verb

• (archaic) simple past and past participle of clothe

adj

• (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
  "[...] from his nook up leapt the venturous lad, / And flinging wide the cedar-carven door / Beheld an awful image saffron-clad / And armed for battle!"
• (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.
  "On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot-paths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshold of their homes [...]"
• (figurative) Adorned, ornamented.

verb

• (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
  "At last faire Heſperus in higheſt ſkie / Had ſpent his lãpe [i.e., lampe] and brought forth dawning light, / Then vp he roſe, and clad him haſtily; / The dwarfe him brought his ſteed: ſo both away do fly."
• (past tense clad or cladded) 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; […]"
• (figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
  "Moſt mercifull father, we beſeche thee ſo to ſende vpon theſe thy ſeruauntes thy heauenly bleſſyng, that they maye be cladde about with all iuſtice, & that thy worde ſpoken by theyr mouthes, may haue ſuch ſucceſſe, that it may neuer be ſpoken in vain."