CLOSED — CLUTTERING NWAD CLOSED.1

CLOSED, pp. Shut; made fast; ended; concluded. NWAD CLOSED.1

CLOSELY, adv. NWAD CLOSELY.1

1. In a close, compact manner; with the parts united, or pressed together, so as to leave no vent; as a crucible closely luted. NWAD CLOSELY.2

2. Nearly; with little space intervening; applied to space or time; as, to follow closely at ones heels; one event follows closely upon another. NWAD CLOSELY.3

3. Intently; attentively; with the mind or thoughts fixed; with near inspection; as, to look or attend closely. NWAD CLOSELY.4

4. Secretly; slyly. NWAD CLOSELY.5

5. With near affection, attachment or interest; intimately; as, men closely connected in friendship; nations closely allied by treaty. NWAD CLOSELY.6

6. Strictly; within close limits; without communication abroad; as a prisoner closely confined. NWAD CLOSELY.7

7. With strict adherence to the original; as, to translate closely. NWAD CLOSELY.8

CLOSENESS, n. NWAD CLOSENESS.1

1. The state of being shut, pressed together, or united. Hence according to the nature of the thing to which the word is applied. NWAD CLOSENESS.2

2. Compactness; solidity; as the closeness of texture in wood or fossils. NWAD CLOSENESS.3

3. Narrowness; straitness; as of a place. NWAD CLOSENESS.4

4. Tightness in building, or in apartments; firmness of texture in cloth, etc. NWAD CLOSENESS.5

5. Want of ventilation; applied to a close room, or to the air confined in it. NWAD CLOSENESS.6

6. Confinement or retirement of a person; recluseness; solitude. NWAD CLOSENESS.7

7. Reserve in intercourse; secrecy; privacy; caution. NWAD CLOSENESS.8

8. Covetousness; penuriousness. NWAD CLOSENESS.9

9. Connection; near union; intimacy, whether of friendship, or of interest; as the closeness of friendship, or of alliance. NWAD CLOSENESS.10

10. Pressure; urgency; variously applied; as the closeness of an agreement, or of debate; the closeness of a question or inquiry. NWAD CLOSENESS.11

11. Adherence to an original; as the closeness of a version. NWAD CLOSENESS.12

CLOSER, n. s as z. A finisher; one who concludes. NWAD CLOSER.1

CLOSER, a. comp. of close. More close. NWAD CLOSER.2

CLOSEST, a. superl. of close. Most close. In these words, s has its proper sound. NWAD CLOSEST.1

CLOSET, n. s as z. NWAD CLOSET.1

1. A small room or apartment for retirement; any room for privacy. NWAD CLOSET.2

When thou prayest, inter into thy closet. Matthew 6:6. NWAD CLOSET.3

2. An apartment for curiosities or valuable things. NWAD CLOSET.4

3. A small close apartment or recess in the side of a room for repositing utensils and furniture. NWAD CLOSET.5

CLOSET, v.t. s as z. To shut up in a closet; to conceal; to take into a private apartment for consultation. NWAD CLOSET.6

CLOSETED, pp. s as z. Shut up in a closet; concealed. NWAD CLOSETED.1

CLOSETING, ppr. s as z. Shutting up in a private room; concealing. NWAD CLOSETING.1

CLOSET-SIN, n. Sin committed in privacy. NWAD CLOSET-SIN.1

CLOSH, n. A disease in the feet of cattle, called also the founder. NWAD CLOSH.1

CLOSING, ppr. s as z. Shutting; coalescing; agreeing; ending. NWAD CLOSING.1

CLOSING, a. s as z. That ends or concludes; as a closing word or letter. NWAD CLOSING.2

CLOSING, n. s as z. End; period; conclusion. NWAD CLOSING.3

CLOSURE, n. NWAD CLOSURE.1

1. The act of shutting; a closing. NWAD CLOSURE.2

2. That which closes, or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or made to adhere. NWAD CLOSURE.3

3. Inclosure; that which confines. NWAD CLOSURE.4

4. Conclusion. NWAD CLOSURE.5

CLOT, n. [See Clod.] A concretion, particularly of soft or fluid matter, which concretes into a mass or lump; as a clot of blood. Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word; but we usually apply clod to a hard mass of earth, and clot to a mass of softer substances, or fluids concreted. NWAD CLOT.1

CLOT, v.i. NWAD CLOT.2

1. To concrete; to coagulate, as soft or fluid matter into a thick, inspissated mass; as milk or blood clots. NWAD CLOT.3

2. To form into clots or clods; to adhere; as, clotted glebe. NWAD CLOT.4

CLOT-BIRD, n. The common Oenanthe or English Ortolan. NWAD CLOT-BIRD.1

CLOT-BUR, n. Burdock. NWAD CLOT-BUR.1

CLOTH, n. NWAD CLOTH.1

1. A manufacture or stuff of wool or hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp or other vegetable filaments, formed by weaving or intertexture of threads, and used for garments or other covering and for various other purposes; as woolen cloth, linen cloth, cotton cloth, hair cloth. NWAD CLOTH.2

2. The covering of a table; usually called a tablecloth. NWAD CLOTH.3

3. The canvas on which pictures are drawn. NWAD CLOTH.4

4. A texture or covering put to a particular use; as a cloth of state. NWAD CLOTH.5

5. Dress; raiment. [See Clothes.] NWAD CLOTH.6

6. The covering of a bed. NWAD CLOTH.7

CLOTHE, v.t. pret. and pp. clothed, or clad. [See Cloth.] NWAD CLOTHE.1

1. To put on garments; to invest the body with raiment; to cover with dress, for concealing nakedness and defending the body from cold or injuries. NWAD CLOTHE.2

The Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them. Genesis 3:21. NWAD CLOTHE.3

2. To cover with something ornamental. NWAD CLOTHE.4

Embroidered purple clothes the golden beds. NWAD CLOTHE.5

But clothe, without the aid of other words, seldom signifies to adorn. In this example from Pope, it signifies merely to cover. NWAD CLOTHE.6

3. To furnish with raiment; to provide with clothes; as, a master is to feed and clothe his apprentice. NWAD CLOTHE.7

4. To put on; to invest; to cover, as with a garment; as, to clothe thoughts with words. NWAD CLOTHE.8

I will clothe her priests with salvation. Psalm 132:16. NWAD CLOTHE.9

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Proverbs 23:21. NWAD CLOTHE.10

Let them be clothed with shame. Psalm 35:26. NWAD CLOTHE.11

5. To invest; to surround; to encompass. NWAD CLOTHE.12

The Lord is clothed with majesty. Psalm 93:1. NWAD CLOTHE.13

Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Psalm 104:1. NWAD CLOTHE.14

6. To invest; to give to by commission; as, to clothe with power or authority. NWAD CLOTHE.15

7. To cover or spread over; as, the earth is clothed with verdure. NWAD CLOTHE.16

CLOTHE, v.i. To wear clothes. NWAD CLOTHE.17

Care no more to clothe and eat. NWAD CLOTHE.18

CLOTHED, pp. Covered with garments; dressed; invested; furnished with clothing. NWAD CLOTHED.1

CLOTHES, n. plu. Of cloth; pronounced cloze. NWAD CLOTHES.1

1. Garments for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; a general term for whatever covering is worn, or made to be worn, for decency or comfort. NWAD CLOTHES.2

If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:28. NWAD CLOTHES.3

2. The covering of a bed; bed-clothes. NWAD CLOTHES.4

CLOTHIER, n. NWAD CLOTHIER.1

1. In English authors, a man who makes cloths; a maker of cloth. In this sense, I believe it is not used in the United States; certainly not in New England. NWAD CLOTHIER.2

2. In America, a man whose occupation is to full and dress cloth. NWAD CLOTHIER.3

CLOTHING, ppr. Covering with or putting on vestments of any kind; providing with garments; investing; covering. NWAD CLOTHING.1

CLOTHING, n. NWAD CLOTHING.2

1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. NWAD CLOTHING.3

As for me--my clothing was sackcloth. Psalm 35:13. NWAD CLOTHING.4

2. The art or practice of making cloth. NWAD CLOTHING.5

The king took measures to instruct the refugees from Flanders in the art of clothing. NWAD CLOTHING.6

CLOTH-SHEARER, n. One who shears cloth, and frees it from superfluous nap. NWAD CLOTH-SHEARER.1

CLOTH-WORKER, n. A maker of cloth. NWAD CLOTH-WORKER.1

CLOTPOLL, n. A thickskull; a blockhead. [See Clod-poll.] NWAD CLOTPOLL.1

CLOTTED, pp. Concreted into a mass; inspissated; adhering in a lump. NWAD CLOTTED.1

CLOTTER, v.i. [from clot.] To concrete or gather into lumps. NWAD CLOTTER.1

CLOTTING, ppr. Concreting; inspissating; forming into clots. NWAD CLOTTING.1

CLOTTY, a. [from clot.] Full of clots, or small hard masses; full of concretions, or clods. NWAD CLOTTY.1

CLOUD, n. [I have not found this word in any other language. The sense is obvious--a collection.] NWAD CLOUD.1

1. A collection f visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the atmosphere, at some altitude. A like collection of vapors near the earth is usually called fog. NWAD CLOUD.2

I do set my bow in the cloud. Genesis 9:13. NWAD CLOUD.3

Behold, a white cloud. Revelation 14:14. NWAD CLOUD.4

2. A state of obscurity or darkness. NWAD CLOUD.5

3. A collection of smoke, or a dense collection of dust, rising or floating in the air; as a cloud of dust. NWAD CLOUD.6

A cloud of incense. Ezekiel 8:11. NWAD CLOUD.7

4. The dark or varied colors, in veins or spots, on stones or other bodies, are called clouds. NWAD CLOUD.8

5. A great multitude; a vast collection. NWAD CLOUD.9

Seeing we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses. Hebrews 12:1. NWAD CLOUD.10

CLOUD, v.t. To overspread with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded; clouds intercept the rays of the sun. Hence, NWAD CLOUD.11

2. To obscure; to darken; as, to cloud the day, or truth, or reason. NWAD CLOUD.12

3. To darken in veins or spots; to variegate with colors; as clouded marble. NWAD CLOUD.13

4. To make of a gloomy aspect; to give the appearance of sullenness. NWAD CLOUD.14

What sullen fury clouds his scornful brow. NWAD CLOUD.15

5. To sully; to tarnish. NWAD CLOUD.16

CLOUD, v.i. To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; sometimes followed by over; as, the sky clouds over. NWAD CLOUD.17

CLOUD-ASCENDING, a. Ascending to the clouds. NWAD CLOUD-ASCENDING.1

CLOUD-BERRY, n. A plant, called also knot-berry; Rubus chamaemorus. NWAD CLOUD-BERRY.1

CLOUD-BORN, a. Born of a cloud. NWAD CLOUD-BORN.1

CLOUD-CAPT, a. [cloud and cap.] Capped with clouds; touching the clouds; lofty. NWAD CLOUD-CAPT.1

The cloud-capt towers. NWAD CLOUD-CAPT.2

CLOUD-COMPELLER, n. He that collects clouds; Jove. NWAD CLOUD-COMPELLER.1

CLOUD-COMPELLING, a. Collecting clouds; or driving clouds; as cloud-compelling Jove. NWAD CLOUD-COMPELLING.1

CLOUD-COVERED, a. Enveloped with clouds. NWAD CLOUD-COVERED.1

CLOUD-DISPELLING, a. Having power to disperse clouds. NWAD CLOUD-DISPELLING.1

CLOUD-ECLIPSED, a. Eclipsed by a cloud. NWAD CLOUD-ECLIPSED.1

CLOUDED, pp. Overcast; overspread with clouds; obscured; darkened; rendered gloomy or sullen; variegated with colored spots or veins. NWAD CLOUDED.1

CLOUDILY, adv. [from cloudy.] With clouds; darkly; obscurely. NWAD CLOUDILY.1

CLOUDINESS, n. NWAD CLOUDINESS.1

1. The state of being overcast with clouds; as the cloudiness of the atmosphere. NWAD CLOUDINESS.2

2. Obscurity; gloom; want of brightness. NWAD CLOUDINESS.3

3. Darkness of appearance; variegation of colors in a fossil or other body. NWAD CLOUDINESS.4

4. Appearance of gloom or sullenness; as cloudiness of aspect. NWAD CLOUDINESS.5

CLOUDING, ppr. Overspreading with clouds; obscuring; giving an appearance of gloom or sullenness. NWAD CLOUDING.1

CLOUD-KISSING, a. Touching the clouds. NWAD CLOUD-KISSING.1

CLOUDLESS, a. Being without a cloud; unclouded; clear; bright; luminous; as cloudless skies. NWAD CLOUDLESS.1

CLOUD-PIERCING, a. Penetrating or rising above the clouds. NWAD CLOUD-PIERCING.1

CLOUD-TOPT, a. Having the top covered with a cloud. NWAD CLOUD-TOPT.1

CLOUD-TOUCHING, a. Touching the clouds. NWAD CLOUD-TOUCHING.1

CLOUDY, a. NWAD CLOUDY.1

1. Overcast with clouds; obscured with clouds; as a cloudy day; a cloudy sky; a cloudy night. NWAD CLOUDY.2

2. Consisting of a cloud or clouds; as a cloudy pillar. Exodus 33:9. NWAD CLOUDY.3

3. Obscure; dark; not easily understood; as cloudy and confused notions. NWAD CLOUDY.4

4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or illnature; not open or cheerful; as cloudy looks. NWAD CLOUDY.5

5. Indicating gloom or sullenness; as cloudy wrath. NWAD CLOUDY.6

6. Marked with veins or spots of dark or various hues, as marble. NWAD CLOUDY.7

7. Not bright; as a cloudy diamond. NWAD CLOUDY.8

CLOUGH, n. cluf. 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. NWAD CLOUGH.1

CLOUT, n. NWAD CLOUT.1

1. A patch; a piece of cloth or leather, etc., to close a breach. NWAD CLOUT.2

2. A piece of cloth for mean purposes. NWAD CLOUT.3

3. A piece of white cloth, for archers to shoot at. NWAD CLOUT.4

4. An iron plate on an axle tree, to keep it from wearing. NWAD CLOUT.5

5. A small nail NWAD CLOUT.6

6. In vulgar language, a blow with the hand. NWAD CLOUT.7

CLOUT, v.t. NWAD CLOUT.8

1. To patch; to mend by sewing on a piece or patch; as clouted shoon, in Milton. This is the sense as understood by Johnson. Mason understands the word clouted to signify nailed, studded with small nails, from the French clouter, and the following words in Shakespeare, Whose rudeness answered my steps too loud, give some countenance to Masons interpretation. In this case, the verb clout must signify, to nail, or fasten with nails; to stud. NWAD CLOUT.9

2. To cover with a piece of cloth. NWAD CLOUT.10

3. To join clumsily; as clouted sentences. NWAD CLOUT.11

4. To cover or arm with an iron plate. NWAD CLOUT.12

5. To strike; to give a blow. NWAD CLOUT.13

Clouted cream, in Gay, is evidently a mistake for clotted cream. NWAD CLOUT.14

CLOUTED, pp. Patched; mended clumsily; covered with a clout. NWAD CLOUTED.1

CLOUTERLY, a. Clumsy; awkward. NWAD CLOUTERLY.1

CLUTING, ppr. Patching; covering with a clout. NWAD CLUTING.1

CLOVE, pret. of cleave. NWAD CLOVE.1

CLOVE, n. [See Cleave.] A cleft; a fissure; a gap; a ravine. This word, though properly an appellative, is not often used as such in English; bu it is appropriated to particular places, that are real clefts, or which appear as such; as the Clove of Kaaterskill, in the state of New York, and the Stony Clove. It is properly a Dutch word. NWAD CLOVE.2

CLOVE, n. NWAD CLOVE.3

1. A very pungent aromatic spice, the flower of the clove-tree, Caryophyllus, a native of the Molucca isles. The tree grows to the size of the laurel, and its bark resembles that of the olive. No verdure is seen under it. At the extremities of its branches are produced vast numbers of flowers, which are at first white, then green, and at last red and hard. These are called cloves. NWAD CLOVE.4

2. [from cleave.] The parts into which garlic separates, when the outer skin is removed. NWAD CLOVE.5

3. A certain weight; seven pounds of wool; eight pounds of cheese or butter. NWAD CLOVE.6

CLOVE-GILLY-GLOWER, n. A species of Dianthus, bearing a beautiful flower, cultivated in gardens; called also Carnation pink. NWAD CLOVE-GILLY-GLOWER.1

Note: Some writers suppose that gilly-flower should be written July-flower. [See Clove.] NWAD CLOVE-GILLY-GLOWER.2

CLOVEN, pp. of cleave. Divided; parted; pronounced clovn. NWAD CLOVEN.1

CLOVEN-FOOTED, CLOVEN-HOOFED, a. Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox; bisulcous. NWAD CLOVEN-FOOTED.1

CLOVER, CLOVER-GRASS, n. A genus of plants, called Trifolium, trefoil, or three-leafed, Fr. trefle. The species are numerous. The red clover is generally cultivated for fodder and for enriching land. The white clover is also excellent food for cattle, either green or dry, and from its flowers the bee collects no small portion of its stores of honey. NWAD CLOVER.1

To live in clover, is to live luxuriously, or in abundance; a phrase borrowed from the luxuriant growth of clover, and the feeding of cattle in clover. NWAD CLOVER.2

CLOVERED, a. Covered with clover. NWAD CLOVERED.1

CLOWN, n. A countryman; a rustic; hence, one who has the manners of a rustic; a churl; a man of coarse manners; an ill-bred man. NWAD CLOWN.1

CLOWNAGE, n. The manners of a clown. NWAD CLOWNAGE.1

CLOWNERY, n. Ill-breeding; rustic behavior; rudeness of manners. NWAD CLOWNERY.1

CLOWNISH, a. NWAD CLOWNISH.1

1. Containing clowns; consisting of rustics; as a clownish neighborhood. NWAD CLOWNISH.2

2. Coarse; hard; rugged; rough; as clownish hands. NWAD CLOWNISH.3

3. Of rough manners; ill-bred; as a clownish fellow. NWAD CLOWNISH.4

4. Clumsy; awkward; as a clownish gait. NWAD CLOWNISH.5

CLOY, v.t. NWAD CLOY.1

1. Strictly, to fill; to glut. Hence, to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. And as the appetite when satisfied rejects additional food, hence, to fill to lothing; to surfeit. NWAD CLOY.2

Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite NWAD CLOY.3

By bare imagination of a feast? NWAD CLOY.4

2. To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent. NWAD CLOY.5

3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing. NWAD CLOY.6

[In the two latter senses, I believe the word is little used, and not at all in America.] NWAD CLOY.7

CLOYED, pp. Filled; glutted; filled to satiety and lothing; spiked; pricked in shoeing. NWAD CLOYED.1

CLOYING, ppr. Filling; filling to satety, or disgust. NWAD CLOYING.1

CLOYLESS, a. That cannot cloy, or fill to satiety. NWAD CLOYLESS.1

CLOYMENT, n. Surfeit; repletion beyond the demands of appetite. NWAD CLOYMENT.1

CLUB, n. NWAD CLUB.1

1. Properly, a stick or piece or wood with one end thicker and heavier than the other, and no larger than can be wielded with the hand. NWAD CLUB.2

2. A thick heavy stick, that may be managed with the hand, and used for beating, or defense. In early ages, a club was a principal instrument of war and death; a fact remarkably perpetuated in the accounts which history relates of the achievements of Hercules with his club. Plin. Lib. 7. Ca. 56. This use of the club was the origin of the scepter, as a badge of royalty. NWAD CLUB.3

3. The name of one of the suits of cards; so named from its figure. NWAD CLUB.4

4. A collection or assembly of men; usually a select number of friends met for social or literary purposes. Any small private meeting of persons. NWAD CLUB.5

5. A collection of expenses the expenses of a company, or unequal expenses of individuals, united for the purpose of finding the average or proportion of each individual. Hence the share of each individual in joint expenditure is called his club, that is, his proportion of a club, or joint charge. NWAD CLUB.6

6. Contribution; joint charge. NWAD CLUB.7

CLUB, v.i. NWAD CLUB.8

1. To join, as a number of individuals, to the same end; to contribute separate powers to one end, purpose or effect. NWAD CLUB.9

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream NWAD CLUB.10

Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. NWAD CLUB.11

2. To pay an equal proportion of a common reckoning or charge. NWAD CLUB.12

CLUB, v.t. NWAD CLUB.13

1. To unite different sums of expense, in a common sum or collection, to find the average, that each contributor may pay an equal share. NWAD CLUB.14

2. In common parlance, to raise or turn uppermost the britch or club of a musket; as, the soldiers clubbed their muskets. NWAD CLUB.15

CLUBBED, pp. NWAD CLUBBED.1

1. Collected into a sum and averaged, as different expenses. NWAD CLUBBED.2

2. United to one end or effect. NWAD CLUBBED.3

3. Shaped like a club. NWAD CLUBBED.4

4. Having the britch turned upwards, as a musket. NWAD CLUBBED.5

5. Heavy like a club. NWAD CLUBBED.6

CLUBBER, CLUBBIST, n. One who belongs to a party, club or association. NWAD CLUBBER.1

CLUBBING, ppr. Joining in a club; uniting to a common end. NWAD CLUBBING.1

CLUB-FIST, n. A large heavy fist. NWAD CLUB-FIST.1

CLUB-FISTED, a. Having a large fist. NWAD CLUB-FISTED.1

CLUB-FOOTED, a. Having short or crooked feet. NWAD CLUB-FOOTED.1

CLUB-HEADED, a. Having a thick head. NWAD CLUB-HEADED.1

CLUB-LAW, n. Government by clubs, or violence; the use of arms, or force, in place of law; anarchy. NWAD CLUB-LAW.1

CLUB-ROOM, n. The apartment in which a club meets. NWAD CLUB-ROOM.1

CLUB-RUSH, n. A genus of plants, the Scirpus. NWAD CLUB-RUSH.1

CLUB-SHAPED, a. Shaped like a club; growing thicker towards the top; clavated. NWAD CLUB-SHAPED.1

CLUCK, v.i. To make the noise, or utter the voice of the domestic hen, when sitting on eggs for hatching, and when conducting her chickens. This voice, with the change of the vowel, is precisely our word clack and clock, and is probably an onomatopy. [See Clack and Clock.] NWAD CLUCK.1

CLUCK, v.t. To call chickens by a particular sound. NWAD CLUCK.2

CLUCKING, ppr. Uttering the voice of a sitting hen; calling chickens. NWAD CLUCKING.1

CLUE. [See Clew.] NWAD CLUE.1

CLUMP, n. NWAD CLUMP.1

1. A thick, short piece of wood, or other solid substance; a shapeless mass. Hence clumper, a clot or clod. NWAD CLUMP.2

2. A cluster of trees or shrubs; formerly written plump. In some parts of England, it is an adjective signifying lazy, unhandy. NWAD CLUMP.3

CLUMPS, n. [from clump.] A stupid fellow; a numskull. NWAD CLUMPS.1

CLUMSILY, adv. [from clumsy.] In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; in an unhandy manner; without readiness, dexterity or grace. NWAD CLUMSILY.1

CLUMSINESS, n. The quality of being short and thick, and moving heavily; awkwardness; unhandiness; ungainliness; want of readiness, nimbleness or dexterity. NWAD CLUMSINESS.1

CLUMSY, a. s as z. [from clump, lump.] NWAD CLUMSY.1

1. Properly, short and thick, like a clump or lump. Hence, NWAD CLUMSY.2

2. Moving heavily, slowly or awkwardly; as clumsy fingers. NWAD CLUMSY.3

3. Awkward; ungainly; unhandy; artless; without readiness, dexterity or grace; as a clumsy man; a clumsy fellow. NWAD CLUMSY.4

4. Ill-made; badly constructed; as a clumsy garment; clumsy verse. NWAD CLUMSY.5

CLUNCH, n. Among miners, indurated clay, found in coal pits next to the coal. NWAD CLUNCH.1

CLUNG, pret. and pp. of cling, which see. NWAD CLUNG.1

CLUNG, v.i. To shrink. See Cling. NWAD CLUNG.2

CLUNIAC, n. One of a reformed order of Benedictine monks, so called from Cluni in Burgundy. NWAD CLUNIAC.1

CLUSTER, n. NWAD CLUSTER.1

1. A bunch; a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a knot; as a cluster of raisins. NWAD CLUSTER.2

2. A number of individuals or things collected or gathered into a close body; as a cluster of bees; a cluster of people. NWAD CLUSTER.3

3. A number of things situated near each other; as a cluster of governments in Italy. NWAD CLUSTER.4

CLUSTER, v.i. NWAD CLUSTER.5

1. To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch, or bunches; as, clustering grapes. NWAD CLUSTER.6

2. To form into flakes; as, clustering snow. NWAD CLUSTER.7

3. To collect into flocks or crowds. NWAD CLUSTER.8

CLUSTER, v.t. To collect into a bunch or close body. NWAD CLUSTER.9

CLUSTERED, pp. Collected into a cluster, or crowd; crowded. NWAD CLUSTERED.1

CLUSTER-GRAPE, n. A small black grape. NWAD CLUSTER-GRAPE.1

CLUSTERING, ppr. Growing in a cluster or in bunches; uniting in a bunch, or in a flock, crowd, or close body. NWAD CLUSTERING.1

CLUSTERY, a. Growing in clusters. Full of clusters. NWAD CLUSTERY.1

CLUTCH, v.t. NWAD CLUTCH.1

1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.] NWAD CLUTCH.2

2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey. NWAD CLUTCH.3

3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp. NWAD CLUTCH.4

CLUTCH, n. A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp. NWAD CLUTCH.5

CLUTCHES, plu. NWAD CLUTCHES.1

1. The paws or talons of a rapacious animal, as of a cat or dog. NWAD CLUTCHES.2

2. The hands, in the sense of rapacity or cruelty, or of power. NWAD CLUTCHES.3

CLUTTER, n. NWAD CLUTTER.1

1. A heap or assemblage of things lying in confusion; a word of domestic application. NWAD CLUTTER.2

He saw what a clutter there was with huge pots, pans and spits. NWAD CLUTTER.3

2. Noise; bustle. [This sense seems allied to clatter, but it is not the sense of the word in N. England.] NWAD CLUTTER.4

CLUTTER, v.t. To crowd together in disorder; to fill with things in confusion; as, to clutter a room; to clutter the house. NWAD CLUTTER.5

CLUTTER, v.i. To make a bustle, or fill with confusion. NWAD CLUTTER.6

[The English lexicographers explain this word by noise and bustle; but probably by mistake.] NWAD CLUTTER.7

CLUTTERED, pp. Encumbered with things in disorder. NWAD CLUTTERED.1

CLUTTERING, ppr. Encumbering with things in confusion. NWAD CLUTTERING.1