Clove (imp.) Cleft.
Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.
Clove (n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.
Clove (n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.
Clove (n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds.
Cloven (p. p. & a.) from Cleave, v. t.
Cloven-footed (a.) Alt. of Cloven-hoofed
Cloven-hoofed (a.) Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
Clover (n.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.
Clovered (a.) Covered with growing clover.
Clowe-gilofre (n.) Spice clove.
Clown (n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
Clown (n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
Clown (n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
Clown (v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it.
Clownage (n.) Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.
Clownery (n.) Clownishness.
Clownish (a.) Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Clownishness (n.) The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
Cloyed (imp. & p. p.) of Cloy
Cloying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloy
Cloy (v. t.) To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
Cloy (v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
Cloy (v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon.
Cloy (v. t.) To stroke with a claw.
Cloyless (a.) That does not cloy.
Cloyment (n.) Satiety.
Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
Club (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
Club (n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
Club (n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
Clubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Club
Clubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Club
Club (v. t.) To beat with a club.
Club (v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
Club (v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
Club (v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
Club (v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
Club (v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
Club (v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Clubbable (a.) Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.
Clubbed (a.) Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
Clubber (n.) One who clubs.
Clubber (n.) A member of a club.
Clubbish (a.) Rude; clownish.
Clubbish (a.) Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.
Clubbist (n.) A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.
Clubfist (n.) A large, heavy fist.
Clubfist (n.) A coarse, brutal fellow.
Clubfisted (a.) Having a large fist.
Clubfoot (n.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Clubfooted (a.) Having a clubfoot.
Clubhand (n.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
Clubhaul (v. t.) 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.
Clubhouse (n.) A house occupied by a club.
Clubroom (n.) The apartment in which a club meets.
Club-rush (n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped (a.) Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
Clucked (imp. & p. p.) of Cluck
Clucking (p pr. & vb. n.) of Cluck
Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
Cluck (v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
Cluck (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
Cluck (n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Clue (n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.
Clum (interj.) Silence; hush.
Clumber (n.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
Clump (n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
Clump (n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.
Clump (n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.
Clump (v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
Clump (v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp.
Clumper (n.) To form into clumps or masses.
Clumps (n.) 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 (n.) Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
Clumsily (adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Clumsiness (n.) The quality of being clumsy.
Clumsy (superl.) Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.
Clumsy (superl.) Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
Clunch (n.) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
Clunch (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.
Clung () imp. & p. p. of Cling.
Clung (v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.
Cluniac (n.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.
Cluniacensian (a.) Cluniac.
Clupeoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.
Cluster (n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
Cluster (n.) A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
Clustered (imp. & p. p.) of Cluster
Clustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cluster
Cluster (v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
Cluster (v. t.) To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Clusteringly (adv.) In clusters.
Clustery (n.) Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
Clutch (n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.
Clutch (n.) The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.
Clutch (n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.