clad /klæd/adjective 3verb 3forms 5 adjective3 •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! — 1881 •[in compounds] Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.Into this book-clad room it followed the Bishop, with blue eyes and laughter on the red lips [...] — 1887 •(figurative) Adorned, ornamented. verb3 •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 •(figurative) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.O folly, thou hast power to make flesh glad, / When the rich soul in wretchedness is clad. — 1599 •(literary, no longer used) To clothe, to dress.But see the Sunne in russet mantle clad, / Walkes ore the deaw of yon hie mountaine top, […] — 1599 formscladded · cladding · claddeth · clads · claddest
