Diaper: Definition and part of speech

Diaper

  1. v. i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
  2. n. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.
  3. n. Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.
  4. n. A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.
  5. n. An infant’s breechcloth.
  6. v. t. To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.
  7. v. t. To put a diaper on (a child).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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