Definition: clothe

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

clothe
     v 1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed
          and dress their child" [syn: dress, enclothe, garb,
           raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel]
          [ant: undress]
     2:  furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn:
         invest, adorn]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.
Clothe \Clothe\, v. i.
   To wear clothes. [Poetic]

         Care no more to clothe eat.              --Shak.