Clothing, SARTORIAN Trades V.
Preparation of stuffs;
Making several vegetable or
animal substances into Thred.
TWISTING, tortion, wreath, writhing, twine, winding.
SPINNING, Spinster, Rock, Distaff.
Ioyning
such Threds together into Cloth.
WEAVING, Texture, Contexture, Loom, Web, braid, woven, Hur∣dle, Shuttle, Wicker, Matt.
KNITTING.
Thickning and colouring
such Cloth.
FULLING, milling, Fuller.
DYING, stain, Tincture, tinge, in grain.
Making of Stuffs into Vests; either by
Vniting necessary, and cutting off unnecessary parts.
SOWING, Stitch, Seam-ster, Suture, Welt, Needle, dearn, quilt, draw cloth, rip.
CLIPPING, Scissors, shear, shorn,
cut.
Placing together the parts in ‖ greater, or lesser plicatures.
FOLDING, wrap, lap, pleit, clinching, clutching, doubling, invelop.
CURLING, crisping, frizling, furling.
Preserving of such Stuffs or Vests clean
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Things are put into, and agitated in the
water; to which may
be op∣posed the putting upon them other bodies of a more gross consistence; styled
WASHING, scouring, Lotion, rince, Laver, Laundress, gargling.
SMEARING, daubing, anoint, ointment, Vnction, greaze, chrism; and many with [
be] as bespaul, spit, spue, sprinkle.
Water is imbibed and communicated to the thing; to which may
be adjoyned, for its affinity, the putting of things into liquor, in order to the communicating of some new quality to
such liquor.
SOAKING, steeping, embrewing, macerating, watering Land, &c. bathing, imbibe, sinke, sop, brewis, embrew.
INFUSION, watering
Fish, &c. macerate, Decoction, impregnate.
By external Motion of or upon them, ‖ more, or less violent.
RUBBING, scrape, Friction, Frication, scrub, chafe, Attrition, fret, gall, scowr, taw, grate.
WIPING, stroke, terse, handkerchief, towel, napkin.
By Instruments to seperate those minuter bodies which adhere to the superficies.
