clothen

• clothyn, claðen, kloþen, cloþen, cloþe, clothe, clooþe, clathe, clath, cloþie, cloþy, cloþi

From Old English *clāþian, from Proto-Germanic *klaiþōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gley-; equivalent to cloth +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːðən/, /ˈklɔːðiən/

clothen

1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To clothe; to put clothing on (oneself, another).
2. (transitive, reflexive) To furnish with clothes.
3. (transitive) To enclose or surround.
4. (transitive) To secrete or hide; to stash away.
5. (transitive) To disguise oneself; to hide one's nature.
6. (reflexive) To gain a trait; to immerse in an abstract quantity.
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·i· 15:54, page 67v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     / but whanne þis dedli þing ſchal cloþe vndedlyneſſe .· þanne ſchal þe woꝛd be doon þat is writen / deþ is ſopun up in victoꝛie

     But when this mortal thing acquires immortality, then the saying that's been recorded will happen: "Death has been swallowed up in victory!"

7. (transitive, intransitive) To decorate or ornament.
8. (rare, intransitive) To be furnished with clothes.
9. (rare, transitive) To use or utilise.

• English: clothe

• “clōthen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.