Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CLOTH, n. [clawth; Sax. clath; D. kleed, cloth, and kleeden, to clothe; G. kleid, kleiden; Sw. kläde, kläda; Dan. klæde, klæder. The plural is regular, cloths; but when it signifies garments, it is written clothes.]

1. A manufacture or stuff 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; as, woolen cloth, linen cloth, cotton cloth, hair cloth. But cloth is often used for a fabric of wool in contradistinction to that made of other material.
2. The covering of a table; usually called a table-cloth. – Pope.
3. The canvas on which pictures are drawn. – Dryden.
4. A texture or covering put to a particular use; as, a cloth of state. – Hayward.
5. Dress; raiment. [See Clothes.] I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread. – Quarles.
6. The covering of a bed. [Not used.] – Prior.