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.
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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.
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.
That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization. Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
See under Dome.
Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.
Tinsel; Dutch gold.
any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.
the economic policies of president Bill Clinton.
The Muse who presided over history.
A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
An embrace.
having a clip as the means of attachment; as, clip-on earrings; a clip-on bow tie.
a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers.
trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.
a type of shears for cutting grass or shrubbery; as, hedge clippers.
The act of embracing.
To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.
The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
Same as clitoris.
A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
a genus of white-spored agarics with flat or funnel-shaped cap and elastic stem.
a genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers.
Of or pertaining to the clitoris.
A small organ at the upper part of the vulva in females, homologous to the penis in the male.
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