To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.

A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.

A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

With clashing.

An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.

Furnished with tendrils.

exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class

Capable of being classed.

A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

The quality of being classical.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.

One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

of or pertaining to classicism; as, classicistic tradition.

to make classic or classical.

the branch of learning concerned with study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome.

Capable of being classified.

Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.

arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

One who classifies.

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

A class or order; sort; kind.

A member of a class; a classmate.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress. Opposite of styleless.

Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).

To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way.

a antural family of fleshy stinkhornlike fungi.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

the type genus of the Clathraceae.

A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.

One who clatters.

With clattering.

Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle.

Limping.

A halting or limping.

See Letters clause or Letters close, under Letter.

Cloistral.

A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.

Consisting of, or having, clauses.

The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]

imp. of Cleave.

The harpsichord.

See Clevis.

See Clavate.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.

Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.

a genus of fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses.

A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.

The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.

Having club-shaped antenn/. See Antenn/ One of the Clavicornes.

A group of beetles having club-shaped antenn/.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

Club-shaped; clavate.

One who carries a club; a club bearer.

Bearing a club or a key.

A key; a glossary.

A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

A mantelpiece.

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.

To flatter.

Furnished with claws.

Destitute of claws.

having a base shaped like a claw; -- of flower petals.

to sound loudly; -- of car horns.

To cover or manure with clay.

Stupid.

Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

an antipersonnel land mine designed to produce a high-velocity spray of steel fragments in a relatively narrow fan-shaped cone, directed toward the enemy. They are usually detonated by an electrical remote control.

An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.

Objects made from clay and baked in a kiln.

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

See Clear-cut.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.

living in a manner above moral reproach; especially, abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse and excessive drunkenness.

having the surface shaved to smoothness.

Well-proportioned; symmetrical.

One who, or that which, cleans.

a shop where dry cleaning is done.

The act of making clean.

In a cleanly manner.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.

In a clean manner; neatly.

The state or quality of being clean.

Capable of being cleansed.

To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

having been made clean. Opposite of dirty.

One who, or that which, cleanses; especially, a detergent or other preparation used for cleaning.

To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- of the weather; -- often followed by up, off, or away.

To cut (a region of forest) clear of all trees. It is a method used for efficiently logging a portion of forest, but often has undesirable effects on the environment.

Acutely perceptive or discerning.

Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.

Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.

Shining brightly.

Seeing with clearness; acutely perceptive, discerning; as, clear-sighted reason.

Acute discernment.

able to think clearly and accurately.

The act of removing anything; clearance.

The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.

To coat or paint with clearcole.

The quality of being cleared.

One who, or that which, clears.

The act or process of making clear.

In a clear manner.

The quality or state of being clear.

To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.

One who clearstarches.

A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family /geriad/, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.

To strengthen with a cleat.