Webster's Dictionary 1913

4456

Cleavers

Cleav″ers (?), n. [From Cleave to stick.] (Bot.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; —...

4457

Cléché

‖Clé′ché″ (?), a. [F. cléché.] (Her.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing rem...

4458

Clechy

Cle″chy (?), a. See Cléché.

4459

Cledge

Cledge (?), n. [Cf. Clay.] (Mining.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

4460

Cledgy

Cledg″y (?), a. Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil. Halliwell.

4461

Clee

Clee (klē), n. A claw. Holland.

4462

Clee (2)

Clee, n.(Zoöl.) The redshank.

4463

Cleek

Cleek (?), n. 1. A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.2. Act of cleeking; a clutch.

4464

Cleek (2)

Cleek, v. t. [pret.Claught (?); pret. & p. p.Cleeked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Cleeking.] [ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch.] 1. To seize; clutch; snatch...

4465

Clef

Clef (klĕf; 277), n. [F. clef key, a key in music, fr. L. clavis key. See Clavicle.] (Mus.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale...

4466

Cleft

Cleft (klĕft), imp. & p. p. from Cleave.

4467

Cleft (2)

Cleft, a. 1. Divided; split; partly divided or split.2. (Bot.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.

4468

Cleft (3)

Cleft, n. [OE. clift; cf. Sw. klyft cave, den, Icel. kluft cleft, Dan. klöft, G. kluft. See Cleave to split and cf. 2d Clift, 1st Clough.] 1. A space or opening made by splittin...

4469

Cleft-footed

Cleft″–foot′ed (?), a. Having a cloven foot.

4470

Cleftgraft

Cleft″graft′ (?), v. t. To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.

4471

Cleg

Cleg (?), n. [Northern Eng. & Scot. gleg: cf. Gael. crethleag.] (Zoöl.) A small breeze or horsefly. Jamieson.

4472

Cleistogamic

{ Cleis′to‐gam″ic (?), Cleis‐tog″a‐mous (?) } a. [Gr. � closed (fr. � to shut) + γάμοσ marriage.] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without ...

4473

Clem

Clem (klĕm), v. t. & i. [Cf. clam to clog, or G. klemmen to pinch, Icel. klömbra, E. clamp.] To starve; to famish. B. Jonson.

4474

Clematis

Clem″a‐tis (klĕm″ȧ‐tĭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. κληματίσ brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. fr. κλη̑μα twig, shoot, fr. κλα̑ν to break off.] (Bot.) A genus of f...

4475

Clemence

Clem″ence (?), n. Clemency. Spenser.

4476

Clemency

Clem″en‐cy (?), n.; pl.Clemencies (#). [L. clementia, fr. clemens mild, calm.] 1. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mer...

4477

Clement

Clem″ent (?), a. [L. clemens; -entis; cf. F. cl�ment.] Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. Shak.— Clem″ent‐ly, adv.

4478

Clementine

Clem″ent‐ine (?), a. Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

4479

Clench

Clench (?), n. & v. t. See Clinch.

4480

Cleopatra's needle

Cle′o‐pa″tra's nee″dle (?). [So named after Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.] Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is n...

4481

Clepe

Clepe (klēp), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cleped (klēp″ĕd) or (klēpt); p. pr. & vb. n.Cleping. Cf. Ycleped.] [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call.] To call, or name.That...

4482

Clepe (2)

Clepe, v. i. To make appeal; to cry out.Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on highCleping for vengeance of this treachery.Mir. for Mag.