v.; also 3 biclute. [f. BE- + CLOUT.] trans. To cover with a clout or cloth; to dress up; chiefly fig.

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a. 1230.  Ancr. R., 316. Þis nis nout naked schrift … biclute þu hit nowiht.

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1873.  T. Cooper, Parad. Martyrs (1877), 299. The mimesters who beclout themselves anew with rags of Rome.

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