Cleric
Nil’giccas is the Nonman King of Ishterebinth and Nihrimsûl , eldest son of Sin’niroiha and Tsinirû . Known as King-upon-the-Summit, Lightbearer, Mantutor and many other names in the legends and histories of Men and Nonmen. In his final years, while with the Skin Eaters , he went by the names Incariol and Cleric .
Appearance
Like all Nonmen, Nil’giccas has white skin and lacks body hair. Personality
Nil’giccas is an amnesiac, as a result of his unnaturally long life. This made him an Erratic , a Nonman driven insane by the slow loss of his memory. He is prone to give long, rambling, sermon-like speeches each night, which led to him receiving the nickname “Cleric.” Skills
Nil’giccas is a powerful Qûya , perhaps the mightiest one alive. What Came Before
Nil’giccas was born a long time before the beginning of the ancient Cûno-Inchoroi Wars , making him over four thousand years old. He had a wife who died as a result of the Womb-Plague created by the Inchoroi . He became the High King of the Nonmen after the death of Cû’jara-Cinmoi and continued fighting the age-long struggle that would be known as the Cûno-Inchoroi Wars. After hundreds of years, Nil’giccas and his Nonmen prevailed in the war of annihilation and finally penetrated into the Incû-Holoinas itself. Nil’giccas led the final victory over the Inchoroi, driving them to extinction. When his forces were unable to destroy the Incû-Holoinas, he had the remaining Qûya sorcerers hide it from sight with a powerful glamour. Thousands of years later, an aged Nil’giccas participated in the Great Ordeal organized against Golgotterath in the early years of the Apocalypse , during which time he was apparently close friends with Seswatha . However his last sons died in the Consult counterattack which ended the Great Investiture, and a deeply embittered Nil’giccas abandoned the war. Another millennium later, when the last surviving Nonmen of the Mansion of Ishterebinth decided to join forces with the Consult, a disillusioned Nil’giccas abandoned them due to his pride. He became an Erratic and took on the name Incariol. He eventually joined the Skin Eaters in hunting Sranc for the Holy Bounty on their pelts, with their leader Kosoter becoming his elju . The Judging Eye
The Skin Eaters are hired by Drusas Achamian to find the Coffers of the long-fallen Library of Sauglish . The long and perilous journey requires them to travel through the fallen Mansion of Cil-Aujas . Inside the Mansion, Nil’giccas gives his travelling companions their first taste of the drug qirri . In the black depths of Cil-Aujas, Nil’giccas becomes possessed by the spirit of the long-dead Nonman King Gin’yursis . Mimara manages to exorcise the ancient wight, and Nil’giccas rejoins his companions. The White-Luck Warrior
The Skin Eaters continue their journey towards the Library of Sauglish, becoming increasingly addicted to Nil’giccas’s supply of qirri along the way. Nil’giccas assists Achamian in defeating the ancient dragon Wutteät . However, because he has fallen in love with Mimara and sees Achamian as a good friend, he then attempts to kill them, as his grief over their deaths would be the only way he would be able to remember them. He and Achamian fight a sorcerous duel over the ruins of Sauglish, where Achamian reluctantly kills the ancient Nonman. Afterwards Achamian burns Nil’giccas’s body and makes qirri from the ashes. Nil’giccas
Title(s): King
Aliases: Inner Luminal Incariol Cleric
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Nonmen
Nationality: Ishterebinth
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Ishterebinth Qûya Scalpoi ( Skin Eater )
Relatives: Sin'niroiha (father) Tsinirû (mother) Unnamed wife Several unnamed sons Several unnamed daughters
Books: The Warrior-Prophet (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned) The False Sun (mentioned)
Nil’giccas
Title(s): King
Aliases: Inner Luminal Incariol Cleric
Lived: ? - 4132
Race: Nonmen
Nationality: Ishterebinth
Gender: Male
Occupation: King of Ishterebinth Qûya Scalpoi ( Skin Eater )
Relatives: Sin'niroiha (father) Tsinirû (mother) Unnamed wife Several unnamed sons Several unnamed daughters
Books: The Warrior-Prophet (mentioned) The Thousandfold Thought (mentioned) The Judging Eye The White-Luck Warrior The Great Ordeal (mentioned) The Unholy Consult (mentioned) The False Sun (mentioned)
Clia
"Clia Saxillas" Captain of the Inchausti at the time of the Great Ordeal.
Clia Saxillas
Captain of the Inchausti at the time of the Great Ordeal.
clabber
-milk curdled so as to become thick.
-to become clabber; to lopper.
clachan
-a small village containing a church.
clack
-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.
-to utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.
-to cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
-to utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
-a sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.
-anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
-continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
clacked
-of clack
clacker
-one who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.
-a claqueur. see claqueur.
clacking
-of clack
clad
-to clothe.
-imp. & p. p. of clothe.
-of clothe
cladocera
-an order of the entomostraca.
cladophyll
-a special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (myrsiphillum).
claggy
-adhesive;
-- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.
claik
-see clake.
-the bernicle goose;
-- called also clack goose.
claim
-to ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
-to proclaim.
-to call or name.
-to assert; to maintain.
-to be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
-a demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
-a right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
-the thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
-a loud call.
claimable
-capable of being claimed.
claimant
-one who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
claimed
-of claim
claimer
-one who claims; a claimant.
claiming
-of claim
claimless
-having no claim.
clair
-obscur
-see chiaroscuro.
clairvoyance
-a power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
clairvoyant
-pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
-one who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.
clake
-alt. of claik
clam
-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.
-strong pinchers or forceps.
-a kind of vise, usually of wood.
-to clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
-to be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.
-claminess; moisture.
-a crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
-to produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
clamant
-crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.
clamation
-the act of crying out.
clamatores
-a division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.
clamatorial
-like or pertaining to the clamatores.
clambake
-the backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.
clamber
-to climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet;
-- also used figuratively.
-the act of clambering.
-to ascend by climbing with difficulty.
clambered
-of clamber
clambering
-of clamber
clamjamphrie
-low, worthless people; the rabble.
clammed
-of clam
clammily
-in a clammy manner.
clamminess
-state of being clammy or viscous.
clamming
-of clam
clammy
-having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
clamor
-a great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
-any loud and continued noise.
-a continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
-to salute loudly.
-to stun with noise.
-to utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.
-to utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands.
clamored
-of clamor
clamorer
-one who clamors.
clamoring
-of clamor
clamorous
-speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.
clamp
-something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
-an instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
-a piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
-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.
-a thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
-a mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
-a mollusk. see clam.
-to fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
-to cover, as vegetables, with earth.
-a heavy footstep; a tramp.
-to tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
clamped
-of clamp
clamper
-an instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
clamping
-of clamp
clan
-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.
-a clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit;
-- sometimes used contemptuously.
clancular
-conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.
clancularly
-privately; secretly.
clandestine
-conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
clandestinity
-privacy or secrecy.
clang
-to strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
-to give out a clang; to resound.
-a loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.
-quality of tone.
clanged
-of clang
clanging
-of clang
clangor
-a sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
clangorous
-making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
clangous
-making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.
clanjamfrie
-same as clamjamphrie.
clank
-a sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies;
-- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.
-to cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.
-to sound with a clank.
clanked
-of clank
clanking
-of clank
clankless
-without a clank.
clannish
-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.
clanship
-a state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.
clansman
-one belonging to the same clan with another.
clansmen
-of clansman
clap
-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.
-to thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner;
-- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
-to manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
-to express contempt or derision.
-to knock, as at a door.
-to strike the hands together in applause.
-to come together suddenly with noise.
-to enter with alacrity and briskness;
-- with to or into.
-to talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
-a loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
-a burst of sound; a sudden explosion.
-a single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.
-a striking of hands to express approbation.
-noisy talk; chatter.
-the nether part of the beak of a hawk.
-gonorrhea.
clapboard
-a narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other;
-- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
-a stave for a cask.
-to cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.
clapbread
-alt. of clapcake
clapcake
-oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
clape
-a bird; the flicker.
clapped
-of clap
clapper
-a person who claps.
-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.
-a rabbit burrow.
clapperclaw
-to fight and scratch.
-to abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
clapping
-of clap
claps
-variant of clasp
claptrap
-a contrivance for clapping in theaters.
-a trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
-contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.
claque
-a collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
claqueur
-one of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
clare
-a nun of the order of st. clare.
clare
-obscure
-see chiaroscuro.
clarence
-a close four
-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.
clarenceux
-alt. of clarencieux
clarencieux
-see king
-at
-arms.
clarendon
-a style of type having a narrow and heave face. it is made in all sizes.
claret
-the name first given in england to the red wines of medoc, in france, and afterwards extended to all the red bordeaux wines. the name is also given to similar wines made in the united states.
claribella
-a soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.
clarichord
-a musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet;
-- called also manichord and clavichord.
clarification
-the act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
-the act of freeing from obscurities.
clarified
-of clarify
clarifier
-that which clarifies.
-a vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.
clarify
-to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine;
-- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
-to make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
-to glorify.
-to grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
-to grow clear or bright; to clear up.
clarifying
-of clarify
clarigate
-to declare war with certain ceremonies.
clarinet
-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.
clarino
-a reed stop in an organ.
clarion
-a kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
clarionet
-see clarinet.
clarisonus
-having a clear sound.
claritude
-clearness; splendor.
clarity
-clearness; brightness; splendor.
claro
-obscuro
-see chiaroscuro.
clarre
-wine with a mixture of honey and species.
clart
-to daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.
clarty
-sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.
clary
-to make a loud or shrill noise.
-a plant (salvia sclarea) of the sage family, used in flavoring soups.
clash
-to make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
-to meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.
-to strike noisily against or together.
-a loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
-opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.
clashed
-of clash
clashing
-of clash
clashingly
-with clashing.
clasp
-to shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
-to inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
-to surround and cling to; to entwine about.
-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.
-a close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
clasped
-of clasp
clasper
-one who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
-one of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the crustacea.
-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.
claspered
-furnished with tendrils.
clasping
-of clasp
class
-a group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
-a number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
-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.
-a set; a kind or description, species or variety.
-one of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
-to arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
-to divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
-to grouped or classed.
classed
-of class
classes
-of classis
classible
-capable of being classed.
classic
-alt. of classical
-a work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author;
-- originally used of greek and latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
-one learned in the literature of greece and rome, or a student of classical literature.
classical
-of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
-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.
-conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
classicalism
-a classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
-adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
classicalist
-one who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
classicality
-alt. of classicalness
classically
-in a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
-in the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
classicalness
-the quality of being classical.
classicism
-a classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
classicist
-one learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
classifiable
-capable of being classified.
classific
-characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
classification
-the act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
classificatory
-pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
classified
-of classify
classifier
-one who classifies.
classify
-to distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.
classifying
-of classify
classing
-of class
classis
-a class or order; sort; kind.
-an ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the reformed dutch. it is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the presbyterian church.
classman
-a member of a class; a classmate.
-a candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.
classmate
-one who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
classmen
-of classman
clastic
-pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).
-fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.
clathrate
-shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
-having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.
clatter
-to make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
-to talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
-to make a rattling noise with.
-a rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
-commotion; disturbance.
-rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
clattered
-of clatter
clatterer
-one who clatters.
clattering
-of clatter
clatteringly
-with clattering.
claude lorraine glass
-a slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.
claudent
-shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle.
claudicant
-limping.
claudication
-a halting or limping.
clause
-a separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
-a subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
-see letters clause / close, under letter.
claustra
-of claustrum
claustral
-cloistral.
claustrum
-a thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.
clausular
-consisting of, or having, clauses.
clausure
-the act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
clavate
-alt. of clavated
clavated
-club
-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [see illust. of antennae.]
clave
-imp. of cleave.
-of cleave
-of cleave
clavecin
-the harpsichord.
clavel
-see clevis.
clavellate
-see clavate.
clavellated
-said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.
claver
-see clover.
-frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
claves
-of clavis
clavichord
-a keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. see clarichord.
clavicle
-the collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. in man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. in birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.
clavicorn
-having club
-shaped antennae. see antennae
-one of the clavicornes.
clavicornes
-a group of beetles having club
-shaped antennae.
clavicular
-of or pertaining to the clavicle.
clavier
-the keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
clavies
-of clavy
claviform
-club
-shaped; clavate.
claviger
-one who carries the keys of any place.
-one who carries a club; a club bearer.
clavigerous
-bearing a club or a key.
clavis
-a key; a glossary.
clavises
-of clavis
clavus
-a callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.
clavy
-a mantelpiece.
claw
-a sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
-the whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.
-anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.
-a slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
-to pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.
-to relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
-to rail at; to scold.
-to scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
clawback
-a flatterer or sycophant.
-flattering; sycophantic.
-to flatter.
clawed
-of claw
-furnished with claws.
clawing
-of claw
clawless
-destitute of claws.
clay
-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.
-earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
-to cover or manure with clay.
-to clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.
clay
-brained
-stupid.
clayed
-of clay
clayes
-wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
clayey
-consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
claying
-of clay
clayish
-partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
claymore
-a large two
-handed sword used formerly by the scottish highlanders.
claytonia
-an american genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms;
-- sometimes called spring beauty.
cleading
-a jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.
-the planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.
clean
-free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
-free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
-free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
-free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
-free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
-free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
-free from ceremonial defilement.
-free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
-well
-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
-without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
-without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
-to render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
clean
-cut
-see clear
-cut.
clean
-limbed
-with well
-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean
-limbed young fellow.
clean
-timbered
-well
-proportioned; symmetrical.
cleaned
-of clean
cleaner
-one who, or that which, cleans.
cleaning
-of clean
-the act of making clean.
-the afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
cleanlily
-in a cleanly manner.
cleanliness
-state of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
cleanly
-habitually clean; pure; innocent.
-cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
-adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.
-in a clean manner; neatly.
-innocently; without stain.
-adroitly; dexterously.
cleanness
-the state or quality of being clean.
-purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
cleansable
-capable of being cleansed.
cleanse
-to render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
cleansed
-of cleanse
cleanser
-one who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.
cleansing
-of cleanse
clear
-free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
-free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.
-able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.
-not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
-easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.
-without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
-without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
-free from guilt or stain; unblemished.
-without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.
-free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.
-free from embarrassment; detention, etc.
-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.
-in a clear manner; plainly.
-without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.
-to render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
-to free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
-to free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
-to render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
-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.
-to free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit;
-- often used with from before the thing imputed.
-to leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
-to gain without deduction; to net.
-to become free from clouds or fog; to become fair;
-- often followed by up, off, or away.
-to disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
-to make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
-to obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for liverpool to
-day.
clear
-cut
-having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.
-concisely and distinctly expressed.
clear
-headed
-having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
clear
-seeing
-having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
clear
-shining
-shining brightly.
clear
-sighted
-seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear
-sighted reason
clear
-sightedness
-acute discernment.
clearage
-the act of removing anything; clearance.
clearance
-the act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.
-a certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
-clear or net profit.
-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.
cleared
-of clear
clearedness
-the quality of being cleared.
clearer
-one who, or that which, clears.
-a tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
clearing
-of clear
-the act or process of making clear.
-a tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
-a method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.
-the gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
clearly
-in a clear manner.
clearness
-the quality or state of being clear.
clearstarch
-to stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.
clearstarched
-of clearstarch
clearstarcher
-one who clearstarches.
clearstory
-alt. of clerestory
clearstraching
-of clearstarch
clearwing
-a lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach
-tree borers are examples.
cleat
-a strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
-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.
-to strengthen with a cleat.
cleavable
-capable of cleaving or being divided.
cleavage
-the act of cleaving or splitting.
-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.
-division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition;
-- usually produced by pressure.
cleave
-to adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
-to unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
-to fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.
-to part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
-to part or open naturally; to divide.
-to part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
cleaved
-of cleave
-of cleave
-of cleave
cleavelandite
-a variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
cleaver
-one who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
cleavers
-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.
cleaving
-of cleave
-of cleave
cleche
-charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible;
-- said of any heraldic bearing. compare voided.
clechy
-see cleche.
cledge
-the upper stratum of fuller's earth.
cledgy
-stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.
clee
-a claw.
-the redshank.
clef
-a character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
cleft
-of cleave
-of cleave
-imp. & p. p. from cleave.
-divided; split; partly divided or split.
-incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
-a space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
-a piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
-a disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
cleft
-footed
-having a cloven foot.
cleftgraft
-to ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
cleg
-a small breeze or horsefly.
cleistogamic
-alt. of cleistogamous
cleistogamous
-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.
clem
-to starve; to famish.
clematis
-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
-clemency.
clemencies
-of clemency
clemency
-disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
-mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
clement
-mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.
clementine
-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
-see clinch.
clepe
-to call, or name.
-to make appeal; to cry out.
cleped
-of clepe
cleping
-of clepe
clepsine
-a genus of fresh
-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. they feed upon mollusks and worms.
clepsydra
-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.
cleptomania
-see kleptomania.
clerestory
-the upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.
-same as clearstory.
clergeon
-a chorister boy.
clergial
-learned; erudite; clerical.
clergical
-of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.
clergy
-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.
-learning; also, a learned profession.
-the privilege or benefit of clergy.
clergyable
-entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.
clergyman
-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.
clergymen
-of clergyman
cleric
-a clerk, a clergyman.
-same as clerical.
clerical
-of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.
-of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.
clericalism
-an excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
clericity
-the state of being a clergyman.
clerisy
-the literati, or well educated class.
-the clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
clerk
-a clergyman or ecclesiastic.
-a man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.
-a parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
-one employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
-an assistant in a shop or store.
clerk
-ale
-a feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
clerkless
-unlearned.
clerklike
-scholarlike.
clerkliness
-scholarship.
clerkly
-of or pertaining to a clerk.
-in a scholarly manner.
clerkship
-state, quality, or business of a clerk.
cleromancy
-a divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
cleronomy
-inheritance; heritage.
clerstory
-see clearstory.
clever
-possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
-showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
-having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
-well
-shaped; handsome.
-good
-natured; obliging.
cleverish
-somewhat clever.
cleverly
-in a clever manner.
cleverness
-the quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
clevis
-a piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.;
-- called also clavel, clevy.
clew
-alt. of clue
-to direct; to guide, as by a thread.
-to move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
clewing
-of clew
cliche
-a stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
click
-to make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
-to move with the sound of a click.
-to cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
-a slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
-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.
-to snatch.
-a detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. see illust. of ratched wheel.
-the latch of a door.
click beetle
-see elater.
clicked
-of click
clicker
-one who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
-one who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
clicket
-the knocker of a door.
-a latch key.
clicking
-of click
clicky
-resembling a click; abounding in clicks.
clidastes
-a genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the mosasaurus. see illust. in appendix.
cliency
-state of being a client.
client
-a citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
-a dependent; one under the protection of another.
-one who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
clientage
-state of being client.
-a body of clients.
cliental
-of or pertaining to a client.
cliented
-supplied with clients.
clientelage
-see clientele, n., 2.
clientele
-the condition or position of a client; clientship
-the clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
-the persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.
clientship
-condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron.
cliff
-a high, steep rock; a precipice.
-see clef.
cliff limestone
-a series of limestone strata found in ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly silurian and partly devonian.
cliffy
-having cliffs; broken; craggy.
clift
-a cliff.
-a cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
-the fork of the legs; the crotch.
clifted
-broken; fissured.
climacter
-see climacteric, n.
climacteric
-relating to a climacteric; critical.
-a period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. the critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.
-any critical period.
climacterical
-see climacteric.
climatal
-climatic.
climatarchic
-presiding over, or regulating, climates.
climate
-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.
-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.
-to dwell.
climatic
-of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
climatical
-climatic.
climatize
-to acclimate or become acclimated.
climatized
-of climatize
climatizing
-of climatize
climatography
-a description of climates.
climatological
-of or pertaining to climatology.
climatologist
-one versed in, or who studies, climatology.
climatology
-the science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
climature
-a climate.
climax
-upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
-a figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
-the highest point; the greatest degree.
climb
-to ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
-to ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
-to ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
-to ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
-the act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
climbable
-capable of being climbed.
climbed
-of climb
climber
-one who, or that which, climbs
-a plant that climbs.
-a bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
-to climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
climbing
-of climb
-p. pr. & vb. n. of climb.
clime
-a climate; a tract or region of the earth. see climate.
clinanthium
-the receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant;
-- also called clinium.
clinch
-to hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
-to set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
-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.
-to make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
-to hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
-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.
-a pun.
-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.
clinched
-of clinch
clincher
-one who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
-that which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
clincher
-built
-see clinker
-built.
clinching
-of clinch
cling
-to adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support;
-- usually followed by to or together.
-to cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
-to make to dry up or wither.
-adherence; attachment; devotion.
clinging
-of cling
clingstone
-having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.
-a fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
clingy
-apt to cling; adhesive.
clinic
-one confined to the bed by sickness.
-one who receives baptism on a sick bed.
-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.
-of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
-of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
clinical
-alt. of clinic
clinically
-in a clinical manner.
clinique
-a clinic.
clinium
-see clinanthium.
clink
-to cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
-to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
-to rhyme. [humorous].
-a slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
clinkant
-see clinquant.
clinked
-of clink
clinker
-a mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
-scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
-a scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
-a kind of brick. see dutch clinker, under dutch.
clinker
-built
-having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. see lapstreak.
clinking
-of clink
clinkstone
-an igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. see phonolite.
clinodiagonal
-that diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. see crystallization.
-pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
clinodome
-see under dome.
clinographic
-pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
clinoid
-like a bed;
-- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
clinometer
-an instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
clinometric
-pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
-pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
clinometry
-that art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
clinopinacoid
-the plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
clinorhombic
-possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
clinquant
-glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
-tinsel; dutch gold.
clio
-the muse who presided over history.
clione
-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
-to embrace, hence; to encompass.
-to cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
-to curtail; to cut short.
-to move swiftly;
-- usually with indefinite it.
-an embrace.
-a cutting; a shearing.
-the product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
-a clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
-an embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
-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.
-a blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
clipped
-of clip
clipper
-one who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
-a machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
-a vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.
clipping
-of clip
-the act of embracing.
-the act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins.
-that which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
clique
-a narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose;
-- generally used in a bad sense.
-to to associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot;
-- used with together.
cliquish
-of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.
cliquism
-the tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
clitellus
-a thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
clitoris
-a small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
clivers
-see cleavers.
clivities
-of clivity
clivity
-inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.
cloaca
-a sewer; as, the cloaca maxima of rome.
-a privy.
-the common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
cloacae
-of cloaca
cloacal
-of or pertaining to a cloaca.
cloak
-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.
-that which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
-to cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
cloaked
-of cloak
cloakedly
-in a concealed manner.
cloaking
-of cloak
-the act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
-the material of which of which cloaks are made.
cloakroom
-a room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
clock
-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.
-a watch, esp. one that strikes.
-the striking of a clock.
-a figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
-to ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
-to call, as a hen. see cluck.
-a large beetle, esp. the european dung beetle (scarabaeus stercorarius).
clocklike
-like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
clockwork
-the machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
clod
-a lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
-the ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
-that which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
-a dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
-a part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. see illust. of beef.
-to collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. see clot.
-to pelt with clods.
-to throw violently; to hurl.
cloddish
-resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.
cloddy
-consisting of clods; full of clods.
clodhopper
-a rude, rustic fellow.
clodhopping
-boorish; rude.
clodpate
-a blockhead; a dolt.
clodpated
-stupid; dull; doltish.
clodpoll
-a stupid fellow; a dolt.
cloff
-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.
clog
-that which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
-a weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
-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.
-to encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
-to obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
-to burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
-to become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
-to coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
clogged
-of clog
clogginess
-the state of being clogged.
clogging
-of clog
-anything which clogs.
cloggy
-clogging, or having power to clog.
cloisonne
-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.
cloister
-an inclosed place.
-a covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
-the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
-a monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
-to confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
cloisteral
-cloistral.
cloistered
-of cloister
-dwelling in cloisters; solitary.
-furnished with cloisters.
cloisterer
-one belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
cloistering
-of cloister
cloistral
-of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.
cloistress
-a nun.
cloke
-see cloak.
clomb
-of climb
-alt. of clomben
clomben
-imp. & p. p. of climb (for climbed).
clomp
-see clamp.
clong
-of cling
-imp. of cling.
clonic
-having an irregular, convulsive motion.
cloom
-to close with glutinous matter.
cloop
-the sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
close
-to stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
-to bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army;
-- often used with up.
-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.
-to come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.
-to come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.
-to end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.
-to grapple; to engage in hand
-to
-hand fight.
-the manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
-conclusion; cessation; ending; end.
-a grapple in wrestling.
-the conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
-a double bar marking the end.
-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.
-a narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within.
-the interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed.
-shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.
-narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters.
-oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude;
-- said of the air, weather, etc.
-strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner.
-out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
-disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent.
-having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids.
-concise; to the point; as, close reasoning.
-adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought;
-- often followed by to.
-short; as, to cut grass or hair close.
-intimate; familiar; confidential.
-nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.
-difficult to obtain; as, money is close.
-parsimonious; stingy.
-adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation.
-accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.
-uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in french, italian, and german;
-- opposed to open.
-in a close manner.
-secretly; darkly.
close
-banded
-closely united.
close
-barred
-firmly barred or closed.
close
-bodied
-fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
close
-fights
-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.
close
-stool
-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.
close
-tongued
-closemouthed; silent.
closed
-of close
closefisted
-covetous; niggardly.
closehanded
-covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.
closehauled
-under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows;
-- said of a sailing vessel.
closely
-in a close manner.
-secretly; privately.
closemouthed
-cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
closen
-to make close.
closeness
-the state of being close.
closer
-one who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. see under boot.
-a finisher; that which finishes or terminates.
-the last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.
closereefed
-having all the reefs taken in;
-- said of a sail.
closet
-a small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
-a small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.
-to shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.
-to make into a closet for a secret interview.
closeting
-of closet
closh
-a disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.
-the game of ninepins.
closing
-of close
closure
-the act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.
-that which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
-that which incloses or confines; an inclosure.
-a conclusion; an end.
-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 cloture was originally applied to this proceeding.
clot
-a concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
-to concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
-to form into a slimy mass.
clotbur
-the burdock.
-same as cocklebur.
clote
-the common burdock; the clotbur.
cloth
-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.
-the dress; raiment. [obs.] see clothes.
-the distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
clothe
-to put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
-to provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.
-fig.: to cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.
-to wear clothes.
clothed
-of clothe
clothes
-of cloth
-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.
-the covering of a bed; bedclothes.
clotheshorse
-a frame to hang clothes on.
clothesline
-a rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
clothespin
-a forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
clothespress
-a receptacle for clothes.
clothier
-one who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.
-one who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
clothing
-of clothe
-garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
-the art of process of making cloth.
-a covering of non
-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
-see card clothing, under 3d card.
clothred
-clottered.
cloths
-of cloth
clotpoll
-see clodpoll.
clotted
-of clot
-composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.
clotter
-to concrete into lumps; to clot.
clotting
-of clot
clotty
-full of clots, or clods.
cloture
-see closure, 5.
clotweed
-cocklebur.
cloud
-a collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
-a mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.
-a dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
-that which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
-a great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.
-a large, loosely
-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
-to overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
-to darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.
-to blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage;
-- esp. used of reputation or character.
-to mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn.
-to grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds;
-- often used with up.
cloud
-built
-built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.
cloud
-burst
-a sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
cloud
-capped
-having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud
-capped mountains.
cloud
-compeller
-cloud
-gatherer;
-- an epithet applied to zeus.
cloudage
-mass of clouds; cloudiness.
cloudberry
-a species of raspberry (rubus chamaemerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber
-colored fruit.
clouded
-of cloud
cloudily
-in a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.
cloudiness
-the state of being cloudy.
clouding
-of cloud
-a mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.
-a diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals.
cloudland
-dreamland.
cloudless
-without a cloud; clear; bright.
cloudlet
-a little cloud.
cloudy
-overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
-consisting of a cloud or clouds.
-indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill
-nature; not open or cheerful.
-confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.
-lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.
-marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.
clough
-a cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
-a sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
-an allowance in weighing. see cloff.
clout
-a cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
-a swadding cloth.
-a piece; a fragment.
-the center of the butt at which archers shoot;
-- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
-an iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
-a blow with the hand.
-to cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
-to join or patch clumsily.
-to quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
-to give a blow to; to strike.
-to stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
clouted
-of clout
clouterly
-clumsy; awkward.
clouting
-of clout
clove
-of cleave
-cleft.
-a cleft; a gap; a ravine;
-- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, kaaterskill clove; stone clove.
-a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (eugenia, / caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the molucca isles.
-one of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.
-a weight. a clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.
cloven
-of cleave
-from cleave, v. t.
cloven
-footed
-alt. of cloven
-hoofed
cloven
-hoofed
-having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
clover
-a plant of different species of the genus trifolium; as the common red clover, t. pratense, the white, t. repens, and the hare's foot, t. arvense.
clovered
-covered with growing clover.
clowe
-gilofre
-spice clove.
clown
-a man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill
-bred person; a boor.
-one who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
-the fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
-to act as a clown;
-- with it.
clownage
-behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.
clownery
-clownishness.
clownish
-of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
clownishness
-the manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
cloy
-to fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
-to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
-to penetrate or pierce; to wound.
-to spike, as a cannon.
-to stroke with a claw.
cloyed
-of cloy
cloying
-of cloy
cloyless
-that does not cloy.
cloyment
-satiety.
club
-a heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
-any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) the suit of cards having such figure.
-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.
-a joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
-to beat with a club.
-to throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
-to unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
-to raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
-to form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
-to pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
-to drift in a current with an anchor out.
club
-rush
-a rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat
-tail, or some species of the genus scirpus. see bulrush.
club
-shaped
-enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
clubbable
-suitable for membership in a club; sociable.
clubbed
-of club
-shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
clubber
-one who clubs.
-a member of a club.
clubbing
-of club
clubbish
-rude; clownish.
-disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.
clubbist
-a member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.
clubfist
-a large, heavy fist.
-a coarse, brutal fellow.
clubfisted
-having a large fist.
clubfoot
-a short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
clubfooted
-having a clubfoot.
clubhand
-a short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
clubhaul
-to put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
clubhouse
-a house occupied by a club.
clubroom
-the apartment in which a club meets.
cluck
-to make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
-to call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
-the call of a hen to her chickens.
-a click. see 3d click, 2.
clucked
-of cluck
clucking
-of cluck
-the noise or call of a brooding hen.
clue
-a ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, the thread itself.
-that which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
-a lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore
-and
-aft sail.
-a loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
-a combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
-a ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. same as clew.
clum
-silence; hush.
clumber
-a kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
clump
-an unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
-a cluster; a group; a thicket.
-the compressed clay of coal strata.
-to arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
-to tread clumsily; to clamp.
clumper
-to form into clumps or masses.
clumps
-a game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions;
-- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
clumpy
-composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
clumsily
-in a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
clumsiness
-the quality of being clumsy.
clumsy
-stiff or benumbed, as with cold.
-without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill
-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
clunch
-indurated clay. see bind, n., 3.
-one of the hard beds of the lower chalk.
clung
-of cling
-imp. & p. p. of cling.
-wasted away; shrunken.
cluniac
-a monk of the reformed branch of the benedictine order, founded in 912 at cluny (or clugny) in france.
-- also used as a.
cluniacensian
-cluniac.
clupeoid
-of or pertaining to the herring family.
cluster
-a number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
-a number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
-a number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
-to grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
-to collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
clustered
-of cluster
clustering
-of cluster
clusteringly
-in clusters.
clustery
-growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
clutch
-a gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
-the hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly;
-- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.
-a device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.
-any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
-the nest complement of eggs of a bird.
-to seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws;
-- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
-to close tightly; to clinch.
-to reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch;
-- often followed by at.
clutched
-of clutch
clutching
-of clutch
clutter
-a confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
-clatter; confused noise.
-to crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
-to make a confused noise; to bustle.
-to clot or coagulate, as blood.
cluttered
-of clutter
cluttering
-of clutter
clycerole
-same as glycerite.
clypeastroid
-like or related to the genus clupeaster;
-- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
clypeate
-shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
-furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
clypei
-of clypeus
clypeiform
-shield
-shaped; clypeate.
clypeus
-the frontal plate of the head of an insect.
clysmian
-connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.
clysmic
-washing; cleansing.
clyster
-a liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.