CLEAVE
CLEAVE, verb intransitive1. To stick; to adhere; to hold to.My bones cleave to my skin. Psalms 102:5.Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. Psalms 137:6.CLEAVE to that wh...
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CLEAVED
CLEAVED, participle passive Split; rived; divided.
CLEAVELANDITE
CLEAVELANDITE, noun A mineral, generally of a white or grayish white color, sometimes blue or bluish or reddish; called also siliceous felspar, or albite.
CLEAVER
CLEAVER, noun One who cleaves; that which cleaves; a butchers instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
CLEAVING
CLEAVING, participle present tense Sticking; adhering; uniting to. Also, splitting; dividing; riving.
CLECHE
CLECHE, noun In heraldry, a kind of cross, charged with another cross of the same figure, but of the color of the field.
CLEDGE
CLEDGE, noun Among miners, the upper stratum of fullers earth.
CLEF
CLEF, noun A character in music placed at the beginning of a stave, to determine the degree of elevation occupied by that stave in the general claviary or system, and to point o...
CLEFT
CLEFT, participle passive of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.CLEFT, noun1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. Isaiah 2:21.2...
CLEFT-GRAFT
CLEFT-GRAFT, verb transitive [cleft and graft.] To engraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a cion.
CLEG
CLEG, noun The hose fly; Dan.
CLEM
CLEM, verb transitive To starve.
CLEMENCY
CLEMENCY, noun1. Mildness; softness; as the clemency of the air.2. Mildness of temper; gentleness or lenity of disposition; disposition to treat with favor and kindness.I pray t...
CLEMENT
CLEMENT, adjective Mild in temper and disposition; gentle; lenient; merciful; kind; tender; compassionate.
CLEMENTINE
CLEMENTINE, adjective Pertaining to St. Clement, or to his compilations; or to the constitutions of Clement the fifth.
CLEMENTLY
CLEMENTLY, adverb With mildness of temper; mercifully.
CLENCH
CLENCH. [See Clinch.]
CLEPE
CLEPE, verb transitive or I. To call, or name.
CLEPSAMMIA
CLEPSAMMIA, noun An instrument for measuring time by sand, like an hour glass.
CLEPSYDRA
CLEPSYDRA, noun1. A time piece used by the Greeks and Romans, which measured time by the discharge of a certain quantity of water. Also, a fountain in Greece.2. A chimical vessel.
CLERGICAL
CLERGICAL, adjective Pertaining to the clergy. [See Clerical.]
CLERGY
CLERGY, noun1. The body of men set apart, and consecrated, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the christian church; the body of ecclesiastics, in distinction from the ...
CLERGYABLE
CLERGYABLE, adjective Entitled to or admitting the benefit of clergy; as a clergyable felony.
CLERGYMAN
CLERGYMAN, noun A man in holy orders; a man licensed to preach the gospel, according to the forms and rules of any particular denomination of christians.
CLERIC
CLERIC, noun A clerk or clergyman.
CLERICAL
CLERICAL, adjective Relating or pertaining to the clergy as clerical tonsure; clerical robes; clerical duties.
CLERK
CLERK, noun1. A clergyman, or ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders.2. A man that can read.Everyone that could read--being accounted a clerk3. A man of letters; a scholar.The foreg...