clad

verb

1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of clothe
2. (archaic, literary, obsolete)To clothe, to dress.

   “At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do fly.”

   “Muſicke and Poetry is his delight, / Therefore ile haue Italian Maskes by night, / Sweete ſpeeches, Comedies, and pleaſing ſhowes, / And in the day when he ſhall walke abroad, / Like Siluian Nimphs my Pages ſhall be clad, […]”

   “But ſee the Sunne in ruſſet mantle clad, / Walkes ore the deaw of yon hie mountaine top, […]”

   “And it came to paſſe at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jeruſalem, that the Prophet Ahiiah the Shilonite found him in the way: and hee had clad himſelfe with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.”

   “He alwaie claddeth yⁿ a blak Cote with Trunkhose o yᵉ lyke Colore, wi Shoos and Siller Buckels, a spuddish coroned Hatte, wi a Bruarte o muche brodeneſse, an tached vppe atte yᵉ Rear, wi a Cordige an Tassle.”

3. To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).

   “[M]any bitter and extreme frosts at midsummer continually clothe and clad the discomfortable mountaines; […]”

   “He ſcarce had ſaid, when the bare Earth, till then / Deſert and bare, unſightly, unadorn'd, / Brought forth the tender Graſs whoſe verdure clad / Her Univerſal Face with pleaſant green, […]”

   “But on the pale moon Eve now fix'd her gaze, / „Behold”, she said, „how cold and pale its face, / „Now Abel’s house it claddeth with its ray, / „And shineth now above Cain’s lonely way.””

   “There, on a rock, he saw a little child. Naked she was, though clad with soft white moonlight.”

   “Subsequently E. H. Dix, Jr., at Alcoa Research Laboratories established methods to metallurgically clad commercial aluminum to both sides of a 2017-T4 (then known as 17S-T) sheet to obtain outstanding corrosion protection[…].”

4. (figuratively)To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.

   “Moſt mercifull father, we beſeche thee ſo to ſende vpon theſe thy ſeruauntes thy heauenly bleſſyng, that they maye be cladde about with all iuſtice, & that thy worde ſpoken by theyr mouthes, may haue ſuch ſucceſſe, that it may neuer be ſpoken in vain.”

   “O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad.”

   “The other day I was looking up some records of the Parliamentary Debates of the past, and I found my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee (Mr. [Dingle] Foot), who is now clad in all the majesty of a Minister and sits on the Treasury bench without regard to his murky past, moved a Motion on one of those pleasant Fridays to which I have referred, […]”

   “He is one of those bulky men clad in sensitivity.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

   “[F]rom his nook upleapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!”

   “Her downcast eyes were almost mesmerized by the huge tweed-clad knees which towered like monoliths beside her.”

   “Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene.”

   “The radical conservatives of the Jain monks were called “Digambara—the sky-clad.” They went about completely naked, or in other words, “clothed in space.””

   “There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders.”

2. (in-compounds, not-comparable, often)Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.

   “On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]”

   “Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...]”

   “The sun has gone down, and the water has gone down / From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises.”

   “[...] I can remember every volume among the three or four hundred books that made up the library of my father, the country doctor—three or four hundred besides those portentous leather-clad depositories of medical mystery filled with color plates depicting the awful intimacies of the innards;”

   “Copper and copper-clad steel resist corrosion indefinitely in soil that is relatively free from ammonia.”

3. (figuratively, not-comparable)Adorned, ornamented.