indue

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One needs but little tackle to travel in; So, just one stout cloak shall I indue: And for a staff, what beats the javelin875 With which his boars my father pinned you?

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

An armed Loadstone does not indue an excited piece of Iron with greater vigour than an unarmed.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

At length the boy and girl go upstairs to be "got ready," which means that they indue other garments yet more uncomfortable than those they already wear.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

And I shall thereupon 80Take rest, ere I be gone Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplexed, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue.

From Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)

He now felt refreshed and invigorated, and began to indue his garments, which he found thrown on a heap beside the bed.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron