CLIMACTER
CLIMACTER, noun1. A critical year in human life; but climacteric is more generally used.2. A certain space of time.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CLIMACTERIC
CLIMACTERIC, adjective Literally, noting a scale, progression, or gradation; appropriately, denoting a critical period of human life, or a certain number of years, at the end of...
CLIMATARCHIC
CLIMATARCHIC, adjective Presiding over climates.
CLIMATE
CLIMATE, noun1. In geography, a part of the surface of the earth, bounded by two circles parallel to the equator, and of such a breadth that the longest day in the parallel near...
CLIMATIC
CLIMATIC,CLIMATICAL, adjective Pertaining to a climate or climates; limited by a climate.
CLIMATICAL
CLIMATICAL, a. Pertaining to a climate or climates; limited by a climate.
CLIMATURE
CLIMATURE, noun A climate.
CLIMAX
CLIMAX, noun1. Gradation; ascent; a figure of rhetoric, in which a sentence rises as it were, step by step; or in which the expression which ends one member of the period, begin...
CLIMB
CLIMB, verb intransitive1. To creep up by little and little, or step by step; to mount or ascend, by means of the hands and feet; to rise on any fixed object, by seizing it with...
CLIMBABLE
CLIMBABLE, adjective That may be climbed.
CLIMBED
CLIMBED, participle passive1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.
CLIMBER
CLIMBER, noun1. One who climbs, mounts or rises, by the hands and feet; one who rises by labor or effort.2. A plant that creeps and rises on some support.CLIMBER, verb intransit...
CLIMBING
CLIMBING, participle present tense Ascending by the use of the hands and feet; ascending with difficulty.CLIMBING, noun The act of ascending.
CLIME
CLIME, noun A climate; a tract or region of the earth; a poetical word, but sometimes used in prose. [See Climate.]Whatever clime the suns bright circle warms.
CLINCH
CLINCH, verb transitive1. To gripe with the hand; to make fast by bending over, folding, or embracing closely. Thus, to clinch a nail, is to bend the point and drive it closely....
CLINCHED
CLINCHED, participle passive Made fast by doubling or embracing closely.
CLINCHER
CLINCHER, noun1. That which clinches; a cramp or piece of iron bent down to fasten any thing.2. One who makes a smart reply.3. That which makes fast.
CLINCHER-BUILT
CLINCHER-BUILT,CLINCHER-WORK, noun In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it...
CLINCHER-WORK
CLINCHER-WORK, n. In ship building, the disposition of the planks in the side of a boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank overlays the next below it, like slates on ...
CLINCHING
CLINCHING, participle present tense Making fast by doubling over or embracing closely; griping with the fist.
CLING
CLING, verb intransitive1. To adhere closely; to stick to; to hold fast upon, especially by winding round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support.Two babes...
CLINGING
CLINGING, participle present tense Adhering closely; sticking to; winding round and holding to.
CLINGY
CLINGY, adjective Apt to cling; adhesive.
CLINIC
CLINIC,CLINICAL, adjective In a general sense, pertaining to a bed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bed-side of the sick, or from notes taken at the bed-side,...
CLINICAL
CLINICAL, a. In a general sense, pertaining to a bed. A clinical lecture is a discourse delivered at the bed-side of the sick, or from notes taken at the bed-side, by a physicia...
CLINICALLY
CLINICALLY, adverb In a clinical manner; by the bed-side.
CLINK
CLINK, verb transitive To ring or jingle; to utter or make a small sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking small metallic or other sonorous bodies together.C...