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.

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.

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.

To make appeal; to cry out.

A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

See Kleptomania.

Same as Clearstory.

The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

A chorister boy.

Learned; erudite; clerical.

Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.

Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.

An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

Same as Clerical.

Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

garments worn by the clergy.

The state of being a clergyman.

a natural family of beetles that prey on other insects.

a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person.

The literati, or well educated class.

A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.

Unlearned.

Scholarlike.

Scholarship.

In a scholarly manner.

State, quality, or business of a clerk.

A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

Inheritance; heritage.

See Clearstory.

Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.

Somewhat clever.

In a clever manner.

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

To direct; to guide, as by a thread.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.

repeated regularly without thought or originality.

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.

The knocker of a door.

a fast and rhythmic clicking sound, as of /click-clack/; as, the clickety-clack of the typewriters.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.

A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.