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Clouding

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

Cloudy

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

Clough

An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.

Clout

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

Clove

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

Clover

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.

cloverleaf

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.

cloveroot

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

Clown

To act as a clown; -- with it.

Clownage

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.

Clownish

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

Clownishness

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

Cloy

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

Club

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

Club-rush

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

Club-shaped

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

Clubbable

Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.

Clubbed

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

Clubbist

A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.

Clubfoot

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

Clubhand

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

Clubhaul

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.

clubmoss club moss

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.

Clubroom

The apartment in which a club meets.

Cluck

The call of a hen to her chickens.

Clucking

The noise or call of a brooding hen.

Clue

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

Clue Clew

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

Clumber

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

Clump

To tread clumsily; to clamp.

Clumper

To form into clumps or masses.

Clumps

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.

Clumpy

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.

Clumsily

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

Clumsy

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.

Clunch

Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

Clung

Wasted away; shrunken.

Cluniac

A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

clupeid

any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of the family Clupeidae, inhabiting the shallow waters of northern seas. The group includes the herrings, menhaden, sardines, and shad.

Clupeidae

a natural family of teleostean marine fishes which includes the herrings, shad, sardines, menhaden, and others.

Clupeoid

Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

clusia

an aromatic tree of the genus Clusia having large white or yellow or pink flowers.

Clusiaceae

a widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber.

Cluster

To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.

clustered

growing close together but not in dense mats; -- of plants.

Clustery

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.

Clutch

To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.

clutch hitter

a batter who hits safely more frequently when men are on base or the team is behind in the score.

Clutter

To clot or coagulate, as blood.

Clydesdale

One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.

Clypeastroid

Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

Clypeate

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

Clypeus

The frontal plate of the head of an insect.

Clysmian

Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.

Clyster

A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.

Cnemial

Pertaining to the shin bone.

Cnicus

a genus of plants having only one species, the blessed thistle.

Cnida

One of the peculiar stinging cells found in C/lenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.

Cnidaria

A comprehensive group equivalent to the true C/lenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

Cnidoblast

One of the cells which, in the C/lenterata, develop into cnid/.

Cnidocil

The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.

CNS

acronym for central nervous system the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

Co

the chemical formula for cobalt, a ferromagnetic metal of atomic number 27.

co-author

to to be an author of, together with another author or authors; to author jointly with others.

co-ed

having both female and male students; -- of a school.

co-op

a commercial enterprise run for the benefit of its owners.

Co-respondent

One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.

co-star

to be the co-star in a performance; as, Robin Williams co-starred in the film.

CO2

the chemical formula for carbon dioxide, a heavy odorless gas (CO2) formed during respiration and by the combustion or decomposition of organic substances; it is absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis. The formula itself, pronounced out, is often used instead of the full name, especially with reference to fire extinguishers using this gas for fire suppression; as, a CO2 extinguisher.

Coach

To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with

coachbuilder

a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles.

Coachfellow

One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade.

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