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.

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 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.

State of being a client.

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

State of being client.

Of or pertaining to a client.

Supplied with clients.

See Clientele, n., 2.

The condition or position of a client; clientship

Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron.

See Clef.

any of several small lithophytic ferns of tropical and warm temperate regions.

a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end.

characterized by cliffs; -- of a shore or shoreline; -- contrasted with beachy.

Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.

Broken; fissured.

See Climacteric, n.

A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

See Climacteric.

Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

Climatic.

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

To dwell.

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

Climatic.

To acclimate or become acclimated.

A description of climates.

Of or pertaining to climatology.

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.

A climate.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

a retraction of a previously held position.

Capable of being climbed.