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Coloq. To cap the climax , to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]
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Climb (klīm), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed (klīmd), Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (klŏm); p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klīfa, and E. cleave to adhere.] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
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2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
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Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.
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3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
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Climb, v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
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Climb, n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.
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Climbable (?), a. Capable of being climbed.
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Climber (?), n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zoöl.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
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Climber, v. i. [From ; cf. .] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] Tusser.
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Climbing, p. pr. & vb. n. of .
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Coloq. Climbing fern . See under . -- Coloq. Climbing perch . (Zoöl.) See , and .
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Clime (?), n. [L. clima. See .] A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See .
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Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.
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Clinanthium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � bed + � flower.] (Bot.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
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Clinch (klĭnch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See .] 1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. “Clinch the pointed spear.” Dryden.
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2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.
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3. 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.
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4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South.
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Clinch, v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
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Clinch (klĭnch), n. 1. 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.
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2. A pun. Pope.
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3. (Naut.) 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.
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Clincher (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope.
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2. That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
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Clincher-built (?), a. See .
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Cling (klĭng), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clung (klŭng), Clong (klŏng), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Clinging.] [AS. clingan to adhere, to wither; akin to Dan. klynge to cluster, crowd. Cf. .] To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.
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And what hath life for thee
That thou shouldst cling to it thus? Mrs. Hemans.
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Cling, v. t. 1. To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. [Obs.]
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I clung legs as close to his side as I could. Swift.
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2. To make to dry up or wither. [Obs.]
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If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee. Shak.
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Cling, n. Adherence; attachment; devotion. [R.]
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A more tenacious cling to worldly respects. Milton.
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clingfish n. very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
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Clingstone (?), a. Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n. A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
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Clingy (?), a. Apt to cling; adhesive. [R.]
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Clinic (?), n. [See .] 1. One confined to the bed by sickness.
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2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [Obs.] Hook.
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3. (Med.) a medical facility, often connected with a school or hospital, which treats primarily outpatients.
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4. (Med.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
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5. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested.
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6. (sports) a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. [fig.]
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{ Clinical (klĭnĭk�l), Clinic (klĭnĭk) }, a. [Gr. klinikos, fr. klinh bed, fr. klinein to lean, recline: cf. F. clinique. See , v. i.] 1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.
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2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.
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Coloq. Clinical baptism , baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. -- Coloq. Clinical instruction , instruction by means of clinics. -- Coloq. Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Coloq. Clinical medicine , Coloq. Clinical surgery , that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
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Clinically, adv. In a clinical manner.
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clinid (klĭnĭd), a. of or pertaining to the Clinidae, a family of fish of temperate and tropical seas.
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clinid (klĭnĭd), n. any fish of the family Clinidae, of temperate and tropical seas.
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Clinidae n. a natural family of viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas.
Syn. -- family Clinidae.
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Clinique (?), n. [F.] (Med.) A clinic.
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Clinium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. klinh bed.] (Bot.) See .
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Clink (klĭṉk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinked (klĭṉkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking.] [OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. , , , v. i.] To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
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And let me the canakin clink. Shak.
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Clink (klĭṉk), v. i. 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. “The clinking latch.” Tennyson.
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2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.
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Clink, n. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. “Clink and fall of swords.” Shak.
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Clink (klĭṉk), n. A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [Colloq.] “I'm here in the clink.” Kipling.
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Clinkant (klĭṉk�nt), a. See .
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Clinker (klĭṉkẽr), n. [From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. .] 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
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2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
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3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
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4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under .
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Clinker-built (?), a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See .
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Clinkstone (?; 110), n. [Clink + stone; -- from its sonorousness.] (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See .
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Clinodiagonal (?), n. [Gr. klinein to incline + E. diagonal.] (Crystallog.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See . -- a. Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
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Clinodome (?), n. [Gr. klinein to incline + E. dome.] (Crystallog.) See under .
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Clinographic (?), a. [Gr. klinein to incline + -graph.] Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
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Clinoid (?), a. [Gr. klinh bed + -oid.] (Anat.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
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Clinometer (?), n. [Gr. klinein to incline + -meter.] (Geol.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.
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Clinometric (?), a. 1. Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
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2. Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
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Clinometry (?), n. (geol.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
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Clinopinacoid (?), n. [Gr. klinein to incline + E. pinacoid.] (Crystallog.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
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Clinorhombic (?), a. [Gr. klinein to incline + E. rhombic: cf. F. clinorhombique.] (Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
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Clinostat (?), n. [Gr. � to incline + � to make to stand.] (Bot.) An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.
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Clinquant (?), a. [F.] Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.
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Clinquant, n. Tinsel; Dutch gold.
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Clinton 1. William Jefferson Clinton, b. 1946. The 42d president of the United States, from 1993-. Also known as Bill Clinton. [Prop.]
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2. Hillary Rodham Clinton, b. 1947. Attorney and wife of Bill Clinton, the 42d president of the United States. [Prop.]
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clintonia n. any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.
Syn. -- Clinton's lily.
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clintonomics n. the economic policies of president Bill Clinton.
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Clio (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. � the proclaimer, fr. � to call, tell of, make famous.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over history.
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Clione (?), n. A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.
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Clip (klĭp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (klĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.] [OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klȳpa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.] 1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.
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O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. Shak.
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2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
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Sentenced to have his ears clipped. Macaulay.
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3. To curtail; to cut short.
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All my reports go with the modest truth;
No more nor clipped, but so. Shak.
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In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.
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Clip (klĭp), v. i. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
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Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. Dryden.
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Clip, n. 1. An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.
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2. A cutting; a shearing.
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3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
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4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
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5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.
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6. (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.
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7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]
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8. (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
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9. (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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10. A rapid gait. “A three-minute clip.” Kipling.
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clipboard n. a small writing board with a clip attached at the top for holding papers.
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clip-on adj. having a clip as the means of attachment; as, clip-on earrings; a clip-on bow tie.
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clipped adj. 1. trimmed with clippers; as, a clipped hedge.
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2. (music) staccato; -- contrasted with legato.
Syn. -- short.
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3. effectively concise.
Syn. -- brief, crisp, curt, laconic, short, terse, to the point(predicate).
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Clipper (klĭppẽr), n. 1. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.
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The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. Locke.
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2. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
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3. (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also clipper ship. -- Clipper-built (�), a.
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☞ The name was first borne by “Baltimore clippers” famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.
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4. (Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.
Syn. -- limiter.
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Coloq. Yankee Clipper , (a) a clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper{3}. (b) Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.
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clippers n. 1. a type of shears for cutting grass or shrubbery; as, hedge clippers.
Syn. -- clipper, hedge clippers.
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2. a cutting device for cutting hair or finger nails; as, nail clippers.
Syn. -- clipper.
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Clipping (?), n. 1. The act of embracing. [Obs.]
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2. The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins. This practise was common when precious metals such as silver or gold were used in commonly circulated major coins, such as the dime, quarter, and higher denominations; scoundrels would remove small slivers of precious metal from the edges of many coins, eventually accumulating enough precious metal to be worth a significant sum, while passing on the clipped coins at their nominal values. After most governments discontinued coinage in silver and gold in the late 1900's, the practice became obsolete. The serrations, or milling, at the edges of coins was introduced to defeat the practice by making the result of clipping evident. Many coins continued to be made with milled edges even after the practice of clipping was rendered pointless by use of non-precious metals in coinage.
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clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.
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3. That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.
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4. (Football) The act of hitting a player from behind, for the purpose of blocking. It is illegal in football because it can lead to injury to the blocked player, who cannot anticipate the action. A penalty of 10 yards or more may be assessed against the team of the offending player.
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Clique (klēk), n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See , v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.
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Clique, v. i. To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.
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cliquish (klēkĭsh), a. Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. -- Cliquishness, n.
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cliquism (klēkĭz'm), n. The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
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clit n. Same as clitoris. [Vulgar slang]
Syn. -- clitoris, button.
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clitellus (klĭtĕllŭs), n. [NL., prob. fr. L. clitellae a packsadle.] (Zoöl.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.
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Clitocybe prop. n. a genus of white-spored agarics with flat or funnel-shaped cap and elastic stem.
Syn. -- genus Clitocybe.
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clitoral clitoric adj. Of or pertaining to the .
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Clitoria n. a genus of tropical shrubs or vines having pinnate leaves and large axillary flowers.
Syn. -- genus Clitoria.
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Clitoris (klīt�rĭs or klĭt�rĭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kleitoris, fr. kleiein to shut up. It is concealed by the labia pudendi.] (Anat.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva in females, homologous to the penis in the male.
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clitter v. i. to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers.
Syn. -- stridulate.
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Clivers (? or ?), n. See .
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Clivity (?), n.; pl. Clivities (#). [L. clivus hill.] Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]
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Cloaca (?), n.; pl. Cloacæ (#). [L.] 1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.
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2. A privy.
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3. (Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.
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Cloacal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a cloaca.
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Cloak (klōk; 110), n. [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st .] 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.
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2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover.
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No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South.
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Coloq. Cloak bag , a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.
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Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking.] To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal.
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Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

Syn. -- See .
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Cloakedly, adv. In a concealed manner.
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Cloaking, n. 1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything.
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To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings. Strype.
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2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.
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Cloakroom (?), n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.
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clobber n. personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take all your clobber?.
Syn. -- stuff.
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Cloche (?), n. [F., prop., bell.] (Aëronautics) An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.
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cloche n. 1. a woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat.
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2. a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold.
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Clock (klŏk), n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. .] 1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions; in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands, pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face, thus showing the hours and minutes. The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. In electrical or electronic clocks, the time may be indicated, as on a mechanical clock, by hands, but may also be indicated by direct digital readout, with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals. The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout. Some clocks also indicate the seconds. Clocks are not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. Specialized clocks, such as atomic clocks, may be constructed on different principles, and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observations.
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2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] Walton.
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3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.
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4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift.
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☞ The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc.
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Coloq. Alarm clock . See under . -- Coloq. Astronomical clock . (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. -- Coloq. Electric clock . (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. -- Coloq. Ship's clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. -- Coloq. Sidereal clock , an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.
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Clock (klŏk), v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
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Clock, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See . [R.]
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Clock, n. (Zoöl.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
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clocking n. the time taken to traverse a measured course; as, it was a world record clocking.
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Clocklike (klŏklīk), a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
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Their services are clocklike, to be set
Backward and forward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.
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clocks n. 1. European weed naturalized in the southwestern U. S. and Mexico (Erodium cicutarium), having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender pinlike fruits that stick straight up; it is often grown for forage.
Syn. -- redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, filaria, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium.
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clockwise adj. 1. -- of rotatory motion. dextral
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clockwise (?), a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.
Syn. -- right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory.
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Clockwork (-wûrk), n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
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