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ous; unclouded; not obscured. 'It is almost clear dawn.' Shak. "The clear sun." Milton. I will darken the earth in a clear day.' Am. viii. 9.-2. † Bright-coloured; gay; showy; magnificent. Him that is clothed with clear clothing.' Wickliffe, Ja. ii. 3.3. Free from anything which would dim the transparency or bright colour of a thing; as, clear water; a clear complexion; clear sand. Clear silver.' Milton.

The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear.

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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. Dr. Clarke.

5. Evident; manifest; indisputable; undeniable. Remained to our Almighty foe clear victory.' Milton.-6. Free from anything that perturbs; undisturbed by care or passion; unruffled; serene. 'To whom the Son with calm aspect and clear.' Milton.7. Free from guilt or blame; morally unblemished; irreproachable. been so clear in his great office.' Shak. 'In honour clear.' Pope.

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I write to you this second epistle, in which I stir your clear soul by monishing. Wickliffe, 2 Pet. iii. 1. 8. Free from entanglement or embarrassment; free from accusation or imputation, distress, imprisonment, or the like: followed by of or from. To get clear of all the debts I owe.' Shak.

The cruel corporal whisper'd in my ear,
Five pounds, if rightly tipt, would set me clear.

Gay. 9. Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view.

My companion left the way clear to him. Addison. 10. Sounding distinctly; distinctly audible; canorous; as, his voice was loud and clear. 11. Without diminution or deduction; in full; net; as, clear profit or gain.

Swift.

I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year. -Clear days (preceded by a numeral, as four, five, or nine clear days), days reckoned exclusively of those on which any proceeding is commenced or completed. Clear (kler), n. In carp. and arch. only perhaps in the phrase in the clear, that is, in the space between any two bodies where no other intervenes, or between their nearest surfaces.

Clear (kler), adv. 1. Clearly; plainly; not obscurely; manifestly. Milton. - 2. Clean; quite; entirely; wholly: indicating entire separation; as, to cut a piece clear off; to go clear away. [Colloq.]

He put his mouth to her ear, and under pretext of a whisper, bit it clear off. Sir R. L'Estrange. Clear (kler), v. t. 1. To remove whatever diminishes the brightness, transparency, or purity of colour of a thing; as, to clear liquors; to clear a mirror; to clear the sky. 2. To free from obscurity, perplexity, or ambiguity: often followed by up; as, to clear a question or theory; to clear up a case. Let a god descend, and clear the business to the audience. Dryden.

3. To free from obstructions; to free from any impediment or incumbrance, or from anything noxious or injurious; as, to clear the sea of pirates; to clear land of trees; to clear a road; to clear the voice. -4. To remove (something in the nature of an encumbrance, impediment, or obstruction): with off, away, &c.; as, to clear off debts; to clear away rubbish.-5. To free; to liberate or disengage; as, to clear a man from debt, obligation, or duty.-6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify or vindicate; to acquit. That will by no means clear the guilty. Ex. xxxiv. 7.-7. To make gain or profit beyond all expenses and charges; to

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He clears but two hundred thousand crowns a year. Addison.

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-To clear the land, is to gain such a distance from shore as to have open sea room and be out of danger from the land. To clear a ship for action, or to clear for action, is to remove all incumbrances from the decks and prepare for an engagement. Clear (kler), v.i. 1. To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; to pass away or disappear from the sky: often followed by up, off, or away; as, the mist clears off or

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So foul a sky clears not without a storm. Shak. Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. Swift. 2. To be disengaged from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free or disengaged. Bacon.-3. To exchange cheques and bills and settle balances, as is done in clearing-houses. See CLEARING,1 (c). 4. Naut. to leave a port: often followed by out or outwards; as, several vessels cleared yesterday; the ship will clear out or outwards to-morrow. To clear out, to take one's self off; to remove; to depart. [Colloq.] Clearage (klērāj), n. The act of removing anything; clearance. [Rare.] Clearance (klēr'ans), n. 1. The act of clearing; as, the clearance of land from trees; the clearance of an estate from unprofitable tenantry.-2. Clear or net profit. Trollope. 3. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the custom-house.-4. In steam-engines, the distance between the piston and the cylinder-cover, when the former is at the end of its stroke. Clear-cole (klēr kōl). See CLAIRE-COLE. Clear-cut (klērkut), a. Formed with clear, sharp, or delicately defined outlines, as if by cutting, as opposed to moulding. cold and clear-cut face.' Tennyson. Clearedness (klērd'nes), n. The state or quality of being cleared. Fuller. [Rare.] Clearer (kler'ér), n. 1. One who or that which clears.-2. Naut. a tool on which the hemp is always finished for lines and twines for sail-makers, &c. Clear-headed (kler'hed-ed), a. Having a clear head or understanding. This clearheaded, kind-hearted man.' Disraeli. Clearing (kler'ing), n. 1. The act of clearing; as, (a) the act of freeing from anything; as, the clearing of land. (b) The act of defending or vindicating one's self. 2 Cor. vii. 11. (c) Among bankers, the act of exchanging drafts on each other's houses and settling the differences. A clerk from each establishment attends the clearing-house with the cheques and bills he may have on the others, and distributes them in drawers allotted to the several banks. They then make out balance-sheets, entering on the one side the sum each bank owes them and on the other side the sum they owe each bank. Those who have money to receive on balance take it indiscriminately from those who have to pay, as it is evident the sums to be paid must, in the aggregate, equal the sums to be received. In railway management, the act of distributing among the different companies the proceeds of the through traffic passing over several railways. The necessary calculations are made in the railway clearing-house in London.2. A place or tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation: a common use of the word in America.

Clearing-house (kler'ing-hous), n. The place where the operation termed clearing in banks and railways is carried on. See CLEARING, 1 (c). Clearing-nut (kler'ing-nut), n. The fruit of the Strychnos potatorum, used in the East Indies for clearing muddy water. Clearly (kler'li), adv. In a clear manner: (a) plainly; evidently; fully; as, the fact is clearly proved. (b) Without obstruction; luminously; as, to shine clearly. (c) With clear discernment; as, to understand clearly. (d)t Without entanglement or confusion. He will never come out of it clearly.' Bacon. (e) Plainly; honestly; candidly. Tillotson. (f) Without reserve.

By a certain day they should clearly relinquish unto the king all their lands and possessions. Sir J. Davies. Clearness (kler'nes), n. The state or quality of being clear: (a) freedom from anything that diminishes the brightness, transparency, or purity of colour of a thing; as, the clearness of water or other liquor; clearness of skin. (b) Freedom from obstruction or incumbrance; as, the clearness of the ground. (e) Discernment; perspicuity; as, clearness of understanding (d) Distinctness; perspicuity; luminousness; as, the

8. To leap over or pass by without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge or ditch; to clear a rock at sea by a few yards.9. Naut. to pay the customs on, or connected with; to obtain permission to sail for, by procuring the necessary documents, giving the requisite bonds, &c.; as, to clear a cargo; to clear a ship at the custom-house.

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clearness of views, of arguments, of explanations.

He does not know how to convey his thoughts to another with clearness and perspicuity. Addison. (e)t Plainness or plain dealing; sincerity; honesty; fairness; candour.

Their good faith and clearness of dealing made them almost invincible. Bacon.

(f) Freedom from imputation or suspicion of ill. I require a clearness. Shak. (g) In painting, that peculiar quality in a picture which is realized by a skilful arrangement of colours, tints, and tones, and for the satisfactory attainment of which a knowledge of chiaroscuro is requisite. Clear-seeing (kler'se-ing), a. Having a clear sight or understanding. Coleridge. Clear-sighted (kler'sit-ed), a. Seeing with clearness; having acuteness of mental discernment; discerning; perspicacious; as, clear-sighted reason; a clear-sighted judge. Judgment sits clear-sighted, and surveys

The chain of reason with unerring gaze. Thomson. Clear-sightedness (kler-sit'ed-nes), n. The state or quality of being clear-sighted; acute discernment.

Clear-starch (kler'stärch), v.t. To stiffen and dress with clear or colourless starch; as, to clear-starch muslin.

He took his lodgings at the mansion-house of a tailor's widow, who washes and can clear-starch his bands. Addison,

Clear-starcher (kler'stärch-ér), n. One who clear-starches. 'Clean linen come home from the clear-starcher's.' Dickens. Clear-story, Clere-story (klēr'stō-ri), n. [Clear and story. It is uncertain whether the epithet clear is applied to the story on account of the light admitted through its windows, or from its being clear of the roof of the aisles.] The upper story of a cathe

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arm or two, or with a hollow to receive a rope, and is made fast to some part of a vessel. There are several kinds of cleats on board vessels; such as belaying-cleats, deckcleats, thumb-cleats. 2. A piece of iron worn on a shoe-3. A piece of wood nailed on transversely to a piece of joinery for the purpose of securing it in its proper position, or for strengthening.-4. A trunnion bracket on a gun-carriage. E. H. Knight. Cleat (klēt), v.t. To strengthen with a cleat or cleats.

Cleavable (klēv'a-bl), a. Capable of being cleaved or divided.

Cleavage (klev'aj), n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting; the act of separating or dividing off. 2. In mineral. and geol. the manner in which substances regularly cleave or split. It is used in relation to the fracture of minerals which have natural joints and possess a regular structure.

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rocks, as slate-rocks in the strictest sense, may be cleaved into an indefinite number of thin lamina which are parallel to each other, but which may be, but generally are not, parallel to the planes of the true strata or layers of deposition. Cleavage is the

result of an operation which is subsequent to, and entirely independent of, the original stratification of the rocks. In reference to mineral crystals cleavage is called basal, cubic, diagonal, or lateral (or peritomous) according as it is parallel to the base of a crystal, to the faces of a cube, to a diagonal plane, or to the lateral planes.

Cleave (klév), vi. pret. clave or cleared; pp. cleaved; ppr cleaving. [A. Sax. clifian, cleofian, pret clifode, pp. clifod (cleaved is therefore historically the correct pret. & pp.); cog. D. and L. G. kleven, Dan. klæbe, G. kleben, to adhere, to cleave. Climb is a nasalized form akin to this.] 1. To stick; to adhere; to be attached: used both in a literal and figurative sense. 'If any blot hath cleaved to mine hands.' Job xxxi. 7.

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Who loved one only and who clave to her.' Tennyson. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Ps. cxxxvii. 6. For I cleaved to a cause that I felt to be pure and Tennyson. 2. To unite aptly; to fit closely. [Rare.] New honours . . . Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use. Shak. Cleave (klév), v.t pret. clove or clave (the latter now archaic), also cleft; pp. cloven, cleft or cleaved; ppr. cleaving. [A. Sax. cleofan, cleaf, clofen (the historically correct conjugation is therefore cleave, clave or clove, cloven), to cleave or split; cog. D. kloven, Icel. kljufa, Dan. klöve, G. klieben. This verb can hardly be connected with cleave, to adhere.] 1. To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to sever forcibly; to hew; to cut; as, to cleave wood; to cleave a rock. 'Stands apart cleft from the main.' Tennyson. Clove an advent to the throne.' Tennyson.

His heart was cleft with pain and rage,
His cheeks they quivered, his eyes were wild.
Coleridge.
When Abraham offered up his son,
He clave the wood wherewith it might be dɔne.
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He cleft me thro' the stomacher. Tennyson.
Oh yet we trust.

That not a worm is cloven in vain. Tennyson. 2. To part or open naturally. Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws." Deut. xiv. 6. Cleave (klév), v.i. To divide; to split; to open: especially with a sudden and violent shock. Shak

Cleavelandite (klēv'land-it), n. [From Professor Cleaveland. ] A mineral of the felspar family, called also Siliceous Felspar or Albite. See ALBITE. Cleaver (klévér), n. 1. One who or that which cleaves. Specifically-2. A butcher's instrument for cutting carcasses into joints or pieces.

Cleavers, n. See CLIVERS. Cleché, Clechée (kla sha), N. [Fr. cliché, cléchée, from (hypoth.) L. clavicatus, from clavis, a key.] In her, a term applied to any ordinary voided or pierced throughout, and so much perforated that the chief substance is taken from it, leaving nothing visible but the edges. Thus a cross clechée is a cross with the inside taken out, leaving only an edge, and which is more commonly blazoned a cross voided.

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Cleck (klek), v.t. or i. [Dan. klække, Icel. klekja, to hatch.] To hatch; to litter. [Scotch.] Cleckin (klek'in), n. A brood; a litter. [Scotch.]

Cleckin-time (klek'in-tim), n. (Dan. klækketid.] The time of hatching or littering; the time of birth. [Scotch.]

Cleckin-time's aye canty time. Sir W. Scott. Cleddyo (kled'yo), n. [A Celtic corruption of Latin gladius, a sword.] In archæol, an ancient bronze, leaf-shaped, two-edged sword, occasionally dug up in England, Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhere. These swords are supposed to have been introduced into Britain by the Romans. Cledge (klej), n. [A. Sax. clæg, clay; comp. cladgy, cledgy.] In mining, the upper stratum of fuller's earth.

Cledgy (klej'i), a. [This and the form cladgy, are softened forms of claggy, from A. Sax. clæg, clay, tenacious earth.] In agri. an epithet applied to stubborn, tenacious soils, or those mixed with clay. Cleet (klě), n. A claw. Holland. Cleed, v.t. See CLEAD. Cleeding, n. See CLEADING. Cleek, Cleik (klěk), v.t. [Northern form of O.E.cleche, cloche = clutch, softened or closely connected forms of O.E. cloke, Sc. cleuk, cluke, a claw.] To hook; to catch as by a Cleek (klek), v.i. To take a person's arm; to hook; to seize; to snatch; to steal. [Scotch.] link together. Burns. [Scotch] Cleet (klēt), n. A mining term for the plane along which the coal is most easily split. Clef (klef), n. [Fr. clef, L. clavis, a key.] A character in music, placed at the beginning of a staff, to determine the degree of elevation occupied by that staff 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. There are three clefs -the treble, or G clef, ; the mean, or C clef, ; and the bass, or F clef, The mean clef is now seldom used. Called also Cliff Cleft (kleft), pret. & pp. of cleave. Divided; split: parted asunder. 'Cleft Parnassus." Dryden.

Cleft (kleft), n. [Also written Clift.] 1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice. The clefts of the rocks.' Is. ii. 21. 2. A disease in horses; a crack on the bend of the pastern. - 3. A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood. Cleft-footed (kleft'fyt-ed), a. or cloven feet. Cleft-graft (kleft'graft), v. t. To ingraft a plant in another by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

Having cleft

Cleft-palate (kleft-pal'āt), n. A malformation in which more or less of the palate is wanting, so as to leave a longitudinal gap in the middle of the jaw, or on one or other side of it, or on either side of the middle piece of the jaw in which the incisor teeth appear. In many cases cleft-palate is remedied by a surgical operation. See HARE

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Cleft-stick (kleft'stik), n. Fig. a scrape; a fix; a dilemma; an awkward predicament. I never saw his equal to put a fellow in a cleftstick. Lever.

Cleg (kleg), n. [Sc. and North. E. also gleg, Icel kleggi, Dan. klæg, a cleg.] A name applied to various insects, the females of which are troublesome to horses, cattle, and even man, from their blood-sucking habits, as to the great horsefly or breeze (Tabanus bovinus), also called the gadfly; to the Chrysops cæcutiens (see CHRYSOPS), and in Scotland to the Hematopota pluvialis, a smaller grayish coloured fly. Cleistogamic (klis-to-gam'ik), a. [Gr. kleiō, to close or shut up, and gamos, marriage.] In bot. a term applied to flowers, as those of the dog-violet (Viola canina) and common wood-sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), remarkable from their small size and from never opening, so that they resemble buds; their petals are rudimentary or quite aborted; their stamens are often reduced in number, with the anthers of small size and the pistil much reduced in size, with the stigma in some cases hardly at all developed. Darwin. Cleithral (klith'ral), a. (Gr. kleis, to shut in] In Greek arch. having a roof that forms a complete covering: said of temples. Clem (klem), v. t. [Also written Clam, and closely allied to Icel. klembra, G. klemmen,

CLEPE

to pinch, as in a vice; comp. to be pinched with hunger.] To cause to perish of hunger; to starve. [Old and provincial English.] What! will he clem me and my followers! B. Jonson. Clem (klem), v.i. To die of hunger; to starve. [Old and provincial English.]

Hard is the choice when the valiant must eat their armes, or clem. B. Jonson. Clematis (klem'a-tis), n. [Gr. klematis, from klēma, a vine branch, from these plants creeping like vines.] A genus of woody climbing plants, nat. order Ranunculaceae. There are a large number of species, natives of temperate climates. The flowers are without petals, but the sepals are petaloid and often large and brightly coloured. The fruit is a head of many achenes, with long bearded styles. C. vitalba is the common traveller's-joy, which runs over the hedges in many parts of England, loading them first with its copious clusters of white blossoms, and afterwards with heaps of its feathertailed, silky tufts. Improved cultivated varieties are much in favour in gardens. Clemencet (klem'ens),n. Clemency Spenser. Clemency (klem'en-si), n. [L. clementia, from clemens, clementis, merciful.] 1. Mildness of temper, as shown by a superior to an inferior; disposition to spare or forgive; mercy; leniency.

I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words. Acts xxiv. 4.

2. Softness or mildness of the elements; as, the clemency of the weather. The clemency of upward air.' Dryden. - SYN. Mildness, tenderness, indulgence, lenity, leniency, mercy, mercifulness, gentleness, compassion, forgiveness.

Clement (klem'ent), a. Mild in temper and disposition; gentle; lenient; merciful; kind; tender; compassionate. Shak. Clementine (klem'ent-in), a. Pertaining to St. Clement, or to his reputed compilations; or to the Constitutions of Clement V. Clementine (klem'ent-in), n. 1. One of a series of compilations ascribed to St. Clement, a contemporary of St. Paul, but now believed to be apocryphal.-2. A decretal of Pope Clement V.

Clemently (klem'ent-li), adv. With mildness of temper; mercifully.

Clench (klensh), v.t. [O.E. clenche, clinche, clynche, to clench or rivet; Sc. clink, to rivet; Dan. klinke, Sw. klinka, to clinch, to rivet; D. klinken, to rivet, also to sound, to tinkle. According to Skeat this verb is a causal of clink, meaning lit. to make to clink, to strike smartly. Comp. drink, drench.] 1. To secure or fasten, as a nail, by beating down the point when it is driven through anything; to rivet.-2. To fix; to establish; to confirm; to secure.

Aubrey not only refused to marry his cousin, but denched his refusal by marrying some one else. Warren.

3. To bring together and set firmly; to double up tightly. Clench'd her fingers.' Tenny

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Their gasping throats with clenching hands he holds. Dr. E. Darwin,

Clenenesse, n. Purity; cleanness. Chaucer. Cleome (kle-o'mē), n. (Gr. kleio, to shut, in reference to the parts of the flower.] A genus of plants, nat order Capparidaceæ. The species are under-shrubs or annual herbs, with simple or compound leaves, and white, yellow, or purple flowers, found in tropical regions.

Clepet (klēp), v.i. [A. Sax. clepan, cleopian, clipian, to call, to cry out; Sc. clep, cleap, to tattle, to tell tales; allied to D. klappen, to

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or light wood, which, as the vessel filled, rose up by degrees and showed the hour. In later clepsydræ the hours were indicated by a dial. In fig. 2 the float A is attached to the end of a chain, which is wound round the spindle B, and has at its other extremity the counterweight c. On water being admitted from the cistern D, the float rises, the counterweight descends and turns the spindle, on the end of which is a hand which marks the hours on a dial as in a clock.-2. A chemical vessel. Johnson. Cleptomania (klep-to-ma'ni-a), n. See KLEPTOMANIA.

This is what the poor call shoplifting, the rich and learned cleptomania. D. Ferrold. Clerestorial,t a. Pertaining to a clerestory. Quoted in Oxford Glossary. Clere-story, Cler-story (kler'sto-ri),n. See CLEAR-STORY.

Clergial, Clergicalt (klér'ji-al, kler'jik-al), a. Pertaining to the clergy; learned; clerkly. 'Our termes been so clergical and queinte.' Chaucer.

Clergify + (kler'ji-fi), v. t. To convert into a clergyman; to turn to clerical principles. Let it fit (quoth she)

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To such as lust for love; Sir Clarke, You clergifie not me. Clergion (kler'ji-on), n. A young chorister or quire-boy. A litel clergion, sevene yere of age.' Chaucer.

Clergy (kler'ji), n. [O.Fr. clergie, formed as if from a L. L. clericia, from L. clericus, Gr. klerikos, clerical, a clergyman, from kleros, a lot, probably because after Christ some of the apostles, &c., were appointed by lot.] 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. Blackstone. -Benefit of clergy, in 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. This anomalous privilege, first assumed to give immunity to priestly persons, was in the sequel extended, for many offences, to all laymen who could read. First legally recognized by stat. 3 Edw. I., A.D. 1274; modified in 1513, temp. Hen. VIII.; it was wholly repealed by 7 and 8 Geo. IV., 1827.-3. † Learning; science. Clergyable (kler'ji-a-bl), a. Entitled to or admitting the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. A clergyable offence.' Black

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Clergyman (klér'ji-man), n. A man in holy orders; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel and administer ordinances ac

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cording to the rules of any particular denomination of Christians. In England the term is commonly restricted to ministers of the Established Church.

Cleric (kler'ik), n. A clergyman or scholar. 'The cleric. addicted to a life of study

and devotion.' Horsley. Cleric (kler'ik), a. Same as Clerical, 1. Clerical (kler'ik-al), a. [L. clericus, Gr. klerikos. See CLERGY and CLERK.] 1. Relating or pertaining to the clergy; as, clerical tonsure; clerical robes; clerical duties.2. Relating to a clerk, writer, or copyist.Clerical errors, errors made by a clerk or by a transcriber.

Clericalism (kler'ik-al-izm), n. Clerical power or influence, especially the undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism. Clericalism is well nigh fatal to Christianity. Macmillan's Mag Clericity (kle-ris'i-ti), n. The state of being a clergyman. J. J. G. Wilkinson. [Rare.] Clerisy (kler'i-si), n. 1. A body of clerks or learned men; the literati.

The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, philosophers, or scholars. Coleridge. 2. The clergy, as opposed to the laity. [In both senses rare.]

Clerk (klärk), n. [A. Sax. cleric, clerc, a priest; 0. Fr. clerc; from L. clericus, Gr. klerikos. See CLERGY.] 1. A clergyman or ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders, especially in the Church of England. - 2. A man that can read; a man of letters; a scholar. [Archaic.] Church-ladders are not always mounted best By learned clerks and latinists professed. Cowper 3. The layman who leads in reading the responses in the service of the Episcopal Church. Hook.-4. One who is employed in an office public or private, or in a shop or warehouse, for keeping records or accounts; an officer attached to all courts, municipal and other corporations, societies, associations, &c., whose duty generally is to keep records of proceedings, and transact all business under direction of the court, body, &c., by whom he is employed; as, clerk of court; town-clerk; clerk to a school-board, &c. See SECRETARY.-5. In America, an assistant in the shop of a retail dealer, part of whose duties is usually the keeping of accounts; a shopman.-Clerk of the assize, the person who writes all things judicially done by the justices of assize in their circuits.-Clerk of the House of Commons, an officer appointed by the crown to make entries, remembrances, and journals of the things done and passed in the House of Commons. Clerk of the crown, in Chancery, an officer of the crown in attendance upon both houses of parliament and upon the great seal. In the House of Lords he makes out and issues all writs of summons to peers, writs for the attendance of the judges, commissions to summon and prorogue parliament, and to pass bills, and performs various other duties. In connection with the Commons he makes out and issues all writs for the election of members in Great Britain, &c.-Clerk of enrolments, an officer who has custody of bills passed by both houses of parliament for the purpose of obtaining the royal assent. Sir E. May.-Clerk of justiciary, the clerk of the Court of Justiciary. There are a principal and depute-clerk and an assistant whose duty it is to attend the sittings of the Justiciary Court in Edinburgh, to keep the books of adjournal, and to write out the interlocutors and sentences of the court.-Clerk in orders, in the Church of England, a licensed clergyman.-Clerk of the parliaments, the chief officer of the House of Lords.-Clerk of the peace, an officer belonging to the sessions of the peace, whose business is to read indictments and record the proceedings, and perform a number of special duties in connection with county affairs.-Clerk of the session, the title given to the clerks of the Court of Session. -Clerk to the signet. See SIGNET.-A St. Nicholas' clerk, a thief; a highwayman.

Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas' clerks, I'll give thee this neck. Shak. Clerk-ale, Clerk's-alet (klärk'al, klarks'al), n. In England, a feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. T. Warton. Clerkless (klärk'les), a. Ignorant; unlearned. Waterhouse. [Rare.] Clerk-like (klárk'lik), a. Like a clerk; scholar-like; learned. 'A gentleman, clerklike, experienced.' Shak. Clerkliness (klärk'li-nes), n. Clerkly skill; scholarliness. Latimer. [Rare.]

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Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Shak. Clerkly (klärk'li), adv. In a scholarly manner. Shak.

Clerkship (klärk'ship), n. 1. A state of being in holy orders.-2. Scholarship.

He was not averse to display his clerkship and scholastic information. Lord Lytton.

3. The office or business of a clerk or writer. Cleromancy (klē'ro-man-si or kler'ō-mansi), n. [Gr. kleros, lot, and manteia, divination.] A divination by throwing dice or little bones, and observing the points or marks turned up.

Cleronomy (kle-ron'o-mi), n. [Gr. kleros, lot, and nomos, justice, law, custom.] That which is given as his lot to any one; inheritance; heritage or patrimony. Clethra (kleth'ra), n. [Gr. klethra, alder, which these plants resemble in foliage.] A genus of plants, nat. order Ericaceæ, natives of North and Tropical America. They are shrubs or trees, with alternate serrate leaves and many white flowers in terminal racemes. The corolla consists of five free petals. One species, C. alnifolia, a native of Virginia and Carolina, is cultivated in this country, and is one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs.

Cleugh (kluch), n. [See CLOUGH.] A cleft or gorge in a hill; a ravine; also, a cliff or side of a ravine. [Scotch.]

Since old Buccleuch the name did gain,
When in the cleugh the buck was ta'en.
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Cleve (klev), n. An old form of cliff. Roming on the clevis by the sea." Clever (klev'èr), a. [Perhaps a corruption of O. E. and Sc. deliver, active, light, nimble, but Wedgwood refers to dial. Dan. klöver, klever, clever, which is against this supposition. More probably connected with O.E. cliver, a claw, and cleave, to adhere.] 1. Performing or acting with skill or address; having the art of doing or devising anything readily; possessing ability of any kind, especially such as involves quickness of intellect or mechanical dexterity. A clever pen.' Addison.

Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds.

Macaulay.

2. Indicative of or exhibiting cleverness: said of things; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. 3. Fit; suitable; convenient; proper; commodious. These clever apartments.' Couper. [In this sense obsolete or provincial]4. Well-shaped; active-looking; tight; handsome. [Provincial.]-5. In New England, good-natured; possessing an agreeable mind or disposition.-SYN. Dexterous, adroit, ready, skilful, neat-handed, ingenious, knowing, discerning, smart, witty, sharp, able.

Cleverality (klev-ér-al'i-ti), n. Cleverness; smartness. [A jocular term.]

Sheridan was clever; scamps often are; but Johnson had not a spark of cleverality in him. Charlotte Bronté

Cleverish (klev'èr-ish), a. Tolerably clever. Lord Lytton. Cleverly (klev'èr-li), adv. In a clever manner; dexterously; skilfully; ably. Cleverly (klev'er-li), a. Well in health: used in New England in answer to the salutation, How do you do? Haliburton. Cleverness (klev'èr-nes), n. 1. The quality of being clever; dexterity; adroitness; skill; ingenuity; smartness.

Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied by wit... than by Coleridge.

humour.

2. In New England, mildness or agreeableness of disposition; obligingness; good nature. Genius, Wisdom, Abilities, Talents, Parts, Ingenuity, Capacity, Cleverness. See under GENIUS.

Clevis (klev'is), n. Same as Clevy. Clevy (klev'i), n. [From the root of cleave; comp. Icel. klofi, a forked stick.] An iron bent to the form of a stirrup, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used to connect a draft-chain or tree to a cart or plough. [Provincial English and American.] Clew, n. or v.t. See CLUE. Clianthus (kli-an'thus), n. [Gr. kleios, glory. and anthos, a flower.] A genus of plants,

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Cliché (klē-sha), n. [Fr., from clicher, to stereotype, from an older form cliquer, to fasten, to make firm, from the root of clinch, clench (omitting the nasal).] 1. A stereotype plate, especially one derived from an engraving-2. In photog, a negative picture. -Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining a cast from a woodcut for printing, by striking the woodcut suddenly and perpendicularly down on fused metal as it is becoming solid, and using the mould thus obtained to give a cast in type-metal. Clichy-white (kle'shi-whit), n. A pure whitelead manufactured at Clichy in France. Click (klik), v.i. [An imitative word expressing a slighter sound than clack; comp. clack, cluck, clink, clank; D. klikken, Fr. cliquer, to click ] To make a small sharp sound, or a succession of small sharp sounds, as by a gentle striking; to tick.

The solemn death-watch clicked.

Gay. Click (klik), v. t. To move with a clicking sound. 'When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson.

She clicked back the bolt which held the window. sash. Thackeray.

Click (klik), n. [From sound. See verb.] 1. A small sharp sound. The klick of a watch.' Worcester.-2. The cluck of the natives of South Africa. See CLUCK.-3. A small piece of mechanism which enters the teeth of a ratchet-wheel; a detent or ratchet. 4. The latch of a door. [Local.] Click (klik), v.t. (Equivalent to Sc. cleek, cleik, and closely allied to clutch.] To snatch; to clutch; as, he clicked it out o' my hands. [Northern English.]

Click-beetle (klik'bě-tl), n. See ELATER

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Clicker (klik'èr), n. 1. The servant of a salesman, who stands at the door to invite customers. [Vulgar.]—2. In shoemaking, a cutter out of leather for the uppers and soles of boots and shoes.-3. In printing, the compositor who receives the copy and distributes it among the other compositors, makes up the pages, and sets up head-lines, &c.

Clicket (klik'et), n. [O. Fr. cliquet, a latch.] 1. The knocker of a door.-2. A latch-key. B. Jonson.-3. The latch of a door. [Obso

lete or provincial in all the senses.]

Cliency (kli'en-si), n. The state or condi

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tion of a client. Client (kli'ent), n. [L. cliens, clientis, a client, from 0. L. cluo, to hear.] 1. In Rom. antiq. 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-2. In a general sense, one whose interests are represented by another.

The prince being at Brussels, humbly besought his majesty to pity the misery of his poor subjects: who by his suit gat of the emperor, for his clients, words without hope. Ascham

Specifically 3. One who applies to a lawyer 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.

Advocates must deal plainly with their clients. Fer. Taylor. Clientage (kli'ent-aj), n. 1. The state or condition of being a client.-2. A body of clients or retainers. Cliental (kli'ent-al), a. 1. Pertaining to a client or clients.

relation.

Dickens.

I sat down in the cliental chair, placed over against Mr. Jagger's chair. 2. Dependent. 'A dependent and cliental Burke. In both uses rare. ] Cliented (kli'ent-ed), a. Supplied with clients. The least cliented pettifoggers.' Rich. Carew. [Rare.]

Clientelage (kli-ent ́el-åj), n. [See CLIENTELE.] A body of clients or dependents. Clientelary (kli-en-tel'a-ri), a. Pertaining to clients. Clientelary right.' Prynne. Clientele (kli'en-tel), n. [Fr. clientèle, L. clientela, clientship, clients collectively.] 1. The condition or relation of a client. Under the pretext of clientele.' B. Jonson. 2. One's clients collectively.

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Clientship (kli'ent-ship), n. The condition of a client; a state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

Cliff, Clif (klif), n. [A. Sax. clif, a rock, a cliff; cog. D. klif, klip, a cliff, a rock; Icel. klif, a cliff; Dan. klippe, Sw. klippa, G. klippe, a rock, a crag. Usually connected with cleave, to split, but Skeat thinks this wrong, and unites it rather with cleave, to adhere, clip, to embrace, climb, clamber, suggesting that it may have originally meant a climbing-place.'] A precipice; the steep and rugged face of a rocky mass; a steep rock; a headland.

Cliff (klif), n. In music, see CLEF.
Cliffy (klif'i),a. Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
Vecta's cliffy isle.' John Dyer. Cliffy
Dover.' Drayton.

Clift (klift), n. 1. A cleft. Ex. xxxiii. 22. 2. A cliff. 'High growing on the top of rocky clift. Spenser.

It shows a steep rocky dift next the sea, and off the very point there are some rocks like spires. Cook.

[In the latter sense an incorrect form on the type of skift for skiff, drownd for drown, gownd for gown.]

Clift (klift), v. t. To split open. Through clifted stones." Congreve.

Clifty (klif'ti), a. Cliffy. (See remark under CLIFT, 2.] Pennant. [Rare.] Clikett, n Same as Clicket. Chaucer. Climacter+ (kli-mak'tėr), n. [Gr. klimaktër, the step of a ladder, from klimax, a ladder or scale. See CLIMAX.] A climacteric (which see). Sir T. Browne. Climacter (klim'ak-ter), v.t. To bring to a climacteric, especially to the grand climacteric. Drayton. [Rare.] Climacteric (kli-mak-tèr'ik, klim-ak'ter-ik), a. Pertaining to a climacteric.-Climacteric teething, the production of teeth at a very late period of life, generally between the sixty-third and eighty-first year. See the

noun.

Climacteric (kli-mak-tér'ik, klim-ak’tér-ik), n. [See CLIMACTER, CLIMAX.] 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 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 or great climacteric. It has been supposed that these periods are attended with some remarkable change in respect to health, life, or fortune.

Climacterical (klim-ak-tér'ik-al), a. and n.

Same as Climacteric.

Climatal (kli'mat-al), a. Pertaining to a

climate or climates.

Climatarchic (kli-ma-tärk'ik),a. [Gr. klima, climate, and arche, dominion.] Presiding over climates. Craig. Climate (kli'måt), n. [L. clima, Gr. klima, klimatos, a slope, from klino, to bend; the name indicating the inclination of the earth from the equator to the pole.] 1. In old geog. a zone measured on the earth's surface by lines parallel to the equator, there being thirty of these climates between the equator and the pole; hence, a region; a clime. Shak.-2. The condition of a tract or region in relation to the various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, wind, moisture, miasmata, &c., especially as they affect the life of animals or man; as, a temperate climate; an unhealthy climate; the climate of Great Britain. (This is now the regular meaning of the word.]

Climatet (kli'mat), v.i. To dwell; to reside in a particular region. Whilst you do climate here.' Shak. [Rare.] Climatic, Climatical (kli-mat'ik, kli-mat'ik-al), a. Pertaining to a climate or climates; limited by a climate; as, a climatic division; climatic changes.

Climation (kli-ma'shon), n. The act of inuring to a climate; acclimation. Worcester. [Rare.]

Climatize (kli'mat-iz), v.t. pret. & pp. climatized; ppr. climatizing. To accustom to a new climate, as a plant; to acclimatize. Climatize (kli ́mat-iz), v. i. To become accustomed to a new climate; to acclimate or acclimatize; as, plants will climatize in foreign countries.

Climatographical (kli'mat-ō-graf”ik-al), a. Belonging to climatography or the study of the variations of climate. Climatography (kli-ma-togʻra-fi), n. [Gr. klima, klimatos, à climate, and grapho, to describe.] A description of climates.

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Climatological (kli'mat-o-loj"ik-al), a. Pertaining to climatology; connected with climates; climatal.

Climatology (kli-ma-tol'o-ji), n. [Gr. klima, a climate, and logos, doctrine.] The science of climates; an investigation of the causes on which the climate of a place depends. Climaturet (kli'ma-tūr), n. A climate. Shak. Climax (kli'maks), n. (L., from Gr. klimax, a ladder, from klino, to slope.] 1. In rhet. a figure in which several propositions or objects are placed before the mind of a reader or hearer in such an order that the proposition or object calculated to produce the least impression shall strike it first, and that the rest shall follow in regular gradation. 2. The highest point of anything; the culmination; acme; as, he was now at the climax of his fortunes.

We must look higher for the climax of earthly good, Is. Taylor. Climb (klim), v.i. pret. & pp. climbed or clomb, but the latter is now obsolete except in poetry; ppr. climbing. [A. Sax. climban, G. and D. klimmen; from same root as cleave, to adhere, clip, to embrace.] 1. To mount or ascend anything steep with labour and difficulty; especially, to ascend by means of the hands and feet; of things, to rise with a slow motion.

Till clomb above the eastern bar
The horned moon.

Coleridge.
While the Queen who sat
With lips severely placid felt the knot
Climb in her throat.

Tennyson.

2. Specifically of plants, to ascend by means of tendrils or adhesive fibres, or by twining the stem or leaf-stalk round a support, as ivy, honeysuckle, and other plants. Climb (klim), v. t. To climb up. See the v.i.

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple stands afar? Beattie. Climbable (klim'a-bl), a. That may be climbed. Sherwood. (Rare.] Climber (klim'ér), n. 1. One who climbs, mounts, or rises by the hands and feet; one who rises by labour or effort.-2. In bot. a plant that rises by attaching itself to some support.-3. In ornith. the name applied to birds of the order Scansores, from their climbing habits, as the parrots, cockatoos, woodpeckers, &c. They have two toes before and two behind.

Climber, v. i. [From climb, or a different orthography of clamber.] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.

Beware how you climber for breaking your neck. Tusser. Climbing (klim'ing), a. Having a tendency to climb; possessing the power or quality of climbing; as, a climbing plant. Climbing fire.' Shak. A young Climbing-boy (klim'ing-boi), n. chimney-sweep: so called from having been made to climb chimneys. Chimney-sweeping by climbing-boys is now prohibited. An iron Climbing-iron (klim'ing-i-èrn), n. attached to the feet to assist in climbing trees and the like. Fitting new straps to his climbing-irons.' T. Hughes. Climbing Perch, n. See ANABAS. Clime (klim), n. [L. clima, a clime or climate. A tract or region of the earth. 'Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Milton. Clime of the unforgotten brave.'

Byron.

Clinandrium (kli-nan'dri-um), n. [Gr. klinē, a bed, and anèr, andros, a man.] In bot. a cavity at the apex of the column in orchids containing the anthers.

Clinanthium (kli-nan'thi-um), n. [Gr. klinē, a bed, and anthos, a flower or blossom.] In bot. a term sometimes given to the receptacle of a composite plant. Called also Clinium.

Clinch (klinsh), v.t. Same as Clench, which is now the commoner form. See CLENCH. But the Council of Trent goes much further, and clincheth the business as effectually as possible. South.

The tops I could but just reach with my fists clinched. Swift. A nail caught on the other side and doubled is a nail clinched. Johnson. Clinch (klinsh), v.i. To cling; to gripe. Clinch (klinsh), n. 1. A catch; a grip; a clutch; a grasp; as, he got a good clinch of his antagonist [Now usually spelled and pronounced Clench.]-2. That which holds fast or clinches; a clincher; a holdfast.3. A word used in a double meaning; a pun; a doubleness of meaning with identity of expression.

Here one poor word a hundred clinches makes. Pope.

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4. Naut. 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 breeching of a gun to the ring-bolts in a ship's side. Clincher (clinsh'ér), n. 1. One who or that which clinches; a cramp or piece of iron bent down to fasten anything.-2. That which decides a matter; specifically, aretort or reply so decisive as to close a controversy; an unanswerable argument. Clincher-built, Clinker-built (klinsh'èrbilt, klingk'er-bilt), a. Made of clincherwork.

Clincher-work, Clinker-work (klinsh'èrwerk, klingk'er-wèrk), n. In ship-building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlies the upper edge of the next below it, like slates on the roof of a house.

Cling (kling), v.i. pret. & pp. clung; ppr. clinging. A. Sax. clingan, to adhere, to dry up or wither; Dan. klynge, to grow in clusters; klynge, a heap, a cluster.] To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by winding round or embracing: followed by to; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support. Two babes of love close clinging to her waist.' Pope.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. Browning. Cling (kling), v.t. [See above.] 1. To pinch with hunger; to waste to leanness; to shrivel. 'Till hunger clung them.' Byron.

Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive
Till famine cling thee.

2. To apply firmly and closely.

Shak.

I clung my legs as close to his sides as I could. Swift. Cling-stone (kling'ston), n. A variety of peach whose pulp adheres closely to the stone.

Clingy (kling'i), a. Apt to cling; adhesive. Johnson. [Rare.]

Clinic (klin'ik), a. Same as Clinical. Clinic (klin'ik), n. 1. One confined to the bed by sickness.-2. Eccles. one who received baptism on a sick-bed. Hook.3. Same as CLINIQUE.

Clinical (klin'ik-al), a. [Gr. klinikos, from kline, a bed, from klino, to recline. See LEAN.] Pertaining to a bed, more especially a sickbed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bedside of the sick, or from notes taken at the bedside, by a physician, with a view to practical instruction in the healing art. Clinical surgery or medicine is the special branch of the medical art in which instruction is imparted to the student in a practical manner at the bedside of the patient. A clinical convert is a convert on his death-bed. - Clinical baptism, private baptism administered on the couch to sick or dying persons.

Clinically (klin'ik-al-li), adv. In a clinical manner; by the bedside.

Clinique (kli-nek), n. [Fr. clinique. See CLINICAL.] In med. an examination of a patient by a professor in presence of his students.

Clinium (klin'i-um), n. In bot. same as Clinanthium.

Clink (klingk), v.i. [An imitative word, a nasalized form corresponding to click, and expressing a thinner or weaker sound than clank; comp. D. klinken, to sound, to tinkle; Dan. klinge, to sound, to jingle; Icel.klingja, to ring, to tinkle; G. klingen, to ring, to chink.] 1. 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. - 2. To rhyme.

Swift.

And yet I must except the Rhine Because it clinks with Caroline. Clink (klingk), v.t. To cause to produce a small sharp ringing sound. Clink (klingk), n. 1. A sharp sound made by the collision of sonorous bodies. The clink and fall of swords.' Shak.-2. † A clinch;

a latch.

Tho' creeping close, behind the wicket's clink Privily he peeped out through a chink. Spenser. 3. A smart stroke. Ane got a clink on the head.' Old ballad. [Scotch.]-4. Money. 'Needfu' clink.' Burns. [Scotch.] Clinkant (klingk'ant), a. See CLINQUANT. Clinker (klingk'èr), a. 1. A partially vitrified brick or mass of bricks.-2. A kind of hard Dutch or Flemish brick, used for paving yards and stables.-3. A mass of incombustible scoria or slag which forms in grates

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the northern seas, constituting the principal part of the food of the whale, and hence called whale's food by the whale-fishers. Clionidæ (kli-on'i-de), n. pl. [See CLIO.] A family of naked marine molluscs, placed by Cuvier as the first of his class Pteropoda, Clip (klip), v. t. pret. & pp. clipped, clipt; ppr. and having for its type the genus Clio. clipping. [In first three meanings same as Icel. klippa, to clip, to cut the hair; Dan. klippe, Sw. klippa, to clip or shear; in fourth from A. Sax. clyppan, to clasp, to embrace, which is from same root, and probably allied to cleave, to adhere, and to climb.]

1. To cut off or sever with shears or scissors; to trim or make shorter with scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip a bird's wings. Clip ping papers or darning his stockings.' Swift. Arbours clipt and cut. Tennyson.-2. To diminish by paring the edge; as, to clip

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-To clip the wings, lit. to cut a bird's wings short so as to deprive it of the power of flight; fig. to put a check on one's ambition; to render one less able to execute his schemes or realize his aspirations.

But love had clipped his wings and cut him short. Dryden. Clip (klip), v.i. In falconry, to fly swiftly: with an indefinite it. Clips it down the wind.' Dryden.

Clip (klip), n. 1. An embrace. 'Not used to frozen clips. Sir P. Sidney.-2. The quantity of wool shorn at a single shearing of sheep; a season's shearing.-3. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq.]4. In farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of a horse-shoe which partially embraces the wall of the hoof.-5. A clasp or spring-holder for letters or papers. 6. pl. Shears. Burns. [Scotch.] Clipper (klip'er), n. 1. One who clips; especially, one who cuts off the edges of coin.

The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket.

Locke.

2. A vessel with sharp, forward-raking bows and masts raking aft, built and rigged (as ship, barque, or schooner) with a view to fast sailing. Hence-3. A person or animal that runs swiftly, or looks as if capable of running swiftly; a very smart person; something first-rate. [Colloq.]

I never saw your equal, and I've met some clippers in my time. Thackeray.

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Clipper-built (klip'er-bilt), a. built after the type of a clipper. Clipp-fish (klip'fish), n. [Dan. klipfisk.] Fish, chiefly cod, split open, salted, and dried. Clipping (klip'ing), p. and a. 1. Embracing Consular Report. encircling with the arms. 'Now runs and takes her in his clipping arms.' Sir P. Sidney.-2. Swift; as, a clipping pace. [Colloq. 1-3. Smart; showy; first-rate. [Colloq.]

What clipping girls there were in that barouche. Clipping (klip'ing), n. 1. The act of cutting Cornhill Magazine. off. 2. That which is clipped off; a piece separated by clipping. The clippings of our beards and parings of our nails. Locke. 3. † The act of embracing. Clipping-time (klip'ing-tim), n. [Scotch] The time of sheep-shearing; the nick of time. To come in clipping-time, to come as opportunely as he who visits a sheepfarmer at sheep-shearing time, when there is always mirth and good cheer. Sir W. Scott.

Clipsy + (klip'si), a. As if eclipsed. 'Now bright, now clipsy.' Romaunt of the Rose. Clique (klěk), n. [Fr. clique, probably a mere variant of claque, with a somewhat different sense. See CLAQUE.] A party; a set; a coterie: used generally in a bad sense. Mind, I don't call the London exclusive clique the best English society. Coleridge. Cliquish (klek'ish), a. Relating to a clique or party; disposed to form cliques; having a petty party spirit.

Cliquishness (klek'ish-nes), n. The state or quality of being cliquish; inclination or disposition to form cliques; tendency to form cliques; cliquism. Cliquism (klek'izm), n. The principles or spirit of a clique; cliquishness. Clish-clash (klish'klash), v.i. [A reduplication of clash.] To sound like the clashing of swords. The weapons clish-clash." Mir. for Mags.

Clish-clash (klish'klash), n. Silly talk; palaver; gossip; scandal. [Scotch.] Clishmaclash (klish'ma-klash), n. Clishclash; clishmaclaver. [Scotch.] Clishmaclaver (klishma - kla-ver), n Idle discourse; silly talk; gossip. Burns. [Scotch.]

Clitch + (klich), v.t. To catch; to clutch.

He hath an earthen pot wherewith to clitch up water. Holland.

Clitoria (kli-to'ri-a), n. [Clitoris (which see), in reference to the shape of the flowers.] A genus of plants, nat. order Leguminosa, found throughout the tropics of both worlds.

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