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Cloke

CLOKE, noun

1. A loose outer garment worn over other clothes both by men and women.

He was clad with zeal as a cloke Isaiah 59:17.

2. A cover; that which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense.

Not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness. 1 Peter 2:16.

They have no cloke for their sin. John 15:22.

CLOKE, verb transitive

1. To cover with a cloke

2. To hide; to conceal; to use a false covering.

Cloke-Bag

CLOKE-BAG, noun A bag in which a cloke or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau.

Cloked

CLOKED, participle passive Covered with a cloke; concealed under a cover.

Cloking

CLOKING, participle present tense Covering with a cloke; hiding under an external covering.

Clomb

CLOMB, preterit tense of climb.

Clong

CLONG, old part. Of cling.

Clonic

CLONIC, adjective Shaking; convulsive; irregular; as clonic spasm.

Cloom

CLOOM, verb transitive To close with glutinous matter.

Close

CLOSE, verb transitive

1. To shut; to make fast, by pressing together, or by stopping an open place, so as to intercept a passage, in almost any manner; as, to close the eyes; to close a gate, door or window. In these and other cases, closing is performed by bringing an object before the opening. To close a book, is to bring the parts together.

The Lord hath closed your eyes. Isaiah 29:10.

He closed the book. Luke 4:20.

2. To end; to finish; to conclude; to complete; to bring to a period; as, to close a bargain, or contract.

One frugal supper did our studies close

3. To unite, as the parts of a breach or fracture; to make whole; to consolidate; often followed by up.

The Lord closed up the flesh instead thereof. Genesis 2:21.

4. To cover; to inclose; to encompass; to overwhelm.

The depths closed me round about. Jonah 2:5.

5. To inclose; to confine. [See Inclose.]

6. To move or bring together; to unite separate bodies or parts; as, to close the ranks of an army.

CLOSE, verb intransitive s as z.

1. To unite; to coalesce; to come together; as the parts of a wound or fracture, or parts separated; often followed by on or upon.

The fat closed upon the blade. Judges 3:22.

The earth closed upon them. Numbers 16:33.

2. To end; to terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six oclock.

To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in.

France and Holland might close upon some measures to our disadvantage.

To close with, to accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. When followed by the person with whom an agreement is made, to make an agreement with; to unite with; as, to close with an enemy.

He took the time when Richard was deposed,

And high and low with happy Harry closed.

In this sense, to close in with is less elegant.

To close with,

To close in with, To unite; to join closely; to grapple, as persons in a contest; applied to wrestlers, when they come to close embrace for scuffling.

CLOSE, adjective

1. Shut fast; tight; made fast, so as to have no opening; as a close box; a close vizard.

2. Having parts firmly united; compact; dense; applied to solid substances of any king; as the close texture of wood or metal.

3. Having parts firmly adhering; viscous; tenacious; as oil, or glue.

4. Confined; stagnant; without ventilation or motion; as close air.

5. Confined; retired.

While David kept himself close 1 Chronicles 12:1.

6. Hid; private; secret; as, to keep a purpose close Numbers 5:13. Luke 9:36.

7. Confined within narrow limits; narrow; as a close alley.

8. Near; within a small distance; as a close fight or action.

9. Joined; in contact or nearly so; crowded; as, to sit close

10. Compressed, as thoughts or words; hence, brief; concise; opposed to loose or diffuse.

Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.

11. Very near, in place or time; adjoining, or nearly so.

I saw him come close to the ram. Daniel 8:7.

They sailed close by Crete. Acts 27:13.

Some dire misfortune follows close behind.

12. Having the quality of keeping secrets, thoughts or designs; cautious; as a close minister. Hence in friendship, trusty; confidential

13. Having an appearance of concealment; implying art, craft or wariness; as a close aspect.

14. Intent; fixed; attentive; pressing upon the object; as, to give close attention.

Keep your mind or thoughts close to the business or subject.

15. Full to the point; home; pressing; as a close argument; bring the argument close to the question.

16. Pressing; earnest; warm; as a close debate.

17. Confined; secluded from communication; as a close prisoner.

18. Covetous; penurious; not liberal; as a close man.

19. Applied to the weather or air, close in popular language, denotes warm and damp, cloudy or foggy, or warm and relaxing, occasioning a sense of lassitude and depression. Perhaps originally, confined air.

20. Strictly adhering to the original; as a close translation.

21. In heraldry, drawn in a coat of arms with the wings close and in a standing posture.

CLOSE communion, with baptists, communion in the Lords supper with their own sect only.

CLOSE election, an election in which the votes for different candidates are nearly equal.

CLOSE, adverb Closely; nearly; densely; secretly; pressingly.

Behind her death close followed, pace for pace.

Close-Banded

CLOSE-BANDED, adjective Being in close order; closely united.

Close-Bodied

CLOSE-BODIED, adjective Fitting the body exactly; setting close; as a garment.

Close-Compacted

CLOSE-COMPACTED, adjective Being in compact order; compact.

Close-Couched

CLOSE-COUCHED, adjective Quite concealed.

Close-Curtained

CLOSE-CURTAINED, adjective Inclosed or surrounded with curtains.

Close-Fisted

CLOSE-FISTED, adjective Covetous; niggardly.

Close-Handed

CLOSE-HANDED, adjective Covetous; penurious.

Close-Handedness

CLOSE-HANDEDNESS, noun Covetousness.

Close-Hauled

CLOSE-HAULED, adjective In seamanship, having the tacks or lower corners of the sails drawn close to the side to windward, and the sheets hauled close aft, in sailing near the wind.

Close-Pent

CLOSE-PENT, adjective Shut close.

Close-Quarters

CLOSE-QUARTERS, noun Strong barriers of wood used in a ship for defense when the ship is boarded.

Close-Stool

CLOSE-STOOL, noun A chamber utensil for the convenience of the sick and infirm.

Close-Tongued

CLOSE-TONGUED, adjective Keeping silence; cautious in speaking.

Closed

CLOSED, participle passive Shut; made fast; ended; concluded.

Closely

CLOSELY, adverb

1. In a close, compact manner; with the parts united, or pressed together, so as to leave no vent; as a crucible closely luted.

2. Nearly; with little space intervening; applied to space or time; as, to follow closely at ones heels; one event follows closely upon another.

3. Intently; attentively; with the mind or thoughts fixed; with near inspection; as, to look or attend closely

4. Secretly; slyly.

5. With near affection, attachment or interest; intimately; as, men closely connected in friendship; nations closely allied by treaty.

6. Strictly; within close limits; without communication abroad; as a prisoner closely confined.

7. With strict adherence to the original; as, to translate closely

Closeness

CLOSENESS, noun

1. The state of being shut, pressed together, or united. Hence according to the nature of the thing to which the word is applied.

2. Compactness; solidity; as the closeness of texture in wood or fossils.

3. Narrowness; straitness; as of a place.

4. Tightness in building, or in apartments; firmness of texture in cloth, etc.

5. Want of ventilation; applied to a close room, or to the air confined in it.

6. Confinement or retirement of a person; recluseness; solitude.

7. Reserve in intercourse; secrecy; privacy; caution.

8. Covetousness; penuriousness.

9. Connection; near union; intimacy, whether of friendship, or of interest; as the closeness of friendship, or of alliance.

10. Pressure; urgency; variously applied; as the closeness of an agreement, or of debate; the closeness of a question or inquiry.

11. Adherence to an original; as the closeness of a version.

Closer

CLOSER, noun s as z. A finisher; one who concludes.

CLOSER, adjective comparative of close. More close.

Closest

CLOSEST, adjective superlative of close. Most close. In these words, s has its proper sound.

Closet

CLOSET, noun s as z.

1. A small room or apartment for retirement; any room for privacy.

When thou prayest, inter into thy closet Matthew 6:6.

2. An apartment for curiosities or valuable things.

3. A small close apartment or recess in the side of a room for repositing utensils and furniture.

CLOSET, verb transitive s as z. To shut up in a closet; to conceal; to take into a private apartment for consultation.

Closet-Sin

CLOSET-SIN, noun Sin committed in privacy.

Closeted

CLOSETED, participle passive s as z. Shut up in a closet; concealed.

Closeting

CLOSETING, participle present tense s as z. Shutting up in a private room; concealing.

Closh

CLOSH, noun A disease in the feet of cattle, called also the founder.

Closing

CLOSING, participle present tense s as z. Shutting; coalescing; agreeing; ending.

CLOSING, adjective s as z. That ends or concludes; as a closing word or letter.

CLOSING, noun s as z. End; period; conclusion.

Clossus

CLOSSUS, n. A statue of a gigantic size. The most remarkable colossus of antiquity was one at Rhodes, a statue of Apollo, so high that it is said ships might sail between its legs.

Closure

CLOSURE, noun

1. The act of shutting; a closing.

2. That which closes, or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or made to adhere.

3. Inclosure; that which confines.

4. Conclusion.

Clot

CLOT, noun [See Clod.] A concretion, particularly of soft or fluid matter, which concretes into a mass or lump; as a clot of blood. Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word; but we usually apply clod to a hard mass of earth, and clot to a mass of softer substances, or fluids concreted.

CLOT, verb intransitive

1. To concrete; to coagulate, as soft or fluid matter into a thick, inspissated mass; as milk or blood clots.

2. To form into clots or clods; to adhere; as, clotted glebe.

Clot-Bird

CLOT-BIRD, noun The common Oenanthe or English Ortolan.

Clot-Bur

CLOT-BUR, noun Burdock.

Cloth

CLOTH, noun

1. A manufacture or stuff of wool or hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp or other vegetable filaments, formed by weaving or intertexture of threads, and used for garments or other covering and for various other purposes; as woolen cloth linen cloth cotton cloth hair cloth

2. The covering of a table; usually called a tablecloth.

3. The canvas on which pictures are drawn.

4. A texture or covering put to a particular use; as a cloth of state.

5. Dress; raiment. [See Clothes.]

6. The covering of a bed.

Cloth-Shearer

CLOTH-SHEARER, noun One who shears cloth, and frees it from superfluous nap.

Cloth-Worker

CLOTH-WORKER, noun A maker of cloth.

Clothe

CLOTHE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive clothed, or clad. [See Cloth.]

1. To put on garments; to invest the body with raiment; to cover with dress, for concealing nakedness and defending the body from cold or injuries.

The Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them. Genesis 3:21.

2. To cover with something ornamental.

Embroidered purple clothes the golden beds.

But clothe without the aid of other words, seldom signifies to adorn. In this example from Pope, it signifies merely to cover.

3. To furnish with raiment; to provide with clothes; as, a master is to feed and clothe his apprentice.d

4. To put on; to invest; to cover, as with a garment; as, to clothe thoughts with words.

I will clothe her priests with salvation. Psalms 132:16.

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Proverbs 23:21.

Let them be clothed with shame. Psalms 35:26.

5. To invest; to surround; to encompass.

The Lord is clothed with majesty. Psa 93.

Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Psa 104.

6. To invest; to give to by commission; as, to clothe with power or authority.

7. To cover or spread over; as, the earth is clothed with verdure.

CLOTHE, verb intransitive To wear clothes.

Care no more to clothe and eat.

Clothed

CLOTHED, participle passive Covered with garments; dressed; invested; furnished with clothing.

Clothes

CLOTHES, noun plural Of cloth; pronounced cloze.

1. Garments for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; a general term for whatever covering is worn, or made to be worn, for decency or comfort.

If I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole. Mark 5:28.

2. The covering of a bed; bed-clothes.

Clothier

CLOTHIER, noun

1. In English authors, a man who makes cloths; a maker of cloth. In this sense, I believe it is not used in the United States; certainly not in New England.

2. In America, a man whose occupation is to full and dress cloth.

Clothing

CLOTHING, participle present tense Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering.

CLOTHING, noun

1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.

As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psalms 35:13.

2. The art or practice of making cloth.

The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing

Clotpoll

CLOTPOLL, noun A thickskull; a blockhead. [See Clod-poll.]

Clotted

CLOTTED, participle passive Concreted into a mass; inspissated; adhering in a lump.

Clotter

CLOTTER, verb intransitive [from clot.] To concrete or gather into lumps.

Clotting

CLOTTING, participle present tense Concreting; inspissating; forming into clots.

Clotty

CLOTTY, adjective [from clot.] Full of clots, or small hard masses; full of concretions, or clods.

Cloud

CLOUD, noun [I have not found this word in any other language. The sense is obvious--a collection.]

1. A collection f visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the atmosphere, at some altitude. A like collection of vapors near the earth is usually called fog.

I do set my bow in the cloud Genesis 9:13.

Behold, a white cloud Revelation 14:14.

2. A state of obscurity or darkness.

3. A collection of smoke, or a dense collection of dust, rising or floating in the air; as a cloud of dust.

A cloud of incense. Ezekiel 8:11.

4. The dark or varied colors, in veins or spots, on stones or other bodies, are called clouds.

5. A great multitude; a vast collection.

Seeing we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses. Hebrews 12:1.

CLOUD, verb transitive To overspread with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded; clouds intercept the rays of the sun. Hence,

2. To obscure; to darken; as, to cloud the day, or truth, or reason.

3. To darken in veins or spots; to variegate with colors; as clouded marble.

4. To make of a gloomy aspect; to give the appearance of sullenness.

What sullen fury clouds his scornful brow.

5. To sully; to tarnish.

CLOUD, verb intransitive To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; sometimes followed by over; as, the sky clouds over.

Cloud-Ascending

CLOUD-ASCENDING, adjective Ascending to the clouds.

Cloud-Berry

CLOUD-BERRY, noun A plant, called also knot-berry; Rubus chamaemorus.

Cloud-Born

CLOUD-BORN, adjective Born of a cloud.

Cloud-Capt

CLOUD-CAPT, adjective [cloud and cap.] Capped with clouds; touching the clouds; lofty.

The cloud-capt towers.

Cloud-Compeller

CLOUD-COMPELLER, noun He that collects clouds; Jove.

Cloud-Compelling

CLOUD-COMPELLING, adjective Collecting clouds; or driving clouds; as cloud-compelling Jove.

Cloud-Covered

CLOUD-COVERED, adjective Enveloped with clouds.

Cloud-Dispelling

CLOUD-DISPELLING, adjective Having power to disperse clouds.

Cloud-Eclipsed

CLOUD-ECLIPSED, adjective Eclipsed by a cloud.

Cloud-Kissing

CLOUD-KISSING, adjective Touching the clouds.

Cloud-Piercing

CLOUD-PIERCING, adjective Penetrating or rising above the clouds.

Cloud-Topt

CLOUD-TOPT, adjective Having the top covered with a cloud.

Cloud-Touching

CLOUD-TOUCHING, adjective Touching the clouds.

Clouded

CLOUDED, participle passive Overcast; overspread with clouds; obscured; darkened; rendered gloomy or sullen; variegated with colored spots or veins.

Cloudily

CLOUDILY, adverb [from cloudy.] With clouds; darkly; obscurely.

Cloudiness

CLOUDINESS, noun

1. The state of being overcast with clouds; as the cloudiness of the atmosphere.

2. Obscurity; gloom; want of brightness.

3. Darkness of appearance; variegation of colors in a fossil or other body.

4. Appearance of gloom or sullenness; as cloudiness of aspect.

Clouding

CLOUDING, participle present tense Overspreading with clouds; obscuring; giving an appearance of gloom or sullenness.

Cloudless

CLOUDLESS, adjective Being without a cloud; unclouded; clear; bright; luminous; as cloudless skies.

Cloudy

CLOUDY, adjective

1. Overcast with clouds; obscured with clouds; as a cloudy day; a cloudy sky; a cloudy night.

2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds; as a cloudy pillar. Exodus 33:9.

3. Obscure; dark; not easily understood; as cloudy and confused notions.

4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or illnature; not open or cheerful; as cloudy looks.

5. Indicating gloom or sullenness; as cloudy wrath.

6. Marked with veins or spots of dark or various hues, as marble.

7. Not bright; as a cloudy diamond.

Clough

CLOUGH, noun cluf. A cleft in a hill. In commerce, an allowance of two pounds in every hundred weight, for the turn of the scale, that the commodity may hold out in retailing.

Clout

CLOUT, noun

1. A patch; a piece of cloth or leather, etc., to close a breach.

2. A piece of cloth for mean purposes.

3. A piece of white cloth, for archers to shoot at.

4. An iron plate on an axle tree, to keep it from wearing.

5. A small nail

6. In vulgar language, a blow with the hand.

CLOUT, verb transitive

1. To patch; to mend by sewing on a piece or patch; as clouted shoon, in Milton. This is the sense as understood by Johnson. Mason understands the word clouted to signify nailed, studded with small nails, from the French clouter, and the following words in Shakespeare, Whose rudeness answered my steps too loud, give some countenance to Masons interpretation. In this case, the verb clout must signify, to nail, or fasten with nails; to stud.

2. To cover with a piece of cloth.

3. To join clumsily; as clouted sentences.

4. To cover or arm with an iron plate.

5. To strike; to give a blow.

CLOUTed cream, in Gay, is evidently a mistake for clotted cream.

Clouted

CLOUTED, participle passive Patched; mended clumsily; covered with a clout.

Clouterly

CLOUTERLY, adjective Clumsy; awkward.

Clove

CLOVE, preterit tense of cleave.

CLOVE, noun [See Cleave.] A cleft; a fissure; a gap; a ravine. This word, though properly an appellative, is not often used as such in English; bu it is appropriated to particular places, that are real clefts, or which appear as such; as the clove of Kaaterskill, in the state of New York, and the Stony clove It is properly a Dutch word.

CLOVE, noun

1. A very pungent aromatic spice, the flower of the clove-tree, Caryophyllus, a native of the Molucca isles. The tree grows to the size of the laurel, and its bark resembles that of the olive. No verdure is seen under it. At the extremities of its branches are produced vast numbers of flowers, which are at first white, then green, and at last red and hard. These are called cloves.

2. [from cleave.] The parts into which garlic separates, when the outer skin is removed.

3. A certain weight; seven pounds of wool; eight pounds of cheese or butter.

Clove-Gilly-Glower

CLOVE-GILLY-GLOWER, noun A species of Dianthus, bearing a beautiful flower, cultivated in gardens; called also Carnation pink.

Note: Some writers suppose that gilly-flower should be written July-flower. [See clove.]

Cloven

CLOVEN, participle passive of cleave. Divided; parted; pronounced clovn.

Cloven-Footed

CLOVEN-FOOTED,

CLOVEN-HOOFED, adjective Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox; bisulcous.

Cloven-Hoofed

CLOVEN-HOOFED, a. Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox; bisulcous.

Clover

CLOVER,

CLOVER-GRASS, noun A genus of plants, called Trifolium, trefoil, or three-leafed, Fr. trefle. The species are numerous. The red clover is generally cultivated for fodder and for enriching land. The white clover is also excellent food for cattle, either green or dry, and from its flowers the bee collects no small portion of its stores of honey.

To live in clover is to live luxuriously, or in abundance; a phrase borrowed from the luxuriant growth of clover and the feeding of cattle in clover

Clover-Grass

CLOVER-GRASS, n. A genus of plants, called Trifolium, trefoil, or three-leafed, Fr. trefle. The species are numerous. The red clover is generally cultivated for fodder and for enriching land. The white clover is also excellent food for cattle, either green or dry, and from its flowers the bee collects no small portion of its stores of honey. To live in clover, is to live luxuriously, or in abundance; a phrase borrowed from the luxuriant growth of clover, and the feeding of cattle in clover.

Clovered

CLOVERED, adjective Covered with clover.

Clown

CLOWN, noun A countryman; a rustic; hence, one who has the manners of a rustic; a churl; a man of coarse manners; an ill-bred man.

Clownage

CLOWNAGE, noun The manners of a clown.

Clownery

CLOWNERY, noun Ill-breeding; rustic behavior; rudeness of manners.

Clownish

CLOWNISH, adjective

1. Containing clowns; consisting of rustics; as a clownish neighborhood.

2. Coarse; hard; rugged; rough; as clownish hands.

3. Of rough manners; ill-bred; as a clownish fellow.

4. Clumsy; awkward; as a clownish gait.

Cloy

CLOY, verb transitive

1. Strictly, to fill; to glut. Hence, to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. And as the appetite when satisfied rejects additional food, hence, to fill to lothing; to surfeit.

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite

By bare imagination of a feast?

2. To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent.

3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing.

[In the two latter senses, I believe the word is little used, and not at all in America.]

Cloyed

CLOYED, participle passive Filled; glutted; filled to satiety and lothing; spiked; pricked in shoeing.

Cloying

CLOYING, participle present tense Filling; filling to satety, or disgust.

Cloyless

CLOYLESS, adjective That cannot cloy, or fill to satiety.

Cloyment

CLOYMENT, noun Surfeit; repletion beyond the demands of appetite.

Club

CLUB, noun

1. Properly, a stick or piece or wood with one end thicker and heavier than the other, and no larger than can be wielded with the hand.

2. A thick heavy stick, that may be managed with the hand, and used for beating, or defense. In early ages, a club was a principal instrument of war and death; a fact remarkably perpetuated in the accounts which history relates of the achievements of Hercules with his club Plin. Lib. 7. Ca. 56. This use of the club was the origin of the scepter, as a badge of royalty.

3. The name of one of the suits of cards; so named from its figure.

4. A collection or assembly of men; usually a select number of friends met for social or literary purposes. Any small private meeting of persons.

5. A collection of expenses the expenses of a company, or unequal expenses of individuals, united for the purpose of finding the average or proportion of each individual. Hence the share of each individual in joint expenditure is called his club that is, his proportion of a club or joint charge.

6. Contribution; joint charge.

CLUB, verb intransitive

1. To join, as a number of individuals, to the same end; to contribute separate powers to one end, purpose or effect.

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream

Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.

2. To pay an equal proportion of a common reckoning or charge.

CLUB, verb transitive

1. To unite different sums of expense, in a common sum or collection, to find the average, that each contributor may pay an equal share.

2. In common parlance, to raise or turn uppermost the britch or club of a musket; as, the soldiers clubbed their muskets.

Club-Fist

CLUB-FIST, noun A large heavy fist.

Club-Fisted

CLUB-FISTED, adjective Having a large fist.

Club-Footed

CLUB-FOOTED, adjective Having short or crooked feet.

Club-Headed

CLUB-HEADED, adjective Having a thick head.

Club-Law

CLUB-LAW, noun Government by clubs, or violence; the use of arms, or force, in place of law; anarchy.

Club-Room

CLUB-ROOM, noun The apartment in which a club meets.

Club-Rush

CLUB-RUSH, noun A genus of plants, the Scirpus.

Club-Shaped

CLUB-SHAPED, adjective Shaped like a club; growing thicker towards the top; clavated.

Clubbed

CLUBBED, participle passive

1. Collected into a sum and averaged, as different expenses.

2. United to one end or effect.

3. Shaped like a club.

4. Having the britch turned upwards, as a musket.

5. Heavy like a club.

Clubber

CLUBBER,

CLUBBING, participle present tense Joining in a club; uniting to a common end.

Clubbist

CLUBBIST, noun One who belongs to a party, club or association.

Cluck

CLUCK, verb intransitive To make the noise, or utter the voice of the domestic hen, when sitting on eggs for hatching, and when conducting her chickens. This voice, with the change of the vowel, is precisely our word clack and clock, and is probably an onomatopy. [See Clack and Clock.]

CLUCK, verb transitive To call chickens by a particular sound.

Clucking

CLUCKING, participle present tense Uttering the voice of a sitting hen; calling chickens.

Clue

CLUE. [See Clew.]

Clump

CLUMP, noun

1. A thick, short piece of wood, or other solid substance; a shapeless mass. Hence clumper, a clot or clod.

2. A cluster of trees or shrubs; formerly written plump. In some parts of England, it is an adjective signifying lazy, unhandy.

Clumps

CLUMPS, noun [from clump.] A stupid fellow; a numskull.

Clumsily

CLUMSILY, adverb [from clumsy.] In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; in an unhandy manner; without readiness, dexterity or grace.

Clumsiness

CLUMSINESS, noun The quality of being short and thick, and moving heavily; awkwardness; unhandiness; ungainliness; want of readiness, nimbleness or dexterity.

Clumsy

CLUMSY, adjective s as z. [from clump, lump.]

1. Properly, short and thick, like a clump or lump. Hence,

2. Moving heavily, slowly or awkwardly; as clumsy fingers.

3. Awkward; ungainly; unhandy; artless; without readiness, dexterity or grace; as a clumsy man; a clumsy fellow.

4. Ill-made; badly constructed; as a clumsy garment; clumsy verse.

Clunch

CLUNCH, noun Among miners, indurated clay, found in coal pits next to the coal.

Clung

CLUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of cling, which see.

CLUNG, verb intransitive To shrink. See Cling.

Cluniac

CLUNIAC, noun One of a reformed order of Benedictine monks, so called from Cluni in Burgundy.

Cluster

CLUSTER, noun

1. A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins.

2. A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people.

3. A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy.

CLUSTER, verb intransitive

1. To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes.

2. To form into flakes; as, clustering snow.

3. To collect into flocks or crowds.

CLUSTER, verb transitive To collect into a bunch or close body.

Cluster-Grape

CLUSTER-GRAPE, noun A small black grape.

Clustered

CLUSTERED, participle passive Collected into a cluster, or crowd; crowded.

Clustering

CLUSTERING, participle present tense Growing in a cluster or in bunches; uniting in a bunch, or in a flock, crowd, or close body.

Clustery

CLUSTERY, adjective Growing in clusters. Full of clusters.

Clutch

CLUTCH, verb transitive

1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.]

2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey.

3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp.

CLUTCH, noun A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.

Clutches

CLUTCHES, plural

1. The paws or talons of a rapacious animal, as of a cat or dog.

2. The hands, in the sense of rapacity or cruelty, or of power.

Cluting

CLUTING, participle present tense Patching; covering with a clout.

Clutter

CLUTTER, noun

1. A heap or assemblage of things lying in confusion; a word of domestic application.

He saw what a clutter there was with huge pots, pans and spits.

2. Noise; bustle. [This sense seems allied to clatter, but it is not the sense of the word in noun England.]

CLUTTER, verb transitive To crowd together in disorder; to fill with things in confusion; as, to clutter a room; to clutter the house.

CLUTTER, verb intransitive To make a bustle, or fill with confusion.

[The English lexicographers explain this word by noise and bustle; but probably by mistake.]

Cluttered

CLUTTERED, participle passive Encumbered with things in disorder.

Cluttering

CLUTTERING, participle present tense Encumbering with things in confusion.

Clyster

CLYSTER, noun An injection; a liquid substance injected into the lower intestines, for the purpose of promoting alvine discharges, relieving from costiveness, and cleansing the bowels. Sometimes it is administered to nourish and support patients who cannot swallow aliment.

Clyster-Pipe

CLYSTER-PIPE, noun A tube, or pipe used for injections.

Clysterwise

CLYSTERWISE, adverb In the manner of a clyster.

Co

CO, a prefix, signifying with, in conjunction. [See Con.]

Co-Adjutorship

CO-ADJUTORSHIP, noun State of a coadjutor; joint assistance.

Co-Ally

CO-ALLY, noun A joint ally; as the subject of a co-ally

Co-Cuardian

CO-CUARDIAN, noun A joint guardian.

Co-Elder

CO-ELDER, noun An elder of the same rank.

Co-Executor

CO-EXECUTOR, noun A joint executor.

Co-Mate

CO-MATE, noun A fellow mate, or companion.

Co-Operate

CO-OPERATE, verb intransitive [Latin , to work.]

1. To act or operate jointly with another or others, to the same end; to work or labor with mutual efforts to promote the same object. It has with before the agent, and to before the end. Russia cooperated with Great Britain, Austria and Prussia, to reduce the power of Buonaparte.

2. To act together; to concur in producing the same effect. Natural and moral events cooperate in illustrating the wisdom of the Creator.

Co-Operating

CO-OPERATING, participle present tense Acting or operating together.

Co-Operation

CO-OPERATION, noun The act of working, or operating together, to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor; as the cooperation of the combined powers; the cooperation of the understanding and the will.

Co-Operative

CO-OPERATIVE, adjective Operating jointly to the same end.

Co-Operator

CO-OPERATOR, noun One who endeavors jointly with others to promote the same end.

Co-Optate

CO-OPTATE, verb transitive [Latin] To choose, or choose with another. [Not used.]

Co-Optation

CO-OPTATION, noun Adoption; assumption.

Co-Ordinate

CO-ORDINATE, adjective [Latin , to regulate. See Order.] Being of equal order, or of the same rank or degree; not subordinate; as, two courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction.

Co-Ordinately

CO-ORDINATELY, adverb In the same order or rank; in equal degree; without subordination.

Co-Ordinateness

CO-ORDINATENESS, noun The state of being coordinate; equality of rank and authority.

Co-Ordination

CO-ORDINATION, noun The state of holding equal rank, or of standing in the same relation to something higher.

In the high court of Parliament there is a rare coordination of power.

Co-Plant

CO-PLANT, verb intransitive To plant together. [Not in use.]

Co-Portion

CO-PORTION, noun Equal share. [Not used.]

Co-Regent

CO-REGENT, noun A joint regent or ruler.

Co-Rival

CO-RIVAL, noun [con and rival; written improperly corrival.] A rival, or fellow rival; a competitor.

Co-Secant

CO-SECANT, noun [See Secant.] In geometry, the secant of an arc which is the complement of another to ninety degrees.

Co-Sine

CO-SINE, noun [See Sine.] In geometry, the sine of an arc which is the complement of another to ninety degrees.

Co-Sufferer

CO-SUFFERER, noun One who suffers with another.

Co-Supreme

CO-SUPREME, noun A partaker of supremacy.

Co-Surety

CO-SURETY, noun One who is surety with another.

Co-Tangent

CO-TANGENT, noun The tangent of an arc which is the complement of another to ninety degrees.

Co-Tenant

CO-TENANT, noun A tenant in common.

Co-Trustee

CO-TRUSTEE, noun A joint trustee.

Co-Unite

CO-UNITE, verb transitive To unite. [Not used.]

Co-Worker

CO-WORKER, noun One that works with another; a co-operator.

Coacervate

COACERVATE, verb transitive To heap up; to pile.

COACERVATE, adjective Heaped; raised into a pile; collected into a crowd.

Coacervation

COACERVATION, noun The act of heaping, or state of being heaped together.

Coach

COACH, noun A close vehicle for commodious traveling, borne on four wheels, and drawn by horses or other animals. It differs from a chariot in having seats in front, as well as behind. It is a carriage of state, or for pleasure, or for travelling.

Hackney-coach, a coach kept for hire. In some cities, they are licensed by authority, and numbered, and the rates of fare fixed by law.

Mail-coach, a coach that carries the public mails.

Stage-coach, a coach that regularly conveys passengers from town to town. [See Stage.]

COACH or COUCH, noun An apartment in a large ship of war near the stern, the roof of which is formed by the poop.

COACH, verb transitive To carry in a coach

Coach-Box

COACH-BOX, noun The seat on which the driver of a coach sits.

Coach-Hire

COACH-HIRE, noun Money paid for the use of a hired coach.

Coach-Horse

COACH-HORSE, noun A horse used in drawing coaches.

Coach-House

COACH-HOUSE, noun A house to shelter a coach from the weather.

Coach-Maker

COACH-MAKER, noun A man whose occupation is to make coaches.

Coachman

COACHMAN, noun The person who drives a coach.

Coachmanship

COACHMANSHIP, noun Skill in driving coaches.

Coact

COACT, verb intransitive To act together.

Coacted

COACTED, participle passive or adjective Forced; compelled.

Coaction

COACTION, noun Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.

Coactive

COACTIVE, adjective

1. Forcing; compulsory; having the power to impel or restrain.

2. Acting in concurrence.

Coactively

COACTIVELY, adverb In a compulsory manner.

Coadjutant

COADJUTANT, adjective Helping; mutually assisting or operating.

Coadjutor

COADJUTOR, noun

1. One who aids another; an assistant; a fellow-helper; an associate in operation.

2. In the canon law, one who is empowered or appointed to perform the duties of another.

Coadjutrix

COADJUTRIX, noun A female assistant.

Coadjuvancy

COADJUVANCY, noun Joint help; assistance; concurrent aid; cooperation.

Coadunate

COADUNATE, adjective In botany, coadunate leaves are several united at the base. The word is used also to denote one of the natural orders of plants in Lines system.

Coadunition

COADUNITION, noun The union of different substances in one mass.

Coadventurer

COADVENTURER, noun A fellow adventurer.

Coafforest

COAFFOREST, verb transitive To convert ground into a forest.

Coagent

COAGENT, noun An assistant or associate in an act.

Coagment

COAGMENT, verb transitive To congregate or heap together.

Coagmentation

COAGMENTATION, noun Collection into a mass or united body; union; conjunction.

Coagmented

COAGMENTED, adjective Congregated; heaped together; united in one mass.

Coagulability

COAGULABILITY, noun The capacity of being coagulated.

Coagulable

COAGULABLE, adjective [See Coagulate.] That may be concreted; capable of congealing or changing from a liquid to an inspissated state; as coagulable lymph.

Coagulate

COAGULATE, verb transitive To concrete; to curdle; to congeal; to change from a fluid into a fixed substance, or solid mass; as, to coagulate blood; rennet coagulates milk. This word is generally applied to the change of fluids into substances like curd or butter, of a moderate consistence, but not hard or impenetrable.

COAGULATE, verb intransitive To curdle or congeal; to turn from a fluid into a consistent state, or fixed substance; to thicken.

Coagulation

COAGULATION, noun The act of changing from a fluid to a fixed state; concretion; the state of being coagulated; the body formed by coagulating.

Coagulative

COAGULATIVE, adjective That has the power to cause concretion.

Coagulator

COAGULATOR, noun That which causes coagulation.

Coagulum

COAGULUM, noun Rennet; curd; the clot of blood, separated by cold, acid, etc.

Coaiti

COAITI, noun A species of monkey in South America.

Coak

COAK. [See Coke.]

Coal

COAL, noun

1. A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred. When burning or ignited, it is called a live coal or burning coal or coal of fire. When the fire is extinct, it is called charcoal.

2. In the language of chimists, any substance containing oil, which has been exposed to a fire in a close vessel, so that its volatile matter is expelled, and it can sustain a red heat without further decomposition.

3. In mineralogy, a solid, opake, inflammable substance, found in the earth, and by way of distinction called fossil coal It is divided by recent mineralogists into three species, anthracite or glance coal black or bituminous coal and brown coal or lignite; under which are included many varieties, such as cannel coal bovey coal jet, etc.

COAL, verb transitive

1. To burn to coal or charcoal; to char.

2. To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coal-Black

COAL-BLACK, adjective Black as a coal; very black.

Coal-Box

COAL-BOX, noun A box to carry coal to the fire.

Coal-Fish

COAL-FISH, noun A species of Gadus or cod, named from the color of its back. It grows to the length of two feet, or two and a half, and weighs about thirty pounds. This fish is found in great numbers about the Orkneys, and the northern parts of Britain.

Coal-House

COAL-HOUSE, noun A house or shed for keeping coal.

Coal-Mine

COAL-MINE, noun A mine or pit in which coal is dug.

Coal-Miner

COAL-MINER, noun One who works in a coal-mine.

Coal-Mouse

COAL-MOUSE, noun A small species of titmouse, with a black head.

Coal-Pit

COAL-PIT, noun A pit where coal is dug. In America, a place where charcoal is made.

Coal-Ship

COAL-SHIP, noun A ship employed in transporting coal.

Coal-Stone

COAL-STONE, noun A kind of cannel-coal.

Coal-Work

COAL-WORK, noun A coalery; a place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

Coalery

COALERY, noun A coal-mine, coal-pit, or place where coals are dug, with the engines and machinery used in discharging the water and raising the coal.

Coalesce

COALESCE, verb intransitive

1. To grow together; to unite, as separate bodies, or separate parts, into one body, as separate bones in an infant, or the fingers or toes.

2. To unite and adhere in one body or mass, by spontaneous approximation or attraction; as, vapors coalesce

3. To unite in society, in a more general sense,

The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations.

Coalescence

COALESCENCE, noun The act of growing together; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Coalescing

COALESCING, participle present tense Growing or coming together; uniting in a body or mass; uniting and adhering together.

Coalier

COALIER.

COALITE, verb transitive To unite or coalesce.

Coalite

COALITE, v.t. To unite or coalesce.

Coalition

COALITION, noun

1. Union in a body or mass; a coming together, as of separate bodies or parts, and their union in one body or mass; as, a coalition of atoms or particles.

2. Union of individual persons, parties or states.

Coallier

COALLIER. [See Collier.]

Coaly

COALY, adjective Like coal; containing coal.

Coamings

COAMINGS, noun In ships, the raised borders or edges of the hatches, made to prevent water from running into the lower apartments from the deck.

Coapprehend

COAPPREHEND, verb transitive To apprehend with another.

Coaptation

COAPTATION, noun The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other.

Coarct

COARCT,

COARCTATE, verb transitive

1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

2. To restrain; to confine.

Coarctate

COARCTATE, v.t. 1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.2. To restrain; to confine.

Coarctation

COARCTATION, noun

1. Confinement; restraint to a narrow space.

2. Pressure; contraction.

3. Restraint of liberty.

Coarse

COARSE, adjective

1. Thick; large or gross in bulk; comparatively of large diameter; as coarse thread or yarn; coarse hair; coarse sand. This seems to be the primary sense of the word; opposed to fine or slender. Hence,

2. Thick; rough; or made of coarse thread or yarn; as coarse cloth.

3. Not refined; not separated from grosser particles, or impurities; as coarse metal; coarse glass.

4. Rude; rough; unrefined; uncivil; as coarse manners.

5. Gross; not delicate.

The coarser tie of human law.

6. Rude; rough; unpolished; inelegant; applied to language.

7. Not nicely expert; not accomplished by art or education; as a coarse practitioner.

8. Mean; not nice; not refined or elegant; as a coarse perfume; a coarse diet.

Coarsely

COARSELY, adverb Roughly; without fineness or refinement; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly; without art or polish.

Coarseness

COARSENESS, noun

1. Largeness of size; thickness; as the coarseness of thread.

2. The quality of being made of coarse thread or yarn; whence thickness and roughness; as the coarseness of cloth.

3. Unrefined state; the state of being mixed with gross particles or impurities; as the coarseness of glass.

4. Roughness; grossness; rudeness; applied to manners; as the coarseness of a clown.

5. Grossness; want of refinement or delicacy; want of polish; as the coarseness of expression or of language.

6. Meanness; want of art in preparation; want of nicety; as the coarseness of food or of raiment.

Coassessor

COASSESSOR, noun [See Assess.] A joint assessor.

Coassume

COASSUME, verb transitive [con and assume.] To assume something with another.