clads

Verb

clad (third-person singular simple present clads, present participle cladding, simple past and past participle clad or cladded)

1. (archaic, literary, obsolete, past tense clad) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 20
2. (past tense clad or cladded) 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; […]1596, Thomas Lodge, “A Margarite of America, 1596. To the Noble, Learned and Vertuous Ladie, the Ladie Russell, T. L. Wisheth Affluence on Earth, and Felicitie in Heaven.”, in Clara Gebert, editor...
3. (figuratively, past tense clad) 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.1552, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Fourme of Ordering Priestes”, in The Boke of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Edwardi Whytchurche...

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