CLITORIS The numerous species are climbing, rarely erect, herbs, with large blue, white, or red flowers. Several species are in cultivation. Clitoris (kli'to-ris), n. [Gr. kleitoris, from kleió, to inclose or hide.] In anat. a small elongated organ of the female pudendum, concealed by the labia majora. Clitter-clatter (klit'ter-klat'tër), n. [Reduplicated from clatter on the same principle as clish-clash, tittle-tattle, &c.] Palaver; idle talk; a chattering noise. Such were his writings; but his chatter Was one continued clitter-clatter. Swift. Clivers, Cleavers (kliv ́érz, klēv ́érz), n. [From its cleaving or clinging to the clothes.] A plant, Galium Aparine, called also GooseIt has a square, rough, jointed grass. stem; the joints hairy at the base, with eight or ten narrow leaves at each joint. Clivity (kliv'i-ti), n. [L. clivus.] A declivity; a gradient. [Rare.] Cloaca (klo-a'ka), n. [L., a common sewer.] 1. An underground conduit for drainage; a common sewer; as, the cloaca maxima at Rome. 2. A sink; a privy.-3. The excrementory cavity in birds, reptiles, many fishes, and lower mammalia, formed by the extremity of the intestinal canal, and which receives the faces and the urine, together with the genital products. - 4. In pathol. the opening in cases of necrosis or mortification of the bones, leading to the inclosed dead bone. Cloacal (klō-a'kal), a. Pertaining to a cloaca. In the torpedo the ureters terminate in the cloacal papilla by two distinct orifices. Prof. Owen. Cloak (klok), n. [O and Prov. Fr. cloque, L. L. cloca, clocca, a bell, a kind of horseman's cape of a bell-shape; really same as clock (which see).] 1. A loose outer garment worn over other clothes both by men and women.-2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretence. Formerly written also Cloke. Not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness. 1 Pet. ii. 16. Cloak (klōk), v.t. 1. To cover with a cloak. 2. To hide; to conceal. To cloak her crimes. Spenser. -SYN. To hide, conceal, mask, cover, veil, screen. Cloakage (klōk'āj), n. The act of covering with a cloak. J. Martineau. [Rare.] Cloak-bag (klõkʼbag), n. A bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Stuffed cloak-bag.' Shak Cloakedly (klok'ed-li), adv. In a cloaked or concealed manner. Bp. Burnet. [Rare.] Cloaking (klok'ing), n. 1 The act of covering with or as with a cloak.-2. A woollen material for making cloaks. Cloak-room (klók róm), n. A room attached to any place of general resort, as railwaystation, assembly-rooms, opera-house, &c., where ladies' cloaks, &c., are deposited. Cloath t (klöth), n. Cloth. Quarles. Clobbed, a. Like a club; clubbed. 'Grete clobbed staves.' Chaucer. Clobber (klob'bêr), n. [Probably from the Celtic; Comp. Ir. clabar, mud.] A kind of coarse paste made of ground cinders and flour, used to concel the breaks of the leather of cobbled-up shoes. Dickens. Clobberer (klob ́bèr-èr), n. A cobbler of the lowest class, who patches up old shoes, and conceals their defects by rubbing clobber into the breaks of the leather. Clochard (klöshård), n. [From Fr. cloche, a bell. See CLOCK.] A belfry. Weever. Clochier, n. [Fr. clocher.] A bell-tower; a belfry Ayliffe. Clock (klok), n." [Originally a bell, and hence the apparatus which causes a bell to strike at certain intervals, a clock. The word is widely spread, and its ultimate origin is not clear. Comp. A. Sax. clucga, Icel. klukka, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, D. klok, G. glocke, a bell or clock; Ir. and Gael. clog, a bell or clock. Cloak is the same word, through L,L. clocca, cloca, a bell and a kind of cape, whence! Fr. cloche, a bell.] 1. An instrument or machine for measuring time, indicating the hours, minutes, and often seconds by means of hands moving over a dial-plate, and differing from a watch in not being adapted to be carried on the person. It generally consists of a frame containing a train of wheels moved by weights or springs, and regulated by a pendulum or balance-wheel, and is generally made to mark the hour and often lesser divisions of time by the stroke of a hammer, on a bell or other sonorous object.-2.† A stroke of the clock. I told the clocks and watched the wasting light. 491 3.† A watch, specifically one that strikes the hour. That striking clock, which he had long worn in his pocket. Iz. Walton. The phrases, What o'clock is it? It is nine o'clock, are contracted from What of the clock? It is nine of the clock. Pope and Addison use a-clock, which is a corruption. --Astronomical or sidereal clock. See under ASTRONOMICAL. -Electric clock, a clock, the motive power of which is electricity directed on the pendulum, or on a weight or spring by which the pendulum is kept in motion. Clock (klok), v.t. or i. Same as Cluck. [Old English and Scotch.] Clock (klok), n. [Comp. Sc. golach, O. H. G. chuleich, a beetle.] An English and Scotch popular name for a beetle. 'A buzzardclock. Tennyson. Clock (klok), n. [Possibly originally applied to a bell-shaped ornament or bell-shaped flower.] A figure or figured work embroidered on the ankle of a stocking; formerly, according to Halliwell, the name was applied to ornamental work on other parts of the dress. Clock-alarm (klok'a-lärm), n. Same as Alarm, 4. Clock-beetle (klok'bē-tl), n. Same as Clock, a beetle. Sometimes applied specifically to the Scarabæus stercorarius, or dung-beetle. Clock-case (klok'kās), n. The case or receptacle of the works of a clock. Clock-finger (klok'fing-gér), n. The hand of a clock. H. Spencer. Clock-maker (klok'måk-ér), n. An artificer whose occupation is to make clocks. One who Clock-setter+ (klok'set-ér), n. regulates clocks. Old time the clock-setter.' Shak. Clock-star (klok'stär), n. In astron, a term applied to such prominent stars as can be used for regulating astronomical clocks, from their position having been ascertained with precise accuracy. Clock-stocking (klok'stok-ing), n. A stocking embroidered with the ornament called a clock. Clock-tower (klok'tou-ér), n. A tower built for the reception of a clock, the face of which is set in the outer wall. Clock-turret (klok'tur-et), n. A small clock-tower. Clock-work (klok'wèrk), n. The machinery and movements of a clock; a complex mechanism of wheels producing regularity of movement. Arbuthnot. You look like a puppet moved by clock-work. Clod (klod), n. [A slightly modified form of clot (which see); comp. Dan. klode, a globe or ball, klods, a block or lump.] 1. A lump or mass in general; sometimes a concreted mass; a clot. 'Clods of blood.' Fairfax. 'Two massy clods of iron and brass.' Milton. 2. A lump of earth, or earth and turf; a lump of clay. The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon. 3. A particular piece of ground or turf, not separated in a lump; the ground. Byzantians boast that on the clod, 4. That which is earthy, base, and vile, as the body of man in comparison with his soul. He makes flat warre with God, and doth defie 5. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt. Dryden. Clod (klod), v. t. 1. Topelt with clods.-2. ↑ To form into clods. Holland.-3. To confine in what is earthy and base, as the soul in the body. G. Fletcher.-4. To throw with violence. Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] Clod-breaker (klod bråk-ér), n. A contemptuous name for a peasant; a clodpoll. In other countries, as France, the people of ordi. nary condition were called clod-breakers. Brougham. In agri. Clod-crusher (klod'krush-ér), n. a peculiar kind of implement for pulverizing clods. Cloddish (klod'ish), a. Clownish; boorish; doltish; uncouth; ungainly. 'A cloddish air.' Disraeli. Cloddishness (klod'ish-nes), n. Clownishness; boorishness; doltishness; clumsiness; ungainliness. Cloddy (klod'i), a. 1. Consisting of clods; abounding with clods. The meagre cloddy earth.' Shak.-2. Earthy; mean; gross. Clodhopper (klod'hop-ér), n. A clown; a dolt; a boor. Clodpoll (klod 'pol), n. A stupid fellow; a dolt; a blockhead. This letter being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth; he will find that it comes from Shak. a clodpoll. Cloff (klof), n. [Perhaps originally a portion I am glad at soul I have no other child; Shak. He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. Fuller. Tennyson. A clog of lead was round my feet. 2. A sort of shoe, the upper part of which is strong tanned leather, and the sole wood, much used in the north of England and south of Scotland, especially during winter; a wooden shoe; a sabot; also, a wooden sole or sandal, with an iron ring beneath, worn by women to protect the feet from wet; a patten. SYN. Load, weight, burden, encumbrance, obstruction, impediment, hinder ance. Clog (klog), v. t. pret. & pp. clogged; ppr. clogging. 1. To impede the movements of by something that sticks or adheres; to encumber; specifically, to encumber by attaching a clog to; as, to clog a bullock to prevent it from leaping fences. If you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea I'll eat the rest of the anatomy. Shak. Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain. Pope. 2. To choke up; to obstruct so as to hinder passage through; as, to clog up a tube; to clog the pores of the body.-3. Fig. to throw obstacles in the way of; to encumber; to hinder; to burden; to trammel; as, to clog commerce with restrictions. Both soil the face of his devotion and clog the exercise of it.' Bp. Hammond. All the commodities are clogged with impositions. Addison. SYN. Impede, hinder, obstruct, embarrass, burden, restrain, restrict, trammel, fetter. Clog (klog), v. i. 1. To become loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter. The teeth of the saw will begin to clog. Sharp. 2. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass. Move it sometimes with a broom that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn. Clog-almanac (klogʼal-ma-nak), n. An almanac or calendar, made by cutting notches or characters on a clog or block, generally of wood, but sometimes of horn, bone, or brass. This instrument was formerly much used in England. This almanac is usually a square piece of wood, containing three months on each of the four edges. The number of days in them are expressed by notches, the first day by a notch with a patulous stroke turned up from it, and every seventh by a large-sized notch. Over against many of the notches are placed, on the left hand, several marks or symbols, denoting the golden number or cycle of the moon. The festivals are marked by symbols of the several saints issuing from the notches. Plot. Clog-dance (klogʻdans), n. A dance with clogs, in which the feet are made to perform a noisy accompaniment to the music. Clog-dancer (klog'dans-ér), n, One who performs clog-dances. Mayhew. Clogginess (klog'i-nes), n. The state of being cloggy or clogged. Clogging (klog'ing), n. Anything which clogs; obstruction; hinderance; clog. All ascititious cloggings.' Dr. H. More. Cloggy (klogi), a. Clogging or having power to clog; adhesive; viscous. 'Some grosser and cloggy parts.' Boyle. CLOGHEAD Cloghead (klog'hed), n. [Ir. clogachd, a belfry.] One of the slender round towers attached to various Irish churches. Fosbroke. Clog-hornpipe (klog'horn-pip), n. A hornpipe danced with clogs on. Dickens. Cloister (klois'tér), n. [O. Fr. cloistre, Fr. cloitre; from L. claustrum, a fastening, that which shuts in, from claudo, clausum, to shut up.] 1. An arched way or covered walk running round the walls of certain Part of the Cloister, Westminster Abbey. portions of monastic and collegiate buildings. It usually has a plain wall on one side, and a series of windows, with piers and columns, or an open colonnade, adjoining an interior court on the opposite side. The original purpose of cloisters was to afford a place for the monks to meet in for exercise and recreation. 2. A place of religious 'To retirement; a monastery; a convent. be in shady cloister mewed.' Shak. It was surely good that in an age of ignorance and violence there should be quiet cloisters and gardens in which the arts of peace could be safely cultivated, in which gentle and contemplative natures could find an asylum. Macaulay. 3. Any arcade or colonnade round an open court; a piazza. Cloister (klois'ter), v.t. 1. To confine in a cloister or convent. It was of the king's first acts to cloister the queen dowager in the nunnery of Bermondsey. Bacon. 2. To shut up; to confine closely within walls; to immure; to shut up in retirement from the world. Nature affords plenty of beauties, that no man need complain if the deformed are cloistered up. Rymer. Cloisteral (klois'tér-al), a. Same as Cloistral. Cloisteral men of great learning and devotion.' Iz. Walton. Cloistered (klois'térd), p. and a. 1. Of or pertaining to a cloister; furnished with cloisters. The Greeks and Romans had commonly two cloistered open courts, one serving for the women's side, and the other for the men. Wotton. 2. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a convent.-3. Solitary; retired from the world. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary. Milton. Cloisterer (klois'tér-ér), n. One belonging to a cloister. Cloisteress (klois'tér-es), n. See CLOISTRESS. Cloister-garth (klois'tér-gärth), n. In arch. the court inclosed by a cloister. Cloistral (klois'tral), a. Of or pertaining to a cloister. That initiatory branch of Italian art which I will venture to name from... the profession of many of the best masters who practised it, the cloistral epoch. Milman. Cloistress (klois'tres), n. A nun; a woman who has vowed religious retirement. [Rare.] Like a cloistress, she will veiled walk. Shak. Cloke (clok), n. and v. Same as Cloak. Clomb (klom), obs. or poet. pret. of climb. Clomperton, n. A clown. Nares. Clonic (klon'ik), a. [From Gr. klonos, a shaking or irregular motion. ] In pathol. convulsive, with alternate relaxation. Clonic spasm, a spasm in which the muscles or muscular fibres contract and relax alternately, in quick succession, producing the appearance of agitation, as in epilepsy: used in contradistinction to tonic spasm. Cloof, Clufe (klüf), n. [Dan. klov, Icel. klauf, a cloven hoof, from root of cleave, to split.] A hoof. [Scotch.] Cloom (klöm), v. t. [A form of clam, to clog, to daub. To close with glutinous matter. Mortimer. [Local ] 492 Cloop (klup), n. [Onomatopoetic.] The sound made when a cork is pulled out of the neck of a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle.' Thackeray. Cloot, Clute (klut), n. [From root of cleave, to split. See CLOOF.] Divided hoof; cloven hoof. The harrying thieves! not a cloot left of the hail hirsel! Sir W. Scott. -Cloot-and-cloot, hoof-and-hoof, i.e. every hoof. [Scotch.] Clootie (klut'i), n. [From Sc. cloot, a hoof.] A name for the devil; lit. he of the cloven hoofs. [Scotch.] Close (klöz), v. t. pret. & pp. closed; ppr. closing. [Fr. clos, pp. of clore, to shut up; from L. claudo, clausum, to shut, whence also conclude, exclude, include, seclude, cloister, &c.] 1. To bring together the parts of; to shut; to make fast; as, to close a gate, door, or window; to close a book. Close your hands. Shak. And your lips too. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes. Is. xxix. 10. Close the door, the shutters close. Tennyson. 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. Dryden. 3. To fill or stop up; to repair a gap or fracture in; to consolidate: often followed by up; as, to close the ranks of troops; to close up an aperture. Unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak. 4. To cover; to inclose; to encompass; to shut in. The gift which bounteous nature hath in him clos'd.' Shak. 'When I clung to all the present for the promise that it closed.' Tennyson. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. Close (klōz), v. i. 1. To come together, either literally or figuratively; to unite; to coalesce: often followed by on or upon. They went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them. Num. xvi. 23. A thousand claims to reverence close In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen. Tennyson. 2. To end; to terminate or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.-3. To engage in close encounter; to engage in a hand-to-hand fight; to grapple. If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust. The kites know well the long stern swell France and Holland might close upon some measures to our disadvantage. Sir W. Temple. -To close with, (a) to accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To come to an agreement with; as, to close with a person on certain terms. He took the time when Richard was deposed, And high and low with happy Harry closed. Dryden. (c) See above, 3. To close with the land (naut.), to come near to the land. Close (klōz), n. 1. The manner of shutting; junction. The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. 2. Conclusion; termination; final end; as, the close of life; the close of day or night. 'Death dawning on him, and the close of all.' Tennyson.-3. In music, the conclusion of a strain or of a musical period or passage; a cadence. At every close she made th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden. 4. A grapple, as in wrestling. The king went... to make him come to the close, and so to trip up his heels. Bacon. Close (klos), n. [Fr. clos, an inclosed place, from clos, pp. of clore. See CLOSE, v. t.] 1. An inclosed place; any place surrounded by a fence, wall, or hedge; specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey. Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.' Macaulay.-2. [Provincial and Scotch. A narrow passage or entry, such as leads from a main street to the stair of a building containing several tenements; the entry to a court; a narrow lane leading off a street. Close (klos), a. [Fr. clos, L. clausus, shut. See CLOSE, v.t] 1. Shut fast; made fast so CLOSE as to have no opening; completely inclosing or encompassing; as, a close box; a close vizard. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night.Shak. 2. Strictly confined; strictly watched; as, a close prisoner.-3. Retired; secluded; hidden; private; secret; as, to keep a purpose close. He yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish. 1 Chr. xii. 1. 4. Having the habit or disposition to keep searets; secretive; reticent; as, a close minister. For secrecy, no lady closer." Shak.-5. Having an appearance of concealment; expressive of secretiveness. That close aspect of his Does show the mood of a much troubled breast. Shak. 6. Confined within narrow limits; narrow; as, a close alley. Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confined jail for smugglers. Dickens. 7. Stagnant; without motion or ventilation; difficult to breathe; oppressive: said of the air or weather.-8. In contact or nearly so; adjoining; without any or with little intervening distance in place or time; as, the rows are too close; to follow in close succession.-9. With little difference between antagonists or competitors or rival parties; almost evenly balanced; as, a close election. A close personal contest.' Prescott.-10. Having the parts near each other: (a) of solid bodies, compact; dense; as, timber of close texture or very close in the grain. (b) Of liquids, viscous; not volatile. [Rare.] This oil, which nourishes the lamp, is supposed to be of so close and tenacious a substance, that it may slowly evaporate. Bp. Wilkins. (c) In a more general sense, having small intervals between the component parts; as, the writing is too close. (d)+ Applied to style, compressed; condensed; concise: opposed to loose or diffuse. Where the original is close, no version can reach it in the same compass. Dryden. 11. Firmly attached; intimate; trusty; confidential; as, close friends.-12. Undeviating: (a) not deviating from the object to which one's mind or thoughts are directed, or from the subject under consideration; as, to give close attention; a close observer. Keep your mind or thoughts close to the business or subject. Locke. But when any point of doctrine is handled in a close and argumentative manner, it appears flat and unsavoury to them. Atterbury. (b) Not deviating from a model or original; as, a close translation. 13. Niggardly; stingy: penurious.-14. In her having the wings lying close to the body: said of birds.Close borough, a borough the right of nominating a member of parliament for which was in the hands of a single per A dove close. son. Lansmere is neither a rotten borough, to be bought, nor a close borough, under one man's nomination. Lord Lytton. -Close communion, with Baptists, communion in the Lord's supper with their own sect only. Close corporation, a corporation which fills up its own vacancies, the election of members not being open to the public. In Britain there are now legally no close municipal corporations. - Close fight, (a) a hand-to-hand fight. (b) pl Naut. bulkheads formerly erected fore and aft in a ship for the men to stand behind in close engage ment in order to fire on the enemy. Called also Close Quarters. Close port, a port situated up a river: a term in contradistinction to out-port, a harbour which lies on the coast.-To come to close quarters, to come into direct contact, especially with an enemy. Close rolls, rolls kept for the record of close writs (see below). Also written Clause Rolls.-Close string, in doglegged stairs, a staircase without an open newel. Close vowel, a vowel pronounced with diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth.Close writs, grants of the sovereign, sealed with the great seal, directed to particular persons for particular purposes, which, not being proper for public inspection, are closed up and sealed on the outside. Close (klos), adv. 1. Tightly, so as to leave no opening; as, shut the lid close down2. In strict confinement. 'Let them be CLOSE-BANDED clapped up close.' Shak.-3. In concealment; secretly. An onion, which in a napkin being close conveyed.' Shak. Get you all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's coming down this walk.... Close, in the name of jesting. Shak 4. In contact, or very near in space or time; as, to follow close behind one. He his sleep Disturb'd not, waiting close the approach of morn. Milton. -Close to the wind, the position of a ship when its head lies near enough the wind to fill the sails without shaking them. Close-banded (klös'band-ed), a. Being in close order; closely united." Milton. Close-barred (klös'bärd), a. Firmly closed; made close by bars. Close-bodied (klōs'bo-did), a. Fitting close Close-curtained (klós-kêr'tind), a. En- Close-fistedness (klös'fist-ed-nes), n. The state or condition of being close-fisted; niggardliness; meanness. Shut up Close-grated (klos-gråt ́ed), a. with close gratings. Young. Close-handed (klös ́hand-ed),a. Close-fisted; penurious; niggardly. Sir M. Hale. Close-hauled (klös'hald), a. Naut. sailing as nearly against the wind as possible. Closely (klos'li), adv. So as to be close; in a close manner: 1. With the parts united or pressed together so as to leave no vent; as, a crucible closely luted.-2. Compactly; as, a closely woven fabric.-3. Nearly; with little space intervening: applied to space or time; as, to follow closely at one's heels; one event follows closely upon another.-4. Undeviatingly without wandering or diverging: (a) intently; attentively; with the mind or thoughts fixed; with near inspection; as, to look or attend closely. (b) With strict adherence to a model or original; as, to translate closely.-5. ↑ Secretly; privately. A Spaniard. . sent some closely into the village in the dark of the night. Carew. 6. With near affection, attachment, or interest; intimately; as, men closely connected in friendship; nations closely allied by treaty. 7. Strictly; within close limits; under strict watch; as, a prisoner closely confined. Closen (klos'n), v.t. To make close or closer. [Rare.] to him. His friends closen the tie by claiming relationship Brit. Quart. Rev. Closeness (klos'nes), n. The state or quality of being close: (a) the state of being shut or of having no vent. In drums, the closeness round about that preserveth the sound.' Bacon. (b) Compactness; solidity; density; as, the closeness of texture in wood. Fig. applied to style or argument. His (Burke's) speeches differed not at all from his pamphlets; these are written speeches, or those are spoken dissertations, according as any one is overstudious of method and closeness in a book or of ease and nature in an oration. Brougham. (c) Narrowness; straitness, as of a place. (d) Want of ventilation; oppressiveness. Half stifle 1 by the closeness of the room. Swift. (e) Reserve in intercourse; secrecy; privacy; caution. The extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius.' Bacon. (f) Avarice; stinginess; penuriousness. An affectation of closeness and covetousness.' Addison. (g) Connection; near union; intimacy, whether of friendship or of interest; as, the closeness of friendship or of alliance. (h) Strictness; as, closeness of confinement. (1) Rigid adherence to an original; literalness; as, the closeness of a version. Close-pent (klos' pent), a. Shut or pent up close; without vent. Closer (klöz'èr), n. 1. One who or that which closes; one who or that which concludes; specifically, in colloquial language, that which puts an end to a controversy or disposes of an antagonist.-2. In arch. the last stone in a horizontal row or course, but of a less size than the others, to close the row. In brickwork, a bat used for the same purpose. When the bat is a quarter brick it is called a queen closer; when a three-quarter brick inserted at the angle of a stretching course it is called a king closer.-3. A common term for Boot-closer (which see). 493 Closer, n. An inclosure. Chaucer. Close-stool (klos'stol), n. A chamber utensil; a night-stool. Shak.; Smollett. Closet (kloz'et), n. [O. Fr. closet, dim. of clos, an enclosure. See CLOSE, n.] 1. A small room or apartment for retirement; any room for privacy; a small supplementary apartment communicating with another, as a dressing-room with a bed-room. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Mat. vi. 6. 2. A small side-room or recess for storing utensils, furniture, provisions, curiosities, &c.-3. In her. a diminutive of the bar, and one-half of its dimensions. Closet (kloz'et), v.t. To put in or admit into a closet, as for concealment or for private consultation. CLOTH-STRETCHER Clothe (klōTH), v. t. pret. & pp. clothed or clad; ppr. clothing. [From the noun cloth.] 1. To put garments on; to invest the body with raiment; to dress. The Lord God made coats of skins, and clothed them. Gen. iii. 21. 2. To cover or spread over with anything. Embroidered purple clothes the golden beds. Pope. The lances, waving in his train, Clothe the dun heath like autumn grain. Sir W. Scott. 3. To furnish with raiment; to provide with clothes; as, a master is to feed and clothe his apprentice.-4. Fig. to put on; to invest; to cover, as with a garment. I will clothe her priests with salvation. Ps. cxxxii. 16. The host of smaller men whose poor thoughts clothe themselves on the platform and through the press in poorer words. Dr. Caird. Clothe (klōTH), v.i. To wear clothes. Care no more to clothe and eat. Shak Night after night he had been closeted with De Quadra. Froude. Closeting (klozet-ing), n. The act of conferring with secrecy; private or clandestine Clothed (klorнd), p. and a. 1. Covered with conference. About this time began the project of closeting, where the principal gentlemen of the kingdom were privately catechized by his majesty. Swift. Close-tongued (klōs'tungd), a. Keeping silence; cautious in speaking. 'Closetongued treason.' Shak. Closet-sin (klozet-sin), n. Sin committed in privacy. Bp. Hall. Closh (klosh), n. [Fr. clocher, to limp, Pr. clopchar, as if from a verb cloppicare, from L.L. cloppus, lame, and that from Gr. chōlopous, lame-cholos, lame, and pous, foot.] 1. A disease in the feet of cattle. Called also the Founder.-2.† An old game, supposed to be nine-pins. Closing (klöz'ing), a. Ending or concluding; as, a closing word or letter. Closure (klöz'ür), n. [O. Fr. closure, L. clausura, from claudo. See CLOSE, v.t.] 1. The act of shutting; a closing. Boyle.-2. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or made to adhere. Pope.-3. Inclosure; that which bounds. Shak.-4. Conclusion. Shak. Clot (klot), n. [Older form of clod, and formerly used in same sense: A. Sax. clot, a log; cog. D. kloot, a ball or globe, kluit, a clod; Dan. klode, a globe or ball; Sw. klot, a sphere, klots, a block; G. kloss, a clod, a lump, klotz, a block; probably from same root as clay, cleave (adhere), clog, cloud, &c.] 1. † A clod. The ground also would now be broken up for a fallow to the end that the sun might thoroughly parchi and concoct the clots. Holland. 2. A coagulated mass of soft or fluid matter; as, a clot of blood.-3. † A dull, stupid man; a clodpole. B. Jonson. Clot (klot), v.i. pret. & pp. clotted; ppr. clotting. To coagulate, as soft or fluid matter, into a thick, inspissated mass; as, milk or blood clots. Clot (klot), v. t. 1. To cause to coagulate; to make or form into clots or clods. - 2. To cover with clots. Glover. Clot-bur (klot'bêr), n. [A. Sax. clate, G. klette, a bur.] The burdock (Arctium Lappa). Clotered, pp. Clotted. Chaucer. Cloth (kloth), n. [A. Sax. claith, D. cleed, Icel. klæathi, Dan. and Sw. klæde, G. kleid, cloth; root unknown.] 1. A fabric or texture 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, woollen cloth, linen cloth, cotton cloth, hair cloth. But cloth is often used for a fabric of wool in contradistinction to that made of other material.-2. A texture or covering put to a particular use: as, (a) the covering of a table: usually called a Table-cloth. The musty wine, foul cloth, or greasy glass.' Pope. (b) The canvas on which pictures are drawn. (c) Dress; raiment. See CLOTHES. I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles. (d) A professional dress, and specifically that of a clergyman. Hence-3. With the definite article or other defining word prefixed, the office of a clergyman; and in a collective sense, the members of the clerical profession. Strong appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to... every axiom. Is. Taylor. -Cloth of state, a cloth canopy above a throne or chair of state. See STATE. garments; dressed; invested; furnished with clothing: sometimes, though rarely, with on. Then she rode forth clothed on with chastity. Tennyson. 2. Naut. a term applied to a mast when the sail is so long as to reach down to the deckgratings. Clothes (kloтíz), n. pl. [A plural of cloth, though it cannot now be said to have a singular.] 1. Garments for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture. Mark v, 28. Prior. If I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole. 2. The covering of a bed; bed-clothes. She turned away her frighted head, Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. Clothes-basket (klõтHz'bas-ket), n. A large basket for holding or carrying clothes. Clothes-brush (kloTHz'brush), n. A brush adapted for brushing clothes. Clothes-horse (klōTнz'hors), n. A frame to hang clothes on. Clothes-line (kloTHz'lin), n. A slender rope on which clothes are hung to dry after being washed. Clothes-moth (klōTнz'moth), n. The name common to several moths of the genus Tinea, whose larvæ are destructive to woollen fab rics, feathers, furs, &c., upon which they feed, using at the same time the material for the construction of the cases in which they assume the chrysalis state. In the accompanying figure a is the Tinea tapetzella or woollen clothesmoth; b, the case or cloak of the caterpillar of T. pellionella, which infests furs. Clothes-pin (klōTнz'pin), n. A forked piece of wood or small spring clip by which clothes are attached to a clothes-line. Cloth-hall (kloth'hal), n. A hall at the great woollen-cloth marts, as Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, &c., where producers and buyers meet periodically for the transaction of business. Clothier (klöтH'i-èr), n. 1. A seller of cloth or of clothes.-2. A maker of cloths. Shak.; Sir J. Hayward.-3. In America, a man whose occupation is to full and dress cloth. Clothing (kloTH'ing), n. 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. As for me... my clothing was sackcloth. Ps. xxxv. 13. 2. The art or practice of making cloth. The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing. Ray. 3. In steam-engines, same as Cleading, 2. Cloth-lapper (kloth'lap-êr), n. A person who laps or folds cloth, generally by the aid of some mechanical contrivance. Clotho (klo'tho), n. In Greek myth, that one of the three Fates whose duty it was to put the wool for the thread of life round the spindle, while that of Lachesis was to spin it, and that of Atropos to cut the thread off when a man had to die; from Gr. klóthō, to spin. Cloth-paper (kloth'pa-pêr), n. Coarse glazed paper for pressing and finishing woollen cloth. Cloth-prover (kloth'pröv-ér), n. A magnifying-glass employed in numbering the threads of weft in a given space of cloth. Clothred, p. and a. Clotted. Chaucer. Cloth-shearer (kloth'shër-ér), n. One who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous CLOTH-WHEEL cally, a machine in which cloth is drawn through a series of frictional stretchingbars and passed over spreading rollers, so as to equalize the inequalities on its surface and enable it to be firmly and smoothly wound on the winding-roll. E. H. Knight. Cloth-wheel (kloth'whel), n. A grinding or polishing wheel, covered with cloth charged with an abrading or polishing material, as pumice-stone, rotten-stone, chalk, puttypowder, &c. E. H. Knight. Cloth-worker (kloth'wèrk-ér), n. A maker of cloth. Hence-Cloth-workers' Company, one of the twelve great livery companies of London. Cloth-yard (kloth'yärd), n. A measure for cloth which differed somewhat in length from the modern yard.-Cloth-yard shaft, an arrow a cloth-yard long. 'With the yew bow and cloth-yard shaft at Cressy and Agincourt. T. Hughes. Clotpoll (klot'pol), n. A clodpoll; a blockhead. Shak. Clotted (klot'ed), p. and a. Concreted into a mass; consisting of clots.-Clotted cream, clouted cream, cream produced in the form of clots on the surface of new milk when it is warmed. Clottert (klot'èr), v. i. To concrete or gather into lumps; to clot. 'Clottered blood.' Dryden. Clotty (klot'i), a. Full of clots or small hard masses; full of concretions or clods. Clotty matter.' Harvey. [Rare.] Cloucht (klouch), n. Clutch; grasp; gripe. Spenser. Cloud (kloud), n. [Originally a mass or rounded mass in general; comp. the phrases 'clowdys of clay,' 'cludes of stone,' found in old writers; from A. Sax. clûd, a rock, a hillock, the root being that seen in clod, clot, &c.; so in O. D. klot, a clod, and klote, a cloud.] 1. A collection of visible vapour or watery particles suspended in the atmosphere at some altitude. A like collection Cloud-Cirrus. of vapours near the earth is usually called fog. The average height of the clouds is supposed to be between 2 and 3 miles, but this varies at different times of the year. Clouds have been classified as follows:(a) Cirrus, a cloud somewhat resembling a lock or locks of hair, the cat's tail of the Cloud-Cumulus. sailor, consisting of a number of flexuous, diverging fibres, generally at a great height in the atmosphere, and spreading out to any extent. (b) Cumulus, a cloud which assumes the form of dense convex or conical heaps, resting on a flattish base, called also day or summer cloud. (c) Stratus, also called fall-cloud from its lowness, an extended, continuous, level sheet of cloud, increasing from beneath. These three principal forms produce in combination forms denominated as follows: (d) Cirro-cumu lus, a connected system of small roundish clouds placed in close order or contact, resembling flocks of sheep, and often occurring in warm dry weather. (e) Cirro-stratus, a horizontal or slightly inclined sheet, attenuated at its circumference, concave 494 downwards or undulated; also, groups or patches having these characters, often somewhat resembling shoals of fishes, and pro Cloud-Stratus. ducing what is called a mackerel sky. (f) Cumulo-stratus, a cloud in which the structure of the cumulus is mixed with that of the cirro-stratus or cirro-cumulus, the cumulus at top and overhanging a flattish stratum or base. (g) Nimbus, cumulo-cirro Cloud-Nimbus. stratus, or rain-cloud, a dense cloud spreading out into a crown of cirrus and passing beneath into a shower.-2. What resembles a cloud, as a body of smoke or flying dust; a dark area of colour in a lighter material. 3. Fig. what obscures, darkens, threatens, or the like; as, a cloud hung over his prospects. Hence-to be under a cloud, to be in difficulties or misfortune.-4. A multitude; a collection; a mass. 'A noble cloud of trees at Fulham.' Aubrey. So great a cloud of witnesses.' Heb. xii. 1.- In the clouds, out of ordinary comprehension; in the realms of fancy or non-reality. Though poets may of inspiration boast, Their rage, ill-govern'd, in the clouds is lost. Waller. Cloud (kloud), v.t. 1. To overspread with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded. Hence-2. To obscure; to darken; to render gloomy or sullen. To cloud and darken the clearest truths.' Dr. H. More.-3. To darken in spots; to variegate with colours. 'A clouded cane.' Pope.-4. To sully; to tarnish the character of. [Rare and poetical.] CLOUT creeping rootstock and simple stem 4 to 8 inches high, found in Britain on alpine moors from Wales and Derby northwards. The flowers are large and white, and the berries, which are of a very agreeable taste, are orange-yellow in colour, and consist of a few large drupes. Cloud-born (kloud'born), a. Born of a cloud. Cloud-born centaurs.' Dryden. Cloud-built (kloud 'bilt), a. Built up of clouds. The sun went down Behind the cloud-built columns of the west. Cowper. 2. Fanciful; imaginary; chimerical: applied to daydreams or castles in the air.' And so vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith, Cloud-capped, Cloud-capt (kloud'kapt), a. Capped with clouds; touching the clouds; lofty. The cloud-capp'd towers.' Shak. Cloud-compeller (kloud 'kom-pel-ér), n. He that collects or controls the clouds: an epithet of Jupiter. Cloud-compelling (kloud'kom-pel-ing), a. Collecting, driving, or controlling the clouds. 'Abyssinia's cloud-compelling cliffs.' Thomson. Bacchus, the seed of cloud-compelling Jove.' Waller. Cloud-drift (kloud'drift), n. Same as Cloudrack. Cloudily (kloud'i-li), adv. In a cloudy manner; with clouds; darkly; obscurely. Plato talks too metaphysically and cloudily about it (the highest good). Cudworth. Cloudiness (kloud'i-nes), n. The state of being cloudy; as, (a) the state of being obscured or overcast with clouds; as, the cloudiness of the atmosphere. (b) Obscurity; want of clearness or intelligibility; mistiness; as, cloudiness of ideas. (c) Appearance of gloom or sullenness; as, cloudiness of aspect. Cloud-kissing (kloud'kis-ing), a. Touching the clouds; lofty. Cloud-kissing Ilion." Shak. Cloudless (kloud'les), a. Being without a cloud; unclouded; clear; bright; as, cloudless skies. Cloudlessly (kloud'les-li), adv. In a cloudless manner; without clouds. Cloudlet (kloud' let), n. A small cloud. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge. Cloud-rack (kloud'rak), n. Broken clouds; floating cloudy vapour. If there is no soul in man higher than all that, did it reach to sailing on the cloud-rack and spinning sea-sand; then I say man is but an animal. Carlyle. Cloud-ring (kloud'ring), n. A ring of clouds; a cloudy belt or region north and south of the equator. Cloud-topped (kloud'topt), a. Having the top covered with clouds. Gray. Cloudy (kloud'i), a. 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. Ex. xxxiii. 9.-3. Obscure; dark; not easily understood. 'Cloudy and confused notions.' Watts.-4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or illnature; not open or cheerful. When cloudy looks are cleared.' Spenser.-5. Marked with spots or areas of dark or various hues. 6. Wanting in lustre, brightness, transparency, or clearness; dimmed; as, a cloudy diamond. Before the wine grows cloudy. Swift. Clough (kluf), n. [A. Sax. cleofa, a cleft, from cleofan, to cleave, like Icel. klofi, a clough, from kljufa, to cleave; D. kloof, a ravine. The spelling shows that the labial f was formerly changed to a guttural, as in Sc. cleuch, a clough.] 1. A cleft, ravine, or valley in a hill-side.-2. In com. same as Cloff.3. A kind of sluice for letting off water gently, employed in the agricultural operation of improving soils by flooding them with muddy water. Clough-arch (kluf'ärch), n. Same as Paddle hole. Clour (klör), n. [Perhaps connected with Cloudberry (Rubus Chamamorus). ceæ. CLOUT piece. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood.' Shak.-3. In archery, the mark fixed in the centre of the butts at which archers are shooting, said to have been originally a piece of white cloth, though Nares supposes that it may have been originally a small nail (Fr. clouet). Indeed, he must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak. 4. An iron plate on an axle-tree to keep it from wearing.-5. A blow with the hand. 'Kick, cuff, or clout.' J. Mayne. [Colloq. or vulgar.] Clout (klout), v.t. 1. To patch; to mend by sewing on a clout or patch. Paul, yea, and Peter too, had more skill... in clouting an old tent. Latimer. 2. To cover with a piece of cloth. A noisy impudent beggar showed a leg clouted up. Tatler. 3. To join clumsily. Many sentences of one meaning clouted up together.' Ascham. 4. To strike; to give a blow. [Colloq. or vulgar.] Pay him over the pate, clout him for all his courtesies. Beau. & Fl. Clout (klout), n. [Fr. clouet, a dim. of clou, a nail. The same as Clout-nail (which see). Clout (klout), v. t. [See above.] To stud or fasten with nails. See under the participle. Clouted (klout'ed), p. and a. Patched; mended clumsily; mended or covered with a clout. Clouted (klout'ed), p. and a. Studded, strengthened, or fastened with clout-nails. I thought he slept; and put My clouted brogues from off my feet. Shak. Milton. Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. [Some, however, regard the word clouted in the above passages as meaning patched or mended; but in the first extract the sense of studded with nails' is much the more natural.] Clouted (klout'ed), a. Clotted; as, clouted cream. [Provincial.] Clouterly (klout'èr-li), a. Clumsy; awkward. [Obsolete or provincial.] The single wheel plough is a very clouterly sort. Mortimer. Clout-nail (klout'nal), n. 1. A short, largeheaded nail worn in the soles of shoes.2. A nail for securing clouts or small patches of iron, as to the axle-tree of carriages. Called also simply Clout. Clove (klov), pret. of cleave. Clove (klov), n. [D. klove, kloof, a cleft. See CLOUGH, CLEAVE.] A cleft; a fissure; a gap, a ravine: rarely used except as part of a proper name in America; as, Kaaterskill Clove; the Stony Clove. Clove (klov), n. [Sp. clavo, a clove, a nail, from L. clavus, a nail, from its resemblance to a nail in shape.] A very pungent aromatic spice, the dried flower-buds of Caryophyllus aromaticus, a native of the Mo lucca Islands, belonging to the myrtle tribe. Clove (Caryophyllus aromaticus). The tree is a handsome evergreen from 15 to 30 feet high, with large elliptic smooth leaves and numerous purplish flowers on jointed stalks. Every part of the plant abounds in the volatile oil for which the flower-buds are prized.-Oil of cloves, an essential oil obtained from the buds of the clove-tree. It is the least volatile of the essential oils, and consists of eugenic acid and a neutral oil. Clove (klov), n. [According to Skeat, from A. Sax. cluf, a bulb; originally a lump or mass, from root of clue, cleave, clod, &c.] 1. One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a mother bulb, as in garlic.-2. A denomination of weight. The divisions of a weight or wey of cheese, &c., In that countree growen many trees that beren clowe-gilofres and notemuges. Sir John Mandeville. Clove-hitch (klov'hich), n. See HITCH, 3. Clove-hook (klov'hök), n. Naut. an iron clasp in two parts, which move on the same pivot and overlap one another, used for bending chain-sheets to the clews of sails. Cloven (klov'n), pp. of cleave. Divided; parted. To show the cloven hoof, to exhibit designs of an evil or diabolic character, the devil being supposed to have cloven hoofs. Cloven-footed (klov'n-fut-ed),a. Having the foot divided into parts; cloven-hoofed. Cloven-hoofed (klov'n-höft), a. Having the hoof divided into two parts, as the ox; bisulcate. Clove-pink (klov'pingk), n. A pink smelling of cloves. Clover, Clover-grass (klō'ver, klō'vergras), n. [A. Sax. clafre; D. klaver, L.G. klever, Dan. klöver, Sw. klöfver; perhaps from root of cleave, from its trifid leaves.] A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium, nat. order Leguminosa. The species are low herbs, chiefly found in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. There are about 150 species, of which eighteen are natives of Britain. Some are weeds, but many species are valued as food for cattle. The red clover (T. pratense) is generally cultivated for fodder and for enriching land. The white clover (T. repens) 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. Alsike-clover (which see) is now in high repute, and Italian or crimson clover (T. incarnatum) is also cultivated to a considerable extent in Britain, yielding a heavy crop. The name clover is often applied to plants cultivated for the same purpose and belonging to the same natural order, although not of the same genus, as medick and melilot. - To be or to live in clover, to be in most enjoyable circumstances; to live luxuriously or in abundance. Clovered (klo'verd), a. Covered with clover. Flocks thick-nibbling through the clovered vale.' Thomson. Clover-sick (klö'ver-sik), a. A term applied to land in bad condition from being too long cropped with clover. Clover-weevil (klō'ver-wě-vil), n. A kind of weevil, genus Apion, different species of which feed on the seeds of the clover, as also on tares and other leguminous plants. A. apricans, especially, is frequently very destructive to fields of red clover, laying its eggs among the flowers, from which the grubs eat their way into the pods. It is of a bluish-black colour, and little more than a line in length. Clove-tree (klov'tre), n. See CLOVE and CARYOPHYLLUS. Clowe-gilofre,t n. See CLOVE-GILOFRE. Clown (kloun), n. [Icel. klunni, a clumsy, boorish fellow; Fris. klönne, a bumpkin; allied to Sw. dial. klunn, Dan. klunt, a log, a block. A notion that it was from L. colonus, O. E. colone, a husbandman, has probably attached to it meaning 3.] 1. A lout; a boor; a churl; a man of coarse manners; a person without refinement. "This loutish clown." Sir P. Sidney. As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. 2. A jester, merryman, or buffoon, as in a theatre, circus, or other place of entertainment. 'The roynish clown at whom your grace was wont, so oft to laugh.' Shak. 3. A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic. CLUB The clown, the child of nature without guile, Blest with an infant's ignorance of all But his own simple pleasures. Cowper. Clown (kloun), v.i. To act as a clown; to play the clown. Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. B. Jonson, Clownaget (kloun'aj), n. The manners of a clown. 'Pride and stiff clownage.' B. Jonson. Clownery + (kloun'èr-i), n. Ill-breeding; rustic behaviour; rudeness of manners. The fool's conceit had both clownery and ill-nature. Sir R. L'Estrange. Clownish (kloun'ish), a. 1. Of or pertaining to clowns or rustics; rude; coarse; awkward; ungainly. Clownish hands.' Spenser. Clownish pleasures.' Beau. & Fl. A clownish fool. Shak.-2. Abounding in clowns. 'A clownish neighbourhood." Dryden. Clownishly (kloun'ish-li), adv. In a clownish manner; coarsely; rudely. Clownishness (kloun'ish-nes), n. The state or quality of being clownish; rusticity; coarseness or rudeness of behaviour; incivility; awkwardness. Dryden; Locke. Cloy (kloi), v.t. [From an O.Fr. cloyer, equivalent to clouer, cloer, originally to fasten with a nail, O. Fr. clo, Fr. clou, from L. clavus, a nail. Cotgrave gives encloyer as an obsolete word with sense to stop up, to choke, and enclouer in senses 3 and 4 below.] 1. To stop up; to obstruct. The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbour by sinking ships laden with stones. Speed. 2. To satiate; to gratify to excess so as to cause loathing; to surfeit. The grave is sooner cloyed than men's desire. Quarles. 3. To spike; to drive a spike into the vent of; as, to cloy a gun. Knolles. - 4. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing. He never shod a horse but he cloyed him. Bacon. 5. To pierce; to gore. Which with his cruel tusk him deadly cloyed.' Spenser. Cloy (kloi), v. t. To stroke with a claw. His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak As when his god is pleased. Shak. Cloyless (kloi'les), a. Not causing satiety. Cloyless sauce.' Shak. Cloyment + (kloi'ment), n. Surfeit; repletion beyond the demands of appetite. 'Surfeit, cloyment, and revolt.' Shak. Club (klub), n. [A Scandinavian word; Icel. klubba, klumba, Sw. klubba, Dan. klub, a club. Clump is a nasalized form of this word.] 1. A stick or piece of wood, with one end thicker and heavier than the other, suitable for being wielded with the hand; a thick heavy stick used as a weapon; a cudgel.-2. In golf and shinty, a staff with a crooked and heavy head for driving the ball. See GOLF-CLUB, 1.-3. [A translation of Sp. basto, a club or cudgel, bastos, the suit of clubs in a pack of cards.] A card of the suit that is marked with trefoils (Fr. trèfles, trefoils, clubs at cards); pl. the suit so marked.-4. A round solid mass; a clump; a knot. The hair carried into a club, according to the fashion.' Lord Lytton.5. [Club here a clump or knot of men.] A collection or assembly of men; specifically, a select number of persons in the habit of meeting for the promotion of some common object, as social intercourse, literature, science, politics, &c. Admission to the membership of clubs is commonly by ballot.-6. A club-house (which see).-7. The united expenses of a company; joint charge; the contribution of an individual to a joint charge. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club (klub), v.i. pret. & pp. clubbed; ppr. clubbing. 1. To combine or join together, as a number of individuals, for a common purpose; to form a club; as, they resolved to club together to promote his election.2. Specifically, to contribute to a common fund; to combine to raise money for a certain purpose. We were resolved to club for a coach. Tatler. Swift. 3. To be united in producing a certain effect; to combine into a whole. Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden. 4. Naut. to drift down a current with an anchor out. |