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Clausure
CLAUSURE, noun s as z. [See Clause.]
1. The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
2. In anatomy, an imperforated canal.
Clavated
CLAVATED, adjective
1. Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker towards the top, as certain parts of a plant.
2. Set with knobs.
Clave
CLAVE, preterit tense Of cleave.
Clavellated
CLAVELLATED, adjective clavellated ashes, potash and pearlash.
Claviary
CLAVIARY, noun A scale of lines and spaces in music.
Clavichord
CLAVICHORD, noun A musical instrument of an oblong figure, of the nature of a spinet. The strings are muffled with small bits of fine woolen cloth, to soften the sounds; used in nunneries. [See Clarichord.]
Clavicle
CLAVICLE, noun The collar bone. There are two clavicles, or channel bones, joined at one end to the scapula or shoulder bone, and at the other, to the sternum or breast bone.
Claviger
CLAVIGER, noun One who keeps the keys of any place.
Claw
CLAW, noun
1. The sharp hooked nail of a beast, bird or other animal.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud--ye shall eat. .
His nails were grown like birds claws. .
2. The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails.
3. The hand, in contempt.
CLAW, verb transitive
1. To pull, tear or scratch with the nails.
2. To scratch or tear in general; to tickle.
3. To flatter.
To claw off or away,
1. To scold or rail at.
2. In seamanship, to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.
3. In vulgar language, to scratch away; to get off or escape.
Clawed
CLAWED, participle passive
1. Scratched, pulled or torn with claws.
2. adjective Furnished with claws.
Clawing
CLAWING, participle present tense Pulling, tearing or scratching with claws or nails.
Clawless
CLAWLESS, adjective Destitute of claws.
Clay
CLAY, noun
1. The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds. A species of earths which are firmly coherent, weighty, compact, and hard when dry, but stiff, viscid and ductile when moist, and smooth to the touch; not readily diffusible in water, and when mixed, not readily subsiding in it. They contract by heat. Clays absorb water greedily, and become soft, but are so tenacious as to be molded into any shape, and hence they are the materials of bricks and various vessels, domestic and chimical.
2. In poetry and in scripture, earth in general.
3. In scripture, clay is used to express frailty, liableness to decay and destruction.
They that dwell in houses of clay .
CLAY, verb transitive
1. To cover or manure with clay
2. To purify and whiten with clay as sugar.
Clay-Cold
CLAY-COLD, adjective Cold as clay or earth; lifeless.
Clay-Ground
CLAY-GROUND, noun Ground consisting of clay, or abounding with it.
Clay-Land
CLAY-LAND, SOIL, noun Land consisting of clay, or abounding with it.
Clay-Marl
CLAY-MARL, noun A whitish, smooth, chalky clay.
Clay-Pit
CLAY-PIT, noun A pit where clay is dug.
Clay-Slate
CLAY-SLATE, noun A pit where clay is dug.
Clay-Stone
CLAY-STONE, noun A mineral, the thonstein of Werner, and indurated clay of Kirwan. It resembles compact limestone or calcarious marl. Its texture is porous, compact or slaty. Its color is gray, often tinged with yellow or blue; also rose or pale red, or brownish red, and sometimes greenish.
Clayed
CLAYED, participle passive
1. Covered or manured with clay.
2. Purified and whitened with clay; as clayed sugar.
Clayes
CLAYES, noun plural In fortification, wattles or hurdles made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
Clayey
CLAYEY, adjective Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.
Clayish
CLAYISH, adjective Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
Clean
CLEAN, adjective In a general sense, free from extraneous matter, or whatever is injurious or offensive; hence its signification depends on the nature and qualities of the substances to which it is applied.
1. Free from dirt, or other foul matter; as clean water; a clean cup; a clean floor.
2. Free from weeds or stones; as clean land; a clean garden or field.
3. Free from knots or branches; as clean timber. In America, clear is generally used.
4. Free from moral impurity; innocent.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? . .
5. Free from ceremonial defilement. ; .
6. Free from guilt; sanctified; holy. . .
7. That might be eaten by the Hebrews. ; .
8. That might be used. .
9. Free from a foul disease; cured of leprosy. . Math. 8.
10. Dextrous; adroit; not bungling; free from awkwardness; as a clean feat; a clean boxer.
11. Free from infection; as a clean ship. A clean bill of health is a certificate that a ship is clean or free from infection.
CLEAN, adverb
1. Quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely; fully; indicating separation or complete removal of every part. The people passed clean over Jordan. . Is his mercy clean gone forever? . This use of clean is not now elegant, and not used except in vulgar language.
2. Without miscarriage; dextrously.
Pope came off clean with Homer.
CLEAN, verb transitive To remove all foreign matter from; to separate from any thing whatever is extraneous to it, or whatever is foul, noxious, or offensive, as dirt or filth from the hands, body or clothes, foul matter from a vessel, weeds, shrubs and stones from a meadow; to purify. Thus, a house is cleaned by sweeping and washing; a field is cleaned by plowing and hoeing.
Clean-Timbered
CLEAN-TIMBERED, adjective Well-proportioned.
Cleanliness
CLEANLINESS, noun
1. Freedom from dirt, filth, or any foul, extraneous matter.
2. Neatness of person or dress; purity.
Cleanly
CLEANLY, adjective clenly. [from clean.]
1. Free rom dirt, filth, or any foul matter; neat; carefully avoiding filth.
2. Pure; free from mixture; innocent; as cleanly joys.
3. Cleansing; making clean; as cleanly powder.
4. Nice; artful; dextrous; adroit; as a cleanly play; a cleanly evasion.
CLEANLY, adverb In a clean manner; neatly; without filth.
Cleanness
CLEANNESS, noun
1. Freedom from dirt, filth, and foreign matter; neatness.
2. Freedom from infection or a foul disease.
3. Exactness; purity; justness; correctness; used of language or style; as, cleanness of expression.
4. Purity; innocence.
In scripture, cleanness of hands denotes innocence. cleanness of teeth denotes want of provisions. .
Cleansable
CLEANSABLE, adjective That may be lleansed.
Cleanse
CLEANSE, verb transitive
1. To purify; to make clean; to remove filth, or foul matter of any kind, or by any process whateve, as by washing, rubbing, scouring, scraping, purging, ventilation, etc.; as, to cleanse the hands or face to cleanse a garment; to cleanse the bowels; to cleanse a ship; to cleanse an infected house.
2. To free from a foul or infectious disease; to heal. , ; .
3. To free from ceremonial pollution, and consecrate to a holy use. ; Exek. 43:20.
4. To purify from guilt. .
5. To remove; as, to cleanse a crime.
Cleansed
CLEANSED, participle passive Purified; made clean; purged; healed.
Cleanser
CLEANSER, noun He or that which cleanses; in medicine, a detergent.
Cleansing
CLEANSING, participle passive Purifying; making clean; purging; removing foul or noxious matter from; freeing from guilt.
CLEANSING, noun The act of purifying, or purging. ; .
Clear
CLEAR, adjective
1. Open; free from obstruction; as a clear plat of ground; the way is clear
2. Free from clouds, or fog; serene; as a clear day.
3. Free from foreign matter; unmixed; pure; as clear water; clear sand; clear air; clear glass.
4. Free from any thing that creates doubt or uncertainty; apparent; evident; manifest; not obscure; conspicuous; that is, open to the mind; as, the reason is clear
5. Unclouded; luminous; not obscured; as a clear sun; a clear shining after a rain. .
6. Unobstructed; unobscured; as a clear view.
7. Perspicacious; sharp; as a clear sight.
8. Not clouded with care, or ruffled by passion; cheerful; serene; as a clear aspect.
9. Evident; undeniable; indisputable; as the victory was clear
10. Quick to understand; prompt; acute.
Mother of science, now I feel thy power within me clear
11. Free from guilt or blame; innocent; unspotted; irreproachable. .
In action faithful, and in honor clear
12. Free from bias; unprepossessed; not preoccupied; impartial; as a clear judgment.
13. Free from debt, or obligation; not liable to prosecution; as, to be clear of debt or responsibility.
14. Free from deductions, or charges; as clear gain or profit.
15. Not entangled; unembarrassed; free; as, the cable is clear A ship is clear when she is so remote from shore or other object, as to be out of danger of striking, or to have sea room sufficient.
16. Open; distinct; not jarring, or harsh; as a clear sound; a clear voice.
17. Liberated; freed; acquitted of charges; as, a man has been tried and got clear
18. Free from spots or any thing that disfigures; as a clear skin.
CLEAR is followed by from or by of.
Thou shalt be clear from this my oath. .
The air is clear of damp exhalations.
CLEAR, adverb
1. Plainly; not obscurely; manifestly.
2. Clean; quite; entirely; wholly; indicating entire separation; as, to cut a piece clear off; to go clear away; but in this sense its use is not elegant.
CLEAR or in the clear among joiners and carpenters, denotes the space within walls, or length and breadth clear or exclusive of the thickness of the wall.
CLEAR, verb transitive
1. To make clear; to fine; to remove any thing foreign; to separate from any foul matter; to purify; to clarify; as, to clear liquors.
2. To free from obstructions; as, to clear the road.
3. To free from any thing noxious or injurious; as, to clear the ocean of pirates; to clear the land of enemies.
4. To remove any incumbrance, or embarrassment; often followed by off or away; as, to clear off debts; to clear away rubbish.
5. To free; to liberate, or disengage; to exonerate; as, to clear a man from debt, obligation, or duty.
6. To cleanse; as, to clear the hands from filth; to clear the bowels.
7. To remove any thing that obscures, as clouds or fog; to make bright; as, to clear the sky; sometimes followed by up.
8. To free from obscurity, perplexity or ambiguity; as, to clear a question or theory; to clear up a case or point.
9. To urge from the imputation of guilt; to justify or vindicate.
How shall we clear ourselves? .
That will by no means clear the guilty. .
10. In a legal sense, to acquit on trial, by verdict; as, the prisoner has been tried and cleared.
11. To make gain or profit, beyond all expenses and charges; as, to clear ten percent by a sale of goods, or by a voyage.
12. To remove wood from land. To cut down trees, remove or burn them, and prepare land for tillage or pasture; as, to clear land for wheat.
CLEAR, verb intransitive
1. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; often followed by up, off, or away; as, the sky clears; the weather clears up; it clears away; it clears off.
2. To be disengaged from incumbrances, distress or entanglements; to become free or disengaged.
He that clears at once will relapse.
Clear-Shining
CLEAR-SHINING, adjective [clear and shine.] Shining with brightness, or unobstructed splendor.
Clear-Sighted
CLEAR-SIGHTED, adjective [clear and sight.] Seeing with clearness; having acuteness of sight; discerning; perspicacious; as clear-sighted reason; a clear-sighted judge.
Clear-Sightedness
CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS, noun Acute discernment.
Clear-Starch
CLEAR-STARCH, verb transitive To stiffen and clear with starch, and by clapping with the hands; as, to clear-starch muslin.
Clear-Starcher
CLEAR-STARCHER, noun One who clear-starches.
Clear-Starching
CLEAR-STARCHING, participle present tense
1. Stiffening and clearing with starch.
2. noun The act of stiffening and clearing with starch.
Clearage
CLEARAGE, noun The removing of any thing.
Clearance
CLEARANCE, noun A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the custom house; permission to sail.
Cleared
CLEARED, participle passive Purified; freed from foreign matter, or from incumbrance; made manifest; made luminous; cleansed; liberated; acquitted.
Clearer
CLEARER, noun That which clears, purifies, or enlightens; that which brightens.
Clearing
CLEARING, participle present tense Purifying; removing foul matter, incumbrances, or obstructions; making evident, or luminous; cleansing; liberating; disengaging; acquitting; making gain beyond all costs and charges.
CLEARING, noun
1. A defense; justification; vindication. .
2. A place or tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation; a common use of the word in America.
3. The act of making clear.
Clearly
CLEARLY, adverb
1. Plainly; evidently; fully; as, the fact is clearly proved.
2. Without obstruction; luminously; as, to shine clearly
3. With clear discernment; as, to understand clearly
4. Without entanglement, or confusion.
5. Plainly; honestly; candidly.
Deal clearly and impartially with yourselves.
6. Without reserve, evasion or subterfuge.
Clearness
CLEARNESS, noun
1. Freedom from foul or extraneous matter; purity; as the clearness of water, or other liquor.
2. Freedom from obstruction or incumbrance; as the clearness of the ground.
3. Freedom from fogs or clouds; openness; as the clearness of the sky. It generally expresses less than brightness or splendor. .
4. Distinctness; perspicuity; luminousness; as the clearness of reason, of views, of arguments, of explanations.
5. Plainness, or plain dealing; sincerity; honesty; fairness; candor.
6. Freedom from imputation of ill.
7. Freedom from spots, or any thing that disfigures; as the clearness of the skin.
Cleat
CLEAT, noun A piece of wood used in a ship to fasten ropes upon. It is formed with one arm or two, or with a hollow to receive a rope, and is made fast to some part of a vessel. Cleats are belaying-cleats, deck-cleats or thumb-cleats.
Cleavage
CLEAVAGE, noun
1. The act of cleaving or splitting.
2. In mineralogy, the manner of cleaving, or of mechanical division. It is used in relation to the fracture of minerals which have natural joints and possess a regular structure.
Cleave
CLEAVE, verb intransitive
1. To stick; to adhere; to hold to.
My bones cleave to my skin. .
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. .
CLEAVE to that which is good. .
2. To unite aptly; to fit; to sit well on.
3. To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
A man shall leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife. . Math. 19.
CLEAVE to Jehovah your God. .
CLEAVE, verb transitive
1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to open or serve the cohering parts of a body, by cutting or by the application of force; as, to cleave wood; to cleave a rock; to cleave the flood.
2. To part or open naturally.
Every beast that cleaveth the cleft into two claws. .
CLEAVE, verb intransitive To part; to open; to crack; to separate, as parts of cohering bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
The mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof. .
Cleaved
CLEAVED, participle passive Split; rived; divided.
Cleavelandite
CLEAVELANDITE, noun A mineral, generally of a white or grayish white color, sometimes blue or bluish or reddish; called also siliceous felspar, or albite.
Cleaver
CLEAVER, noun One who cleaves; that which cleaves; a butchers instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Cleaving
CLEAVING, participle present tense Sticking; adhering; uniting to. Also, splitting; dividing; riving.
Cleche
CLECHE, noun In heraldry, a kind of cross, charged with another cross of the same figure, but of the color of the field.
Cledge
CLEDGE, noun Among miners, the upper stratum of fullers earth.
Clef
CLEF, noun A character in music placed at the beginning of a stave, to determine the degree of elevation occupied by that stave in the general claviary or system, and to point out the names of all the notes which it contains in the line of that clef
Cleft
CLEFT, participle passive of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.
CLEFT, noun
1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. .
2. A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
3. A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
Cleft-Graft
CLEFT-GRAFT, verb transitive [ cleft and graft.] To engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a cion.
Cleg
CLEG, noun The hose fly; Dan.
Clem
CLEM, verb transitive To starve.
Clemency
CLEMENCY, noun
1. Mildness; softness; as the clemency of the air.
2. Mildness of temper; gentleness or lenity of disposition; disposition to treat with favor and kindness.
I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words. .
3. Mercy; disposition to treat with lenity, to forgive or to spare, as offenders; tenderness in punishing; opposed to severity, harshness, or rigor.
Clement
CLEMENT, adjective Mild in temper and disposition; gentle; lenient; merciful; kind; tender; compassionate.
Clementine
CLEMENTINE, adjective Pertaining to St. Clement, or to his compilations; or to the constitutions of Clement the fifth.
Clemently
CLEMENTLY, adverb With mildness of temper; mercifully.
Clench
CLENCH. [See Clinch.]
Clepe
CLEPE, verb transitive or I. To call, or name.
Clepsammia
CLEPSAMMIA, noun An instrument for measuring time by sand, like an hour glass.
Clepsydra
CLEPSYDRA, noun
1. A time piece used by the Greeks and Romans, which measured time by the discharge of a certain quantity of water. Also, a fountain in Greece.
2. A chimical vessel.
Clergical
CLERGICAL, adjective Pertaining to the clergy. [See Clerical.]
Clergy
CLERGY, noun
1. The body of men set apart, and consecrated, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the christian church; the body of ecclesiastics, in distinction from the laity.
2. The privilege or benefit of clergy
If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction.
Benefit of clergy in English law, originally the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge; or a privilege by which a clerk or person in orders claimed to be delivered to his ordinary to purge himself of felony. But this privilege has been abridged and modified by various statutes. In the United States, no benefit of clergy exists.
Clergyable
CLERGYABLE, adjective Entitled to or admitting the benefit of clergy; as a clergyable felony.
Clergyman
CLERGYMAN, noun A man in holy orders; a man licensed to preach the gospel, according to the forms and rules of any particular denomination of christians.
Cleric
CLERIC, noun A clerk or clergyman.
Clerical
CLERICAL, adjective Relating or pertaining to the clergy as clerical tonsure; clerical robes; clerical duties.
Clerk
CLERK, noun
1. A clergyman, or ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders.
2. A man that can read.
Everyone that could read--being accounted a clerk
3. A man of letters; a scholar.
The foregoing significations are found in the English laws, and histories of the church; as in the rude ages of the church, learning was chiefly confined to the clergy. In modern usage.
4. A writer; one who is employed in the use of the pen, in an office public or private, for keeping records, and accounts; as the clerk of a court. In some cases clerk is synonymous with secretary; but not always. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation or person; whereas, a secretary may be either a subordinate officer, or the head of an office or department.
5. A layman who is the reader of responses in church service.
Clerk-Ale
CLERK-ALE, noun [clerk and ale.] In England, the feast of the parish clerk.
Clerklike
CLERKLIKE, adjective Like a clerk; learned.
Clerkly
CLERKLY, adjective Scholarlike.
CLERKLY, adverb In a learned manner.
Clerkship
CLERKSHIP, noun
1. A state of being in holy orders.
2. Scholarship.
3. The office or business of a clerk or writer.
Cleromancy
CLEROMANCY, noun A divination by throwing dice or little bones, and observing the points or marks turned up.
Cleve
CLEVE,
CLEVER, adjective
1. Fit; suitable; convenient; proper; commodious.
2. Dextrous; adroit; ready; that performs with skill or address.
3. In New England, good-natured, possessing an agreeable mind or disposition. In Great Britain, this word is applied to the body or its movements, in its literal sense; in America, it is applied chiefly to the mind, temper, disposition. In Great Britain, a clever man is a dextrous man, one who performs and act with skill or address. In New-England, a clever man is a man of a pleasing obliging disposition, and amiable manners, but often implying a moderate share of talents. Fitness, suitableness, gives both senses analogically; the former applied to the body; the latter, to the mind, or its qualities. It is a colloquial word, but sometimes found in respectable writings.
In some of the United States, it is said this word is applied to the intellect, denoting ingenious, knowing, discerning.
Clever
CLEVER, a. 1. Fit; suitable; convenient; proper; commodious.2. Dextrous; adroit; ready; that performs with skill or address.3. In New England, good-natured, possessing an agreeable mind or disposition. In Great Britain, this word is applied to the body or its movements, in its literal sense; in America, it is applied chiefly to the mind, temper, disposition. In Great Britain, a clever man is a dextrous man, one who performs and act with skill or address. In New-England, a clever man is a man of a pleasing obliging disposition, and amiable manners, but often implying a moderate share of talents. Fitness, suitableness, gives both senses analogically; the former applied to the body; the latter, to the mind, or its qualities. It is a colloquial word, but sometimes found in respectable writings.In some of the United States, it is said this word is applied to the intellect, denoting ingenious, knowing, discerning.
Cleverly
CLEVERLY, adverb Fitly; dextrously; handsomely.
Cleverness
CLEVERNESS, noun
1. Dexterity; adroitness; skill.
2. Mildness of agreeableness of disposition; obligingness; good nature.
Clevis
CLEVIS, noun An iron bent to the form of an ox bow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of a cartneap to hold the chain of the forward horse or oxen; or a draft iron on a plow.
Clevy
CLEVY,
CLEW, noun
1. A ball of thread.
2. The thread that forms a ball; the thread that is used to guide a person in a labyrinth. Hence, any thing that guides or directs one in an intricate case.
3. The lower corner of a square sail, and the aftmost corner of a stay sail.
CLEW, verb transitive
1. In seamanship, to truss up to the yard, by means of clew-garnets or clew-lines, in order to furling.
2. To direct.
Clew
CLEW, n. 1. A ball of thread.2. The thread that forms a ball; the thread that is used to guide a person in a labyrinth. Hence, any thing that guides or directs one in an intricate case.3. The lower corner of a square sail, and the aftmost corner of a stay sail. CLEW, v.t. 1. In seamanship, to truss up to the yard, by means of clew-garnets or clew-lines, in order to furling.2. To direct.
Clew-Carnets
CLEW-CARNETS, noun In marine language, a sort of tackle, or rope and pulley, fastened to the clews of the main and foresails to truss them up to the yard.
Clew-Lines
CLEW-LINES, noun These are the same tackle, and used for the like purpose as clew-garnets, but are applied to the smaller square sails, as the top-sail, top-gallant and sprit-sails.
Click
CLICK, verb intransitive Literally, to strike; hence,
To make a small sharp noise, or rather a succession of small sharp sounds, as by a gentle striking.
The solemn death-watch clicked.
CLICK, noun In seamens language, a small piece of iron falling into a notched wheel attached to the winches in cutters, etc.
CLICK, noun The latch of a door.
Click-Maker
CLICK-MAKER, noun An artificer whose occupation is to make clocks.
Clicker
CLICKER, noun The servant of a salesman, who stands at the door to invite customers; a law ward and not used in the United States.
Clicket
CLICKET, noun The knocker of a door.
Clicking
CLICKING, participle present tense Making small sharp noises.
Client
CLIENT, noun
1. Among the Romans, a citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who, in respect to that relation, was called his patron. Hence in modern usage,
2. One who applies to a lawyer or counselor for advice and direction in a question of law, or commits his cause to his management in prosecuting a claim, or defending against a suit, in a court of justice.
3. A dependent.
Cliental
CLIENTAL, adjective Dependent.
Cliented
CLIENTED, adjective Supplied with clients.
Clientship
CLIENTSHIP, noun The condition of a client; a state of being under the protection of a patron.
CLIF, noun
1. A steep bank; as the cliffs of Dover. So in Saxon, the cliffs of the Red Sea.
2. A high and steep rock; any precipice.
Clif
CLIF,
CLIFF, in music. [See Clef.]
Cliff
CLIFF, in music. [See Clef.]
Cliffy
CLIFFY, adjective Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
Clifted
CLIFTED, adjective Broken.
Climacter
CLIMACTER, noun
1. A critical year in human life; but climacteric is more generally used.
2. A certain space of time.
Climacteric
CLIMACTERIC, adjective Literally, noting a scale, progression, or gradation; appropriately, denoting a critical period of human life, or a certain number of years, at the end of which a great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution. [See the Noun.]
CLIMACTERIC, noun A critical period in human life, or a period in which some great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution. The critical periods are supposed by some persons to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7 and 9; to which others add the 81st year. The 63d year is called the grand climacteric It has been supposed that these periods are attended with some remarkable change in respect o health, life or fortune.
Climatarchic
CLIMATARCHIC, adjective Presiding over climates.
Climate
CLIMATE, noun
1. In geography, a part of the surface of the earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such a breadth that the longest day in the parallel nearest the pole is half an hour longer than that nearest to the equator. The beginning of a climate is a parallel circle in which the longest day is half and hour shorter than that at the end. The climates begin at the equator, where the day is 12 hours long; and at the end of the first climate the longest day is 12 hours long, and this increase of half an hour constitutes a climate to the polar circles; from which climates are measured by the increase of a month.
2. In a popular sense, a tract of land, region or country, differing from another in the temperature of the air; or any region or country with respect to the temperature of the air, the seasons, and their peculiar qualities, without any regard to the length of the days, or to geographical position. Thus we say, a warm or cold climate; a moist or dry climate; a happy climate; a genial climate; a mountainous climate
CLIMATE, verb intransitive To dwell; to reside in a particular region.
Climatic
CLIMATIC,
CLIMATICAL, adjective Pertaining to a climate or climates; limited by a climate.
Climatical
CLIMATICAL, a. Pertaining to a climate or climates; limited by a climate.
Climature
CLIMATURE, noun A climate.
Climax
CLIMAX, noun
1. Gradation; ascent; a figure of rhetoric, in which a sentence rises as it were, step by step; or in which the expression which ends one member of the period, begins the second, and so on, till the period is finished; as in the following: When we have practiced good actions a while, they become easy; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them; and when they please us, we do them frequently; and by frequency of acts, they grow into a habit.
2. A sentence, or series of sentences, in which the successive members or sentences rise in force, importance or dignity, to the close of the sentence or series.
Climb
CLIMB, verb intransitive
1. To creep up by little and little, or step by step; to mount or ascend, by means of the hands and feet; to rise on any fixed object, by seizing it with the hands and lifting the body, and by thrusting with the feet; as, to climb a tree or a precipice.
And he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore tree. .
2. To mount or ascend with labor and difficulty.
3. To rise or ascend with a slow motion.
Black vapors climb aloft.
CLIMB, verb transitive
1. To ascend by means of the hands and feet, implying labor, difficulty and slow progress; as, to climb a wall, or a steep mountain.
2. To mount or ascend, with labor or a slow motion; as, to climb the ascents of fame.
Climbable
CLIMBABLE, adjective That may be climbed.
Climbed
CLIMBED, participle passive
1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.
2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.
Climber
CLIMBER, noun
1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.
2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.
CLIMBER, verb intransitive To climb; to mount with effort.
Climbing
CLIMBING, participle present tense Ascending by the use of the hands and feet; ascending with difficulty.
CLIMBING, noun The act of ascending.
Clime
CLIME, noun A climate; a tract or region of the earth; a poetical word, but sometimes used in prose. [See Climate.]
Whatever clime the suns bright circle warms.
Clinch
CLINCH, verb transitive
1. To gripe with the hand; to make fast by bending over, folding, or embracing closely. Thus, to clinch a nail, is to bend the point and drive it closely. To clinch the hand or fist, is to contract the fingers closely into the palm of the hand. To clinch an instrument, is to close the fingers and thumb round it, and hold it fast.
2. To fix or fasten; to make firm; as, to clinch an argument.
CLINCH, noun
1. A word used in a double meaning; a pun; an ambiguity; a duplicity of meaning, with identity of expression.
Here one poor word a hundred clinches makes.
2. A witty, ingenious reply.
3. In seamens language, the part of a cable which is fastened to the ring of an anchor; a kind of knot and seizings, used to fasten a cable to the ring of an anchor, and the britching of a gun to the ring bolts in a ships side.
Clinched
CLINCHED, participle passive Made fast by doubling or embracing closely.
Clincher
CLINCHER, noun
1. That which clinches; a cramp or piece of iron bent down to fasten any thing.
2. One who makes a smart reply.
3. That which makes fast.
Clincher-Built
CLINCHER-BUILT,
CLINCHER-WORK, noun In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it, like slates on the roof a house.
Clincher-Work
CLINCHER-WORK, n. In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it, like slates on the roof a house.
Clinching
CLINCHING, participle present tense Making fast by doubling over or embracing closely; griping with the fist.
Cling
CLING, verb intransitive
1. To adhere closely; to stick to; to hold fast upon, especially by winding round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support.
Two babes of love close clinging to her waist.
2. To adhere closely; to stick to; as a viscous substance.
3. To adhere closely and firmly, in interest or affection; as, men of a party cling to their leader.
CLING, verb transitive To dry up, or wither.
Till famine cling thee.
In Saxon, clingan is rendered to fade or wither, marcesco, as well as to cling In this sense is used forclingan, participle passive forclungen. The radical sense then appears to be, to contract or draw together; and drying, withering, is expressed by shrinking.
Clinging
CLINGING, participle present tense Adhering closely; sticking to; winding round and holding to.
Clingy
CLINGY, adjective Apt to cling; adhesive.
Clinic
CLINIC,
CLINICAL, adjective In a general sense, pertaining to a bed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bed-side of the sick, or from notes taken at the bed-side, by a physician, with a view to practical instruction in the healing art. Clinical medicine is the practice of medicine on patients in bed, or in hospitals. A clinical convert is a convert on his death-bed. Anciently persons receiving baptism on their death-beds were called clinics.
CLINIC, noun One confined to the bed by sickness.
Clinical
CLINICAL, a. In a general sense, pertaining to a bed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bed-side of the sick, or from notes taken at the bed-side, by a physician, with a view to practical instruction in the healing art. Clinical medicine is the practice of medicine on patients in bed, or in hospitals. A clinical convert is a convert on his death-bed. Anciently persons receiving baptism on their death-beds were called clinics.
Clinically
CLINICALLY, adverb In a clinical manner; by the bed-side.
Clink
CLINK, verb transitive To ring or jingle; to utter or make a small sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking small metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
CLINK, noun A sharp sound, made by the collision of small sonorous bodies. Spenser, according to Johnson, uses the word for a knocker.
Clinker-Built
CLINKER-BUILT, adjective Made of clincher work.
Clinking
CLINKING, participle present tense Making a small sharp sound, or succession of sounds.
Clinkstone
CLINKSTONE, noun A mineral which has a slaty structure, and is generally divisible into tabular masses, usually thick, sometimes thin like those of argillite. The cross fracture is commonly splintery. Its colors are dark greenish gray, yellowish, bluish, or ash gray; and it is usually translucent at the edges, sometimes opake. It occurs in extensive masses, often composed of columnar or tabular distinct concretions, more or less regular. It is usually found among secondary rocks; sometimes resting on basalt, and covered by greenstone.
Clinometer
CLINOMETER, noun An instrument for measuring the dip of mineral strata.
Clinquant
CLINQUANT, adjective Dressed in tinsel finery.
Clip
CLIP, verb transitive
1. To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, in distinction from shaving and paring, which are performed by rubbing the instrument close to the thing shaved; as, to clip the hair; to clip wings.
But love had clipped his wings and cut him short.
2. To diminish coin by paring the edge.
3. To curtail; to cut short.
4. To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug.
To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England for to run with speed. So cut issued; cut on, run fast. This seems to be the meaning in Dryden.
Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed,
And with her eagerness the quarry missed,
Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
This sense would seem to be allied to that of leap.
CLIP, noun
1. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip
2. An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round.
Clipped
CLIPPED, CLIPT, participle passive Cut off; cut short; curtailed; diminished by paring.
Clipper
CLIPPER, noun One who clips; especially one who cuts off the edges of coin.
Clipping
CLIPPING, participle present tense Cutting off or shortening with shears or scissors; diminishing coin by paring off the edges; curtailing.
CLIPPING, noun
1. The act of cutting off, curtailing or diminishing.
2. That which is clipped off; a piece separated by clipping
Clipt
CLIPPED, CLIPT participle passive Cut off; cut short; curtailed; diminished by paring.
Clive
CLIVE, in the composition of names, denote a place situated on or near a cliff, on the side of a hill, rock or precipice; as Cleveland, Clifton.
Clivers
CLIVERS, noun A plant, the Galium aparine; called also goose-grass, or hairiff. It has a square, rough, jointed stem; the joints hairy at the base; with eight or ten narrow leaves at each joint.
Cloagulated
CLOAGULATED, participle passive Concreted; curdled.
Cloak
CLOAK. [See Cloke.]
Clochard
CLOCHARD, noun A belfry.
Clock
CLOCK, noun
1. A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes and seconds, with great exactness. It indicates the hour by the stroke of a small hammer on a bell.
The phrases, what oclock is it? It is nine oclock, seem to be contracted from what of the clock? It is nine of the clock
2. A figure or figured work in the ankle of a stocking.
CLOCK, verb transitive To call. [See Cluck.]
Clock-Setter
CLOCK-SETTER, noun One who regulates the clock.
Clock-Work
CLOCK-WORK, noun
1. The machinery and movements of a clock; or that part of the movement which strikes the hours on a bell, in distinction from that part which measures and exhibits the time on the face or dial plate, which is called watch-work.
2. Well adjusted work, with regular movement.
Clod
CLOD, noun
1. A hard lump of earth, of any kind; a mass of earth cohering.
2. A lump or mass of metal.
3. Turf; the ground.
4. That which is earthy, base and vile, as the body of man compared to his soul.
5. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt.
6. Any thing concreted.
CLOD, verb intransitive To collect into concretions, or a thick mass; to coagulate; as clodded gore.
[See Clot, which is more generally used.]
CLOD, verb transitive To pelt with clods.
Cloddy
CLODDY, adjective
1. Consisting of clods; abounding with clods.
2. Earthy; mean; gross.
Clodhopper
CLODHOPPER, noun A clown; a dolt.
Clodpate
CLODPATE, noun A stupid fellow; a dolt; a thickskull.
Clodpated
CLODPATED, adjective Stupid; dull; doltish.
Clodpoll
CLODPOLL, noun A stupid fellow; a dolt; a blockhead.
Clog
CLOG, verb transitive
1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage.
2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping; to shackle; as, to clog a beast.
3. To load with any thing that encumbers; to burden; to embarrass; as, to clog commerce with impositions or restrictions.
4. To obstruct natural motion, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede.
CLOG, verb intransitive
1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass.
Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.
2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter.
The teeth of the saw will begin to clog
CLOG, noun
1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or leaping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg.
2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or renders it difficult; hindrance; impediment.
3. A wooden shoe; also, a sort of pattern worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.
Clog-Ged
CLOG-GED, participle passive Wearing a clog; shackled; obstructed; loaded with incumbrance.
Clogginess
CLOGGINESS, noun The state of being clogged.
Clogging
CLOGGING, participle present tense Putting on a clog; loading with incumbrance; obstructing; impeding.
Cloggy
CLOGGY, adjective That clogs, or has power to clog; thick; gross.
Cloister
CLOISTER, noun
1. Literally, a close; a close, or inclosed place. A monastery or nunnery; a house inhabited by monks or nuns. In a more limited sense, the principal part of a regular monastery, consisting of a square, erected between the church, the chapter-house and the refectory, and over which is the dormitory. The proper use of the cloister is for the monks to meet in for conversation. The cloister is square, and has its name from being inclosed on its four sides with buildings. Hence in architecture, a building is said to be in the form of a cloister when there are buildings on each of the four sides of the court.
2. A peristyle; a piazza.
CLOISTER, verb transitive
1. To confine in a cloister or monastery.
2. To shut up; to confine closely within walls; to immure; to shut up in retirement from the world.
Cloisteral
CLOISTERAL, adjective Confined to a cloister; retired from the world; recluse.
Cloistered
CLOISTERED, participle passive
1. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a monastery.
2. adjective Solitary; retired from the world.
3. Built with peristyles or piazzas; inclosed.
Cloistering
CLOISTERING, participle present tense Shutting up in a monastery; confining; secluding from the world.
Cloistress
CLOISTRESS, noun A nun; a woman who has vowed religious retirement.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.