Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Clue (2)

Clue (klū), n. [See Clew, n.] A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.You have wound a goodly clue.Shak.This clue once found unravels all the rest.Po...

4781

Clum

Clum (klŭm), interj. Silence; hush. Chaucer.

4782

Clumber

Clum″ber (klŭm″bẽr), n.(Zoöl.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

4783

Clump

Clump (klŭmp), n. [Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump, klumpen, Dan. klump, Sw. klump; perh. akin to L. globus, E. globe. Cf. Club.] 1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other subst...

4784

Clump (2)

Clump, v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore.

4785

Clump (3)

Clump, v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp. Halliwell.

4786

Clumper

Clump″er (?), v. t. [Cf. G. klümpern to clod. See Clump, n.] To form into clumps or masses.Vapors... clumpered in balls of clouds.Dr. H. More.

4787

Clumps

Clumps (?), n. A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the ques...

4788

Clumpy

Clump″y (?), a. [From Clump, n.] Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

4789

Clumsily

Clum″si‐ly (?), adv. In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

4790

Clumsiness

Clum″si‐ness, n. The quality of being clumsy.The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance.Collier.

4791

Clumsy

Clum″sy (?), a. [Compar.Clumsier (?); superl.Clumsiest.] [OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. ...

4792

Clunch

Clunch (?), n. [Perh. fr. clinch to make fast] 1. (Mining) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.2. One of the hard beds of the lower chalk. Dana.

4793

Clung

Clung (?), imp. & p. p. of Cling.

4794

Clung (2)

Clung, a. [Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See Cling, v. i.] Wasted away; shrunken.

4795

Cluniac

Clu″ni‐ac (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. — Also used as a.

4796

Cluniacensian

Clu′ni‐a‐cen″sian (?), a. Cluniac.

4797

Clupeoid

Clu″pe‐oid (?), a. [L. clupea a kind of fish, NL., generic name of the herring + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

4798

Cluster

Clus″ter (klŭs″tẽr), n. [AS. cluster, clyster; cf. LG. kluster (also Sw. & Dan. klase a cluster of grapes, D. klissen to be entangled?.)] 1. A number of things of the same kind ...

4799

Cluster (2)

Clus″ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Clustered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Clustering.] To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.His sunny hairClus...

4800

Cluster (3)

Clus″ter, v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.Not less the bee would range her cells,...The foxglove cluster dappled bells.Tennyson...

4801

Clusteringly

Clus″ter‐ing‐ly, adv. In clusters.

4802

Clustery

Clus″ter‐y (?), a. [From Cluster, n.] Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.

4803

Clutch

Clutch (klŭch; 224), n. [OE. cloche, cloke, claw, Scot. clook, cleuck, also OE. cleche claw, clechen, cleken, to seize; cf. AS. gelæccan (where ge- is a prefix) to seize. Cf. La...

4804

Clutch (2)

Clutch, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Clutched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Clutching.] [OE. clucchen. See Clutch, n.] 1. To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; — often figurativ...

4805

Clutch (3)

Clutch, v. i. To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; — often followed by at.Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market.Bankroft.

4806

Clutter

Clut″ter (?), n. [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.] 1. A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.He saw what a clutter there w...