CLINKER-BUILT
CLINKER-BUILT, adjective Made of clincher work.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CLINKING
CLINKING, participle present tense Making a small sharp sound, or succession of sounds.
CLINKSTONE
CLINKSTONE, noun A mineral which has a slaty structure, and is generally divisible into tabular masses, usually thick, sometimes thin like those of argillite. The cross fracture...
CLINOMETER
CLINOMETER, noun An instrument for measuring the dip of mineral strata.
CLINQUANT
CLINQUANT, adjective Dressed in tinsel finery.
CLIP
CLIP, verb transitive1. To cut off with shears or scissors; to separate by a sudden stroke; especially to cut off the ends or sides of a thing, to make it shorter or narrower, i...
CLIPPED
CLIPPED, CLIPT, participle passive Cut off; cut short; curtailed; diminished by paring.
CLIPPER
CLIPPER, noun One who clips; especially one who cuts off the edges of coin.
CLIPPING
CLIPPING, participle present tense Cutting off or shortening with shears or scissors; diminishing coin by paring off the edges; curtailing.CLIPPING, noun1. The act of cutting of...
CLIPT
CLIPPED, CLIPTparticiple passive Cut off; cut short; curtailed; diminished by paring.
CLIVE
CLIVE, in the composition of names, denote a place situated on or near a cliff, on the side of a hill, rock or precipice; as Cleveland, Clifton.
CLIVERS
CLIVERS, noun A plant, the Galium aparine; called also goose-grass, or hairiff. It has a square, rough, jointed stem; the joints hairy at the base; with eight or ten narrow leav...
CLOAGULATED
CLOAGULATED, participle passive Concreted; curdled.
CLOAK
CLOAK. [See Cloke.]
CLOCHARD
CLOCHARD, noun A belfry.
CLOCK
CLOCK, noun1. A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes and...
CLOCK-SETTER
CLOCK-SETTER, noun One who regulates the clock.
CLOCK-WORK
CLOCK-WORK, noun1. The machinery and movements of a clock; or that part of the movement which strikes the hours on a bell, in distinction from that part which measures and exhib...
CLOD
CLOD, noun1. A hard lump of earth, of any kind; a mass of earth cohering.2. A lump or mass of metal.3. Turf; the ground.4. That which is earthy, base and vile, as the body of ma...
CLODDY
CLODDY, adjective1. Consisting of clods; abounding with clods.2. Earthy; mean; gross.
CLODHOPPER
CLODHOPPER, noun A clown; a dolt.
CLODPATE
CLODPATE, noun A stupid fellow; a dolt; a thickskull.
CLODPATED
CLODPATED, adjective Stupid; dull; doltish.
CLODPOLL
CLODPOLL, noun A stupid fellow; a dolt; a blockhead.
CLOG
CLOG, verb transitive1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage.2. To put on any thing that encumber...
CLOG-GED
CLOG-GED, participle passive Wearing a clog; shackled; obstructed; loaded with incumbrance.
CLOGGINESS
CLOGGINESS, noun The state of being clogged.