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CLEFT Cleft, imp. & p. p.
Defn: from Cleave.
CLEFT Cleft, a.
1. Divided; split; partly divided or split.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Incised nearly to the midrob; as, a cleft leaf.
CLEFT Cleft, n. Etym: [OE. clift; cf. Sw. klyft cave, den, Icel. kluft cleft, Dan. klöft, G. kluft. See Cleave to split and cf. 2d Clift, 1st Clough.]
1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. Is. ii. 21.
2. A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
3. (Far.)
Defn: A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.
Syn. — Crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny.
CLEFT-FOOTED Cleft"-foot`ed, a.
Defn: Having a cloven foot.
CLEFTGRAFT Cleft"graft`, v. t.
Defn: To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
CLEG Cleg, n. Etym: [Northern Eng. & Scot. gleg: cf. Gael. crethleag.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson.
CLEISTOGAMIC; CLEISTOGAMOUS Cleis`to*gam"ic, Cleis*tog"a*mous a. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: 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 Clem, v. t. & i. Etym: [Cf. clam to clog, or G. klemmen to pinch, Icel. kl, E. clamp.]
Defn: To starve; to famish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
CLEMATIS Clem"a*tis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
Defn: Clemency. [Obs.] Spenser.
CLEMENCY Clem"en*cy, n.; pl. Clemencies. Etym: [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. Etym: [L. clemens; -entis; cf. F. cl.]
Defn: Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. Shak. — Clem"ent*ly, adv.
CLEMENTINE Clem"ent*ine, a.
Defn: 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 Clench, n. & v. t.
Defn: See Clinch.
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE Cle`o*pa"tra's nee"dle. [So named after Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.]
Defn: Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York.
Some writers consider that only the obelisk now in Central Park is properly called Cleopatra's needle.
CLEPE Clepe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleped or; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleping. Cf. Ycleped.] Etym: [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call.]
Defn: To call, or name. [Obs.] That other son was cleped Cambalo. Chaucer.
CLEPE Clepe, v. i.
Defn: 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.)
Defn: A genus of freshwater leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.
CLEPSYDRA Clep"sy*dra, n. Etym: [L. from Gr.
Defn: 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 Clep`to*ma"ni*a, n. Etym: [NL.]
Defn: See Kleptomania.
CLERESTORY Clere"sto`ry, n.
Defn: Same as Clearstory.
CLERGEON Cler"geon, n. Etym: [F., dim. of clerc. See Clerk.]
Defn: A chorister boy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLERGIAL Cler"gi*al, a.
Defn: Learned; erudite; clercial. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLERGICAL Cler"gi*cal, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned. [Obs.] Milton.
CLERGY Cler"gy, n. Etym: [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie, F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused with OF. clergié, F. clergé, 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.
CLERGYABLE Cler"gy*a*ble, a.
Defn: Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone.
CLERGYMAN Cler"gy*man, n.; pl. Clergymen.
Defn: An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
CLERIC Cler"ic, n. Etym: [AS., fr. L. clericus. See Clerk.]
Defn: A clerk, a clergyman. [R.] Bp. Horsley.
CLERIC Cler"ic, a.
Defn: Same as Clerical.
CLERICAL Cler"ic*al, a. Etym: [LL. clericalis. See Clerk.]
1. Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke.
2. Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.
CLERICALISM Cler"ic*al*ism, n.
Defn: An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
CLERICITY Cler*ic"i*ty, n.
Defn: The state of being a clergyman.
CLERISY Cler"i*sy, n. Etym: [LL. clericia. See Clergy.]
1. The literati, or well educated class.
2. The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
CLERK Clerk (; in Eng. ; 277), n. Etym: [Either OF. clerc, fr. L. clericus a priest, or AS. clerc, cleric, clerk, priest, fr. L. clericus, fr. Gr. Clergy.]
1. A clergyman or ecclesiastic. [Obs.] All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ. Ayliffe.
2. A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. [Obs.] "Every one that could read . . . being accounted a clerk." Blackstone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke.
3. A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] Hook. And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". Shak.
4. One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.
Note: In some cases, clerk is synonymous with secretary. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation, or person; whereas a secretary may be either a subordinate or the head of an office or department.
5. An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]
CLERK-ALE Clerk"-ale` ( in Eng. , n.
Defn: A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. [Eng.] T. Warton.
CLERKLESS Clerk"less, a.
Defn: Unlearned. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.
CLERKLIKE Clerk"like`, a.
Defn: Scholarlike. [Obs.] Shak.
CLERKLINESS Clerk"li*ness, n.
Defn: Scholarship. [Obs.]
CLERKLY Clerk"ly, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a clerk. Cranmer.
CLERKLY Clerk"ly, adv.
Defn: In a scholarly manner. [Obs.] Shak.
CLERKSHIP Clerk"ship, n.
Defn: State, quality, or business of a clerk.
CLEROMANCY Cler"o*man`cy, n. Etym: [Gr. -mancy; cf. F. cléromancie.]
Defn: A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
CLERONOMY Cle*ron"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Inheritance; heritage.
CLERSTORY Cler"sto`ry, n.
Defn: See Clearstory.
CLEVER Clev"er, a. Etym: [Origin uncertain. Cf. OE. cliver eager, AS. clyfer (in comp.) cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea of grasping, seizing (with the mind).]
1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.
2. Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron.
3. Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness. "T would sound more clever To me and to my heirs forever. Swift.
4. Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot.
5. Good-natured; obliging. [U. S.]
Syn. — See Smart.
CLEVERISH Clev"er*ish, a.
Defn: Somewhat clever. [R.]
CLEVERLY Clev"er*ly, adv.
Defn: In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.
CLEVERNESS Clev"er*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
Syn. — See Ingenuity.
CLEVIS Clev"is, n. Etym: [Cf. Cleave to adhere, Clavel.]
Defn: 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; CLUE Clew, Clue, n. Etym: [OE. clewe, clowe, clue, AS. cleowen, cliwen, clywe ball of thread; akin to D. kluwen, OHG. chliwa, chliuwa, G. dim. kleuel, knäuel, and perch. to L. gluma hull, husk, Skr. glaus sort of ball or tumor. Perch. akin to E. claw. *26. Cf. Knawel.]
1. A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser.
2. 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. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay.
3. (Naut.) (a.)
Defn: A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)
Defn: A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. (c.)
Defn: A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. Clew garnet (Naut.), one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards. — Clew line (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. — Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.
CLEW Clew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. & vb. n. Clewing.] Etym: [Cf. D. kluwenen. See Clew, n.]
1. To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.] Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. Beau. && Fl.
2. (Naut.)
Defn: 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. To clew down (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines. — To clew up (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling.
CLICHE Cli`ché", n. Etym: [F. cliché, from clicher to stereotype.]
Defn: A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.
CLICK Click, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clicked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clicking.] Etym: [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. See Clack, and cf. Clink, Clique.]
Defn: 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 Click, v. t.
1. To more 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 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 Click, v. t. Etym: [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. Clutch.]
Defn: To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
CLICK Click, n. Etym: [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.]
CLICK BEETLE Click" bee"tle. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Elater.
CLICKER Click"er, n.
1. One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy. [Low, Eng.]
2. (Print.)
Defn: One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
CLICKET Click"et, n. Etym: [OF. cliquet the latch of a door. See 5th Click.]
1. The knocker of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A latch key. [Eng.] Chaucer.
CLICKY Click"y, a.
Defn: Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.
CLIDASTES Cli*das"tes, n. Etym: [NL., prob. from Gr. (Paleon.)
Defn: A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
CLIENCY Cli"en*cy, n.
Defn: State of being a client.
CLIENT Cli"ent, n. Etym: [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. çry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See Loud.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.)
Defn: 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)
Defn: One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
CLIENTAGE Cli"ent*age, n.
1. State of being client.
2. A body of clients. E. Everett.
CLIENTAL Cli*en"tal, a.
Defn: 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.
Defn: Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.
CLIENTELAGE Cli*en"te*lage, n.
Defn: See Clientele, n., 2.
CLIENTELE Cli`en*tele" ( or ), n. Etym: [L. clientela: cf. F. clientèle.]
1. The condition or position of a client; clientship. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
2. The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
3. 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 Cli"ent*ship, n.
Defn: Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.
CLIFF Cliff, n. Etym: [AS. clif, cloef; akin to OS. klif, D. klif, klip, Icel. klif, Dan. & G. klippe, Sw. klippa; perh. orig. a climbing place. See Climb.]
Defn: 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 Cliff, n. (Mus.)
Defn: See Clef. [Obs.]
CLIFF LIMESTONE Cliff" lime"stone`. (Geol.)
Defn: 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 Cliff"y, a.
Defn: Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
CLIFT Clift, n. Etym: [See 1st Cliff, n.]
Defn: A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.
CLIFT Clift, n. Etym: [See Cleft, n.]
1. A cleft of crack; a narrow opening. [Obs.]
2. The fork of the legs; the crotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLIFTED Clift"ed, a. Etym: [From Clift a cleft.]
Defn: Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.
CLIMACTER Cli*mac"ter, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. climactère. See Climax.]
Defn: See Climacteric, n.
CLIMACTERIC Cli*mac"ter*ic ( or ; 277), a. Etym: [L. climactericus, Gr. Climacter.]
Defn: Relating to a climacteric; critical.
CLIMACTERIC Cli*mac"ter*ic, n.
1. 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.
2. Any critical period. It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. Grand or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.
CLIMACTERICAL Clim`ac*ter"ic*al, a. & n.
Defn: See Climacteric. Evelyn.
CLIMACTIC Cli*mac"tic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.
A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called "ascending rhythm"). S. R. Driver.
CLIMATAL Cli"ma*tal, a.
Defn: Climatic. Dunglison.
CLIMATARCHIC Cli`ma*tar"chic, a. Etym: [Climate + Gr.
Defn: Presiding over, or regulating, climates.
CLIMATE Cli"mate, n. Etym: [F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime.]
1. (Anc. Geog.)
Defn: 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.
Defn: To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.
CLIMATIC Cli*mat"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
CLIMATICAL Cli*mat"ic*al, a.
Defn: Climatic.
CLIMATIZE Cli"ma*tize, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Climatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Climatizing.]
Defn: To acclimate or become acclimated.
CLIMATOGRAPHY Cli`ma*tog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Climate + -graphy.]
Defn: A description of climates.
CLIMATOLOGICAL Cli`ma*to*log"ic*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to climatology.
CLIMATOLOGIST Cli`ma*tol"o*gist, n.
Defn: One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
CLIMATOLOGY Cli`ma*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Climate + -logy: cf. F. climatologie.]
Defn: The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.
CLIMATURE Cli"ma*ture, n. Etym: [Cf. F. climature.]
Defn: A climate. [Obs.] Shak.
CLIMAX Cli"max, n. Etym: [L., from Gr. Ladder, Lean, v. i.]
1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.
2. (Rhet.)
Defn: A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "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.]
CLIMB Climb, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed, Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (; p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] Etym: [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klifa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.
3. (Bot.)
Defn: To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
CLIMB Climb, v. t.
Defn: To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
CLIMB Climb, n.
Defn: The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.
CLIMBABLE Climb"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being climbed.
CLIMBER Climb"er, n.
Defn: 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. Etym: [From Climb; cf. Clamber.]
Defn: To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] Tusser.
CLIMBING Climb"ing,
Defn: p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. — Climbing perch. (Zoöl.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
CLIME Clime, n. Etym: [L. clima. See Climate.]
Defn: A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.
CLINANTHIUM Cli*nan"thi*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; — also called clinium.
CLINCH Clinch (; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] Etym: [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. The bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven trough 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 Clinch, v. i.
Defn: To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
CLINCH Clinch, 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.)
Defn: 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.
Defn: See Clinker-built.
CLING Cling, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clung, Clong (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Clinging.] Etym: [AS. clingan to adhere, to wither; akin to Dan. klynge to cluster, crowd. Cf. Clump.]
Defn: 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. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.
CLING Cling, v. t.
1. To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embraching. [Obs.] I clung legs as close to his side as I could. Swift.
2. To make to dry up or wither. [Obs.] If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee. Shak.
CLING Cling, n.
Defn: Adherence; attachment; devotion. [R.] A more tenacious cling to worldly respects. Milton.
CLINGSTONE Cling"stone`, a.
Defn: Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. — n.
Defn: A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
CLINGY Cling"y, a.
Defn: Apt to cling; adhesive. [R.]
CLINIC Clin"ic, n. Etym: [See Clinical.]
1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.
3. (Med.)
Defn: 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.
CLINICAL; CLINIC Clin"ic*al, Clin"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. 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 illustrared 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.
CLINICALLY Clin"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In a clinical manner.
CLINIQUE Cli*nique", n. Etym: [F.] (Med.)
Defn: A clinic.
CLINIUM Clin"i*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: See Clinanthium.
CLINK Clink, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking.] Etym: [OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Clank, Clench, Click, v. i.]
Defn: To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.
CLINK Clink, v. i.
1. To give out a slight, sharp, thinkling sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.
2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.
CLINK Clink, n.
Defn: A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." Shak.
CLINKANT Clin"kant, a.
Defn: See Clnquant.
CLINKER Clink"er, n. Etym: [From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone.]
1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
2. 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.
3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
4. A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.
CLINKER-BUILT Clink"er-built, a. (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
CLINKSTONE Clink"stone` (; 110), n. Etym: [Clink + stone; — from its sonorousness.] (Min.)
Defn: An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
CLINODIAGONAL Cli`no*di*ag"o*nal, n. Etym: [Gr. diagonal.] (Crystallog.)
Defn: That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. — a.
Defn: Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinidiagonal.
CLINODOME Cli"no*dome`, n. Etym: [Gr. dome.] (Crystallog.)
Defn: See under Dome.
CLINOGRAPHIC Cli"no*graph"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. + -graph.]
Defn: 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 Cli"noid, a. Etym: [Gr. -oid.] (Anat.)
Defn: Like a bed; — applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
CLINOMETER Cli*nom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.] (Geol.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
CLINOPINACOID Cli`no*pin"a*coid, n. Etym: [Gr. pinacoid.] (Crystallog.)
Defn: 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. Etym: [Gr. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique.] (Crystallog.)
Defn: 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.)
Defn: 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. Etym: [F.]
Defn: Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.
CLINQUANT Clin"quant, n.
Defn: Tinse;l; Dutch gold.
CLIO Cli"o, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Class. Myth.)
Defn: The Muse who presided over history.
CLIONE Cli*o"ne, n.
Defn: 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 Clip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (; p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] Etym: [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 Clip, v. i.
Defn: To move swiftly; — usually with indefinite it. Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. Dryden.
CLIP 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.)
Defn: 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.]
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.)
Defn: A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. — Clip"per-built` (, a.
Note: 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 Clique, n. Etym: [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.]
Defn: A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; — generally used in a bad sense.
CLIQUE Clique, v. i.
Defn: 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.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. — Cli"*quish*ness, n.
CLIQUISM Cli"quism, n.
Defn: The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
CLITELLUS Cli*tel"lus, n. Etym: [NL., prob. fr. L. clitellae a packsadle.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
CLITORIS Cli"to*ris ( or ), n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. labia pudendi.] (Anat.)
Defn: A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
CLIVERS Cliv"ers ( or ), n.
Defn: See Cleavers.
CLIVITY Cliv"i*ty, n.; pl. Clivities. Etym: [L. clivus hill.]
Defn: Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]
CLOACA Clo"a"ca, n.; pl. Cloacæ. Etym: [L.]
1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
2. A privy.
3. (Anat.)
Defn: The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
CLOACAL Clo*a"cal, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
CLOAK Cloak (; 110), n. Etym: [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtik 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 Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.]
Defn: 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.
CLOAKEDLY Cloak"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: In a concealed manner.
CLOAKING Cloak"ing, n.
1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.
2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.
CLOAKROOM Cloak"room`, n.
Defn: A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
CLOCHE Cloche, n. [F., prop., bell.] (Aëronautics)
Defn: 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 Clock, n. Etym: [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 watcg, 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.
Note: 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 Clock, v. t.
Defn: To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
CLOCK Clock, v. t. & i.
Defn: To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]
CLOCK Clock, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
CLOCKLIKE Clock"like`, a.
Defn: Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.
CLOCKWISE Clock"wise`, a. & adv.
Defn: 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`, n.
Defn: The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.
CLOD Clod, n. Etym: [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 pert of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
CLOD Clod, v.i
Defn: 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 Clod, v. t.
1. To pelt with clods. Jonson.
2. To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
CLODDISH Clod"dish, a.
Defn: Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. — Clod"dish*ness, n.
CLODDY Clod"dy, a.
Defn: Consisting of clods; full of clods.
CLODHOPPER Clod"hop`per, n.
Defn: A rude, rustic fellow.
CLODHOPPING Clod"hop`ping, a.
Defn: Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.
CLODPATE Clod"pate`, n.
Defn: A blockhead; a dolt.
CLODPATED Clod"pat`ed, a.
Defn: Stupid; dull; doltish.
CLODPOLL Clod"poll`, n. Etym: [Clod + poll head.]
Defn: A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.
CLOFF Cloff, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Defn: 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 Clog, n. Etym: [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 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 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.
Defn: The state of being clogged.
CLOGGING Clog"ging, n.
Defn: Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.
CLOGGY Clog"gy, a.
Defn: Clogging, or having power to clog.
CLOISONNE Cloi`son*né, a. Etym: [F., partitioned, fr. cloison a partition.]
Defn: 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 champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.
CLOISTER Clois"ter, n. Etym: [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.]
Defn: To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. None among them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.
CLOISTERAL Clois"ter*al, a.
Defn: Cloistral. [Obs.] I. Walton.
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. Etym: [Cf. OF. cloistier.]
Defn: One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
CLOISTRAL Clois"tral, a.
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. [Written also cloisteral.] Best become a cloistral exercise. Daniel.
CLOISTRESS Clois"tress, n.
Defn: A nun. [R.] Shak.
CLOKE Cloke, n. & v.
Defn: See Cloak. [Obs.]
CLOMB; CLOMBEN Clomb, Clomb"en,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed). [Obs.] The sonne, he sayde, is clomben up on hevene. Chaucer.
CLOMP Clomp, n.
Defn: See Clamp.
CLONG Clong,
Defn: imp. of Cling. [Obs.]
CLONIC Clon"ic, a. Etym: [Gr. clonique.] (Med.)
Defn: Having an irregular, convulsive motion. Dunglison. Clonic spasm. (Med.) See under Spasm.
CLONUS Clo"nus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. violent, confused motion.] (Med.)
Defn: A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, — a sign of certain neuropathies.
CLOOM Cloom, v. t. Etym: [A variant of clam to clog.]
Defn: To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.
CLOOP Cloop, n. Etym: [An onomatopoeia.]
Defn: The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.
CLOOT 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.
Defn: A little hoof.
2. The Devil. "Satan, Nick, or Clootie." Burns.
CLOSE Close, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Closed; p. pr. & vb. n. Closing.] Etym: [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 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 engange in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on 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 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 Close ( or ), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed. Bouvier.
CLOSE Close, a. [Compar. Closer; superl. Closest.] Etym: [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 servecy, 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.)
Defn: 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 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.
Defn: Closely united.
CLOSE-BARRED Close"-barred`, a.
Defn: Firmly barred or closed.
CLOSE-BODIED Close"-bod`ied, a.
Defn: Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
CLOSE-FIGHTS Close"-fights`, n. pl. (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
Defn: Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
CLOSEHANDED Close"hand`ed, a.
Defn: Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. — Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
CLOSEHAULED Close"hauled`, a. (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
Defn: Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
CLOSEN Clos"en, v. t.
Defn: To make close. [R.]
CLOSENESS Close"ness, n.
Defn: 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)
Defn: The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt.
CLOSEREEFED Close"reefed`, a. (Naut.)
Defn: Having all the reefs taken in; — said of a sail.
CLOSE-STOOL Close"-stool`, n.
Defn: 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. Etym: [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.
CLOSE-TONGUED Close"-tongued` (, a.
Defn: Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.
CLOSH Closh, n. Etym: [CF. F. clocher to limp, halt.]
Defn: A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.
CLOSH Closh, n. Etym: [CF. D. klossen to play at bowls.]
Defn: The game of ninepins. [Obs.] Halliwell.
CLOSURE Clo"sure (, 135), n. Etym: [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)
Defn: 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.
CLOT Clot, n. Etym: [OE. clot, clodde, clod; akin to D. kloot ball, G. kloss clod, dumpling, klotz block, Dan. klods, Sw. klot bowl, globe, klots block; cf. AS. clate bur. Cf. Clod, n., Clutter to clot.]
Defn: A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.
Note: Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter.
CLOT Clot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clotting.]
Defn: To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
CLOT Clot, v. t.
Defn: To form into a slimy mass.
CLOTBUR Clot"bur`, n. Etym: [Cf. Clote.]
1. The burdock. [Prov. Engl.] Prior.
2. Same as Cocklebur.
CLOTE Clote, n. Etym: [AS. cl: cf. G. klette.]
Defn: The common burdock; the clotbur. [Obs.] Wyclif.
CLOTH Cloth, n.; pl. Cloths (#; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (klothz or kloz). Etym: [OE. clath cloth, AS. cla\'ed cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klæ\'ebi, Dan. klæde, 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.
CLOTHE Clothe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothed ( or Clad; p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] Etym: [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. cla\'ebian, clæ\'eban. See Cloth.]
1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.
2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.
3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts. His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.
CLOTHE Clothe, v. i.
Defn: To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.
CLOTHES Clothes ( or ; 277), n. pl. Etym: [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 larvæ 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.
CLOTHESHORSE Clothes"horse`, n.
Defn: A frame to hang clothes on.
CLOTHESLINE Clothes"line`, n.
Defn: A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
CLOTHESPIN Clothes"pin` ( or ), n.
Defn: A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
CLOTHESPRESS Clothes"press`, n.
Defn: 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.)
Defn: See Card clothing, under 3d Card.
CLOTHRED Clot"hred, p. p.
Defn: Clottered. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLOTPOLL Clot"poll`, n.
Defn: See Clodpoll. [Obs.] Shak.
CLOTTED Clot"ted, a.
Defn: Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.
CLOTTER Clot"ter, v. i. Etym: [From Clot.]
Defn: To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.
CLOTTY Clot"ty, a. Etym: [From Clot, n.]
Defn: Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.
CLOTURE Clô`ture", n. Etym: [F.] (Parliamentary Practice)
Defn: See Closure, 5.
CLOTWEED Clot"weed`, n. Etym: [See Clote.]
Defn: Cocklebur.
CLOUD Cloud, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. AS. cld a rock or hillock, the application arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks in the sky or air.]
1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.
Note: A classification of clouds according to their chief forms was first proposed by the meteorologist Howard, and this is still substantially employed. The following varieties and subvarieties are recognized: (a) Cirrus. This is the most elevated of all the forms of clouds; is thin, long-drawn, sometimes looking like carded wool or hair, sometimes like a brush or room, sometimes in curl-like or fleecelike patches. It is the cat's-tail of the sailor, and the mare's-tail of the landsman. (b) Cumulus. This form appears in large masses of a hemispherical form, or nearly so, above, but flat below, one often piled above another, forming great clouds, common in the summer, and presenting the appearance of gigantic mountains crowned with snow. It often affords rain and thunder gusts. (c) Stratus. This form appears in layers or bands extending horizontally. (d) Nimbus. This form is characterized by its uniform gray tint and ragged edges; it covers the sky in seasons of continued rain, as in easterly storms, and is the proper rain cloud. The name is sometimes used to denote a raining cumulus, or cumulostratus. (e) Cirro-cumulus. This form consists, like the cirrus, of thin, broken, fleecelice clouds, but the parts are more or less rounded and regulary grouped. It is popularly called mackerel sky. (f) Cirro-stratus. In this form the patches of cirrus coalesce in long strata, between cirrus and stratus. (g) Cumulo-stratus. A form between cumulus and stratus, often assuming at the horizon a black or bluish tint. — Fog, cloud, motionless, or nearly so, lying near or in contact with the earth's surface. — Storm scud, cloud lying quite low, without form, and driven rapidly with the wind.
2. A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." Ezek. viii. 11.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. "So great a cloud of witnesses." Heb. xii. 1.
6. A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head. Cloud on a (or the) title (Law), a defect of title, usually superficial and capable of removal by release, decision in equity, or legislation. — To be under a cloud, to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. — In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.
CLOUD Cloud, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Clouding.]
1. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded.
2. To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen. One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. Shak. Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. Milton. Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. M. Arnold.
3. To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; — esp. used of reputation or character. I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken. Shak.
4. To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope.
CLOUD Cloud, v. i.
Defn: To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; — often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.
CLOUDAGE Cloud"age, n.
Defn: Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.
CLOUDBERRY Cloud"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
CLOUD-BUILT Cloud"-built, a.
Defn: Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
CLOUD-BURST Cloud"-burst`, n.
Defn: A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
CLOUD-CAPPED Cloud"-capped`, a.
Defn: Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.
CLOUD-COMPELLER Cloud"-com*pel`ler, n.
Defn: Cloud-gatherer; — an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.
CLOUDILY Cloud"i*ly, adv.
Defn: In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.
CLOUDINESS Cloud"i*ness, n.
Defn: 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.
Defn: Dreamland.
CLOUDLESS Cloud"less, a.
Defn: Without a cloud; clear; bright. A cloudless winter sky. Bankroft. — Cloud"less*ly, adv. — Cloud"less*ness, n.
CLOUDLET Cloud"let, n.
Defn: A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.
CLOUDY Cloud"y (, a. [Compar. Cloudier (; superl. Cloudiest.] Etym: [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.
CLOUGH Clough, n. Etym: [OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) cloh, akin to G. klinge ravine.]
1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.
2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.
CLOUGH Clough, n. (Com.)
Defn: An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
CLOUT Clout, n. Etym: [AS. clut a little cloth, piece of metal; cf. Sw. klut, Icel. klutr a kerchief, or W. clwt a clout, Gael. clud.]
1. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.
2. A swadding cloth.
3. A piece; a fragment. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. The center of the butt at which archers shoot; — probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak.
5. An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
6. A blow with the hand. [Low] Clout nail, a kind of wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head; — used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.
CLOUT Clout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clouting.] Etym: [OE. clutien. clouten, to patch. See Clout, n.]
1. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. And old shoes and clouted upon their feet. Josh. ix. 5. Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer.
2. To join or patch clumsily. If fond Bavius vent his clouted song. P. Fletcher
3. To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
4. To give a blow to; to strike. [Low] The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it. Howell.
5. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips.
Note: "Clouted brogues" in Shakespeare and "clouted shoon" in Milton have been understood by some to mean shoes armed with nails; by others, patched shoes.
CLOUTERLY Clout"er*ly, a. Etym: [From Clout, n.]
Defn: Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
CLOVE Clove,
Defn: imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. — Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; — called also clip hook. Knight.
CLOVE Clove, n. Etym: [D. kloof. See Cleave, v. t.]
Defn: A cleft; a gap; a ravine; — rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.
CLOVE Clove, n. Etym: [OE. clow, fr. F. clou nail, clou de girofle a clove, lit. nail of clove, fr. L. clavus nail, perh. akin to clavis key, E. clavicle. The clove was so called from its resemblance to a nail. So in D. kruidnagel clove, lit. herb-nail or spice-nail. Cf. Cloy.]
Defn: A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. — Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.
CLOVE Clove, n. Etym: [AS. clufe an ear of corn, a clove of garlic; cf. cleófan to split, E. cleave.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. Lindley.
2. A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
CLOVEN Clo"ven, p. p. & a.
Defn: 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.
CLOVEN-FOOTED; CLOVEN-HOOFED Clo"ven-foot`ed, Clo"ven-hoofed`, a.
Defn: Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
CLOVER Clo"ver, n. Etym: [OE. claver, clover, AS. cl; akin to LG. & Dan. klever, D. klaver, G. klee, Sw. kl.] (Bot.)
Defn: A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zoöl.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. — Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay. — In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] - - Sweet clover. See Meliot.
CLOVERED Clo"vered, a.
Defn: Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.
CLOWE-GILOFRE Clowe"-gi*lof`re, n. Etym: [See 3d Clove, and Gilliflower.]
Defn: Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLOWN Clown, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. klunni a clumsy, boorish fellow, North Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. clump, n.]
1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.
2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.
3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak.
CLOWN Clown, v. i.
Defn: To act as a clown; — with it [Obs.] Beclowns it properly indeed. B. Jonson.
CLOWNAGE Clown"age, n.
Defn: Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
CLOWNERY Clown"er*y, n.
Defn: Clownishness. L'Estrange.
CLOWNISH Clown"ish, a.
Defn: 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.
Defn: The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
CLOY Cloy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] Etym: [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.
CLOYLESS Cloy"less, a.
Defn: That does not cloy. Shak.
CLOYMENT Cloy"ment, n.
Defn: Satiety. [Obs.] Shak.
CLUB Club, n. Etym: [CF. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbuf 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 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. Etym: [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club.]
Defn: 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 Club, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing.]
1. To beat with a club.
2. (Mil.)
Defn: 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 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.)
Defn: To drift in a current with an anchor out.
CLUBBABLE Club"ba*ble, a.
Defn: Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.] G. W. Curtis.
CLUBBED Clubbed, a.
Defn: 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.
Defn: 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.
Defn: Having a large fist. Howell.
CLUBFOOT Club"foot, n. Etym: [Club + foot.] (Med.)
Defn: A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
CLUBFOOTED Club"foot`ed, a.
Defn: Having a clubfoot.
CLUBHAND Club"hand`, n. (Med.)
Defn: A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
CLUBHAUL Club"haul`, v. t. (Naut.)
Defn: 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 Club"house`, n.
Defn: A house occupied by a club.
CLUBROOM Club"room`, n.
Defn: The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.
CLUB-RUSH Club"-rush`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
CLUB-SHAPED Club"-shaped, a.
Defn: Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennæ of certain insects.
CLUCK Cluck, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clucked; p pr. & vb. n. Clucking.] Etym: [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin.]
Defn: To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray.
CLUCK Cluck, v. t.
Defn: To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. Shak.
CLUCK Cluck, n.
1. The call of a hen to her chickens.
2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
CLUCKING Cluck"ing, n.
Defn: The noise or call of a brooding hen.
CLUE Clue, n. Etym: [See Clew, n.]
Defn: A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.
CLUM Clum, interj.
Defn: Silence; hush. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CLUMBER Clum"ber, n. Etym: [Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
CLUMP Clump, n. Etym: [Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump, klumpen, Dan. klump, Sw. kllimp; perh. akin to L. globus, E. globe. Cf. Club.]
1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
2. A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.
3. The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C.
CLUMP Clump, v. t.
Defn: To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore.
CLUMP Clump, v. i.
Defn: To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
CLUMPER Clump"er, v. t. Etym: [Cf. G. klümpern to clod. See Clump, n.]
Defn: To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.
CLUMPS Clumps, n.
Defn: 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 Clump"y, a. Etym: [From Clump, n.]
Defn: Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.
CLUMSILY Clum"si*ly, adv.
Defn: In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
CLUMSINESS Clum"si*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.
CLUMSY Clum"sy, a. [Compar. Clumsier; superl. Clumsiest.] Etym: [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st Clam, and 1st Clamp.]
1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]
2. 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. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.
Syn. — See Awkward.
CLUNCH Clunch, n. Etym: [Perh. fr. clinch to make fast]
Defn: .
1. (Mining)
Defn: Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
2. One of the hard beds of the lower chalk. Dana.
CLUNG Clung,
Defn: imp. & p. p. of Cling.
CLUNG Clung, a. Etym: [Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See Cling, v. i.]
Defn: Wasted away; shrunken. [Obs.]
CLUNIAC Clu"ni*ac, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. — Also used as a.
CLUNIACENSIAN Clu`ni*a*cen"sian, a.
Defn: Cluniac.
CLUPEOID Clu"pe*oid, a. Etym: [L.clupea a kind of fish, NL., generic name of the herring + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Herring family.
CLUSTER Clus"ter, n. Etym: [AS. cluster, clyster; cf. LG. kluster (also Sw. & Dan. klase a cluster of grapes, D. klissen to be entangled.)]
1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.
2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces." Motley.
3. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.
CLUSTER Clus"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Clustering.]
Defn: To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson. The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.
CLUSTER Clus"ter, v. t.
Defn: To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.
CLUSTERINGLY Clus"ter*ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In clusters.
CLUSTERY Clus"ter*y, a. Etym: [From Cluster, n.]
Defn: Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
CLUTCH Clutch (kluch; 224), n. Etym: [OE. cloche, cloke, claw, Scot. clook, cleuck, also OE. cleche claw, clechen, cleken, to seize; cf. AS. gelæccan (where ge- is a prefix) to seize. Cf. Latch a catch.]
1. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.
2. pl.
Defn: 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. I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.
3. (Mach.)
Defn: A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.
4. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The nest complement of eggs of a bird. Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.
CLUTCH Clutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clutched; p. pr. & vb. n. Clutching.] Etym: [OE. clucchen. See Clutch, n.]
1. To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; — often figuratively; as, to clutch power. A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . Come, let me clutch thee. Shak.
2. To close tightly; to clinch. Not that I have the power to clutch my hand. Shak.
CLUTCH Clutch, v. i.
Defn: To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; — often followed by at. Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft.
CLUTTER Clut"ter, n. Etym: [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.]
1. A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.
2. Clatter; confused noise. Swift.
CLUTTER Clut"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cluttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cluttering.]
Defn: To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
CLUTTER Clut"ter, v. i.
Defn: To make a confused noise; to bustle. It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there. Tennyson.
CLUTTER Clut"ter, v. t. Etym: [From Clod, n.]
Defn: To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] Holland.
CLYDESDALE Clydes"dale, n.
Defn: One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.
CLYDESDALE TERRIER Clydesdale terrier.
Defn: One of a breed of small silky-haired terriers related to, but smaller than, the Skye terrier, having smaller and perfectly erect ears.
CLYPEASTROID Clyp`e*as"troid, a. Etym: [NL. Clypeaster (L. clupeus shield + aster star) + -oid.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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 Clyp"e*ate, a. Etym: [L. clupeatus, p. p. of clupeare to arm with a shield, fr. clupeus, clipeus shield.]
1. (Bot.)
Defn: Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
CLYPEIFORM Clyp"e*i*form`, a. Etym: [L. clupeus shield + -form.]
Defn: Shield-shaped; clypeate.
CLYPEUS Clyp"e*us, n.; pl. Clypei. Etym: [L., a shield.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
CLYSMIAN Clys"mi*an, a. Etym: [Gr. Clyster.]
Defn: Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes. Smart.
CLYSMIC Clys"mic, a.
Defn: Washing; cleansing.
CLYSTER Clys"ter, n. Etym: [L., fr. G. hlutrs pure, G. lauter: cf. F. clystère] (Med.)
Defn: A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. Clyster pipe, a tube or pipe used for injections.
CLYTIE KNOT Cly"tie knot.
Defn: In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.
CNEMIAL Cne"mi*al, a. Etym: [Gr. (Anat.)
Defn: Pertaining to the shin bone. Cnemial crest, a crestlike prominence on the proximal end of the tibia of birds and some reptiles.
CNIDA Cni"da, n.; pl. Cnidæ. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.
CNIDARIA Cni*da"ri*a, n., pl. Etym: [NL. See Cnida.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.
CNIDOBLAST Cni"do*blast, n. Etym: [Cnida + -blast.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
CNIDOCIL Cni"do*cil, n. Etym: [Cnida + cilium eyelash.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
CO- Co- (.
Defn: A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.
COACERVATE Co`a*cer"vate, a. Etym: [L. coacervatus, p. p. of coacervare to heap up; co- + acervare. See Acervate.]
Defn: Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.
COACERVATE Co`a*cer"vate, v. t.
Defn: To heap up; to pile. [R.]
COACERVATION Co*ac`er*va"tion, n. Etym: [L. coacervatio.]
Defn: A heaping together. [R.] Bacon.
COACH Coach (; 224), n. Etym: [F. coche, fr. It. cocchio, dim. of cocca little boat, fr. L. concha mussel, mussel shell, Gr. çankha. Cf. Conch, Cockboat, Cockle.]
1. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
Note: Coaches have a variety of forms, and differ in respect to the number of persons they can carry. Mail coaches and tallyho coaches often have three or more seats inside, each for two or three persons, and seats outside, sometimes for twelve or more.
2. A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.
3. (Naut.)
Defn: A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.
4. (Railroad)
Defn: A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
COACH Coach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coached; p. pr. & vb. n. Coaching.]
1. To convey in a coach. Pope.
2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. [Colloq.] I coached him before he got his scholarship. G. Eliot.
COACH Coach, v. i.
Defn: To drive or to ride in a coach; — sometimes used with it. [Colloq.] "Coaching it to all quarters." E. Waterhouse.
COACHBOX Coach"box`.
Defn: The seat of a coachman.
COACHDOG Coach"dog`. (Zoöl.)
Defn: One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
COACHEE Coach"ee, n.
Defn: A coachman [Slang]
COACHER Coach"er, n.
1. A coachman. [Obs.]
2. A coach horse.
3. One who coaches; specif. (Baseball),
Defn: one of the side at the bat posted near first or third base to direct a base runner.
COACHFELLOW Coach"fel`low, n.
Defn: One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak.
COACHMAN Coach"man, n.; pl. Coachmen.
1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); — called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.
COACHMANSHIP Coach"man*ship, n.
Defn: Skill in driving a coach.
COACHWHIP SNAKE Coach"whip` snake". (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
Note: Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name.
COACT Co*act", v. t. Etym: [L. coactare, intens. fr. cogere, coactum, to force. See Cogent.]
Defn: To force; to compel; to drive. [Obs.] The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted. Foxe.
COACT Co*act", v. i. Etym: [Pref. co- + act, v.i.]
Defn: To act together; to work in concert; to unite. [Obs.] But if I tell you how these two did coact. Shak.
COACTION Co*ac"tion, n. Etym: [L. coactio.]
Defn: Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. Sojth.
COACTIVE Co*ac"tive, a. Etym: [In sense 1, fr. 1st Coact; in sense 2, fr. 2d Coact.]
1. Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive. Any coactive power or the civil kind. Bp. Warburton.
2. Acting in concurrence; united in action. With what's unreal thou coactive art. Shak.
COACTIVELY Co*ac"tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In a coactive manner.
COACTIVITY Co`ac*tiv"i*ty, n.
Defn: Unity of action.
COADAPTATION Co*ad`ap*ta"tion, n.
Defn: Mutual adaption. R. Owen.
COADAPTED Co`a*dapt"ed, a.
Defn: Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.
COADJUMENT Co*ad"ju*ment, n.
Defn: Mutual help; coöperation. [R.] Johnson.
COADJUST Co`ad*just", v. t.
Defn: To adjust by mutual adaptations. R. Owen.
COADJUSTMENT Co`ad*just"ment, n.
Defn: Mutual adjustment.
COADJUTANT Co*ad"ju*tant, a.
Defn: Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.
COADJUTANT Co*ad"ju*tant, n.
Defn: An assistant. R. North.
COADJUTING Co*ad"ju*ting, a.
Defn: Mutually assisting. [Obs.] Drayton.
COADJUTIVE Co*ad"ju*tive, a.
Defn: Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.
COADJUTOR Co`ad*ju"tor, n. Etym: [L. See Co-, and Aid.]
1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
2. (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.
COADJUTORSHIP Co`ad*ju"tor*ship, n.
Defn: The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope.
COADJUTRESS; COADJUTRIX Co`ad*ju"tress, Co`ad*ju"trix, n.
Defn: A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.
COADJUVANCY Co*ad"ju*van*cy, n.
Defn: Joint help; coöperation. Sir T. Browne.
COADJUVANT Co*ad"ju*vant, a.
Defn: Coöperating.
COADJUVANT Co*ad"ju*vant, n. (Med.)
Defn: An adjuvant.
COADUNATE Co*ad"u*nate, a. Etym: [L. coadunatus, p. p. of coadunare to unite. See Adunation.] (Bot.)
Defn: United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
COADUNATION Co*ad`u*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. coadunatio.]
Defn: Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.
COADUNITION Co*ad`u*ni"tion, n. Etym: [Pref. co- + pref. ad- + unition.]
Defn: Coadunation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
COADVENTURE Co`ad*ven"ture, n.
Defn: An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
COADVENTURE Co`ad*ven"ture, v. i.
Defn: To share in a venture. Howell.
COADVENTURER Co`ad*ven"tur*er, n.
Defn: A fellow adventurer.
COAFFOREST Co`af*for"est, v. t.
Defn: To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
COAG Coag, n.
Defn: See Coak, a kind of tenon.