Noun
garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement

Noun
a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures

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n.
Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

n.
Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

n.
A towel or napkin for wiping the hands, etc.

n.
An infant's breechcloth.

v. t.
To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving.

v. t.
To put a diaper on (a child).

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

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Diaper

Di"a*per , n. [OF. diaspre, diapre, diaspe, sort of figured cloth, It. diaspro jasper, diaspo figured cloth, from L.jaspis a green-colored precious stone. See Jasper.] 1. Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2. 2. (Fine Arts) Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced. 3. 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.

4. An infant's breechcloth.

Diaper

Di"a*per , v. t. 1. 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.

2. To put a diaper on (a child).

Diaper

Di"a*per, v. i. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth. "If you diaper on folds." Peacham.

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.

To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.