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.

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.

to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers.

See Cleavers.

Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.

A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

Of or pertaining to a cloaca.

To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.

In a concealed manner.

The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take all your clobber?.

An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of a/roplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

a woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat.

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarab/us stercorarius).

the time taken to traverse a measured course; as, it was a world record clocking.

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

European weed naturalized in the southwestern U. S. and Mexico (Erodium cicutarium), having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender pinlike fruits that stick straight up; it is often grown for forage.

in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.

The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

To pelt with clods.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.

Consisting of clods; full of clods.

A rude, rustic fellow.

Boorish; rude.

A blockhead; a dolt.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

A stupid fellow; a dolt.

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.

obstructed so as to prevent or hinder flow of a fluid; -- of conduits; as, clogged pipes; clogged arteries.

The state of being clogged.

Anything which clogs.

Clogging, or having power to clog.

Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlev/ enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.

To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

Cloistral.

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.

A nun.

See Cloak.

imp. p. p. of Climb (for climbed).

See Clamp.

to make a clone from; to make identical copies of an organism by a non-sexual process of reproduction.

imp. of Cling.