Chapter 287

Clove , n. [OE. clow , fr. F. clou nail, clou de girofle a clove, lit. nail of clove, fr. L. clavus nail, perh. akin to clavis key, E. clavicle . The clove was so called from its resemblance to a nail. So in D. kruidnagel clove, lit. herb-nail or spice-nail . Cf. Cloy .] A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree ( Eugenia, ∨ Caryophullus, aromatica ), a native of the Molucca Isles.

Clove camphor . (Chem.) See Eugenin . -- Clove gillyflower , Clove pink (Bot.) , any fragrant self-colored carnation.

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Clove , n. [AS. clufe an ear of corn, a clove of garlic; cf. cle\'a2fan to split, E. cleave .] 1. (Bot.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.

Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves . Lindley.

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2. A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. [Prov. Eng.]

Halliwell.

Cloven <Xpage=269>

Clo"ven (?) , p. p. & a. from Cleave , v. t.

To show the cloven foot &or; hoof , to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.

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Clo"ven-foot`ed (?) , Clo"ven-hoofed` (?) , a. Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

Clover <Xpage=269>

Clo"ver (?) , n. [OE. claver , clover , AS. cl<?/fre ; akin to LG. & Dan. klever , D. klaver , G. klee , Sw. kl<?/fver .] (Bot.) A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium ; as the common red clover, T. pratense , the white, T. repens , and the hare's foot, T. arvense .

Clover weevil (Zo\'94l.) a small weevil ( Apion apricans ), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zo\'94l.) , the larva of a small moth ( Asopia costalis ), often very destructive to clover hay. -- In clover , in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] -- Sweet clover . See Meliot .

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Clo"vered (?) , a. Covered with growing clover.

Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

Clowe-gilofre <Xpage=269>

Clowe"-gi*lof`re (?) , n. [See 3d Clove , and Gilliflower .] Spice clove. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Clown <Xpage=269>

Clown (?) , n. [Cf. Icel. klunni a clumsy, boorish fellow, North Fries. kl<?/nne clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. clump , n.] 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.

The clown , the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak.

Clown <Xpage=269>

Clown , v. i. To act as a clown; -- with it [Obs.]

Be<?/hrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. B. Jonson.

Clownage <Xpage=269>

Clown"age (?) , n. Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.]

B. Jonson.

Clownery <Xpage=269>

Clown"er*y (?) , n. Clownishness.

L'Estrange.

Clownish <Xpage=269>

Clown"ish , a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. " Clownish hands." Spenser. " Clownish mimic." Prior.

-- Clown"ish*ly , adv.

Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored.

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Clown"ish*ness , n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness . Locke.

Cloy <Xpage=269>

Cloy (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying .] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer , fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou , fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove .] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Shak.

He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed . Spenser.

He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.]

Johnson.

5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.]

Shak.

Cloyless <Xpage=269>

Cloy"less , a. That does not cloy.

Shak.

Cloyment <Xpage=269>

Cloy"ment (?) , n. Satiety. [Obs.]

Shak.

Club <Xpage=269>

Club (?) , n. [CF. Icel. klubba , klumba , club, klumbuf<?/ir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump .] 1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs ; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak.

2. [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club.] Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. ( pl. ) The suit of cards having such figure.

3. 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.

They talked At wine, in clubs , of art, of politics. Tennyson.

He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club , but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club . Macaulay.

4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

They laid down the club . L'Estrange.

We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club . Pepys.

Club law , government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.

Addison. -

Club moss (Bot.) , an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium clavatum , but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.) , a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.) , a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

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Club (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clubbed (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing .] 1. To beat with a club.

2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow.

3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions .

4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense .

To club a musket (Mil.) , to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Club <Xpage=269>

Club (?) , v. i. 1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden.

2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat. Swift.

3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Clubbable <Xpage=269>

Club"ba*ble (?) , a. Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.]

G. W. Curtis.

Clubbed <Xpage=269>

Clubbed (?) , a. Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.

Skelton.

Clubber <Xpage=269>

Club"ber (?) , n. 1. One who clubs.

2. A member of a club. [R.]

Massinger.

Clubbish <Xpage=269>

Club"bish (?) , a. 1. Rude; clownish. [Obs.]

2. Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set .

Clubbist <Xpage=269>

Club"bist (?) , n. A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [R.]

Burke.

Clubfist <Xpage=269>

Club"fist` (?) , n. 1. A large, heavy fist.

2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.]

Mir. for Mag.

Clubfisted <Xpage=269>

Club"fist`ed , a. Having a large fist.

Howell.

Clubfoot <Xpage=269>

Club"foot (?) , n. [ Club + foot .] (Med.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

Clubfooted <Xpage=269>

Club"foot`ed , a. Having a clubfoot.

Clubhand <Xpage=269>

Club"hand` (?) , n. (Med.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

Clubhaul <Xpage=269>

Club"haul` (?) , v. t. (Naut.) 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 <Xpage=269>

Club"house` (?) , n. A house occupied by a club.

Clubroom <Xpage=269>

Club"room` (?) , n. The apartment in which a club meets.

Addison.

Club-rush <Xpage=269>

Club"-rush` (?) , n. (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus . See Bulrush .

Club-shaped <Xpage=269>

Club"-shaped (?) , a. Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antenn\'91 of certain insects.

Cluck <Xpage=269>

Cluck (?) , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clucked (?) ; p pr. & vb. n. Clucking .] [AS. cloccian ; cf. D. klokken , G. glucken , glucksen , LG. klukken , Dan. klukke ; all prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

Ray.

Cluck <Xpage=269>

Cluck , v. t. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. Shak.

Cluck <Xpage=269>

Cluck , n. 1. The call of a hen to her chickens.

2. A click. See 3d Click , 2.

Clucking <Xpage=269>

Cluck"ing , n. The noise or call of a brooding hen.

Clue <Xpage=269>

Clue (?) , n. [See Clew , n. ] A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew .

You have wound a goodly clue . Shak.

This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope.

Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.

Clum <Xpage=269>

Clum (?) , interj. Silence; hush. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Clumber <Xpage=269>

Clum"ber (?) , n. [Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle.] (Zo\'94l.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

Clump <Xpage=269>

Clump (?) , n. [Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump , klumpen , Dan. klump , Sw. kllimp ; perh. akin to L. globus , E. globe . Cf. Club .] 1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

2. A cluster; a group; a thicket.

A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

3. The compressed clay of coal strata.

Brande & C.

Clump <Xpage=269>

Clump , v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.

Blackmore.

Clump <Xpage=269>

Clump , v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.]

Halliwell.

Clumper <Xpage=269>

Clump"er (?) , v. t. [Cf. G. kl\'81mpern to clod. See Clump , n. ] To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.]

Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

Clumps <Xpage=269>

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 <Xpage=269>

Clump"y (?) , a. [From Clump , n. ] Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.

Leigh Hunt.

Clumsily <Xpage=269>

Clum"si*ly (?) , adv. In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily .

Clumsiness <Xpage=269>

Clum"si*ness , n. The quality of being clusy.

The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

Clumsy <Xpage=269>

Clum"sy (?) , a. [ Compar. Clumsier (?) ; superl. Clumsiest .] [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st Clam , and 1st Clamp .] 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]

2. 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.

But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

Syn. -- See Awkward .

Clunch <Xpage=269>

Clunch (?) , n. [Perh. fr. clinch to make fast] .

1. (Mining) Indurated clay. See Bind , n. , 3.

2. One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.

Dana.

Clung <Xpage=269>

Clung (?) , imp. & p. p. of Cling .

Clung <Xpage=269>

Clung , a. [Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See Cling , v. i. ] Wasted away; shrunken. [Obs.]

Cluniac <Xpage=269>

Clu"ni*ac (?) , n. (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

Cluniacensian <Xpage=269>

Clu`ni*a*cen"sian (?) , a. Cluniac.

Clupeoid <Xpage=269>

Clu"pe*oid (?) , a. [L. clupea a kind of fish, NL., generic name of the herring + -oid .] (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

Cluster <Xpage=269>

Clus"ter (?) , n. [AS. cluster , clyster ; cf. LG. kluster (also Sw. & Dan. klase a cluster of grapes, D. klissen to be entangled?.)] 1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands . " Cluster of provinces."

Motley.

3. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.

As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters . Milton.

We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters , Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

Cluster <Xpage=269>

Clus"ter , v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clustered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clustering .] To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.

His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson.

The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.

Cluster <Xpage=269>

Clus"ter , v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.

Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. Tennyson.

Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson.

Clustered column (Arch.) , a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

Clusteringly <Xpage=269>

Clus"ter*ing*ly , adv. In clusters.

Clustery <Xpage=269>

Clus"ter*y (?) , a. [From Cluster , n. ] Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.

Johnson.

Clutch <Xpage=269>

Clutch (kl\'dcch; 224) , n. [OE. cloche , cloke , claw, Scot. clook , cleuck , also OE. cleche claw, clechen , cleken , to seize; cf. AS. gel\'91ccan (where ge- is a prefix) to seize. Cf. Latch a catch.] 1. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty."

Cowper.

An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle.

But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch . Shak.

2. pl. 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 .

I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

3. (Mach.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

4. Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

5. (Zo\'94l.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.