Clue (n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
Clue (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
Clue (n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
Clewing (imp. & p. p. & vb. n.) of Clew
Clew (n.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread.
Clew (n.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
Cliche (n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Clicked (imp. & p. p.) of Click
Clicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Click
Click (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
Click (v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.
Click (v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
Click (n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
Click (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.
Click (v. t.) To snatch.
Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
Click (n.) The latch of a door.
Click beetle () See Elater.
Clicker (n.) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
Clicker (n.) One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
Clicket (n.) The knocker of a door.
Clicket (n.) A latch key.
Clicky (a.) Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.
Clidastes (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cliency (n.) State of being a client.
Client (n.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
Client (n.) A dependent; one under the protection of another.
Client (n.) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
Clientage (n.) State of being client.
Clientage (n.) A body of clients.
Cliental (a.) Of or pertaining to a client.
Cliented (a.) Supplied with clients.
Clientelage (n.) See Clientele, n., 2.
Clientele (n.) The condition or position of a client; clientship
Clientele (n.) The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.
Clientship (n.) Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron.
Cliff (n.) A high, steep rock; a precipice.
Cliff (n.) See Clef.
Cliff limestone () A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.
Cliffy (a.) Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
Clift (n.) A cliff.
Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Clift (n.) The fork of the legs; the crotch.
Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
Climacter (n.) See Climacteric, n.
Climacteric (a.) Relating to a climacteric; critical.
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.
Climacteric (n.) Any critical period.
Climacterical (a. & n.) See Climacteric.
Climatal (a.) Climatic.
Climatarchic (a.) Presiding over, or regulating, climates.
Climate (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
Climate (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
Climate (v. i.) To dwell.
Climatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Climatical (a.) Climatic.
Climatized (imp. & p. p.) of Climatize
Climatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climatize
Climatize (v. t. & i.) To acclimate or become acclimated.
Climatography (n.) A description of climates.
Climatological (a.) Of or pertaining to climatology.
Climatologist (n.) One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Climatology (n.) The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Climature (n.) A climate.
Climax (v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
Climax (v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
Climax (v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
Climbed (imp. & p. p.) of Climb
Clomb () of Climb
Climbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climb
Climb (v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb (v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb (n.) The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
Climbable (a.) Capable of being climbed.
Climber (n.) One who, or that which, climbs
Climber (n.) A plant that climbs.
Climber (n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
Climber (v. i.) To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
Climbing () p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.
Clime (n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Clinanthium (n.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
Clinched (imp. & p. p.) of Clinch
Clinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clinch
Clinch (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Clinch (v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
Clinch (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
Clinch (v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Clinch (n.) 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.
Clinch (n.) A pun.
Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Clincher (n.) One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
Clincher (n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Clincher-built (a.) See Clinker-built.
Clung (imp. & p. p.) of Cling
Clong () of Cling
Clinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cling