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A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte.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/.

Of or pertaining to the clavicle.

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.

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.

Capable of cleaving or being divided.

The act of cleaving or splitting.

To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

A species of Galium (Galium Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

See Cl/ch/.

The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.

The redshank.

To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.

Having a cloven foot.

To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

A small breeze or horsefly.

the closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Eurysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration; -- called also cleistothecium.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.

the closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Eurysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration; -- called also cleistocarp.

To starve; to famish.

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

Clemency.

Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.

Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

See Clinch.

a queen of Egypt; b. 69 b. c., d. 30 b. c.