Clachan
Clach´an, n. [Scot., fr. Gael.] A small village containing a church. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott
"Sitting at the clachon alehouse." - R. L. Stevenson.

Clack, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clacked p. pr. & vb. n. Clacking.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. F. claquer to clap, crack, D. klakken, MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n. , Clatter, Click.]
1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
"We heard Mr.Hodson’s whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches." - Thackeray.
2. To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.

Clack, v. t.
1. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
2. To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. Feltham. To clack wool, to cut off the sheep’s mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]

Clack, n. [Cf. F. claque a slap or smack, MHG. klac crack, W. clec crack, gossip. See Clack, v. t.]
1. A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
3. Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
"Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack." - South.
Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. — Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. — Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.

Cladophyll
Clad´o•phyll, n. [Gr. a sprout + a leaf.] (Bot.) A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom ( Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax ( Myrsiphillum).

Claggy
Clag´gy, a. [Cf. Clog.] Adhesive; — said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

Claimant
Claim´ant, n. [Cf. OF. clamant, p. pr. of clamer. Cf. Clamant.] One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

Claimless
Claim´less, a. Having no claim.

Clairaudience
Clair•au´di•ence, n. [F. clair clear + F. & E. audience a hearing. See Clear.] Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; — usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

Claire, n. [F.] A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

Clair-obscur
Clair´-ob•scur´, n. [F. See Clare-obscure.] See Chiaroscuro.

Clairvoyant
Clair•voy´ant, a. [F., fr. clair clear + voyant, p. pr. of voir to see. See Clear, and Vision.] Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

Clairvoyant
Clair•voy´ant n. One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses. { Clake, Claik } n. (Zoöl.) The bernicle goose; — called also clack goose.

Clam, n. [Cf. Clamp, Clam, v. t., Clammy.]
1. (Zoöl.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as the long clam ( Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam ( Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam ( Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
"You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616)."
"Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634)."
2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. Blood clam. See under Blood.

Clam (clam), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clammed (klamd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clamming.] [Cf. AS. claeman to clam, smear; akin to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile, or E. clammy.] To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
"A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L’Estrange."

Clam, v. i. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] Dryden

Clam, n. Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." Carlyle.

Clam, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.] A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.

Clam, v. t. & i. To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. Nares.

Clamant
Cla´mant, a. [L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call. Cf. Claimant.] Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. "Clamant children." Thomson.

Clamatores
Clam•a•to´res, n. pl. [L. clamator, pl. clamatores, a bawler.] (Zoöl.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

Clamatorial
Clam•a•to´rial, a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.

Clambake
Clam´bake, n. The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

Clamber
Clam´ber, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clambered p. pr. & vb. n. Clambering.] [OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. Clamp, Climb.] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; — also used figuratively.
"The narrow street that clambered toward the mill." - Tennyson.

Clamber
Clam´ber, n. The act of clambering. T. Moore.

Clamber
Clam´ber, v. t. To ascend by climbing with difficulty.
"Clambering the walls to eye him." - Shak.

Clamjamphrie
Clam•jam´phrie, n. Low, worthless people; the rabble. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Clammily
Clam´mi•ly, adv. In a clammy manner. "Oozing so clammily." Hood.

Clamminess
Clam´mi•ness, n. State of being clammy or viscous.

Clammy
Clam´my, a. [ Compar. Clammier superl. Clammiest.] [Cf. AS. clam clay. See Clam to clog, and cf. Clay.] Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

Clamorer
Clam´or•er, n. One who clamors.

Clamorous
Clam´or•ous, a. [LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux.] Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning’s excursion." Southey. — Clam´or•ous•ly, adv. — Clam´or•ous•ness, n.

Clamp (klamp), n. [Cf. LG. & D. klamp, Dan. klampe, also D. klampen to fasten, clasp. Cf. Clamber, Cramp.]
1. Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
2. (a) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. (b) (Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
3. One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
4. (Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship’s side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
5. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
6. A mollusk. See Clam. [Obs.] Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

Clamp (klamp), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clamped (klamt; 215) p. pr. & vb. n. Clamping.]
1. To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
2. To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]

Clamp, n. [Prob. an imitative word. Cf. Clank.] A heavy footstep; a tramp.

Clamp, v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
"The policeman with clamping feet." - Thackeray.

Clamper
Clamp´er, n. An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane.

Clan (klan), n. [Gael. clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir. clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perh. from L. plania scion, slip, cutting. Cf. Plant, n. ]
1. A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.
2. A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; — sometimes used contemptuously.
"Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me." - Smolett.
"The whole clan of the enlightened among us." - Burke.

Clancularly
Clan´cu•lar•ly, adv. privately; secretly. [Obs.]

Clandestine
Clan•des´tine, a. [L. clandestinus, fr. clam secretly; akin to celare, E. conceal: cf. F. clandestin.] Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as a clandestine marriage. Locke.
Syn. — Hidden; secret; private; concealed; underhand; sly; stealthy; surreptitious; furtive; fraudulent. — Clan•des´tine•ly, adv. — Clan•des´tine•ness, n.

Clandestinity
Clan•des•tin´i•ty, n. Privacy or secrecy. [R.]

Clang (klang), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clanged (klangd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clanging.] [L. clangere; akin to Gr. kla•zein to clash, scream; or perh. to E. clank.] To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
"The fierce Caretes … clanged their sounding arms." - Prior.

Clang, v. i. To give out a clang; to resound. "Clanging hoofs." Tennyson.

Clang, n.
1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
"The broadsword’s deadly clang, As if a thousand anvils rang." - Sir W. Scott.
2. (Mus.) Quality of tone.

Clangor
Clan´gor (klan"ger), n. [L., fr. clangere. See Clang, v. t.] A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.

Clangous
Clan´gous, a. Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]

Clanjamfrie
Clan•jam´frie, n. Same as Clamjamphrie. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Clankless
Clank´less, a. Without a clank. Byreon.

Clan-na-Gael
Clan´-na-Gael´, n. [Ir., clan of the Gaels.] A secret society of Irish Fenians founded in Philadelphia in 1881.

Clannish
Clan´nish, a. Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one’s clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan. — Clan´nish•ly, adv. — Clan´nish•ness, n.

Clanship
Clan´ship, n. A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

Clansman
Clans´man, n. ; pl. Clansmen (#). One belonging to the same clan with another.

Clap (klap), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clapped (klapt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clapping.] [AS. clappan; akin to Icel. & Sw. klappa, D, klappen, to clap, prate, G. klaffen, v. i., to split open, yelp, klopfen, v. t. & i., to knock.]
1. To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as to clap one’s hands; a clapping of wings.
"Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings." - Marvell.
2. To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; — often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
"He had just time to get in and clap to the door." - Locke
"Clap an extinguaisher upon your irony." - Lamb.
3. To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as to clap a performance. To clap hands. (a) To pledge faith by joining hands. [Obs.] Shak. (b) To express contempt or derision. [Obs.] Lam. ii. 15. — To clap hold of, to seize roughly or quickly. — To clap up. (a) To imprison hastily or without due formality. (b) To make or contrive hastily. [Obs.] "Was ever match clapped up so suddenly?" Shak.

Clap, v. i.
1. To knock, as at a door. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To strike the hands together in applause.
"Their ladies bid them clap." - Shak.
3. To come together suddenly with noise.
"The doors around me clapped." - Dryden.
4. To enter with alacrity and briskness; — with to or into. [Obs.] "Shall we clap into it roundly, without … saying we are hoarse?" Shak.
5. To talk noisily; to chatter loudly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Clap (klap), n.
1. A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang. "Give the door such a clap, as you go out, as will shake the whole room." Swift.
2. A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
"Horrible claps of thunder." - Hakewill.
3. A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
"What, fifty of my followers at a clap!" - Shak.
4. A striking of hands to express approbation.
"Unextrected claps or hisses." - Addison.
5. Noisy talk; chatter. [Obs.] Chaucer.
6. (Falconry) The nether part of the beak of a hawk. Clap dish. See Clack dish, under Clack, n. — Clap net, a net for taking birds, made to close or clap together.

Clap, n. [Cf. OF. clapoir.] Gonorrhea.

Clapboard
Clap´board, n.
1. A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; — used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]
2. A stave for a cask. [Eng.] Halliwell.

Clapboard
Clap´board, v. t. To cover with clapboards; as to clapboard the sides of a house. [U. S.] Bartlett. { Clap´bread•, Clap´cake• }, n. Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Clape, n. (Zoöl.) A bird; the flicker.

Clapper
Clap´per, n.
1. A person who claps.
2. That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell. Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail ( Rallus scepitans).

Clapper
Clap´per, n. [F. clapier.] A rabbit burrow. [Obs.]

Clapperclaw
Clap´per•claw (klap"per•kla), v. t. [ Clap + claw.]
1. To fight and scratch. C. Smart.
2. To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.

Claps (klap), v. t. Variant of Clasp [Obs.] Chaucer.

Claque, n. [F.] A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

Claqueur
Cla•queur´, n. [F.] One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.

Clare, n. A nun of the order of St. Clare.

Clarence
Clar´ence, n. A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver. { Clar´en•ceux, Clar´en•cieux }, n. (Her.) See King-at- arms.

Clare-obscure
Clare´-ob•scure´, n. [L. clarus clear + obscurus obscure; cf. F. clair- obscur. Cf. Chiaroscuro.] (Painting) See Chiaroscuro.

Clarichord
Clar´i•chord, n. [F. clatocorde, fr.L. clarus clear + chorda string. See Chord.] A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; — called also manichord and clavichord.

Clarifier
Clar´i•fi•er, n.
1. That which clarifies.
2. A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as the clarifier in sugar works. Ure.

Clarify
Clar´i•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clarified p. pr. & vb. n. Clarifying.] [F. clarifier, from L. clarificare; clarus clear + facere to make. See Clear, and Fact.]
1. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; — said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified." Ure.
2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
"To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will." - South.
3. To glorify. [Obs.]
"Fadir, clarifie thi name. Wyclif (John ii. 28)."

Clarify
Clar´i•fy, v. i.
1. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
2. To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
"Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another." - Bacon.

Clarigate
Clar´i•gate, v. i. [L. clarigare] To declare war with certain ceremonies. [Obs.] Holland.

Clarinet
Clar´i•net, n. [F. clarinette, dim. of clarine, from L. clarus. See Clear, and cf. Clarion.] (Mus.) A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band. [Often improperly called clarionet.]

Clarion
Clar´i•on, n. [OE. clarioun, OF. clarion, F. clairon, LL. clario, claro; so called from its clear tone, fr. L. clarus clear. See Clear.] A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
"He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle." - E. Everett.

Claritude
Clar´i•tude, n. [L. claritudo, fr. clarus clear.] Clearness; splendor. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Clarity
Clar´i•ty, n. [L. claritas, fr. clarus clear: cf. F. clarte.] Clearness; brightness; splendor.
"Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row." - Beaumont.

Claro-obscuro
Cla´ro-ob•scu´ro, n. See Chiaroscuro.

Clarty
Clart´y, a. Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Clary
Clar´y, v. i. [Cf. Clarion.] To make a loud or shrill noise. [Obs.] Golding.

Clary
Cla´ry, n. [Cf. LL. sclarea, scarlea, D. & G. scharlei, F. sclaree.] (Bot.) A plant ( Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

Clash, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clashed p. pr. & vb. n. Clashing.] [Of imitative origin; cf. G. klatschen, Prov. G. kleschen, D. kletsen, Dan. klaske, E. clack.]
1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.
"However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony." - Palfrey.

Clash, v. t. To strike noisily against or together.

Clash n.
1. A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
"The roll of cannon and clash of arms." - Tennyson.
2. Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.
"Clashes between popes and kings." - Denham.

Clash gear. (Mach.) A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.

Clashingly
Clash´ing•ly, adv. With clashing.

Clasp, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clasped p. pr. & vb. n. Clasping] [OE. claspen, clapsen, prob. akin to E. clap.]
1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.

Clasp, n.
1. An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
2. A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. — Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

Clasper
Clasp´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. (b) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.

Class (klas), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul.]
1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
"She had lost one class energies." - Macaulay.
5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. — Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

Class, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Classed p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n. ]
1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as to class words or passages. In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. Dana.
2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Class, v. i. To grouped or classed.
"The genus or famiky under which it classes." - Tatham.

Class day. In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

Classible
Class´i•ble, a. Capable of being classed. { Clas´sic, Clas´sic•al } a. [L. classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from classis class: cf. F. classique. See Class, n. ]
1. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
"Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage." - Byron.
"Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]." - Arbuthnot.
2. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
"Though throned midst Latium’s classic plains." - Mrs. Hemans.
"The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C."
"He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college." - Macaulay.
3. Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as a classical style.
"Classical, provincial, and national synods." - Macaulay.
Classicals orders. (Arch.) See under Order.

Classicalism
Clas´sic•al•ism, n.
1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.

Classicalist
Clas´sic•al•ist, n. One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art. Ruskin. { Clas•si•cal´i•ty, Clas´sic•al•ness } n. The quality of being classical.

Classically
Clas´sic•al•ly, adv.
1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.

Classicism
Clas´si•cism, n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

Classicist
Clas´si•cist, n. One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Classifiable
Clas´si•fi•a•ble, a. Capable of being classified.

Classific
Clas•sif´ic, a. Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.

Classification
Clas•si•fi•ca´tion, n. [Cf. F. classification.] The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

Classifier
Clas´si•fi•er, n. One who classifies.

Classify
Clas´si•fy, v. t. [ imp. & pp. Classified p. pr. & vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + ] To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
Syn. — To arrange; distribute; rank.

Classmate
Class´mate, n. One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

Clastic
Clas´tic, a. [Gr. br, fr. to break.]
1. Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as clastic anatomy (of models).
2. (Min.) Fragmental; made up of brok fragments; as sandstone is a clastic rock.

Clatch, n. [Cf. Scot. clatch a slap, the noise caused by the collision of soft bodies; prob. of imitative origin.] (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
1. A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as to throw a clatch of mud.
2. Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

Clatch, v. t. & i. To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way. [Scot.]

Clathrate
Clath´rate (klath"rat), a. [L. clathri lattice, Gr. klh,qra.]
1. (Bot.) Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.
2. (Zoöl.) Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

Clatter
Clat´ter (klat"ter), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clattered (- terd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clattering.] [AS. clatrung a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack.]
1. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
"Clattering loud with iron clank." - Longfellow.
2. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
"I see thou dost but clatter." - Spenser.

Clatter
Clat´ter, v. t. To make a rattling noise with.
"You clatter still your brazen kettle." - Swift.

Clatter
Clat´ter, n.
1. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
"The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter." - Tennyson.
2. Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.
3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ).
"Throw by your clatter And handle the matter." - B. Jonson

Clatterer
Clat´ter•er, n. One who clatters.

Clatteringly
Clat´ter•ing•ly, adv. With clattering.

Claude Lorraine glass
Claude" Lor•raine" glass [Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine).] A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

Claudent
Clau´dent, a. [L. claudens, p. pr. of claudere to shut.] Shutting; confining; drawing together; as a claudent muscle. [R.] Jonson

Claudicant
Clau´di•cant, a. [L. claudicans, p. pr. of claudicare to limp, fr. claudus lame.] Limping. [R.]

Claudication
Clau•di•ca´tion, n. [L. claudicatio.] A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.

Clause, n. [F. clause, LL. clausa, equiv. to L. clausula clause, prop., close of rhetorical period, close, fr. claudere to shut, to end. See Close.]
1. A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
"The usual attestation clause to a will." - Bouvier.
2. (Gram.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

Clause, n. [Obs.] See Letters clause or close, under Letter.

Clausular
Clau´su•lar ( 135), a. [From L. clausula. See Clause, n. ] Consisting of, or having, clauses. Smart.

Clavel
Cla´vel, n. See Clevis.

Claver
Clav´er, n. [Obs.] See Clover. Holland.

Claver
Clav´er, n. Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. [Scot. & North of Eng.]
"Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers." - Thackeray.

Clavichord
Clav´i•chord, n. [F. clavicorde, fr. L. clavis key + chorda string.] (Mus.) A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

Clavicular
Cla•vic´u•lar, a. [Cf. F. claviculaire. See Clavicle.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

Claviform
Clav´i•form, a. [L. clava club + -form.] (Bot.) Club- shaped; clavate. Craig.

Claviger
Clav´i•ger, n. [L., fr. clavis key + gerere to carry.] One who carries the keys of any place.

Claviger
Clav´i•ger, n. [L., fr. clava club + gerere to carry.] One who carries a club; a club bearer.

Clavigerous
Cla•vig´er•ous, a. Bearing a club or a key.

Clavis
Cla´vis, n. ; pl. L. Claves (#), E. Clavises (#). [L.] A key; a glossary.

Clavus
Cla´vus, n. [L., a nail.] A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

Clavy
Cla´vy, n. ; pl. Clavies (#). [Cf. F. claveau centerpiece of an arch.] (Arch.) A mantelpiece.

Claw (kla), n. [AS. clawu, cla, cleó; akin to D. klaauw, G. klaue, Icel. klo, Sw. & Dan. klo, and perh. to E. clew.]
1. A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
2. The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
3. Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
4. (Bot.) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. — Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] — Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

Claw (kla), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clawed (klad); p. pr. & vb. n. Clawing.] [AS. clawan. See Claw, n. ]
1. To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
2. To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court. [Obs.]
"Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise." - Holland.
3. To rail at; to scold. [Obs.]
"In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation." - T. Fuller
Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; — an old proverb. Tyndale. — To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L’Estrange. — To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. — To claw (one) on the gall, to find fault with; to vex. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Claw, v. i. To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells.To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

Clawback
Claw´back, n. A flatterer or sycophant. [Obs.] "Take heed of these clawbacks." Latimer.

Clawback
Claw´back, a. Flattering; sycophantic. [Obs.]
"Like a clawback parasite." - Bp. Hall.

Clawback
Claw´back, v. t. To flatter. [Obs.] Warner.

Clawed (klad), a. Furnished with claws. N. Grew.

Clawless
Claw´less, a. Destitute of claws.

Clay (kla), n. [AS. claeg; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. clam clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio•s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. Clog.]
1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
"I also am formed out of the clay." - Job xxxiii. 6.
"The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover." - Byron.
Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. — Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. — Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. — Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. — Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. — Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. — Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug. — Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite. — Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. — Fire clay, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. — Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin. - - Potter’s clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.

Clay, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clayed p. pr. & vb. n. Claying.]
1. To cover or manure with clay.
2. To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

Clayes, n. pl. [F. claie hurdle.] (Fort.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.]

Clayey
Clay´ey, a. Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Clayish
Clay´ish, a. Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

Claymore
Clay´more, n. [Gael. claidheamhmor a broadsword; Gael. claidheamh sword + mor great, large. Cf. Claymore.] A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

Cleading
Clead´ing, n. [Scot., clothing. See Cloth.]
1. A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
2. The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

Cleaning
Clean´ing, n.
1. The act of making clean.
2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. Gardner.

Cleanlily
Clean´li•ly, adv. In a cleanly manner.

Clean-limbed
Clean´-limbed, a. With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Cleanliness
Clean´li•ness (klen"li•nes), n. [From Cleanly.] State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
"Cleanliness from head to heel." - Swift.

Cleanness
Clean´ness, n. [AS. clnnes. See Clean.]
1. The state or quality of being clean.
2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.

Cleanse (klenz), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cleansed (klenzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.] [AS. claensian, fr. claene clean. See Clean.] To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
"If we walk in the light … the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin." - 1 John i. 7.
"Can’st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?" - Shak.

Clean-timbered
Clean´-tim•bered, a. Well- proportioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

Clear (kler), a. [ Compar. Clearer (-er); superl. Clearest.] [OE. cler, cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, bright, loud, distinct, renowned; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. Chanticleer, Clairvoyant, Claret, Clarify.]
1. Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
"The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear." - Denham.
"Fair as the moon, clear as the sun." - Canticles vi. 10.
2. Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
"One truth is clear; whatever is, is right." - Pope.
3. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as a clear intellect; a clear head.
"Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents." - Milton.
4. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
"With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts." - Shak.
5. Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
"Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear." - Pope.
6. Without mixture; entirely pure; as clear sand.
7. Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as a clear complexion; clear lumber.
8. Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
"Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear." - Pope.
9. Without diminution; in full; net; as clear profit.
"I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year. Swift."
10. Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
"My companion … left the way clear for him." - Addison.
11. Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
"The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear." - Gay.
Clear breach. See under Breach, n. , 4. — Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. — Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.
Syn. — Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See Manifest.

Clear (kler), n. (Carp.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as a room ten feet square in the clear.

Clear, adv.
1. In a clear manner; plainly.
"Now clear I understand What oft … thoughts have searched in vain." - Milton.
2. Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as to cut a piece clear off.

Clear, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cleared p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]
1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
"He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north." - Dryden.
2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
"Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear." - Prior.
4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
"Our common prints would clear up their understandings." - Addison
5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one’s self from debt; — often used with of, off, away, or out.
"Clear your mind of cant." - Dr. Johnson.
"A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter." - Addison.
6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; — often used with from before the thing imputed.
"I … am sure he will clear me from partiality." - Dryden.
"How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?" - Addison.
7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
8. To gain without deduction; to net.
"The profit which she cleared on the cargo." - Macaulay.
To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. — To clear a ship for action, orTo clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement. — To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land. — To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted. — To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.

Clear (kler), v. i.
1. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; — often followed by up, off, or away.
"So foul a sky clears not without a storm." - Shak.
"Advise him to stay till the weather clears up." - Swift.
2. To disengage one’s self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. [Obs.]
"He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality. Bacon. "
3. (Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
4. To obtain a clearance; as the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day. To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. [Colloq.]

Clearage
Clear´age, n. The act of removing anything; clearance. [R.]

Clearance
Clear´ance (- ans), n.
1. The act of clearing; as to make a thorough clearance.
2. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
"Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances." - Durke
3. Clear or net profit. Trollope.
4. (Mach.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston’s clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.

Clearcole
Clear´cole, n. [F. claire colle clear glue; clair clear (f. claire) + colle glue, Gr. ] A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding.

Clearcole
Clear´cole, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clearcoled p. pr. & vb. n. Clearcoling ] To coat or paint with clearcole.

Clearedness
Clear´ed•ness, n. The quality of being cleared.
"Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience." - T. Fuller.

Clearer
Clear´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, clears.
"Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding." - Addison.
2. (Naut.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

Clear-headed
Clear´-head•ed (kler"hed•ed), a. Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear- headed." Macaulay. — Clear´-head•ed•ness, n.

Clearing
Clear´ing, n.
1. The act or process of making clear.
"The better clearing of this point." - South.
2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
"A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake." - J. Burroughs.
3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts. In England, a similar method has been adopted by railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other.
4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

Clearness
Clear´ness, n. The quality or state of being clear.
Syn. — Clearness, Perspicuity. Clearness has reference to our ideas and springs from a distinct conception of the subject under consideration. Perspicuity has reference to the mode of expressing our ideas and belongs essentially to style. Hence we speak of a writer as having clear ideas a clear arrangement, and perspicuous phraseology. We do at times speak of a person’s having great clearness of style; but in such cases we are usually thinking of the clearness of his ideas as manifested in language. "Whenever men think clearly, and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspicuity and force." Robertson.

Clear-shining
Clear´-shin•ing, a. Shining brightly. Shak.

Clear-sighted
Clear´-sight•ed (-sit•ed), a. Seeing with clearness; discerning; as clear-sighted reason.

Clear-sightedness
Clear´-sight•ed•ness, n. Acute discernment.

Clearstarch
Clear´starch, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clearstarched p. pr. & vb. n. Clearstraching.] To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as to clearstarch muslin.

Clearwing
Clear´wing, n. (Zoöl.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family AEgeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

Cleat (klet), n. [OE. clete wedge; cf. D. kloot ball, Ger. kloss, klotz, lump. clod, MHG. kloz lump, ball, wedge, OHG. chloz ball, round mass.]
1. (Carp.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
2. (Naut.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

Cleat, v. t. To strengthen with a cleat.

Cleavable
Cleav´a•ble, a. Capable of cleaving or being divided.

Cleavage
Cleav´age, n.
1. The act of cleaving or splitting.
2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
3. (Geol.) Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; — usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. — Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. — Cubic cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube. — Diagonal cleavage, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane. — Egg clavage. (Biol.) See Segmentation. — Lateral cleavage, cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. — Octahedral, Dodecahedral, or Rhombohedral,cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of an octahedron, dodecahedron, or rhombohedron. — Prismatic cleavage, cleavage parallel to a vertical prism.

Cleavelandite
Cleave´land•ite, n. [From Professor Parker Cleaveland.] (Min.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

Cleaver
Cleav´er, n. One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher’s instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

Cleavers
Cleav´ers, n. [From Cleave to stick.] (Bot.) A species of Galium ( G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; — called also goose grass, catchweed, etc.

Clee (kle), n. A claw. [Obs.] Holland.

Clee, n. (Zoöl.) The redshank.

Cleek, n.
1. A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.
2. Act of cleeking; a clutch. [Scot.]

Cleek, v. t. [ pret. Claught pret. & p. p. Cleeked p. pr. & vb. n. Cleeking.] [ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch.] [Scot & Dial. Eng.]
1. To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.
2. To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook.
3. To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. Scott.

Cleftgraft
Cleft´graft, v. t. To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.

Cleg, n. [Northern Eng. & Scot. gleg: cf. Gael. crethleag.] (Zoöl.) A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson. { Cleis•to•gam´ic, Cleis•tog´a•mous } a. [Gr. closed (fr. to shut) + ga•mos marriage.] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; — said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

Clem (klem), v. t. & i. [Cf. clam to clog, or G. klemmen to pinch, Icel. klömbra, E. clamp.] To starve; to famish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Clematis
Clem´a•tis (klem"a•tis), n. [NL., fr. Gr. klhmati•s brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. fr. klh^ma twig, shoot, fr. kla^n to break off.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; — called also virgin’s bower.

Clemence
Clem´ence, n. Clemency. [Obs.] Spenser.

Clemency
Clem´en•cy, n. ; pl. Clemencies (#). [L. clementia, fr. clemens mild, calm.]
1. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
"Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects." - Stowe.
"They had applied for the royal clemency." - Macaulay.
2. Mildness or softness of the elements; as the clemency of the season.
Syn. — Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy; gentleness; compassion; kindness.

Clement
Clem´ent, a. [L. clemens; -entis; cf. F. clment.] Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. Shak. — Clem´ent•ly, adv.

Clementine
Clem´ent•ine, a. Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

Clench, n. & v. t. See Clinch.

Clepe (klep), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cleped (klep"ed) or (klept); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleping. Cf. Ycleped.] [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call.] To call, or name. [Obs.]
"That other son was cleped Cambalo." - Chaucer.

Clepe, v. i. To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.]
"Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery." - Mir. for Mag.

Clepsine
Clep´si•ne, n. (Zoöl.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

Clepsydra
Clep´sy•dra ( 277), n. [L. from Gr. ; to steal, conceal + water.] A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

Clergical
Cler´gi•cal, a. Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned. [Obs.] Milton.

Clergy
Cler´gy, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie, F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused with OF. clergie, F. clerge, fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc. Both the Old French words meant clergy, in sense 1, the former having also sense 2. See Clerk.]
1. The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.
2. Learning; also a learned profession. [Obs.]
"Sophictry … rhetoric, and other cleargy." - Guy of Warwick.
"Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515)."
3. The privilege or benefit of clergy.
"If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction." - Blackstone.
Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge — a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). — Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n. , and Secular, a.

Clergyman
Cler´gy•man, n. ; pl. Clergymen (#). An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

Cleric
Cler´ic, n. [AS., fr. L. clericus. See Clerk.] A clerk, a clergyman. [R.] Bp. Horsley.

Cleric
Cler´ic, a. Same as Clerical.

Clericity
Cler•ic´i•ty, n. The state of being a clergyman.

Clerisy
Cler´i•sy, n. [LL. clericia. See Clergy.]
1. The literati, or well educated class.
2. The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.

Clerkless
Clerk´less, a. Unlearned. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

Clerklike
Clerk´like, a. Scholarlike. [Obs.] Shak.

Clerkliness
Clerk´li•ness, n. Scholarship. [Obs.]

Clerkly
Clerk´ly, a. Of or pertaining to a clerk. Cranmer.

Clerkly
Clerk´ly, adv. In a scholarly manner. [Obs.] Shak.

Clerkship
Clerk´ship, n. State, quality, or business of a clerk.

Cleromancy
Cler´o•man•cy, n. [Gr. lot + -mancy; cf. F. cleromancie.] A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

Cleronomy
Cle•ron´o•my, n. [Gr. inheritance + to possess.] Inheritance; heritage.

Clerstory
Cler´sto•ry, n. See Clearstory.

Cleverly
Clev´er•ly, adv. In a clever manner.
"Never was man so clever absurd." - C. Smart.

Cleverness
Clev´er•ness, n. The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
Syn. — See Ingenuity.

Click (klik), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clicked (klikt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clicking.] [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. See Clack, and cf. Clink, Clique.] To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
"The varnished clock that clicked behind the door." - Goldsmith.

Click, v. t.
1. To move with the sound of a click.
"She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash." - Thackeray.
2. To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
"[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs." - Ben Jonson.
"When merry milkmaids click the latch." - Tennyson.

Click, n.
1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
2. A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

Click, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. Clutch.] To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Click, n. [Cf. 4th Click, and OF. clique latch.]
1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
2. The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Clicket
Click´et, n. [OF. cliquet the latch of a door. See 5th Click.]
1. The knocker of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A latch key. [Eng.] Chaucer.

Clidastes
Cli•das´tes, n. [NL., prob. from Gr. klei•s key.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

Cliency
Cli´en•cy, n. State of being a client.

Client
Cli´ent, n. [L. cliens, -emtis, for cluens, one who hears (in relation to his protector), a client, fr. L. cluere to be named or called; akin to Gr. to hear, Skr. çry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See Loud.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
2. A dependent; one under the protection of another.
"I do think they are your friends and clients, And fearful to disturb you." - B. Jonson.
3. (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

Cliental
Cli•en´tal, a. Of or pertaining to a client.
"A dependent and cliental relation." - Burke.
"I sat down in the cliental chair." - Dickens.

Cliented
Cli´ent•ed, a. Supplied with clients. [R.]
"The least cliented pettifiggers." - R. Carew.

Clientelage
Cli•en´te•lage, n. See Clientele, n. , 2.

Clientship
Cli´ent•ship, n. Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

Cliff (klif), n. [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See Climb.] A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zoöl.), a North American swallow ( Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.

Cliff, n. (Mus.) See Clef. [Obs.]

Cliffy
Cliff´y, a. Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

Clift, n. [See 1st Cliff, n. ] A cliff. [Obs.]
"That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar." - Spenser.

Clift, n. [See Cleft, n. ]
1. A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]
2. The fork of the legs; the crotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Climacterical
Clim•ac•ter´ic•al, a. & n. See Climacteric. Evelyn.

Climatal
Cli´ma•tal, a. Climatic. Dunglison.

Climatarchic
Cli•ma•tar´chic, a. [ Climate + Gr. to rule.] Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

Climate
Cli´mate, n. [F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr.,, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime.]
1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

Climate
Cli´mate, v. i. To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.

Climatic
Cli•mat´ic, a. Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

Climatical
Cli•mat´ic•al, a. Climatic.

Climatize
Cli´ma•tize, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Climatized (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Climatizing.] To acclimate or become acclimated.

Climatological
Cli•ma•to•log´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to climatology.

Climatologist
Cli•ma•tol´o•gist, n. One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

Climatology
Cli•ma•tol´o•gy, n. [ Climate + -logy: cf. F. climatologie.] The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

Climature
Cli´ma•ture ( 135), n. [Cf. F. climature.] A climate. [Obs.] Shak.

Climax
Cli´max, n. [L., from Gr. ladder, staircase, fr. to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder, Lean, v. i.]
1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.
2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
""Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" — a happy climax." - J. D. Forbes.
3. The highest point; the greatest degree.
"We must look higher for the climax of earthly good." - I. Taylor.
To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

Climbable
Climb´a•ble, a. Capable of being climbed.

Climber
Climb´er, n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zoöl.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.

Climber
Climb´er, v. i. [From Climb; cf. Clamber.] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] Tusser.

Clinch (klinch; 224), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clinched p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.]
1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.
2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.
3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as to clinch a nail.
4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as to clinch an argument. South.

Clinch, v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Clinch (klinch), n.
1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
2. A pun. Pope.
3. (Naut.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship’s gun to the ringbolts.

Clincher
Clinch´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope.
2. That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.

Clincher-built
Clinch´er-built, a. See Clinker-built.

Clingstone
Cling´stone, a. Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. — n. A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.

Clingy
Cling´y, a. Apt to cling; adhesive. [R.]

Clinic
Clin´ic, n. [See Clinical.]
1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.
3. (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils. { Clin´ic•al (klin"ik• al), Clin´ic (klin"ik) }, a. [Gr. kliniko•s, fr. kli•nh bed, fr. kli•nein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See Lean, v. i.]
1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. — Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. — Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. — Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.

Clinique
Cli•nique´, n. [F.] (Med.) A clinic.

Clinium
Clin´i•um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. kli•nh bed.] (Bot.) See Clinanthium.

Clinkant
Clin´kant (klin"k ant), a. See Clinquant.

Clinoid
Cli´noid, a. [Gr. kli•nh bed + -oid.] (Anat.) Like a bed; — applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

Clinometer
Cli•nom´e•ter, n. [Gr. kli•nein to incline + -meter.] (Geol.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

Clinometric
Clin•o•met´ric, a.
1. Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
2. Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as the clinometric systems.

Clinometry
Cli•nom´e•try, n. (geol.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.

Clinopinacoid
Cli•no•pin´a•coid, n. [Gr. kli•nein to incline + E. pinacoid.] (Crystallog.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

Clinorhombic
Cli•no•rhom´bic, a. [Gr. kli•nein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique.] (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

Clinostat
Cli´no•stat, n. [Gr. to incline + to make to stand.] (Bot.) An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

Clinquant
Clin´quant, a. [F.] Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.

Clinquant
Clin´quant, n. Tinsel; Dutch gold.

Clio
Cli´o, n. [L., fr. Gr. the proclaimer, fr. to call, tell of, make famous.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over history.

Clione
Cli•o´ne, n. A genus of naked pteropods. One species ( Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

Clip (klip), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clipped (klipt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klypa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]
1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
"O … that Neptune’s arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself." - Shak.
2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as to clip the hair; to clip coin.
"Sentenced to have his ears clipped." - Macaulay.
3. To curtail; to cut short.
"All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so." - Shak.
"In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs." - Swift.

Clip (klip), v. i. To move swiftly; — usually with indefinite it.
"Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind." - Dryden.

Clip, n.
1. An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.
2. A cutting; a shearing.
3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season’s crop of wool.
4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.
6. (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; — called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.
7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

Clip, n.
1. (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
2. (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
3. A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip." Kipling.

Clipper
Clip´per, n.
1. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
"The value is pared off from it into the clipper’s pocket." - Locke.
2. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
3. (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. — Clip"per- built•, a. The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.

Clipping
Clip´ping, n.
1. The act of embracing. [Obs.]
2. The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.
"clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money." - Locke.
3. That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as newspaper clippings.

Clique, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - - generally used in a bad sense.

Clique, v. i. To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; — used with together.

Cliquish
Cli´quish, a. Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. — Cli´•quish•ness, n.

Cliquism
Cli´quism, n. The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.

Clitellus
Cli•tel´lus, n. [NL., prob. fr. L. clitellae a packsadle.] (Zoöl.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

Clitoris
Cli´to•ris, n. [NL., fr. Gr., fr. to shut up. It is concealed by the labia pudendi.] (Anat.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

Clivers
Cliv´ers, n. See Cleavers.

Cloaca
Clo´a´ca, n. ; pl. Cloacae (#). [L.]
1. A sewer; as the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
2. A privy.
3. (Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

Cloacal
Clo•a´cal, a. Of or pertaining to a cloaca.

Cloak ( 110), n. [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock.]
1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
"No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak." - South.
Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

Cloak, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloaked p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.] To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
"Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter." - Spenser.
Syn. — See Palliate.

Cloaking
Cloak´ing, n.
1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
"To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings." - Strype.
2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.

Cloakroom
Cloak´room, n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

Cloche, n. [F., prop., bell.] (Aëronautics) An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing- warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

Clock, n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. Cloak.]
1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] Walton.
3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.
4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift. The phrases what o’clock? it is nine o’clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc. Alarm clock. See under Alarm. — Astronomical clock. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; — called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. — Electric clock. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. — Ship’s clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship’s watches. — Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.

Clock (klok), v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.

Clock, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]

Clock, n. (Zoöl.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ( Scarabaeus stercorarius).

Clocklike
Clock´like (klok"lik•), a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
"Their services are clocklike, to be set Backward and forward at their lord’s command." - B. Jonson.

Clockwise
Clock´wise, a. & adv. Like the motion of the hands of a clock; — said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.

Clockwork
Clock´work (-wûrk•), n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

Clod (klod), n. [OE. clodde, latter form of clot. See Clot.]
1. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax.
"The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod." - Bacon.
2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
"The clod Where once their sultan’s horse has trod." - Swift.
3. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
"This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us." - T. Burnet.
4. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden.
5. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

Clod (klod), v. i To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as clodded gore. See Clot.
"Clodded in lumps of clay." - G. Fletcher.

Clod, v. t.
1. To pelt with clods. Jonson.
2. To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Cloddish
Clod´dish, a. Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. — Clod´dish•ness, n.

Cloddy
Clod´dy, a. Consisting of clods; full of clods.

Clodhopper
Clod´hop•per, n. A rude, rustic fellow.

Clodhopping
Clod´hop•ping, a. Boorish; rude. C. Bronte.

Clodpate
Clod´pate, n. A blockhead; a dolt.

Clodpated
Clod´pat•ed, a. Stupid; dull; doltish.

Clodpoll
Clod´poll, n. [ Clod + poll head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

Cloff ( 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

Clog, n. [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n. , a clot, v. , to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.]
1. That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
"All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression." - Burke.
2. A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
"As a dog … but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog." - Hudibras.
"A clog of lead was round my feet." - Tennyson.
3. A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
"In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort … makes use of wooden clogs." - Harvey.
Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; — called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. — Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. — Clog dancer.

Clog, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clogged p. pr. & vb. n. Clogging.]
1. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
"The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow." - Dryden.
2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as to clog a tube or a channel.
3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
"The commodities are clogged with impositions." - Addison.
"You ’ll rue the time That clogs me with this answer." - Shak.
Syn. — Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.

Clog, v. i.
1. To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
"In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog." - S. Sharp.
2. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
"Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together." - Evelyn.

Clogginess
Clog´gi•ness, n. The state of being clogged.

Clogging
Clog´ging, n. Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.

Cloggy
Clog´gy, a. Clogging, or having power to clog.

Cloisonne
Cloi•son•ne, a. [F., partitioned, fr. cloison a partition.] Inlaid between partitions: — said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

Cloister
Clois´ter, n. [OF. cloistre, F. cloître, L. claustrum, pl. claustra, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. claudere, clausum, to close. See Close, v. t., and cf. Claustral.]
1. An inclosed place. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; ( pl. ) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
"But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister’s pale." - Milton.
3. A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
"Fitter for a cloister than a crown." - Daniel.
Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.
Syn. — Cloister, Monastery, Nunnery, Convent, Abbey, Priory. Cloister and convent are generic terms, and denote a place of seclusion from the world for persons who devote their lives to religious purposes. They differ is that the distinctive idea of cloister is that of seclusion from the world, that of convent, community of living. Both terms denote houses for recluses of either sex. A cloister or convent for monks is called a monastery; for nuns, a nunnery. An abbey is a convent or monastic institution governed by an abbot or an abbess; a priory is one governed by a prior or a prioress, and is usually affiliated to an abbey.

Cloister
Clois´ter, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloistered p. pr. & vb. n. Cloistering.] To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
"None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery." - Sharp.

Cloistered
Clois´tered, a.
1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras.
"In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell." - Shenstone.
2. Furnished with cloisters. Sir H. Wotton.

Cloisterer
Clois´ter•er, n. [Cf. OF. cloistier.] One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

Cloistral
Clois´tral, a. Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. [Written also cloisteral.]
"Best become a cloistral exercise." - Daniel.

Cloistress
Clois´tress, n. A nun. [R.] Shak.

Cloke, n. & v. See Cloak. [Obs.] { Clomb, Clomb´en } imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed). [Obs.]
"The sonne, he sayde, is clomben up on hevene." - Chaucer.

Cloom, v. t. [A variant of clam to clog.] To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Cloop, n. [An onomatopœia.] The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.

Cloot, n. [Cf. G. dial. kleuzen to split.] (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
1. One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also the whole hoof.
2. The Devil; Clootie; — usually in the pl. Burns.

Clootie
Cloot´ie, n. (Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
1. A little hoof.
2. The Devil. "Satan, Nick, or Clootie." Burns.

Close, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Closed p. pr. & vb. n. Closing.] [From OF. & F. clos, p. p. of clore to close, fr. L. claudere; akin to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, conclude, sluice. Cf. Clause, n. ]
1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as to close the eyes; to close a door.
2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as to close the ranks of an army; — often used with up.
3. To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction.
"One frugal supper did our studies close." - Dryden.
4. To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.
"The depth closed me round about." - Jonah ii. 5.
"But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart." - Herbert.
A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

Close, v. i.
1. To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.
"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?" - Byron.
2. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as the debate closed at six o’clock.
3. To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight.
"They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest." - Prescott.
To closeon or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. — To close with. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. — To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.

Close, n.
1. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. [Obs.]
"The doors of plank were; their close exquisite." - Chapman.
2. Conclusion; cessation; ending; end.
" His long and troubled life was drawing to a close." - Macaulay.
3. A grapple in wrestling. Bacon.
4. (Mus.) (a) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence. (b) A double bar marking the end.
"At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song." - Dryden.
Syn. — Conclusion; termination; cessation; end; ending; extremity; extreme.

Close, n. [OF. & F. clos an inclosure, fr. clos, p. p. of clore. See Close, v. t.]
1. An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; — specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey.
"Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons." - Macaulay.
2. A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell
3. (Law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed. Bouvier.

Close, a. [ Compar. Closer superl. Closest.] [Of. & F. clos, p. p. of clore. See Close, v. t.]
1. Shut fast; closed; tight; as a close box.
"From a close bower this dainty music flowed." - Dryden.
2. Narrow; confined; as a close alley; close quarters. "A close prison." Dickens.
3. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; — said of the air, weather, etc.
"If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, … and the other maketh it exceeding unequal." - Bacon.
4. Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as a close prisoner.
5. Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden. "He yet kept himself close because of Saul." 1 Chron. xii. 1
""Her close intent."" - Spenser.
6. Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. "For secrecy, no lady closer." Shak.
7. Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids.
"The golden globe being put into a press, … the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal." - Locke.
8. Concise; to the point; as close reasoning. "Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass." Dryden.
9. Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; — often followed by to.
"Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall." - Mortimer.
"The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing — not a faint hearsay." - G. Eliot.
10. Short; as to cut grass or hair close.
11. Intimate; familiar; confidential.
"League with you I seek And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That I with you must dwell, or you with me." - Milton.
12. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as a close vote. "A close contest." Prescott.
13. Difficult to obtain; as money is close. Bartlett.
14. Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.
15. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as a close translation. Locke.
16. Accurate; careful; precise; also attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as a close observer.
17. (Phon.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; — opposed to open. Close borough. See under Borough. — Close breeding. See under Breeding. — Close communion, communion in the Lord’s supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. — Close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its own vacancies. — Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization. — Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. — Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. — Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. — Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; — said of a vessel.

Close, adv.
1. In a close manner.
2. Secretly; darkly. [Obs.]
"A wondrous vision which did close imply The course of all her fortune and posterity." - Spenser.

Close-banded
Close´-band•ed, a. Closely united.

Close-barred
Close´-barred, a. Firmly barred or closed.

Close-bodied
Close´-bod•ied, a. Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

Close-fights
Close´-fights, n. pl. (Naut.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy’s boarders; — called also close quarters. [Obs.]

Closefisted
Close´fist•ed, a. Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

Closehanded
Close´hand•ed, a. Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. — Close´hand•ed•ness, n.

Closehauled
Close´hauled, a. (Naut.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; — said of a sailing vessel.

Closely
Close´ly, adv.
1. In a close manner.
2. Secretly; privately. [Obs.]
"That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe." - Spenser.

Closemouthed
Close´mouthed, a. Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

Closen
Clos´en, v. t. To make close. [R.]

Closeness
Close´ness, n. The state of being close.
"Half stifled by the closeness of the room." - Swift.
"We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius." - Bacon.
"An affectation of closeness and covetousness." - Addison.
Syn. — Narrowness; oppressiveness; strictness; secrecy; compactness; conciseness; nearness; intimacy; tightness; stinginess; literalness.

Closer
Clos´er, n.
1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.
2. A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.
3. (Masonry) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt.

Close-stool
Close´-stool, n. A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

Closet
Clos´et, n. [OF. closet little inclosure, dim. of clos. See Close an inclosure.]
1. A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
"A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine." - Goldsmith.
"When thou prayest, enter into thy closet." - Matt. vi. 6.
2. A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy. Bp. Hall.

Closet
Clos´et, v. t. [ imp. & p. pr. & vb. n. Closeting.]
1. To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.]
"Bedlam’s closeted and handcuffed charge." - Cowper.
2. To make into a closet for a secret interview.
"He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members." - Bancroft.
"He had been closeted with De Quadra." - Froude.

Closh, n. [CF. F. clocher to limp, halt.] A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.

Closh, n. [CF. D. klossen to play at bowls.] The game of ninepins. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Closure
Clo´sure (?, 135), n. [Of. closure, L. clausura, fr. clauedere to shut. See Close, v. t.]
1. The act of shutting; a closing; as the closure of a chink.
2. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
"Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever." - Pope.
3. That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.
"O thou bloody prison … Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death." - Shak.
4. A conclusion; an end. [Obs.] Shak.
5. (Parliamentary Practice) A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Clotbur
Clot´bur, n. [Cf. Clote.]
1. The burdock. [Prov. Engl.] Prior.
2. Same as Cocklebur.

Cloth ( 115), n. ; pl. Cloths (#; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (klothz or kloz). [OE. clath cloth, AS. claþ cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klaeði, Dan. klaede, cloth, Sw. kläde, G. kleid garment, dress.]
1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
"I’ll ne’er distust my God for cloth and bread." - Quarles.
3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
"Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth?" - Macaulay.
"The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to … every axiom." - I. Taylor.
Body cloth. See under Body. — Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold. — Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. — Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. — Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

Clothes (? or 277), n. pl. [From Cloth.]
1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; — a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.
"She … speaks well, and has excellent good clothes." - Shak.
"If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." - Mark. v. 28.
2. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
"She turned each way her frighted head, Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes." - Prior.
Body clothes. See under Body. — Clothes moth (Zoöl.), a small moth of the genus Tinea. The most common species ( T. flavifrontella) is yellowish white. The larvae eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.
Syn. — Garments; dress; clothing; apparel; attire; vesture; raiment; garb; costume; habit; habiliments.

Clothesline
Clothes´line, n. A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

Clothespin
Clothes´pin, n. A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

Clothespress
Clothes´press, n. A receptacle for clothes.

Clothier
Cloth´ier, n.
1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.
2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.

Clothing
Cloth´ing, n.
1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
"From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing." - Milton.
"As for me, … my clothing was sackloth." - Ps. xxxv. 13
2. The art of process of making cloth. [R.]
"Instructing [refugees] in the art of clothing." - Ray.
3. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.
4. (Mach.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.

Clotpoll
Clot´poll, n. See Clodpoll. [Obs.] Shak.

Clotter
Clot´ter, v. i. [From Clot.] To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.

Cloudage
Cloud´age, n. Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.]
"A scudding cloudage of shapes." - Coleridge.

Cloudberry
Cloud´ber•ry, n. (Bot.) A species of raspberry ( Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber- colored fruit.

Cloud-built
Cloud´-built, a. Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper.
"So vanished my cloud-built palace." - Goldsmith.

Cloud-burst
Cloud´-burst, n. A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Cloud-capped
Cloud´-capped, a. Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as cloud-capped mountains.

Cloud-compeller
Cloud´-com•pel•ler, n. Cloud-gatherer; — an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

Cloudily
Cloud´i•ly, adv. In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.

Cloudiness
Cloud´i•ness, n. The state of being cloudy.

Clouding
Cloud´ing, n.
1. A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
2. A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.

Cloudland
Cloud´land, n. Dreamland.

Cloudless
Cloud´less, a. Without a cloud; clear; bright.
"A cloudless winter sky." - Bankroft.
— Cloud´less•ly, adv. — Cloud´less•ness, n.

Cloudlet
Cloud´let, n. A little cloud. R. Browning.
"Eve’s first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping." - Coleridge.

Cloudy
Cloud´y, a. [ Compar. Cloudier ; superl. Cloudiest.] [From Cloud, n. ]
1. Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as a cloudy sky.
2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds.
"As Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended." - Ex. xxxiii. 9
3. Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful. "A cloudy countenance." Shak.
4. Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
"Cloudy and confused notions of things." - Watts.
5. Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond." Boyle.
6. Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

Cloven
Clo´ven, p. p. & a. from Cleave, v. t.To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, — Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs. { Clo´ven-foot•ed, Clo´ven-hoofed• }, a. Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

Clowe-gilofre
Clowe´-gi•lof•re, n. [See 3d Clove, and Gillyflower.] Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Clownage
Clown´age, n. Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Clownery
Clown´er•y (-er•y), n. Clownishness. L’Estrange.

Clownish
Clown´ish, a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. — Clown´ish•ly, adv.
Syn. — Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored.

Clownishness
Clown´ish•ness, n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
"That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness." - Locke.

Cloy (kloi), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.]
1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
"The duke’s purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones." - Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
"[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?" - Shak.
"He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying." - Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
"Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed." - Spenser.
"He never shod horse but he cloyed him." - Bacon.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson.
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.

Cloyment
Cloy´ment, n. Satiety. [Obs.] Shak.

Club (klub), n. [Cf. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbufoir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump.]
1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
"But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle." - Shak.
2. [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club.] Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. ( pl. ) The suit of cards having such figure.
3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
"They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics." - Tennyson.
"He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club." - Macaulay.
4. A joint charge of expense, or any person’s share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
"They laid down the club. L’Estrange."
"We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club." - Pepys.
Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. — Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. — Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

Club (klub), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clubbed (klubd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing.]
1. To beat with a club.
2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
"To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column." - Farrow.
3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as to club exertions.
4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as to club the expense. To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Club, v. i.
1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
"Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream." - Dryden.
2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
"The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat." - Swift.
3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Clubbable
Club´ba•ble, a. Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.] G. W. Curtis.

Clubbed, a. Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as a club. Skelton.

Clubber
Club´ber, n.
1. One who clubs.
2. A member of a club. [R.] Massinger.

Clubbish
Club´bish, a.
1. Rude; clownish. [Obs.]
2. Disposed to club together; as a clubbish set.

Clubbist
Club´bist, n. A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [R.] Burke.

Clubfist
Club´fist, n.
1. A large, heavy fist.
2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

Clubfisted
Club´fist•ed, a. Having a large fist. Howell.