Definition of "clothe"

clothe

/ˈkləʊð/

verb
third-person singular simple present clothes, present participle clothing, simple past and past participle clothed or (archaic) clad
1. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
  Quotations
  Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.
  c. 1590-92, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew‎, act IV, scene ii
  For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Proverbs 23:21
  The naked every day he clad, / When he put on his clothes.
  1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […]; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885,
2. (figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
  Quotations
  language in which they can clothe their thoughts
  1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […]
  His sides are clothed with waving wood.
  1726, John Dyer, Grongar Hill
  words clothed in reason's garb
  1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,