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|Clap ||vb||To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound. |
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+ | 2. to applaud. 3. to slap with the hand in a jovial manner 4. to bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound. 5. to come together suddenly with noise. 6. to create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together). 7. to set or put, usually in haste, as the cops clapped him in prison. 8. to see or lo ok at, as' she was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on. 9. (slang, to shoot (somebody) with a gun. |
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|Clap ||phr||"To Clap Hands" - to pledge faith by joining hands. 2. to express contempt or derision. |
|Clap ||phr||"To Clap Hands" - to pledge faith by joining hands. 2. to express contempt or derision. |
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|Clean ||n||OE: claene: clean, pure, chaste, innocent, uncumbered, hallowed, open, acute, sagacious. 1. removal of dirt, as this place needs a clean. 2. weight- lifting: the first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. |
|Clean ||n||OE: claene: clean, pure, chaste, innocent, uncumbered, hallowed, open, acute, sagacious. 1. removal of dirt, as this place needs a clean. 2. weight- lifting: the first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. |
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|Clean ||vb||To remove dirt from a place or object. 2. to tidy up, make a place neat. 3. to make things clean in general. |
|Clean ||vb||To remove dirt from a place or object. 2. to tidy up, make a place neat. 3. to make things clean in general. |
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|Clean ||phr||"To Clean From" - to clean from a surface. |
|Clean ||phr||"To Clean From" - to clean from a surface. |
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− | |Clean ||phr||"To Clean Out" - to clean, esp. tidy by removing the contents. |
+ | |Clean ||phr||"To Clean Out" - to clean, esp. tidy by removing the contents. 2. to take all of somebody's winning. |
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− | |Clean ||phr||"To Clean Up" - to tidy up or make neat. 2. to win grandly or a great mount; to make a large profit. 3. to win by a large margin, esp. in gambling. 4. to make an area or a thing smart in appearance |
+ | |Clean ||phr||"To Clean Up" - to tidy up or make neat or empty someting completely. 2. to win grandly or a great mount; to make a large profit. 3. to win by a large margin, esp. in gambling. 4. to make an area or a thing smart in appearance |
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|Clean ||phr||"To Come Clean" - to confess, admit the truth. |
|Clean ||phr||"To Come Clean" - to confess, admit the truth. |
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+ | |Clean ||phr||"To Keep One's Nose Clean" - to stay out of trouble. |
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− | |Clean ||phr||"To Make Sweep Clean" - dispose of everything. 2. a complete and overwhelming victory, esp. in which all and all possible electoral contests are won. 3. the winning, by a person or team of all the possible prizes, games, rounds or contests, etc. in a competition, season, series. |
+ | |Clean ||phr||"To Make Sweep Clean" - dispose of everything. 2. a complete and overwhelming victory, esp. in which all and all possible electoral contests are won. 3. the winning, by a person or team of all the possible prizes, games, rounds or contests, etc. in a competition, season, series. 4. a thorough change of policies, personnel or things, removing or replacing all of that was there previously. |
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|Cleaned ||adj||Made free from dirt, filth, foriegn matter. |
|Cleaned ||adj||Made free from dirt, filth, foriegn matter. |
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|Cleanship ||n||Chastity, cleanness. |
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|Clem ||vb.||OE: beclemman. to pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger, to suffer the pangs of hunger. 2. to fetter, cramp. |
|Clem ||vb.||OE: beclemman. to pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger, to suffer the pangs of hunger. 2. to fetter, cramp. |
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|Cleve ||n||Room, chamber, closet, sleeping place. 2. a cliff, coast or shore of the sea. 3. a steep, sloping ground. 4. the steep side of the hill. |
|Cleve ||n||Room, chamber, closet, sleeping place. 2. a cliff, coast or shore of the sea. 3. a steep, sloping ground. 4. the steep side of the hill. |
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− | |Clew ||n||OE cleowen, cliven: sphere, ball, skein, yarn, mass; (obs) a roughly spherical mass or body. 2. (archaic) a ball of thread or yarn. 3. yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. 4. (nautical) the lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction. |
+ | |Clew ||n||OE cleowen, cliven: sphere, ball, skein, yarn, mass; (obs) a roughly spherical mass or body. 2. (archaic) a ball of thread or yarn. 3. yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. 4. (nautical) the lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction. |
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|Clew ||vb||To coil up in a ball; to roll up into a ball. 2. to put out as by clew or clue. 3. to raise the lower corner of a sail. |
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Old English | sb | English |
Clad | n | Cladding, clothing, insulation, covering,furnishing, |
Clad | vb. | Cover with or as with clothing; array, bearing a cladding, arrayed, bedeck. 2. adorned or furnished with clad. |
Clad | vb | To clothe, to dress, to cover as with cloth. 2. to apply a cladding to. 3. to cover with clad. |
Cladded | adj | Covered, clothed, insulated, furnished, coated. |
Cladding | n | Clothe, coating, covering, applied to the surface of |
Clake | vb. | Hurt, injury, scathe |
Clakeless | adj | Scatheless, unhur, unscathed, |
Clam | n | Anything that holds tight, bond, chain. 2. in plural: bondage. 3. an instrument for clasping rigidly or holding fast, a clamp, vice, pair of pinchers, etc; also lining for the jaws of a vice. 3. clutches, jaws. 4. forceps used for bringing up specimens from the ocean bottom. |
Clam | n | A name applied to various bivalve shell-forms. |
Clam | n | The mouth (sl.) 2. mud (sl) - mud, sticky clay. 3. a soft mass. 4. a term of contempt: one who is 'as close as a clam' |
Clam | vb | To smear, to spread unctous matter on; to daub with. 2. to bedaub (a thing) so that it sticks. 3. to clog or choke up. 4. to be moist and sticky, to stick, adhere. |
Clam | phr | "To Clam Up" - to remain silent, quiet, non-committed. |
Clammer | n | Something that or someone who clams or causes cohesion. |
Clammily | adv | In a clammy or clamming manner |
Claminess | n | State or quality of being clammy. |
Clammish | adj | Somewhat clammy. |
Clammishness | n | The state or quality of being clammish |
Clammy | adj | Soft, moist, viscous, adhesive. 2. sluggish, |
Clap | n | The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces; applause, together. 2. the explosive sound of thunder; a thunderclap. 3. any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or rsembling such a sound. 4. a slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner. 5. a single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. 6. (falconry) the nether part of the beak of a hawk. 7. (Yorkshire) a dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) |
Clap | vb | To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
2. to applaud. 3. to slap with the hand in a jovial manner 4. to bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound. 5. to come together suddenly with noise. 6. to create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together). 7. to set or put, usually in haste, as the cops clapped him in prison. 8. to see or lo ok at, as' she was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on. 9. (slang, to shoot (somebody) with a gun. |
Clap | phr | " To Clap Eyes On" - catch sight of. |
Clap | phr | "To Clap Hands" - to pledge faith by joining hands. 2. to express contempt or derision. |
Clap | phr | "To Clap Hold of" - to sieze roughly or quickly. |
Clap | phr | "To Clap Up" - to imprison harshly or without due formality. 2. to make or combine hastily. |
Clapboard | n | A board, thinner at one, used to weatherboard the sides or roofs of houses. |
Clapboard | vb | To cover or line with clapboard. |
Clapper | n | That which claps or makes a noise, as a clack of a mill, the tongue of a bell. 2. the human tongue. 3. one who claps; a claquer. |
Clappperclaw | vb | To claw with the open hand and nails. 2. to dub. 3. to revile. |
Clary | n. | (In OE. slarie, slareye) Resolved by apothecaries into clear-eye) The plant Salvia sclarea, considered good for the eye. |
Clatter | n. | A non-ringing noise made by the collision of; tattle, noisy talk, gossip. |
Clatter | vb. | To utter in a chattering way, prattle , tattle, |
Clauster | n. | Cloister, cell, monastery |
Claut, Cleach, Cletch | vb. | grasping hard, clutch. 2. scratch, claw, rake, scrape out |
Claver, Clifer | n. | Talon, claw |
Claw | n. | Talon, c.f. crombe, Clee 2. |
Claw | vb. | Scratch, tear with the claw, sieze, grip, grasp, clutch. 2. scratch gently to relieve itching, 3. flatter, cajole, fawn upon. |
Claw | phr | "Claw Me and I Claw You" - or, I'll sratch your back, if you scratch mine, to flatter, fawn, cajole, look after one another. |
Claw | phr | "In One's Claw" - implying the motion of siezing; and/or having someone or something in one's power or under one's control. 2. in one's position or power. |
Claw | phr | "To Claw Away" - to rate soundly, scold; to get rid of. |
Claw | phr | "To Claw Back" - to retrieve, get back, such as an allowance. 2. to regain one's position by tenacity. |
Claw | phr | "To Claw the Back of" - to stroke down, flatter, faun upon. |
Claw | phr | "To Claw Off" - to get rid of an itch. 2. to be free. 3. to get rid of or dispose of |
Claw-back | n | A sycophant, flatter, a toady. |
Clawed | adj | Having or furnished with claws. |
Clawer | n | One who claws (lit. and fig.) |
Claw-footed | adj | Having clawed feet. |
Clawless | adj | Without a claw(s) |
Clawy | adj | Scratchy, scraping, flattery. |
Clay | n | A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. 2. (tennis) a tennis court surface. 3. (biblical) the material of the human body. 4. (geology) a particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. |
Clay | vb | To add clay to, to spread clay onto. 2. to purify using clay. 3. to treat with clay, to cover, smear of plaster with clay. 2. to dress(sandy soil) with clay, mix with clay. |
Clay | phr | "Feet of Clay" - a fundamental weakness in something, a supposition of great merit. |
Claycold | adj. | Cold, extremely cold as of dead body. |
Clayed | adj | Treated with clayed, spec. of land, dressed in clay. |
Clayen | adj | Of clay as a material. |
Clayey | adj | Characterized by the presence of clay. 2. full of abounding in clay. 3. composed of, or of the nature of clay; argilleous. 4. of mortal clay - applied to the body (usually as the habitation of the soul). 5. coated, clay, claylike. |
Clayeyness | n | The nature or quality of being clayey. |
Claying | n | The act of the verb: to treat with clay, to cover, smear of plaster with clay. 2. to dress (sandy soil) with clay, mix with clay. |
Clayish | adj | More or less clayey. |
Clayly | adj. | Earthly as opposed to spiritually |
Claystone | n | A felspathic rock which emits an odour of damp clay when breathed upon. |
Clead | n. | Clothing, apparel, attire, cleading. 2. covering or casing. |
Cleadful | adj | Handsomely attired. |
Cleam, Cloam | vb. | To smear, rub or dedaub, plaster sticky matter to, adhere. 2. to agglutinate, cause to stick, to stick together. 3. clay with glutinous material. |
Clean | adj | Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances. 2. not dirty. 3. in an unmarked condition. 3. (aerodynamics) allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear. 4. empty. 5. (of metal)aving relatively few impurities, as clean steel. 6. of behaviour: free of immorality or criminality. 7. pure, especially morally or religiously. 8. not having used drugs or alcohol. 9. (of criminal, legal records) without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record. 10. not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs. 11. (informal) devoid of profanity. 12. smooth, exact, and performed well. 13. (informal) cool or neat. 14. being free of sexually transmitted diseases. 15. which doesn’t damage the environment, as clean energy.
16. free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects, clean land; clean timber. 16. free from restriant or neglect; complete; entire. |
Clean | n | OE: claene: clean, pure, chaste, innocent, uncumbered, hallowed, open, acute, sagacious. 1. removal of dirt, as this place needs a clean. 2. weight- lifting: the first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. |
Clean | phr | "Clean As a Whistle" - very clean. |
Clean | phr | "One's Hands are Clean" one is blameless, innocent. |
Clean | phr | "To Clean Down" - to rub, scrub till totally clean. |
Clean | vb | To remove dirt from a place or object. 2. to tidy up, make a place neat. 3. to make things clean in general. |
Clean | phr | "To Clean From" - to clean from a surface. |
Clean | phr | "To Clean Out" - to clean, esp. tidy by removing the contents. 2. to take all of somebody's winning. |
Clean | phr | "To Clean Up" - to tidy up or make neat or empty someting completely. 2. to win grandly or a great mount; to make a large profit. 3. to win by a large margin, esp. in gambling. 4. to make an area or a thing smart in appearance |
Clean | phr | "To Come Clean" - to confess, admit the truth. |
Clean | phr | "To Keep One's Nose Clean" - to stay out of trouble. |
Clean | phr | "To Live a Clean Life" - be blameless, be of high moral fibre. |
Clean | phr | "To Make a Clean Breast" - to make a full disclosure, confess. |
Clean | phr | "To Make Sweep Clean" - dispose of everything. 2. a complete and overwhelming victory, esp. in which all and all possible electoral contests are won. 3. the winning, by a person or team of all the possible prizes, games, rounds or contests, etc. in a competition, season, series. 4. a thorough change of policies, personnel or things, removing or replacing all of that was there previously. |
Cleaned | adj | Made free from dirt, filth, foriegn matter. |
Cleaner | n | One who, or that which cleans. |
Clean-fingered | adj | Nimble, scrupulous, honest. |
Clean-handed | adj | Free of wrong-doing, having clean hands. |
Cleaning | n | The act of making free of dirt, filth, or foriegn matter. |
Clean-limbed | adj | Shapely of limb. |
Cleanliness | n | Quality or state ogf being clean. |
Cleanly | adj | In a clean manner; completely clean |
Cleanse | vb | To make clean, purify, to free from dirt, infection, guilt, pollution, charge. 2. to clear or get rid. 3. to purge. |
Cleansed | adj | Made clean; pumped out. |
Cleanser | n | One who make clean, free from dirt, a purifier. |
Cleanship | n | Chastity, cleanness. |
Clean sheet | n | An umblemished of behaviour. |
Cleansing | n | That cleanses. |
Clean-timbered | adj | Well-built, clean-limbed. |
Cleat | n | Wedge |
Cleat | vb | To fasten or furnish with cleat. |
Cleave | n | Cleft. |
Cleave | vb. | That which can be clefted, or divided; 2. easy to split, apt to split or asunder, fissible, divisible. |
Cleave | vb | To stick, fast, adhere, cling. 2. to remain steadfast, standfast, abide, continue. |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave Down" - to cut down, piece, perforate. |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave In" - to cut up forceably |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave On" - to adhere or stick to. |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave One's Way Through" - to intersect, penetrate, fissure in position. |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave Upon" - to stick or adhere to. |
Cleaver | n | One who cleaves or splits. 2. instrument for cleaving; a butcher chopper for cutting carcases. |
Cleavers | n | Galium aparine. |
Cleavesome | adj | Fissile, inclination to split or cleave |
Cleave-someness | n | Aptness to clef, fissility, divisibilty. |
Cleaving | n | Splitting, fissiling or fissuring. 2. a cleft, fissure, parting of a limb. 3. something that splits.. 4. |
Cleaving | n | The action of sticking or adhering (also fig.) |
Cleaving | adj | Adhesive, clinging, clamming. 2. adhering, cleavy, clinging. 3. fig. abiding, lasting, sticking. |
Cleavingly | adv | In a sticking, clinging, adhering way. 2. splittingly, fissurely, cleftly. |
Clee, cloat | n. | Talon, claw; cf, crombe. 2. foot or limb armed with a claw. 3. one of the parts of a cloven hoof. |
Cleft | n | Gen. a space made by cleaving. 2. cleaving, splitting or separation of parts, a split, fissure, crack or crevice. 3. a parting of the hair. 4. the parting of the thighs, cleaving or forking. 5. a slit, split to recieve a graft. 6. a crack of the skin, a chap. 7. the aperture in a cleft palate. 8. one of the pieces formed by cleaving, esp. split wood for fuel. 9. one of the division formed by cleaving of the foot of animals. 10. one of the division of an orange ; a pig. |
Cleft | adj | Split asunder, in pieces. 2. bifurcated, divided, two-fold. |
Cleft | vb | To divide, split, cleave. |
Clefted | adj | Having clefts, division, splits, fissure, clefts. |
Cleftly | adv | Having clefts, splits, crevices etc. |
Cleft stick | n | Dilemma. |
Clem | vb. | OE: beclemman. to pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger, to suffer the pangs of hunger. 2. to fetter, cramp. |
Clem | n. | Pangs of hunger. |
Clemmed | adj | Panged, starved, wasted of hunger. |
Clemming | n | Starving, hungry ffor fod. |
Clench | n | Tight grip. |
Clench | vb | To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly. 2. to move two parts of something against each other |
Clenched | adj | Gripped or held tightly; squeezed. 2. moved against each other. |
Clenching | n | The action of sqeezing, gripping or holding tightly. |
Clepe | n | A call, cry, shout. |
Clepe | vb | OE: clippan - to cry, call, call on, appeal to (a person) for or after a thing. 2. to proclaim. 3. to call a person, summon, to invoke, call to witness. 4. to call upon or to speak. 5. to call by name. 6. to mention by name, shout. |
Cleper | n | One who calls, a caller. |
Cleping | n | The action to call, cry out. 2. that what is called, have designed. |
Cleve | n | Room, chamber, closet, sleeping place. 2. a cliff, coast or shore of the sea. 3. a steep, sloping ground. 4. the steep side of the hill. |
Clew | n | OE cleowen, cliven: sphere, ball, skein, yarn, mass; (obs) a roughly spherical mass or body. 2. (archaic) a ball of thread or yarn. 3. yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. 4. (nautical) the lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction. |
Clew | vb | To coil up in a ball; to roll up into a ball. 2. to put out as by clew or clue. 3. to raise the lower corner of a sail. |
Clib | adj. | Eager, sharp, keen. |
Clibby | adj | Sticky. |
Cliff | n | A vertical or very steep rock face. |
Cliff-climber | n | One who climbs cliffs as a rescuer of trapped or injured persons. 2. one who climbs cliffs as a hobby. |
Cliff-climbing | n | The action of climbing cliffs. |
Cliff dweller | n | One who lives on or in a cliff. 2. trogledyte |
Cliffed | adj | Having cliffs. |
Cliff edge | n | The very edge of a cliff; the rimrock. |
Cliff-hanger | n | Happening or story with an unpredictable ending. |
Cliffing | n | The formation of cliffs, scarping. |
Cliffless | adj | Without cliffs |
Cliff-like | adj | Resembling, or of the nature of a cliff. |
Cliffsman | n | One skilled in cliff climbing. |
Cliff wall | n | A wall situated at the edge of a cliff |
Cliffy | adj | Having cliffs, preciptuous, craggy. |
Clinch | n | |
Clinch | vb | |
Clincher | n | A nail used for clinching. 2. tool used for clinching. 3. |
Clinching | n | A riveting together. 2. the clinching of an arguement, opinion. 2. a sharp repartee that twists or turns about the meaning of the word. |
Clinching | adj | |
Cling | n | |
Cling | vb | |
Clinginess | n | The quality of being clingy or adhesive. |
Clinging | n | |
Clingingly | adv | |
Clingingness | n | |
Clingstone | n | A peach variety. |
Clingy | adj | Clinging, sticky, adhering, teanacious. |
Clip | n | An extract from a motion picture. 2. the act of clipping and shearing. 3. a small blow. 4. a rapid pace of motion or speed. ????? |
Clip | n | An embrace. 2. clip or clasp instrument that does so. 3. a piece of jewelry fastened by a clip. |
Clip | vb | To clasp. 2. to surround closely, encircle, encompass, hug. 3. to grip tightly, clutch, hold in a tight grasp. 4. to fasten with clips. |
Clip | vb | To cut with scissors or shears. 2. to cut out a passage from a newspaper. 3. to cut or snip away. 4. to cut the hair, to poll. 5. to shear a sheep or similar animal; fleece. 6. to yield or be clipped. 7. to mutilate or change the value of a coin by removing its edges. 8. to cut, shut, curtail, diminish. 9. to cut short, by indistinct or hurried utterance, syllables and parts of a word. 10. to pronounce imperfectly. 11. to reduce, cut down. 12. to make the wings rapidly fly. 13. to move or run quickly. 14. to hit smoothly. 15. to swindle, scam, rob, steal. 16. to embrace. |
Clip | vb | OE: cleppen - to ring a bell |
Clip | phr | To Clip the Wings" - |
Clipboard | n | A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held. 2. computing, a buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it for one place within an application to another or between application. |
Clip-on | n | That or something which is fastened on. |
Clipper | n | One who clips, as a tram or train. 2. a shearer; a barber, hairdresser. 3. one who clips coins. 4. an instrument that clips, pruning hook, scissor, shears. 5. one who moves fast or rapidly; a swift horse. 6. a fast sailing vehicle: a clipper. 7. a piece of something that is excellent or first-rate. 8. an aerial vessel; a flying-boat used in trans-oceanic flights. |
Clipper | vb | To send by clipper ship or other vehicles. |
Clipping-house | n | A barber or hairdresser's shop. |
Clipping | n | Embracing, clasping. 2. the action of ctting by clippers, shears, scissors. 3. a small piece clipped off. 4. a cutting, paring, shaving, shred, portion clipped from a coin. 5. the shortening of a word, as 'phone' for telephone. |
Clipping | adj | That clips or cuts with shears, scissor, etc. 2. that flies or moves fast. 3. of pace: fast, rattling. 4. (sl) excellent. |
Clippingly | adv | In a clipping manner, excellent. |
Clipsome | adj | Fit to be clasped or embraced. |
Clipping-time | n | The nick of time. |
Clipshears | n | An earwig. |
Clitch | vb | OE: clyccan: to crook or bend. 2. to incurve the finger; close the hand, clench the fist. 2. to crook, bend a joint, crouch. 3. to sieze and pull in as with a claw. 4. to take up water with a shallow vessel. 5. to hold tightly in a clutch or grasp. 6. to make fast, faster, click things together. 7. to stick or adhere to. 8. to be glutinous or thick. |
Clitching | n | Crooking, bending (of a joint) |
Clithers | n | OE: Clithan; clithwyrt; Rubea Minor, clivers, clevers |
Clithwort | n | Clithwyrt or Rubea minor. |
Clive | vb | OE: clifan, to stick, cling, cleave. 2. to climb. |
Clivy | adj | Cliffy. |
Cloam | n. | OE: clam: mud. earthenware, pottery, clay. |
Cloam | vb | To daub or smear with clay. |
Cloamen | adj | Earthen, made of earthenware. |
Cloamer | n | Potter, maker of earthenware |
Clod | n. | Mass of rock or earth, a hill; consolidated mass of earth & sky; a cloud. 2. a clot of blood. 3. a mass formed by the coagulation of a liquid, blood, etc. 4. a coherent mass or lump of any solid matter; eg. clod of earth, lump of clay, clay adhering together, loam. 5. as a substance, the soil or dust of the ground in its lumpy character (often depreciatory) 6. a ball of earth that adheres about the root of a tree or plant. 7. a sod, peat, a bit of turf, spot of ground. 8. fig. of the human body - mass of clay - also to a huamn being - child of clay. 9. earth, of the earth. 10. a blockhead, dolt, stult, clod skull. 11. a small loaf of unleavened bread. 12. the curved part of the back of an ox, nearest to the shoulder. |
Clod | vb | To free land from clods by harrowing, rolling etc. 2. to cover with clods. 3. to form or turn into clds. 4. to pelt with clods. |
Clodded | adj | Coagulated, stuck together in clods or clotted lumps. |
Clodder | n | A dlodded or curdled mass; a clot. |
Clodder | vb | To run together in to clods, clots or clouds. 2. to coagulate, become clotty or lumps. |
Cloddered | adj | |
Cloddiness | n | A cloddy quality or condition. |
Cloddishness | n | |
Clod-hopper | n | A ploughman or agricultural labourer. 2. a country lout, a clumsy akward boor, a clown. 2. a ploughman's heavy shoes. 3. the wheaten or clotbird. |
Clod-hopping | adj | Literally following the plough. 2. boorish, awkward, clumsy (sl) dancing, esp. poorly. |
Clodhoppish | adj | Awkward, boorish, clumsy. |
Cloddy | adj | Characterized by the presence of clots, clotted, coagulated, lumpy. 2. abounding in clods. 3. of the nature of a clod, clod-like, earthy 9in a depreciative sense.) |
Clodlike | adj | Thick, lumpy, short. |
Clodly | adv | In a cloddish or clod-like manner, dully, heavily. |
Clod-tongued | adj | Unimpassioned and dull. 2. stolid and solid in character and speech. |
Clodwards | adj | Towards the clods, earthy. |
Cloffing | adv | OE: clufu, clove. 2. ranunculus sceleratus: clofwyrt, hellebore. |
Cloom | n | Dialect for 'cloam' - adhesive mud or clay. |
Closewort | n | Hyoscyamus. |
Close | vb | OE: beclysan partly OE ?? |
Clot | n | A hill or a mound. 2. a solidified mass of blood or any lquid. 2. a very silly person. |
Clot | vb | |
Clot-bird | n | Species of bird frequently fallow land. 2. the wheatear, clodhopper or fallow-smiter (saxicola oenanthe) |
Clot-cold | adj | Dead, a dead person is said to be clot-cold. |
Clote | n | Cloteweed, the burdock (articum lappa) |
Cloth | n | A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose. 2. form of attire that represents a particular profession. 3. (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy. |
Cloth | phr | "Cloth of Another Hue" - the case is totally different. |
Cloth | phr | "To Bring to Cloth" - accompished, finalized, finished. |
Cloth | phr | "To Shake the Cloth in the Wind" - to be intoxicated. |
Clothe | vb | To adorn or cover with clothing, to dress, to supply clthes or clothing. |
Clothed | adj | Adorned or bedecked with clothes or apparel, attired. |
Clotheless | adj | Without clothe, destitute of clothing. |
Clothen | vb | Made of cloth. |
Clothes | n | Items of clothing, apparel. 2. the covering of a bed, bedclothes. |
Clothe-sack | n | A bag for clothes; a portmanteau. |
Clothes-monger | n | A trader or dealer in clothes, especially second-hand ones. |
Clothesless | adj | Without clothes |
Clothing | n | A baby wearing many items of winter clothing: headband, cap, fur-lined coat, shawl and sweater. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. 2. an act or instance of putting clothes on. 3. (obs) the art of process of making cloth. 4. covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. |
Clothing-maker | n | The maker of clothes. |
Cloth-maker | n | A maker of woolen cloth. |
Cloth-stone | n | Thrumstone, threadstone, devil dust. |
Cloth-work | n | Work done in cloth. 2. a maker or manufacturer of woolen-cloth. |
Clothy | adj | |
Clotted | adj | Gathered in clods or clumps. 2. coagulated. thickened. 3. dense, accumulated. |
Cloud | n | (obsolete) a rock; boulder; a hill. 2. a visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. 3. any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. 4. anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. 5. group or swarm, esp. suspended above the ground or flying. 6. an elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud. 7. (computing, with the) the internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing. 8. (figuratively) a negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud. 9. (slang) crystal methamphetamine. 10. a large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women. |
Cloud | vb | To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight. 2. the glass clouds when you breathe on it. 2. to overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. 3. to make obscure. 4. to make gloomy or sullen. 5. to blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character). 6. to mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours. |
Cloud | n | An innumerable body of insects, birds, etc. flying together; hence fig. and transfig. a multitude 9of persons or things), a crowd, esp. as a 'cloud of witnesses. |
Cloudberry | n | Rubus chaemorus. |
Cloud-burst | n | A sudden burst of rain. |
Clouden | adj | of cloud. |
Cloud-field | n | An expanse of cloud. |
Cloudful | adj | Full of clouds, cloudy, clouded. |
Cloud-headed | adj | Having clouded or confused ideas. |
Cloudily | adv | Ina cloudy manner, dimly, obscurely with darkened prospects. 2. in a cloud or swarm. |
Cloudiness | n | State or quality of being cloudly (in various senses.) |
Clouding | n | A cloudy marking; a cloudy streak or part in a clear substance. |
Clouding | adj | That clouds, that is becoming clouding or dim. |
Cloud-kissing | adj | So high as to reach the clouds; skyscraping. |
Cloudland | n | The region of clouds; landscape of clouds. 2. a region of fancy myth or unreality. |
Cloudless | adj | Without a cloud, unclouded, clear. |
Cloudlessly | adv | In a cloudless state or appearance. |
Cloud-lessness | n | State of being cloudless. |
Cloud-lighting | n | Clouded light, dim light (also fig.) |
Cloudly | adj | Cloud-like, nature of clouds. |
Cloud-monger | n | A diviner who predicts weather conditions, especailly the likelihood of rain, by studying the clouds. |
Cloud-street | n | The most prominent clouds are thousands of bright cumuli arrayed in roughly parallel bands called 'cloud streets' which usually indicate direction of the wind. |
Cloud-seeding | n | The action of firing munition containing silver iodone at passing clouds to make them more likely to produce rain. |
Cloudwards | adv | Towards the clouds. |
Cloud--world | n | A world of fancy and mystical speculation. 2. the cloud-world of the transcendental. |
Cloudy | adj | Rocky, hilly. 2. of cloud, of the nature of clouds; of or pertaining to clouds. 3. characterized by the prescence of clouds; abounding in or full of clouds. 4. not transparent or clear. 5. having cloud-like markings. 6. clouded, dim, obscure, faint. 7. clouded by ignorance, etc. of ideas, perceptions: dim, obscure, indistinct, not clear. 8. darkened by misfortune, grief, anger, foreboding, etc., full of gloom, sullen, frowning. 9. under a cloud,of disgrace or disrepute, shady (coll.) |
Cloudy-eyed | adj | Dim, obscure of foggy of sight. |
Cloudy-headed | adj | a feeling of being low in concentration and a loss of focus |
Cloudy-topped | adj | Covered or hidden by clouds at the top or summit. |
Clough, | n. | Ravine or valley with steep sides, a cleugh |
Clout | n | Influence or effectiveness, especially political. 2. informally, a blow with the hand. 3.informally, a home run in baseball. 4. in archery, the center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 5. a swaddling cloth. 6. archaic, a cloth; a piece or shred of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. 7. a small piece of cloth or shred produced by tearing or rending 8. contemptously applied to inferior quality clothing. 9. a handkerchief, a sail of a ship 10. archaic, an iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer. 11. ( obsolete) a piece; a fragment. |
Clout | vb | To hit, especially with the fist. 2. to cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. 3. to wipe or a cloth or clout. 4. to stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. 5. to guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 6. to join or patch clumsily, awkwardly or coarsely. |
Clouted | adj | Mended with patches, patched, patched up. 2. depreciatory, clumsy in putting together. 3. of milk, clotted. |
Clouter | n | One who clouts or mends with patches (lit. & fig.) 2. a cobbler, a mender, patcher. |
Clouting | adj | The action of mending, patching, fixing up. 2. striking with the hand. 3. bungling, botching, patching. |
Cloutish | adj | Somewhat clouty in various senses of the word. |
Cloutlike | adj | Like or characteristic of a botcher, clumsy, akward, clownish. |
Clouty | adj | Full of clouts, clots, clouted. |
Clove | n | One of the small bulbs like garlic. 2. a natural division or segment of fruit. 3. one of the divisions of a cloven-hoof. 4. the dried flower, bud of caryophylus aromatica, much used as a pungent, aromatic spice. 4. the tree caryophylus, orig. a native to the mollucas. |
Clove | vb | To sow or lay down in clove. |
Cloved | adj | Sown with cloves, covered in cloves. |
Cloven | adj | Divided or split lengthways. 2. split into (thin) pieces, cleft asunder. 3. split to a certain depth, so as to give double extremity. |
Cloven foot | adj | Cloven hoof, clove-footedness, the divided foot of a ruminating quadruped. 3. a foot divided into distinct toes. 3. often ascribed to pan in pagan mythology, and hence to the satan or the devil, and often used allusively as an indication to satan, or satanic agency. |
Cloveness | n | The quality or state of being clovened. |
Clover | n | The name of the species of trefoil or trifolium repens, trifolium pretense, both cultivated largely for fodder. |
Clover | phr | "To Live in Clover' - to live luxuriously. |
Clover-summer | n | An exceptional time |
Clove-tongue | n | Stinging, acerbic, pungent of speech. |
Clovewort | n | Ranunculus acris, a bulbous buttercup. |
Clow | n | OE clus, cluse, an enclosure, narrow passage, 2. a dam for water, sluice gate. |
Clum | vb. | Mutter, murmur |
Clumper | n. | Compct shapeless mass, a heap, a lump. 2. a cluster, a tuft, a patch |
Clumpish | adj | Heavy and clumsy. |
Clumpy | adj | A clump-like, clumpish. |
Cluster | n | A collection of things of the same kind, growing closely together, a bunch. 2. a rounded mass, a clot, a number of persons, animals or things close together. 3. a swarm, group, crowd. |
Cluster | vb | To gather or grow in clusters, to cover with clusters, to congregate in a cluster. to grow or be situated in a cluster or group. |
Clusterfist | n | A clumsy or closed-fisted fellow, a lout, niggard. |
Clustery | adj | Bunchy, gathering in mass, crowdy. |