Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.

dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible; -- said of a sailing vessel.

not ready to receive new ideas.

grouped closely together.

arranged close together; as, close-set eyes; close-set teeth.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

Closemouthed; silent.

having an opening obstructed.

having atoms linked by bonds which form a ring.

not ready to receive new ideas.

same as closed-chain.

termination of operations; a shutdown.

Covetous; niggardly.

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.

In a close manner.

owned by a relatively few shareholders; -- of business organizations; as, a closely-held corporation.

bound together by intimate ties, social, personal, cultural or political; as, closely-knit little villages; a close-knit family.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

To make close.

The state of being close.

One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

a photograph or other recorded image taken at close range, or using a telephoto lens so as to appear to have been taken at close range; -- used especially of images of faces in which the face fills all or most of the photograph.

The game of ninepins.

the act of closing something.

spindle-shaped bacterial cell esp. one swollen at the center by an endospore.

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

To form into, or cover with, clots; to cause to coagulate; to make into a slimy mass.

The burdock.

The common burdock; the clotbur.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

having rigid front and back covers, covered with cloth; -- of books. Contrasted to softcover.

To wear clothes.

wearing clothing.

Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.

a brush used for cleaning clothing.

A frame to hang clothes on.

unclothed. Opposite of clothed.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

A forked piece of wood or plastic, or a small device with a spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

A receptacle for clothes.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.

Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.

Clottered.

See Clodpoll.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.

To concrete into lumps; to clot.

Full of clots, or clods.

See Closure, 5.

Cocklebur.

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up.

Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.

A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.

an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate; it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality.

a state of extreme or perfect happiness; used especially in the phrase on cloud nine.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.

The state of being cloudy.

A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the process of dyeing.

Dreamland.

Without a cloud; clear; bright.

A little cloud.

resembling a cloud.

Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.

An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.

Clumsy; awkward.

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

from Cleave, v. t.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, Trifolium pratense, the white, Trifolium repens, and the hare's foot, Trifolium arvense.

Covered with growing clover.

a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions.

a hairy Eurasian plant (Geum urbanum) with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally.

a group of cats.

Spice clove.

To act as a clown; -- with it.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.

Clownishness.

acting like a clown or buffoon.

Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

That does not cloy.

Satiety.

To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.

Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antenn/ of certain insects.

Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.

One who clubs.

Rude; clownish.

A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.

A large, heavy fist.

Having a large fist.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

Having a clubfoot.

A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.

A house occupied by a club.

a primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles, much used in winter decoration. The best known species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.

The apartment in which a club meets.

The call of a hen to her chickens.

The noise or call of a brooding hen.

A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

not providing any clue.

Silence; hush.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

To tread clumsily; to clamp.

To form into clumps or masses.

A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two /clumps/ or groups, the /clump/ which guesses the word winning the game.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.

In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

The quality of being clumsy.

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.