To form into clumps or masses.
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A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two /clumps/ or groups, the /clump/ which guesses the word winning the game.
Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
The quality of being clumsy.
Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.
Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
Wasted away; shrunken.
A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.
Cluniac.
any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of the family Clupeidae, inhabiting the shallow waters of northern seas. The group includes the herrings, menhaden, sardines, and shad.
a natural family of teleostean marine fishes which includes the herrings, shad, sardines, menhaden, and others.
Of or pertaining to the Herring family.
an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers.
a widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber.
To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
growing close together but not in dense mats; -- of plants.
In clusters.
Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.
a batter who hits safely more frequently when men are on base or the team is behind in the score.
the act of grasping.
To clot or coagulate, as blood.
Same as Glycerite.
One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.
Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.
Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
Shield-shaped; clypeate.
The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.
Washing; cleansing.
A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Pertaining to the shin bone.
a genus of plants having only one species, the blessed thistle.
One of the peculiar stinging cells found in C/lenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.
A comprehensive group equivalent to the true C/lenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.
One of the cells which, in the C/lenterata, develop into cnid/.
The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
acronym for central nervous system the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
the chemical formula for cobalt, a ferromagnetic metal of atomic number 27.
A joint ally.
A joint assessor.
to to be an author of, together with another author or authors; to author jointly with others.
having both female and male students; -- of a school.
A joint legatee.
A partner in a lease taken.
A partner in giving a lease.
A companion.
To mix; to mingle, to temper.
a commercial enterprise run for the benefit of its owners.
same as co-optation.
joining together words or phrases of equal grammatical rank.
A joint regent or ruler.
Corresponding relation.
One of the same religion with another.
One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
to be the co-star in a performance; as, Robin Williams co-starred in the film.
One who suffers with another.
To combine or unite.
United closely with another.
the chemical formula for carbon dioxide, a heavy odorless gas (CO2) formed during respiration and by the combustion or decomposition of organic substances; it is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis. The formula itself, pronounced out, is often used instead of the full name, especially with reference to fire extinguishers using this gas for fire suppression; as, a CO2 extinguisher.
To heap up; to pile.
A heaping together.
To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles.
A coachman
A coachman.
One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade.
the job of a professional coach.
A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
Skill in driving a coach.
To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.
Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
In a coactive manner.
Unity of action.
Mutual adaption.
Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth.
Mutual help; cooperation.
To adjust by mutual adaptations.
Mutual adjustment.
An assistant.
Mutually assisting.
Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.
A female coadjutor or assistant.
Joint help; cooperation.
An adjuvant.
United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
Union, as in one body or mass; unity.
Coadunation.
To share in a venture.
A fellow adventurer.
To convert into, or add to, a forest.
See Coak, a kind of tenon.
Agency in common; joint agency or agent.
An associate in an act; a coworker.
To join together.
The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union.
The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.
Capable of being coagulated.
That which produces coagulation.
To undergo coagulation.
Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled.
The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.
Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent.
That which causes coagulation.
Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects.
The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, esp. Ateles paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. See Illustration in Appendix.
To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or faces.
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
As black as coal; jet black; very black.
A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.
One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.
a bin for holding coal.
See Colliery.
To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.
joined together into a whole.
The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.
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