Old English | sb | English |
Clad | n | |
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 | |
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" - |
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 | |
Clap | vb | |
Clapper | n | |
Clappperclaw | n | |
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 back: regain position by tenacity. |
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. |
Claw | phr | "To Claw Away" |
Claw | phr | "To Claw Back" - to retrieve, get back, such as an allowance. |
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, |
Clawed | adj | Having or furnished with claws. |
Clawer | n | |
Claw-footed | adj | Having clawed feet. |
Clawless | adj | Without a claw(s) |
Clawy | adj | Scratchy, scraping, flattery. |
Clay | n | |
Clay | vb | 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 | |
Clead, Cleading | n. | Clothing, apparel, attire. 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 | vb | |
Clean | phr | "To Clean Out" |
Clean | phr | "To Clean Up" |
Cleaned | adj | |
Cleaner | n | |
Cleaning | n | |
Cleanliness | n | |
Cleanly | adj | |
Cleanse | vb | |
Cleansed | adj | Made clean; pumped out. |
Cleanser | n | |
Cleanship | n | Chastity, cleanness. |
Cleansing | n | That cleanses. |
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" |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave On" |
Cleave | phr | "To Cleave One's Way Through" - to intersect, penetrate, fissure in position. |
Cleave | phr | "To cleave Upon" |
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. |
Clem | vb. | OE: beclemman. to pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger, to suffer the pangs of hunger. |
Clem, Clemmings | n. | Pangs of hunger. |
Clemmed | adj | |
Clemming | n | |
Clench | n | |
Clench | vb | |
Clenched | adj | |
Clenching | n | |
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 | |
Clew | vb | To coil up in a ball. 2. to put out as by clew or clue. |
Clib | adj. | Eager, sharp, keen. |
Clibby | adj | Sticky. |
Cliff | n | |
Cliff-climber | n | |
Cliff-climbing | n | |
Cliff dweller | n | One who lives on or in a cliff. 2. trogledyte |
Cliffed | adj | Having cliffs. |
Cliff edge | n | |
Cliffing | n | |
Cliffless | adj | Without cliffs |
Cliff-like | adj | |
Cliffsman | n | One skilled in cliff climbing. |
Cliff wall | n | |
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 | |
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. |
Cloud | n | |
Clough, | n. | Ravine or valley with steep sides, a cleugh |
Clum | vb. | Mutter, murmur |
Clumper | n. | Mass, lump |
Clumse | vb. | Become stiff, numb with cold, stupefy, amaze, daze |
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