Fabric or material formed by weaving, knitting, pressing, or felting natural or synthetic fibers.
2. n. A piece of fabric or material used for a specific purpose, as a tablecloth.
3. n. Nautical Canvas.
4. n. Nautical A sail.
5. n. The characteristic attire of a profession, especially that of the clergy.
6. n. The clergy: a man of the cloth.
7. idiom. in cloth With a clothbound binding; as a clothbound book.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Pl. cloths (klôŦhz), in a particular sense clothes (see clothes).
2. n. A fabric or texture of wool or hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp, or other vegetable filaments, formed by weaving or intertexture of threads, and used for garments or other covering, and for various other purposes; specifically, in the trade, a fabric of wool, in contradistinction to one made of other material.
3. n. A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose, generally as a covering, or as the canvas for a painting: as, a table-cloth; an altar-cloth; to spread the cloth (that is, the table-cloth).
4. n. Dress; raiment; clothing; clothes. See clothes.
5. n. The customary garb of a trade or profession; a livery; specifically, the professional dress of a clergyman.
6. n. Hence The clerical office or profession; with the definite article (the cloth), the clergy collectively; clergymen as a class.
7. n. Texture; quality.
8. Made or consisting of cloth, specifically of woolen cloth: as, a cloth coat or cap; cloth coverings.
9. To make into cloth.
10. n. Nautical, a breadth of canvas; one of the breadths of canvas in a square or fore-and-aft sail: a general term in relation to the sails of a ship.

Wiktionary

1. n. A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
2. n. A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
3. n. A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
4. n. Priesthood, clergy.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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. n. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
3. n. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers