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ELER IC, n. A clerk or clergyman. Horsley.
ELER IC, a. Relating to the character of a clergyman.
ELERI-CAL, a. [L. clericus.] Relating or pertaining to
the clergy.

* CLERK, n. [Sax. cleric, clerc, ciere; L. clericus.] 1. A clergyman, or ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders. 2. A man that can read. 3. A man of letters; a scholar. Sidney. 4. In modern usage, a writer; one who is employed in the use of the pen, in an office, public or private, for keeping records and accounts. 5. A layman who is the reader of responses in church service.

* CLERK-ALE, n. In England, the feast of the parish clerk.

CLERK LESS, a. Ignorant; uncivilized. Waterhouse. * CLERK LIKE, a. Like a clerk; learned. Shak. *CLERK LY, a. Scholarlike. Cranmer.

CLERK LY, adv. In a learned manner. Gascoigne.

* CLERK SHIP, n. 1. A state of being in holy orders. 2. Scholarship. 3. The office or business of a clerk or writer. Swift. ELER/O-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. xλnpos and μavrcia.] A divination by throwing dice or little bones, and observing the points or marks turned up

ELEVE, CLIF, or ЄLIVE, in the composition of names, denote a place situated on or near a cliff, on the side of a hill, rock or precipice; as Cleveland, Clifton. CLEVER, a. 1. Fit; suitable; convenient; proper; commodious. Pope. 2. Dextrous; adroit; ready; that performs with skill or address. Addison. 3. In New England, good-natured, possessing an agreeable mind or disposition.

CLEVER-LY, adv. Fitly; dextrously; handsomely. CLEVER-NESS, n. 1. Dexterity; adroitness; skill. 2.

In New England, mildness or agreeableness of disposition; obligingness; good nature.

ELEVIY, or ЄLEV'IS, n. An iron bent to the form of an ox bow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of a cart-neap to hold the chain of the forward horse or oxen; or a draft-iron on a plow. New England. CLEW, n. [Sax. cleow, cliwe.] 1. A ball of thread. 2. The thread that forms a ball; the thread that is used to guide a person in a labyrinth. Hence, any thing that guides or directs one in an intricate case. 3. The lower corner of a square-sail, and the aftermost corner of a staysail.

ELEW, v. t. 1. In seamanship, to truss up to the yard, by means of clew-garnets or clew-lines, in order to furling.

2. To direct.

ELEW-GARINETS, n. In marine language, a sort of tackle, or rope and pulley, fastened to the clews of the main and fore-sails, to truss them up to the yard. CLEW-LINES, n. These are the same tackle, and used for the like purpose as clew-garnets.

ELIЄK, v. i. [D. klikken.] To make a small, sharp noise, or rather a succession of small, sharp sounds, as by a gentle striking.

CLICK, n. In seamen's language, a small piece of iron falling into a notched wheel, attached to the winches in cutters, &c.

CLICK, n. The latch of a door. [Local.]

CLICK ER, n. The servant of a salesman, who stands at the door to invite customers.

CLICK'ET, n. The knocker of a door. CLICK'ING, ppr. Making small sharp noises. ELI'ENT, n. [Fr. client; L. cliens.] 1. Among the Romans, a citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who, in respect to that relation, was called his patron. 2. One who applies to a lawyer or counsellor for advice in a question of law, or commits his cause to his management. 3. A depend

ent.

CLIENT-AL, a. Dependent. [Unusual.] Burke.
CLIENT-ED, a. Supplied with clients. Carew.
tЄLI-EN-TELE', n. The condition or office of a client.
Bp. Hall.

CLIENT-SHIP, n. The condition of a client; a state of being under the protection of a patron.

CLIFF, n. [Sax. clif.] 1. A steep bank. 2. A high and steep rock; any precipice. [This word has been sometimes written clift.]

CLIFF, in music. See CLEF.

CLIFFY, a. Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
ELIFTED, a. Broken.

ELIFTY, à The same as cliffy. Pennant.

ELI-MACTER, n. [Gr. λpakryp.] 1. A critical year in human life. 2. A certain space of time. [Not used.] *CLI-MAЄ/TER-IC, a. [Gr. Kλiμakтпpikos.] Literally, noting a scale, progression, or gradation; appropriately, denoting a critical period of human life.

ELI-MAC TER-IC, ". A critical period in human life, or a period in which some great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution. The critical periods are supposed by some persons to be the years produced by

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CLIMATE, n. [Gr. kλipa.] 1. In geography, a part of the surface of the earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such a breadth that the longest day in the parallel nearest the pole is half an hour longer than that nearest to the equator. 2. In a popular sense, a tract of land, region, or country, differing from another in the temperature of the air.

CLIMATE, v. i. To dwell; to reside in a particular region.
Shak. [Little used.]

CLI-MATIC, a. Pertaining to a climate; limited by
ELI-MATI-CAL, a climate. 8. S. Smith.
ELI MA-TURE, n. A climate. Shak.
CLIMAX,

n. [Gr. kλipa}.] 1. Gradation; ascent; a figure of rhetoric, in which a sentence rises, as it were, step by step. 2. Á sentence, or series of sentences, in which the successive members or sentences rise in force, importance or dignity, to the close of the sentence or series. CLIMB, (clime) . i.; pret. and pp. climbed, or clomb, but the latter is not elegant. [Sax. climan, or climban.] 1. To creep up by little and little, or step by step; to rise on any fixed object, by seizing it with the hands, and lifting the body, and by thrusting with the feet. 2. To mount or ascend with labor and difficulty. 3. To rise or ascend with a slow motion.

CLIMB, (clime) v. t. 1. To ascend by means of the hands and feet, implying labor, difficulty and slow progress. 2. To mount or ascend, with labor or a slow motion. CLIMBA-BLE, (cli'ma-bl) a. That may be climbed. CLIMBED, (climd) pp. Ascended by the use of the hands and feet; ascended with labor.

CLIMBER, (cli-mer) n. 1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort. 2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support. †ЄLIMB'ER, v. i. To climb; to mount with effort. CLIMBING, ppr. Ascending by the use of the hands and feet; ascending with difficulty.

ELIMBING, n. The act of ascending.

CLIME, n. [L. clima.] A climate; a tract or region of the earth; a poetical word, but sometimes used in prose. See CLIMATE.

CLINCH, v. t. [D. klinken.] 1. To gripe with the hand; to make fast by bending over, folding, or embracing closely. 2. To fix or fasten; to make firm.

CLINCH, v. i. To hold fast upon.

CLINCH, R. 1. A word used in a double meaning; a pun an ambiguity; a duplicity of meaning, with identity of expression. 2. A witty, ingenious reply. 3. In seamen's language, the part of a cable which is fastened to the ring of an anchor.

CLINCHED, pp. Made fast by doubling or embracing closely.

CLINCH'ER, n. 1. That which clinches; a cramp or piece of iron bent down to fasten any thing. 2. One who makes a smart reply. 3. That which makes fast. CLINCH'ER-BUILT, or ЄLINK'ER-BUILT, a. Made of clincher work.

CLINCH ER-WORK, a. In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it, like slates on the roof of a house.

CLINCH ING, ppr. Making fast by doubling over or embracing closely; griping with the fist.

ELING, v. i.; pret. and pp. clung. [Sax. clingan.] 1. To adhere closely; to stick to; to hold fast upon, especially by winding round or embracing. 2. To adhere closely; to stick to. 3. To adhere closely and firmly, in interest or affection.

ELING, v. t. To dry up, or wither. Shak.

ELING ING, ppr. Adhering closely; sticking to; winding round and holding to.

ELING Y, a. Apt to cling; adhesive.

ELINIE, or ЄLINI-¤AL, a. [Gr. Kivikos.] In a general sense, pertaining to a bed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bed side of the sick.

CLINIC, n. One confined to the bed by sickness. CLINI-CAL-LY, adv. In a clinical manner; by the bedside.

ELINK, v. t. [Sw. klinga.] To ring or jingle; to make a small, sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds. CLINK, ". A sharp sound, made by the collision of small sonorous bodies.

ELINK, v. i. To utter a small, sharp noise. Prur. ELINKING, ppr. Making a small, sharp sound, or succession of sounds.

CLINK STONE, n. [clink and stone.] A mineral. ELI NOME-TER, n. [Gr. «λvw and perpov.] An instrument for measuring the dip of mineral strata.

ELINQUANT, (clingk'ant) a. [Fr.] Dressed in tinsel fine- || ry. [Not English.] Shak. CLIP, v. t. [Sax. clypan.] 1. To cut off with shears or ecisors; to separate by a sudden stroke. 2. To diminish coin by paring the edge. 3. To curtail; to cut short. 4. To confine, limit, restrain, or hold; to hug. [Little used.] Shak. To clip it, is a vulgar phrase in New England, for to run with speed.

CLIP, e. i. A term in falconry. Dryden.

CLIP, n. 1. A blow or stroke with the hand. New England. 2. An embrace; that is, a throwing the arms round. Sid

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CLIPPING, s. 1. The act of cutting off, curtailing or dimiushing. 2. That which is clipped off; a piece separated by clipping.

CLISH CLASH, .i. To sound like the clashing of swords.
CLIV ER. See CLEAVER.

CLIVERS,. A plant, the galium aparine.
CLOAK. See CLOSE.

CLOAKED LY, ade. In a concealed manner,
ELOCHARD, n. A belfry. Weever.

CLOCK, a. (Sax. clugga; D. klok; G. klocke ; Dan. klokke;
Sw. klocka Fr. cloche; W. eloc.] 1. A machine which
measures time, and its divisions. The phrases, what
o'clock is it? it is nine o'clock, seem to be contracted
from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock. 2. A figure
or figured work in the ankle of a stocking.
CLOCK, v. t. To call. See CLUCK.

CLOCK, r. i. To make a noise like the hen. CLOCK MA-KER, n. An artificer whose occupation is to make clocks.

† CLOCK-SET-TER, ■. One who regulates the clock. CLOCK-WORK, s. 1. The machinery and movements of a clock. 2. Well adjusted work, with regular movement.

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CLOD, «. [D. kluit; G. klots.) 1. A hard lump of earth, of any kind; a mass of earth cohering. 2. A lump or mass of metal; httle used.] 3. Turf; the ground. 4. That which is earthy, base and vile, as the body of man compared to his soul. 5. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt. Any thing concreted.

CLOD, . . To collect into concretions, or a thick mass; to coagulate. See CLOT.

CLOĎ, e. t. To pelt with clods.

CLODDY, a. 1. Consisting of clods; abounding with clods. 2. Farthy; mean; gross.

ELODROP-PER, a. A clown; a dolt.

CLODPATE, a. A stupid fellow; a dolt; a thickskull.
CLODPA-TED, e. Stupid; dull; doltish.

CLODPOLL, . A stupid fellow; a dolt; a blockhead.

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CLOFF, m. The same with clough.

€LOG, t. t. [W.eleg.] 1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion. 2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping, to shackle. 3. To load with any thing that encumbers to burden; to embarrass. 4. To obstruct natural ton, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede. €16, v. i. 1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mast. 2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter.

€LAK, ®. 1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or lesping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg. 2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or ren der it difficult; hindrance; impediment. 3. A wooden sboe; also, a sort of patten worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.

CLOGGÉD, pp. Wearing a clog; shackled; obstructed; loaded with encumbrance.

CUGGI-NESS, s. The state of being clogged. CLOGGING, ppr. Putting on a clog; loading with encumtrance; obstructing, impeding.

CLOGGY, 4. That clogs, or has power to clog; thick;

CLOISTER, 1. [Fr. tlet're ; Sax. claustr.] 1. A monastenunnery; a bouse inhabited by monks or nuns. The prine pal part of a regular monastery, in which the micks meet for conversation. 2. A peristyle; a piazza. CLOISTER, v. t. 1. To confine in a cloister or monastery. 2. To shut up; to confine closely within walls; to imto shut up in retirement from the world. CLOISTER AL, 4. Confined to a cloister; retired from the w rid, recluse. Walton. CLOISTERED, p. 1. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a mnastery. 2. a. Solitary; retired from the world. 3. alt with peristyles or piazzas; inclosed.

CLOISTER-ER, . One belonging to the cloister.

CLOISTER-ING, ppr. Shutting up in a monastery ; confining; secluding from the world. CLOISTRESS, n. A nun; a woman who has vowed religious retirement. [Little used.]

ELOKE, n. [Sax. lach.] 1. A loose outer garment worn over other clothes both by men and women. 2. A cover; that which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense.

ELOKE, v. t. 1. To cover with a cloke. 2. To hide; to conceal; to use a false covering.

ELÕKE'-BAG, n. A bag in which a cloke or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau.

ELOKED, pp. Covered with a cloke; concealed under a

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ЄLONI€, a. [Gr. «dovos.] Shaking; convulsive; irregular Ceze.

CLOOM, v. t. [Sax. cleman.] To close with glutinous mat ter. [Local.] Mortimer.

CLOSE, v. t. [Fr. clos.] 1. To shut; to make fast, by pressing together, or by stopping an open place, so as to intercept a passage, in almost any manner. 2. To end; to finish; to conclude; to complete ; to bring to a period; as, to close a bargain, or contract. 3. To unite, as the parts of a breach or fracture; to make whole; to consolidate. 4. To cover; to inclose; to encompass; to overwhelm. 5. To inclose; to confine. [See INCLOSE.] 6. To move or bring together; to unite separate bodies or parts. CLOSE, v. i. 1. To unite; to coalesce; to come together, as the parts of a wound or fracture, or parts separated 2. To end; to terminate, or come to a period.

To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in.-To close with, to accede to; to consent or agree to; to unite with.-To close with, or to close in with, to unite; to join closely; to grapple, as persons

in a contest.

CLOSE, n. 1. An inclosed place; any place surrounded by a fence or other body which defends or confines it. 2. Conclusion; termination; final end. 3. A temporary finishing; a pause; rest; cessation; intermission. 4. The manner of shutting. 5. A grapple in wrestling. CLOSE, 4. 1. Shut fast; tight; made fast, so as to have no opening. 2. Having parts firmly united; compact; dense, applied to solid substances of any kind. 3. Having parts firmly adhering; viscous; tenacious. 4. Confined; stagnant; without ventilation or motion. 5. Confined; retired. 6. Hid; private ; secret. 7. Confined within narrow limits; narrow. 8. Near; within a small distance. 9. Joined; in contact, or nearly so; crowded. 10. Compressed, as thoughts or words; hence, brief; concise; opposed to loose, or diffuse. 11. Very near, in place or time, adjoining, or nearly so. 12. Having the qual.ty of keeping secrets, thoughts or designs; cautious. 13. Having an appearance of concealment; implying art, craft or wariness. 14. Intent; fixed; attentive; pressing upon the object. 15. Full to the point; home; pressing. 16. Pressing; earnest; warm. 17. Confined; secluded from communication. 18. Covetous; penurious; not liberal. 19. Applied to the weather or air, close, in popular language, denotes warm and damp, cloudy or foggy, or warm and relaxing, occasioning a sense of lassitude and depression. 20. Strictly adhering to the original.-21. In heraldry, drawn in a coat of arms with the wings close, and in a standing posture.

CLOSE, adr. Closely; nearly; densely; secretly; pressingly. Milton.

CLOSE-BAND-ED, 4. Being in close order; closely united. CLOSE-BOD-IED, a. Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.

CLOSE-COM-PA€T'ED, a. Being in compact order; compact. Addison.

CLOSE-COUCHED, a. Quite concealed. Milton.

CLOSE-CUR-TAINED, a. Inclosed or surrounded with

curtains.

CLOSE-FIST-ED, a. Covetous; niggardly. Berkeley.
CLOSE-HAND-ED, a. Covetous; penurious. Hale.
CLOSE-HAND-ED-NESS, ». Covetousness,

CLOSE-HAULED, a. In seamanship, having the tacks or lower corners of the sails drawn close to the side to windward, and the sheets hauled close aft, in sailing near the wind.

CLOSE-PENT, a Shut close. Dryden.

CLOSE-QUAR-TERS, n. Strong barriers of wood used in a ship for defense when the ship is boarded. CLOSE-STOOL, n. A chamber utensil for the convenience of the sick and infirm.

CLOSE-TONGUED, a. Keeping silence; cautious in speaking. Shak.

CLOSED, pp. Shut; made fast; ended; concluded. CLOSELY, adv. 1. In a close, compact manner; with the parts united, or pressed together, so as to leave no vent.

2. Nearly; with little space intervening. 3. Intently;
attentively; with the mind or thoughts fixed; with near
inspection. 4. Secretly; slily. 5. With near affection,
attachment or interest; intimately. 6. Strictly; within
close limits, without communication abroad. 7. With
strict adherence to the original.

CLOSENESS, n. 1. The state of being shut, pressed to-
gether, or united. 2. Compactness; solidity. 3. Narrow-
ness; straitness. 4. Tightness in building, or in apart-
ments; firmness of texture in cloth, &c. 5. Want of ven-
tilation. 6 Confinement or retirement of a person; re-
cluseness; solitude. 7 Reserve in intercourse; secrecy;
privacy; caution. 8. Covetousness; penuriousness. Ad-
dison. 9. Connection; near union; intimacy, whether of
friendship or of interest.
ously applied. 11. Adherence to an original.
10. Pressure; urgency; vari-
ELOS ER, n. A finisher; one who concludes.
ELOS ER, a. comp. of close. More close.
CLOS EST, a. superl. of close. Most close.
CLOSET, n. 1. A small room o. apartment for retirement;
any room for privacy. 2. An apartment for curiosities or
valuable things. 3. A small, close apartment or recess
in the side of a room for repositing utensils and furni-

ture

CLOSET, v. t. To shut up in a closet; to conceal; to take
into a private apartment for consultation.
CLOSET-ED, pp. Shut up in a closet; concealed.
CLOSET-ING, ppr. Shutting up in a private room; con-
cealing.

CLOSET-SIN, n. Sin committed in privacy.

CLOSH, n. A disease in the feet of cattle, called also the founder.

CLOSING, ppr. Shutting; coalescing; agreeing; ending. CLOSING, a. That ends or concludes; as, a closing word or letter.

CLOSING, n. End; period; conclusion.

CLOSURE, (clozhur) n. 1. The act of shutting; a closing. 2. That which closes, or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened, or made to adhere. 3. Inclosure; that which confines. 4. Conclusion. Shak.

ELOT, n. A concretion, particularly of soft or fluid matter, which concretes into a mass or lump.

ELOT, v. i. 1. To concrete; to coagulate, as soft or fluid
matter into a thick, inspissated mass. 2. To form into
clots or clods; to adhere.

CLOT-BIRD, n. The common ananthe, or English ortolan.
CLOT-BUR, n. [G. klette.] Burdock.

CLOTH, n. [Sax. clath. The plural is regular, cloths;
but when it signifies garments, it is written clothes.]
1. A manufacture or stuff, formed by weaving or inter-
texture of threads, and used for garments or other cover-
ing. 2. The covering of a table; usually called a table-
cloth. 3. The canvas on which pictures are drawn. 4.
A texture or covering put to a particular use. 5. Dress;
raiment. [See CLOTHES.] 6. The covering of a bed; [not
used.]

CLOTHE, v. t. ; pret. and pp. clothed, or clad. 1. To put on
garments; to invest the body with raiment; to cover with
dress. 2. To cover with something ornamental. 3. To
furnish with raiment; to provide with clothes; as, a
master is to feed and clothe his apprentice. 4. To put on ;
to invest; to cover, as with a garment. 5. To invest; to
surround; to encompass. 6. To invest; to give to by
commission. 7. To cover or spread over.
CLOTHE, v. i. To wear clothes.

invest

CLOTHED, pp. Covered with garments; dressed;
ed; furnished with clothing.
*CLOTHES, (clothes, or clōze) n. plu. of cloth. 1. Garments
for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; a gen-
eral term for whatever covering is worn, or made to be
worn, for decency or comfort. 2. The covering of a bed;
bed-clothes.

CLOTH'IER, (cloth'yer) n. 1. In English authors, a man who
makes cloths; a maker of cloth. Johnson.-2. In Ameri-
ca, a man whose occupation is to full and dress cloth.
CLOTHING, ppr. Covering with or putting on vestments
of any kind; providing with garments; investing; cover-
ing.

CLOTHING, n. 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress;
raiment; covering. 2. The art or practice of making
cloth; [unusual.]

CLOTH SHEAR-ER, n. One who shears cloth, and frees
it from superfluous nap.
CLOTH-WORK-ER, n. A maker of cloth.

CLOT POLL, n. A thickskull; a blockhead. See CLOD

POLL.

CLOTTED, pp. Concreted into a mass; inspissated; adher-
ing in a lump.

CLOTTER, v. i. To concrete or gather into lumps.
CLOTTING, ppr. Concreting; inspissating; forming into

clots.

CLOTTY, a. Full of clots, or small, hard masses; full of concretions, or clods.

CLOUD n. 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery parti

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cles, suspended in the atmosphere, at some altitude. 2 A. state of obscurity or darkness. 3. A collection of smoke, or a dense collection of dust, rising or floating in the air. 4. The dark or varied colors, in veins or spots, on stones or other bodies, are called clouds. 5. A great multitude, a vast collection.

CLOUD, v. t. 1. To overspread with a cloud or clouds. 2. To obscure; to darken. 3. To darken in veins or spots; to variegate with colors. 4. To make of a gloomy aspect; to give the appearance of sullenness. 5. To sully; to tarnish.

CLOUD, v. i. To grow cloudy; to become obscure with
clouds.

CLOUD-AS-CENDING, a. Ascending to the clouds
CLOUD-BER-RY, n. A plant, called also knot-berry ; rubus

chamamorus.

CLOUD-BORN, a. Born of a cloud. Dryden.

CLOUD-CAPT, a. Capped with clouds; touching the clouds; lofty. Shak.

CLOUD-COM-PEL/LER, n. He that collects clouds; Jove.
CLOUD-COM-PELLING, a. Collecting clouds; or driving
clouds. Dryden.

CLOUD-COV-ERED, a. Enveloped with clouds.
CLOUD-DIS-PELLING, a. Having power to disperse

clouds.

CLOUD-E-CLIPSED, a. Eclipsed by a cloud. Shak.
CLOUD'ED, pp. Overcast; overspread with clouds; ob-
scured; darkened; rendered gloomy or sullen; variegated
with colored spots or veins.

CLOUDI-LY, adv. With clouds; darkly; obscurely.
CLOUD'I-NESS, n. 1. The state of being overcast with
clouds. 2. Obscurity; gloom; want of brightness. 3
Darkness of appearance; variegation of colors in a fossil
or other body. 4. Appearance of gloom or sullenness.
CLOUD'ING, ppr. Overspreading with clouds; obscuring;
giving an appearance of gloom or sullenness.
CLOUD-KISS-ING, a. Touching the clouds. Shak.
CLOUDLESS, a. Being without a cloud; unclouded; clear,
bright; luminous.

CLOUD-PIERC-ING, a. Penetrating or rising above the
clouds. Philips.

CLOUD-TOPT, a. Having the top covered with a cloud.
Gray.

CLOUD-TOUCH-ING, a. Touching the clouds.

CLOUDY, a. 1. Overcast with clouds; obscured with
clouds. 2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds. 3. Obscure;
dark; not easily understood. 4. Having the appearance
of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-
nature; not open or cheerful. 5. Indicating gloom or sul-
lenness; as, cloudy wrath. 6. Marked with veins or pots
of dark or various hues, as marble. 7. Not bright.
*ЄLOUGH, (cluf) n. [Sax. clough.] A cleft in a hill.-In
commerce, an allowance of two pounds in every hundred
weight, for the turn of the scale, that the commodity may
hold out in retailing.

CLOUT, n. [Sax. clut.] 1. A patch; a piece of cloth or
leather, &c., to close a breach. 2. A piece of cloth for
mean purposes. 3. A piece of white cloth, for archers to
shoot at. Not now used.] Shak. 4. An iron plate on an
axletree, to keep it from wearing. 5. [Fr. clou, clouter.]
A small nail.-6. In vulgar language, a blow with the
hand. New England. Todd.

CLOUT, v. t. 1. To patch; to mend by sewing on a piece
or patch. 2. To cover with a piece of cloth. 3. To join
clumsily. 4. To cover or arm with an iron plate. 5. To
strike; to give a blow.-Clouted cream, in Gay, is evi-
dently a mistake for clotted cream.
CLOUT ED, pp.

a clout.

Patched;

mended clumsily; covered with

CLOUT'ER-LY, a. Clumsy; awkward. Mortimer.
CLOUTING, ppr. Patching; covering with a clout.
CLOVE, pret. of cleave. Spenser.

CLOVE, n. [D. kloof.] A cleft; a fissure; a gap; a ravine
It is properly a Dutch word. Journ. of Science.
CLOVE, n. [Sax. clufe.] 1. A very pungent, aromatic
spice, the flower of the clove-tree, caryophyllus. 2. [From
cleave.] The parts into which garlic separates, when the
outer skin is removed. 3. A certain weight; seven pounds
of wool; eight pounds of cheese or butter.
CLOVE-GIL-LY-FLOW-ER, n. A species of dianthus,
bearing a beautiful flower.

cous.

ELOVEN, (clo'vn) pp. of cleave. Divided; parted.
CLOVEN-FOOT-EĎ, ) a. Having the foot or hoof divided
CLOVEN-HOOFED, into two parts, as the ox; bisul-
ЄLOVER, or ЄLOVER-GRASS, n. [Sax. clafer-wyrt.] A
genus of plants, called trifolium, trefoil, or three-leafed
Fr. trefle.-To live in clover, is to live luxuriously, or in
abundance.

CLOVERED, a. Covered with clover. Thomson.
CLOWN, n. [L. colonus.] A countryman; a rustic; hence,
one who has the manners of a rustic; a churl; a man of
coarse manners; an ill-bred man.

AGE, n. The manners of a clown

;-PREY ;-PIN, MARINE, BIRD, -

CLOWNER-Y, . Il-breeding; rustic behavior; rudeness || CLUSTERED, pp. Collected into a cluster, or crowd of manners. [Little used.]

CLOWN ISH, a. 1. Containing clowns; consisting of rustics. 2. Coarse; hard; rugged; rough. 3. Of rough manners; ill-bred. 4. Clumsy; awkward

CLOWN ISH-LY, ade. In the manner of clowns ; coarsely; rudely.

CLOWN ISH-NESS, . The manners of a clown; rusticity; coarseness or rudeness of behavior; incivility; awkwardness.

CLOWN's-MUSTARD, ». A plant.

CLOY, . t. [Fr. clouer.] 1. To fill; to glut; to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. 2. To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent.-3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing.

CLOYED, pp. Filled; glutted; filled to satiety and lothing; spiked pricked in shoeing.

ЄLOY ING, ppr. Filling; filling to satiety or disgust. CLOY LESS, 4. That cannot cloy, or fill to satiety. CLOYMENT, . Surfeit; repletion beyond the demands of appetite. Little used.] Shak.

CLUB, n. W. clopa, clepa.] 1. Properly, a stick or piece of wood, with one end thicker and heavier than the other, and no larger than can be wielded with the hand. 2. Á thick, heavy stick, that may be managed with the hand, and used for beating, or defense. 3. The name of one of the suits of cards, so named from its figure. 4. A collection or assembly of men; usually, a select number of friends met for social or literary purposes. 5. A collection of expenses; the expenses of a company. 6. Contribution; joint charge.

CLUB, e. 1. [W. clapiar.] 1. To join, as a number of individuals, to the same end. 2. To pay an equal proportion of a common reckoning or charge.

CLUB, v. t. 1. To unite different sums of expense in a common sum or collection.-2. In common parlance, to rame or turn uppermost the britch or club of a musket. CLUBBED, pp. 1. Collected into a sum and averaged, as different expenses. 2. United to one end or effect. 3. Shaped like a club. 4. Having the britch turned upwards, as a musket. 5. Heavy, like a club.

CLUB BER, or CLUB'BIST, n. One who belongs to a party,

club or association. Burke.

CLUBBING, ppr. Joining in a club; uniting to a common end.

CLUB-FIST, «. A large, heavy fist.

€1! B-FIST ED, e. Having a large fist. Howell. CLUB-FOOT-EĎ, a. Having short or crooked feet. CLUB-HÈÀD-ED, a. Having a thick head. Derham, CLUB-LAW, . Government by clubs, or violence; the e of arms, or force, in place of law; anarchy. CLUB-MAN, s. One who carries a club. CLUB-ROOM, . The apartment in which a club meets. €LUE-RUSH, n. A genus of plants, the scirpus. CLUB SHAPED, 4. Shaped like a club; growing thicker towards the top; clavated.

€L! €K, 8.1. [Sax, clocean.] To make the noise, or utter the vice, of the domestic hen.

CLUCK, F. 1. To call chickens by a particular sound. Shak. € LUCKING, ppr. Uttering the voice of a sitting hen; calling chickens.

€UE. See CLEW.

€LUMP, ». [G. klump.] 1. A thick, short piece of wood, or other solid substance; a shapeless mass. 2. A cluster of trees or shrubs; formerly written plump. In some parts of Fagland, it is an adjective, signifying lazy, unhandy. ←LUMPER, 8. t. To form into clumps or masses. More," CLUMPS, 1. A stupid fellow; a numskull.

€LUM SÚLY, adr. In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; in an unhandy manner; without readiness, dexterity or

grace.

CLUMSI-VERS, я. The quality of being short and thick, and moving heavily; awkwardness; unhandiness; un€L! W«Y, «. 1. Properly, short and thick. 2. Moving hely, slowly or awkwardly. 3. Awkward; ungainly; andy artless; without readiness, dexterity or grace. 4. I made, badly constructed.

€LUNCH, 2. Among miners, indurated clay, found in coal pt next to the coal. Bailey.

€LUNG, pret, and pp, of cling, which see.

** L."NG, v. 1. To shrink. See CLING.

• € LƯNG, a. Wasted with leanness; shrunk with cold. €IC*\Þä, s. One of a reformed order of Benedictine mza mika, so called from Cluni, în Burgundy. CLUSTER, . Sax. cluster.) 1. A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a 4. 2. A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body. 3. A number of things situate tear each other.

€LI STYR, r. 1. 1. To grow in clusters; to gather or asite in a bunch, or bunches. 2. To form into flakes. 3. Theet into flocks or crowds.

€LUSTER, . t. To collect into a bunch, or close body.

crowded.

CLUSTER-GRAPE, n. A small black grape.

CLUSTER-ING, ppr. Growing in a cluster, or in bunches uniting in a bunch, or in a flock, crowd, or close body. CLUSTER-Y, a. Growing in clusters; full of clusters. CLUTCH, v. t. 1. To double in the fingers, and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. 2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand. 3. To seize, or grasp. ЄĽUTCH, n. A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.

CLUTCH ES, plu. 1. The paws or talons of a rapacious animal, as of a cat or dog. 2. The hands, in the sense of instruments of rapacity or cruelty, or of power. CLUTTER, n. [W. cluder.] 1. A heap or assemblage of things lying in confusion. 2. Noise; bustle. CLUTTER, v. t. To crowd together in disorder; to fill with things in confusion.

CLUTTER, v. i. To make a bustle, or fill with confusion.

CLUTTERED, pp. Encumbered with things in disorder. CLUTTER-ING, ppr. Encumbering with things in confu

sion.

*ЄLYS/TER, n. [Gr. Kλvernp.] An injection; a liquid substance injected into the lower intestines.

ELYS TER-IZE, v. i. To apply a clyster. Cotgrave.
CLYSTER-PIPÉ, n. A tube or pipe used for injections.
CLYSTER-WISE, adv. In the manner of a clyster.
CO, a prefix, signifying with, in conjunction. See Cox.
CO-A-CERVIATE, v. t. [L. coacervo.] To heap up; to pile
[Little used.]

CO-A-CERVIATE, a. [L. coacervatus.] Heaped; raised
into a pile; collected into a crowd. [Little used.]
CO-AC-ER-VATION, n. The act of heaping, or state of
being heaped together. [Little used.]

COACH, n. [Fr. coche.] A close vehicle for commodious traveling, borne on four wheels, and drawn by horses or other animals. It differs from a chariot in having seats in front, as well as behind.-Hackney-coach, a coach kept for hire.-Mail-coach, a coach that carries the public mails. -Stage-coach, a coach that regularly conveys passengers from town to town. See STAGE.

COACH, or COUCH, n. An apartment in a large ship of war near the stern, the roof of which is formed by the poop Mar. Dict.

COACH, v. t. To carry in a coach. Pope.

†¤õАCH, v. i. To ride in a coach. Waterhouse.

¤OACH1-BOX, a. The seat on which the driver of a coach sits. Arbuthnot.

COACH-HIRE, n. Money paid for the use of a hired coach.

COACH-HORSE, n. A horse used in drawing coaches. COACH'-HOUSE, n. A house to shelter a coach from the weather. Swift.

COACH-MA-KER, n. A man whose occupation is to make coaches. Sicift.

¤OACH'FUL, n. A coach filled with persons. Addison.
COACH'MAN, n. The person who drives a coach.
€ÕACH'MAN-SHIP, n. Skill in driving coaches.
CO-ACT, . i. To act together. Shak.
CO-ACTED, pp. or a. Forced; compelled.

€O-A€1TION, n. [L. coactio.] Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. South.

€O-ACTIVE, a. 1. Forcing; compulsory; having the power to impel or restrain. Raleigh. 2. Acting in concur

rence.

CO-ACTIVE-LY, adv. In a compulsory manner. *CO-AD-JO/MENT, n. Mutual assistance. *€O-AD-JUTANT, a. [L. con and adjutans.] Helping; mutually assisting or operating.

€O-AD-JÓTOR, n. 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a fellow-helper; an associate in operation.-2. In the canon law, one who is empowered or appointed to perform the duties of another.

CÓ-AD-J TOR-SHIP, n. Joint aid.
CO-AD-JUTRIX, n. A female assistant. Smollett
CO-AD-JOVAN-CY, . Joint help; assistance; concur-
rent aid; co-operation. [Little used.]

ЄO-ADU-NATE, a. [L. coadunatus.] In botany, cordunate leaves are several united at the base.

CO-AD-U-NITION, . The union of different substances in one mass. [Little used.] Hale.

CO-AD-VENTURER, n. A fellow adventurer.

CO-AF FOR EST, v. t. To convert ground into a forest. CO-A'GENT, #. An assistant or associate in an act. Beaum. † CO-AG-MENT', r. t. [L. coagmento.] To congregate of heap together. Glanville.

CO-AG-MEN-TATION, n. Collection into a mass or united body; union; conjunction. [Little used.]

CO-AG MENTED, 4. Congregated; heaped together; united in one mass. [Little used.]

CO-AG-U-LA-BIL/I-TY, n. The capacity of being coagu

[blocks in formation]

congealing or changing from a liquid to an inspissated

state.

CO-AGU-LATE, v. t. [L. coagulo.] To concrete; to cur-
dle; to congeal to change from a fluid into a fixed sub-
stance, or solid mass.

CO-AGU-LATE, v. i. To curdle or congeal; to turn from
a fluid into a consistent state, or fixed substance
thicken.

; to

CO-AG'U-LA-TED, pp. Concreted; curdled.
CO-AGU-LA-TING, ppr. Curdling; congealing.
CO-AG-U-LATION, n. The act of changing from a fluid to
a fixed state; concretion; the state of being coagulated;
the body formed by coagulating.

CO-AGU-LA-TIVE, a. That has the power to cause con-
cretion. Boyle.

CO-AGU-LA-TOR, n. That which causes coagulation.
CO-AG/U-LUM, n. Rennet; curd; the clot of blood, sepa-
rated by cold, acid, &c.

CO-A'I-TI, n. A species of monkey in South America.
COAK. See COKE.

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COAL, n. [Sax. col, or coll.] 1. A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred. 2. In the language of chemists, any substance containing oil, which has been exposed to a fire in a close vessel, so that its volatile matter is expelled, and it can sustain a red heat without further decomposition.-3. In mineralogy, a solid, opaque, inflammable substance, found in the earth, and, by way of distinction, called fossil coal. COAL, v. t. 1. To burn to coal, or charcoal; to char. 2. To mark or delineate with charcoal. COAL-BLACK, a. Black as a coal; very black. COAL-BOX, n. A box to carry coal to the fire. Swift. COAL-FISH, n. A species of gadus, or cod. COAL-HOUSE, n. A house or shed for keeping coal. COAL-MINE, n. A mine or pit in which coal is dug. COAL-MINER, n. One who works in a coal-mine. COAL-MOUSE, n. A smal! species of tit-mouse, with a black head.

COAL-PIT, n. A pit where coal is dug-In America, a
place where charcoal is made.

COAL-SHIP, n. A ship employed in transporting coal.
COAL-STONE, n. A kind of cannel-coal.

COAL-WORK, n. A coalery; a place where coal is dug,
including the machinery for raising the coal.
COAL'ER-Y, n. A coal-mine, coal-pit, or place where coals
are dug.

3.

CO-A-LESCE', (ko-a-less') v. i. [L. coalesco.] 1. To grow
together; to unite, as separate bodies, or separate parts,
into one body. 2. To unite and adhere in one body or
mass, by spontaneous approximation or attraction.
To unite in society, in a more general sense.
CO-A-LESCENCE, n. The act of growing together; the
act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state
of being united; union; concretion.
CO-A-LESCENT, a. Joined; united.

CO-A-LES'CING, ppr. Growing or coming together; unit-
ing in a body or mass; uniting and adhering together.
COALIER, or COALLIER. See COLLIER.

COA-LITE, v. i. To unite or coalesce. Bolingbroke. CO-A-LI"TION, n. 1. Union in a body or mass; a coming together, as of separate bodies or parts, and their union in one body or mass. 2 Union of individual persons, parties or states. CO-AL-LY', n. A joint ally; as, the subject of a co-ally. Kent.

FOALY, a. Like coal; containing coal. Milton

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CGAMINGS, In ships, the raised borders or edges of the hatches.

CO-AP-PRE-HEND, v. t. To apprehend with another.
[Little used.] Brown.

CO-AP-TATION, n. The adaptation or adjustment of parts
to each other. Boyle.
CO-ARET',

CO-ARCTATE, v. t. [L. coarcto.] 1. To press together;

to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. 2. To restrain; to confine. CO-ARE-TATION, n. 1. Confinement; restraint to a narrow space. 2. Pressure; contraction. 3. Restraint of liberty. COARSE, a. 1. Thick; large or gross in bulk; comparatively of large diameter. 2 Thick; rough; or made of coarse thread or yarn from grosser particles or impurities. 4. Rude; rough; 3. Not refined; not separated unrefined; uncivil. rough; unpolished; inelegant. 7. Not nicely expert; 5. Gross; not delicate. 6. Rude; not accomplished by art or education. nice; not refined or elegant. 8. Mean; not COARSELY, adv. Roughly; without fineness or refinement; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly; without art or polish.

COARSE NESS, n. 1. Largeness of size; thickness.. 2. The quality of being made of coarse thread or yarn ; whence thickness and roughness. 3. Unrefined state; the state of being mixed with gross particles or impurities. 4. Roughness; grossness; rudeness. 5. Grossness; want of II

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refinement or delicacy; want of polish. 6 Meanness
want of art in preparation; want of nicety.
CO-AS-SESSOR, n. A joint assessor.
CO-AS-SUME', v. t. To assume something with another
Walsall.

COAST, n. [L. costa; W. cost; Fr. côte.] 1. The exteri-
or line, limit or border of a country.
margin of the land next to the sea; the seashore. 3. A
2. The edge or
side. 4. The country near the sea-shore.-The coast is
COAST, vi 1. To sail near a coast; to sail by or near the
clear is a proverbial phrase, signifying, the danger is over
the enemies have marched off, or left the coast.
shore, or in sight of land. 2. To sail from port to port in
the same country.

COAST, v. t. 1. To sail by or near to. 2. To draw near;
to approach; to follow; [obs.]
COASTED, pp. Sailed by.

COAST ER, n. 1. One who sails near the shore. 2. A
vessel that is employed in sailing along a coast, or is li
censed to navigate or trade from port to port in the same
country.

COASTING-PILOT, n. A pilot who conducts vessels along
COASTING, ppr. Sailing along or near a coast.

a coast.

COAST ING-TRADE, n. The trade which is carried on between the different ports of the same country. COASTING-VES/SEL, n. A vessel employed in coasting;

a coaster.

COAT, n. [Fr. cotte.] 1. An upper garment. 2. A petticoat; a garment worn by infants or young children. 3. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office. 4. External covering, as the fur or hair of a beast. 5. A tunic of the eye; a membrane that serves as a cover; a tegument. 6. The division or layer of a bulbous root. 7. A cover; a layer of any substance covering another. 8. That on which ensigns armorial are portrayed, usually called a coat of arms. 9. A coat of mail is a piece of armor, in form of a shirt, consisting of a net-work of iron rings. 10. A card; a coat-card is one on which a king, queen or knave is painted.

COAT, v. t. 1. To cover or spread over with a layer of any
substance. 2. To cover with cloth or canvas.
COAT-XR-MOR, n. A coat of arms; armorial ensigns.
COAT-EXRD, n. [From the dress or coat in which the
king, queen and knave are represented.] A card; called,
also, court-card. B. Jonson.

€ŌATED, pp. 1. Covered with a coat; loricated; covered
or overspread with any thing that defends; clothed with
a membrane. 2. Having concentric coats or layers.
COATI, n. An animal of South America, resembling the
racoon, but with a longer body and neck, shorter fur, and
smaller eyes.

COATING, ppr. Covering with a coat; overspreading. COATING, n. 1. A covering, or the act of covering; lorication; any substance spread over for cover or defense. 2. Cloth for coats; as, merchants advertise an assortment of coatings.

€ŌAX, (kõks) v. t. [W. cocru.] To wheedle; to flatter; to
soothe, appease or persuade by flattery and fondling. [A
low word.]

†ЄōAX, n. A dupe. Beaumont and Fletcher.
COAX-ATION, n. The art of coaxing.

COAX'ER, n. A wheedler; a flatterer.
COAXED, pp. Soothed or persuaded by flattery.
COAXING, ppr. Wheedling; flattering.

COB, n. [W. cob, or cop.] 1. The top or head; a covetous
wretch; a foreign coin. 2. In America, the receptacle of
the maize, or American corn; a shoot in form of a pin or
spike, on which grows the corn in rows. This recepta
cle, with the corn, is called the ear. 3. [It. gabbiano.]
A sea-fowl, the sea-cob. 4. A ball or pellet for feeding
fowls. 5. In some parts of England, a spider. 6. A horse
not castrated; a strong poney.

COB, v. t. In seamen's language, to punish by striking the
breech with a flat piece of wood, or with a board.
*CO1BALT, n. [D. cobalt.] A mineral of a reddish-gray or
grayish-white color.-Cobalt-bloom, acicular arseniate of
cobalt.-Cobalt-crust, earthy arseníate of cobalt.
CO-BALT'IЄ, a. Pertaining to cobalt, or consisting of it;
resembling cobalt, or containing it.

COB BLE, or COBBLE-STONE, n. [Eng. copple.] A round-
ish stone; a pebble; supposed to be a fragment, rounded
by the attrition of water. We give this name to stores
of various sizes, from that of a hen's egg, or smaller, to
that of large paving stones. These stones are called by
the English copple-stones, and bowlder-stones, or bemi-

ders.

COBBLE, v. t. 1. To make or mend coarsely, as shoes; to botch. 2. To make or do clumsily or unhandily. Dry

den.

COBBLER, n. 1. A mender of shoes. 2. A clumsy work
man. 3. A mean person.

† ЄOBBY, a. Stout; brisk. Chaucer.

COB BLING, ppr. Mending coarsely.

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