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Climactic

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

Climatic

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

Climatology

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

Climax

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

Climb

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

climb-down

a retraction of a previously held position.

Climber

To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.

Clime

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

Clinanthium

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

Clinch

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.

Clincher

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

Cling

Adherence; attachment; devotion.

clingfish

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

Clingstone

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.

Clinic

One confined to the bed by sickness.

clinid

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

Clinidae

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

Clink

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

Clinker

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

Clinker-built

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.

Clinkstone

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

Clinodiagonal

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.

Clinographic

Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.

Clinoid

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

Clinometer

An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.

Clinometric

Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.

Clinometry

That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.

Clinopinacoid

The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

Clinorhombic

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

Clinostat

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.

clintonia

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.

clintonomics

the economic policies of president Bill Clinton.

Clio

The Muse who presided over history.

Clione

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.

clip-on

having a clip as the means of attachment; as, clip-on earrings; a clip-on bow tie.

clipboard

a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers.

clipped

trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.

Clipper

One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.

clippers

a type of shears for cutting grass or shrubbery; as, hedge clippers.

Clique

To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.

cliquish

Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.

cliquism

The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.

clit

Same as clitoris.

clitellus

A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

Clitocybe

a genus of white-spored agarics with flat or funnel-shaped cap and elastic stem.

Clitoria

a genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers.

Clitoris

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva in females, homologous to the penis in the male.

clitter

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

Clivity

Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.

Cloaca

A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.

Cloacal

Of or pertaining to a cloaca.

Cloak

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

Cloaking

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

Cloakroom

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

clobber

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

Cloche

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.

cloche

a woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat.

Clock

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

clocking

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

Clocklike

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.

clocks

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.

clockwise

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.

Clockwork

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

Clod

To pelt with clods.

Cloddish

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.

Cloddy

Consisting of clods; full of clods.

Cloff

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.

Clog

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

clogged

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

Cloggy

Clogging, or having power to clog.

Cloisonne

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.

Cloister

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

Cloisterer

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

Cloistral

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

clone

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

Clonic

Having an irregular, convulsive motion.

Clonus

A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies.

Cloom

To close with glutinous matter.

Cloop

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

Cloot

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.

clorella

any alga of the genus Chlorella.

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