Webster's Dictionary 1828

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CLAUDICATE

CLAUDICATE, verb intransitive To halt or limp.

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CLAUDICATION

CLAUDICATION, noun A halting or limping.

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CLAUSE

CLAUSE, noun s as z. Literally, a close, or inclosure. Hence, that which is included, or contained, within certain limits.1. In language or grammar, a member of a period or sent...

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CLAUSTRAL

CLAUSTRAL, adjective [See Clause.] Relating to a cloister, or religious house; as a claustral prior.

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CLAUSURE

CLAUSURE, noun s as z. [See Clause.]1. The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.2. In anatomy, an imperforated canal.

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CLAVATED

CLAVATED, adjective1. Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker towards the top, as certain parts of a plant.2. Set with knobs.

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CLAVE

CLAVE, preterit tense Of cleave.

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CLAVELLATED

CLAVELLATED, adjectiveclavellated ashes, potash and pearlash.

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CLAVIARY

CLAVIARY, noun A scale of lines and spaces in music.

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CLAVICHORD

CLAVICHORD, noun A musical instrument of an oblong figure, of the nature of a spinet. The strings are muffled with small bits of fine woolen cloth, to soften the sounds; used in...

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CLAVICLE

CLAVICLE, noun The collar bone. There are two clavicles, or channel bones, joined at one end to the scapula or shoulder bone, and at the other, to the sternum or breast bone.

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CLAVIGER

CLAVIGER, noun One who keeps the keys of any place.

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CLAW

CLAW, noun1. The sharp hooked nail of a beast, bird or other animal.Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud--ye shall eat. ...

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CLAWED

CLAWED, participle passive1. Scratched, pulled or torn with claws.2.adjective Furnished with claws.

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CLAWING

CLAWING, participle present tense Pulling, tearing or scratching with claws or nails.

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CLAWLESS

CLAWLESS, adjective Destitute of claws.

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CLAY

CLAY, noun1. The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds. A species of earths which are firml...

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CLAY-COLD

CLAY-COLD, adjective Cold as clay or earth; lifeless.

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CLAY-GROUND

CLAY-GROUND, noun Ground consisting of clay, or abounding with it.

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CLAY-LAND

CLAY-LAND, SOIL, noun Land consisting of clay, or abounding with it.

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CLAY-MARL

CLAY-MARL, noun A whitish, smooth, chalky clay.

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CLAY-PIT

CLAY-PIT, noun A pit where clay is dug.

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CLAY-SLATE

CLAY-SLATE, noun A pit where clay is dug.

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CLAY-STONE

CLAY-STONE, noun A mineral, the thonstein of Werner, and indurated clay of Kirwan. It resembles compact limestone or calcarious marl. Its texture is porous, compact or slaty. It...

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CLAYED

CLAYED, participle passive1. Covered or manured with clay.2. Purified and whitened with clay; as clayed sugar.

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CLAYES

CLAYES, nounplural In fortification, wattles or hurdles made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.

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CLAYEY

CLAYEY, adjective Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.