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 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.

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.

To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.

p. pr. vb. n. of Climb.

A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.

The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.

See Clinker-built.

Adherence; attachment; devotion.

very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.

Apt to cling; adhesive.

One confined to the bed by sickness.

Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

In a clinical manner.

any fish of the family Clinidae, of temperate and tropical seas.

a natural family of viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas.

A clinic.

See Clinanthium.

A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.

See Clinquant.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.