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DIAPER, n. Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures; much used for towels or napkins. Hence, a towel or napkin.

DIAPER, v.t. To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; to flower.

DIAPER, v.i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

If you diaper on folds.

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DIAPER, n. Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures; much used for towels or napkins. Hence, a towel or napkin.

DIAPER, v.t. To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; to flower.

DIAPER, v.i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

If you diaper on folds.

DI'A-PER, n. [Fr. diapré; diapered; said to be from Ypres, in the Netherlands. Anderson.]

Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures, much used for towels or napkins. Hence, a towel or napkin.

DI'A-PER, v.i.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. If you diaper on folds. – Peacham.

DI'A-PER, v.t.

To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; to flower. – Spenser. Howel.

Di"a*per

Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.

"Diapered light." H. Van Laun.
Engarlanded and diapered
With in wrought flowers. Tennyson.
To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

"If you diaper on folds." Peacham.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
To put a diaper on (a child).
A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.

Let one attend him with a silver basin, . . .
Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper. Shak.
An infant's breechcloth.

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Diaper

DIAPER, noun Figured linen cloth; a cloth wove in flowers or figures; much used for towels or napkins. Hence, a towel or napkin.

DIAPER, verb transitive To variegate or diversify, as cloth, with figures; to flower.

DIAPER, verb intransitive To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.

If you diaper on folds.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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bank

BANK, n. [Bank and bench are radically the same word. The sense is, that which is set, laid or extended. Applied to a mass of earth, it is a collection, that which is thrown or laid together.]

1. A mound, pile or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding plain, either as a defense or for other purposes. 2 Sam.xx 15.

2. Any steep acclivity, whether rising from a river, a lake, or the sea, or forming the side of a ravine, or the steep side of a hillock on a plain. When we speak of the earth in general adjoining a lake or the sea, we use the word shore; but a particular steep acclivity on the side of a lake, river or the sea, is called a bank.

3. A bench,or a bench of rowers, in a galley; so called from their seat.

Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep.

4. By analogy, a collection or stock of money, deposited, by a number of persons, for a particular use; that is, an aggregate of particulars, or a fund; as, to establish a bank, that is a joint fund.

5. The place where a collection of money is deposited; a common repository of the money of individuals or of companies; also a house used for a bank.

6. A company of persons concerned in a bank, whether a private association, or an incorporated company; the stockholders of a bank, or their representatives, the directors, acting in their corporate capacity.

7. An elevation, or rising ground, in the sea; called also flats, shoals, shelves or shallows. These may rise to the surface of the water or near to it; but the word bank signifies also elevated ground at the bottom of the sea, when many fathoms below the surface, as the banks of Newfoundland.

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