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 | Without scathe, unhurt, 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 | "Clam Up" - to become or 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 look at, as' she was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on. 9. (slang, to shoot (somebody) with a gun. |
Clap | phr | "Clap Eyes On" - catch sight of. |
Clap | phr | "Clap Hands" - to pledge faith by joining hands. 2. to express contempt or derision. |
Clap | phr | "Clap Hold of" - to sieze roughly or quickly. |
Clap | phr | "Clap On the Back" - slap on the back. |
Clap | phr | "Clap Up" - to imprison harshly or without due formality. 2. to make or combine hastily. |
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'll 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 | "Claw Away" - to rate soundly, scold; to get rid of. |
Claw | phr | "Claw Back" - to retrieve, get back, such as an allowance. 2. to regain one's position by tenacity. |
Claw | phr | "Claw the Back of" - to stroke down, flatter, faun upon. |
Claw | phr | "Claw Off" - to get rid of an itch. 2. to be free. 3. to get rid of or dispose of |
Claw | phr | "Get One's Claws Into" - display jealously (through sarcasm/ insult or entrap (into marriage). |
Claw-back | n | A sycophant, flatter, a toady. 2. the act of clawing back, especially in recovering money in this way. |
Clawed | adj | Having or furnished with claws. |
Clawer | n | One who claws (lit. and fig.) |
Claw-footed | adj | Having clawed feet. |
Claw-hammer | n | A hammer, with one end of the head divided claw-like, used for extracting nails. 2. a dress coat; a coat with swallow-tails. |
Claw hand | n | Wasting of the muscles of the hand and fingers. |
Clawless | adj | Without a claw(s) |
Claw-sickness | n | Foot-rot. |
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 prefired 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 | "Have Feet of Clay" - a fundamental weakness in something, a supposition of great merit. |
Clay-cold | 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. |
Claylike | adj | Resembling clay in some way or other. |
Clayly | adj. | Earthly as opposed to spiritually |
Clay-pipe | n | A cheap tobacco-pipe of baked clay. |
Claystone | n | A felspathic rock which emits an odor of damp clay when breathed upon. |
Clead | n. | Clothing, apparel, attire, cleading. 2. covering or casing. |
Cleadful | adj | Handsomely attired. |
Cleam | vb. | To smear, rub or bedaub, plaster sticky matter to, adhere; cloam. 2. to agglutinate, cause to stick, to stick together. 3. clay with glutinous material. |
Clean | adj | Free of dirt or impurities or protuberances. 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) having 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 restraint 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 | 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 | "Clean as a Pin" - very claen indeed, with no trace of dirt or dust. |
Clean | phr | "Clean As a Whistle" - very clean. |
Clean | phr | "Clean Down" - to sweep down; swill down. 2. rub, scrub until totally. 3. clean thoroughly from top to bottom. 4. clean by carrying or brushing away dirt. 5. |
Clean | phr | "Clean From" - to clean from a surface. |
Clean | phr | "Clean Out" - to clean, esp. tidy by removing the contents. 2. to take all of somebody's money or stock. |
Clean | phr | "Clean Through" - right through without obstruction. |
Clean | phr | "Clean Up" - to tidy up or make neat or empty something completely. 2. to tidy oneself. 3. to win grandly or a great mount; to make a large profit. 4. to win by a large margin, esp. in gambling. 5. to make an area or a thing smart in appearance. 6. suppress, get rid of crime, vice, drugs etc. 6. defeat the last remnants of military resistance. |
Clean | phr | "Clean Forget" - forget completely, esp. something one should have done or kept in mind that has present relevance. |
Clean | phr | "Come Clean" - to confess, admit the truth. |
Clean | phr | "Do Spring Cleaning" - carry out a thorough review occurring a long time after the previous one. |
Clean | phr | "Have a Clean Tongue" - not abusive, not profane,not addicted to swearing. |
Clean | phr | "Keep One's Nose Clean" - to stay out of trouble. |
Clean | phr | "Make a Clean Break" - make a quick and final separation. |
Clean | phr | "Live a Clean Life" - be blameless, be of high moral fiber. |
Clean | phr | "Make a Clean Breast of" - to make a full disclosure, confess. |
Clean | phr | "Make a Clean Sweep" - 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. |
Clean | phr | "My Hands Are Clean" one is blameless, innocent. 2. be quite clear of some stated evil. |
Cleaned | adj | Made free from dirt, filth, foreign matter. |
Cleaner | n | One who, or that which cleans. |
Cleaner | phr | "Taken to the Cleaners" - defraud or rob (a person) of all his or her money. |
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. |
Cleanliness | phr | "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness" - to be clean in good religious practice. |
Clean-living | adj | Of upright character. |
Cleanly | adj | In a clean manner; completely clean |
Cleanness | n | The state or condition of being 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-shaven | adj | without beard, whiskers or mustache. |
Clean sheet | n | An unblemished record of behaviour without dishonor or discredit. 2. an opportunity to do something for the first or start afresh as if for the first time. |
Cleansing | n | That cleanses. |
Clean skin | n | An unbranded animal. 2. a person without a criminal record. 3. wine with a generic label. |
Clean-timbered | adj | Well-built, clean-limbed. |
Clean-up | n | An act of cleaning up. |
Cleat | n | Wedge; a piece of wood or iron with two projecting ends, round with ropes are belayed or fastened. |
Cleat | vb | To fasten or furnish with cleat. |
Cleave | n | Cleft; a split, fissure. |
Cleave | vb. | That which can be clefted, or divided; 2. easy to split, apt to split or asunder, fissure, divide. |
Cleave | vb | To stick, fast, adhere, cling. 2. to remain steadfast, stand fast, abide, continue. |
Cleave | phr | "Cleave Down" - to cut down, piece, perforate. |
Cleave | phr | "Cleave In" - to cut up forceably |
Cleave | phr | "Cleave On" - to adhere or stick to. |
Cleave | phr | "Cleave One's Way Through" - to intersect, penetrate, fissure in position. |
Cleave | phr | "Cleave Upon" - to stick or adhere to. |
Cleaver | n | One who cleaves or splits. 2. instrument for cleaving; a butcher chopper for cutting a carcass. |
Cleavers | n | Galium aparine. . |
Cleavesome | adj | Fissile, inclination to split or cleave |
Cleave-someness | n | Apt to clef, fissure, or divide. |
Cleaving | n | Splitting, a cleft, fissure, parting of a limb. 2. something that splits. |
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. in a splitting, with a fissure, cleftly. |
Clee | n. | Cloat, 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 receive 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. |
Cleft | phr | "Be in a Cleft Stick" - facing a dilemma; an awkward situation. |
Clefted | adj | Having clefts, division, splits, fissure, clefts. |
Cleft lip | n | A congenital split in the upper lip. |
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. 2. to fetter, cramp. |
Clem | n. | Pangs of hunger. |
Clemmed | adj | Pang struck, starved, wasted of hunger. |
Clemming | n | Starving, hungry for food. |
Clench | n | Tight grip; a firm closing. 2. decisive proof. |
Clench | vb | To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly. 2. to move two parts of something against each other. 3. to rivet a nail that has been driven through anything, by hammering a point down. 4. to close together tightly, as the teeth. 5. to confirm a bargain. |
Clench | phr | "Clench One's Hands" - hold one's hand closely together. |
Clench | phr | "Clench One's Teeth" - hold the teeth and jaws rigid closed. |
Clenched | adj | Gripped or held tightly; squeezed. 2. moved against each other. |
Clencher | n | An unanswerable argument. |
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. troglodyte |
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. |
Climb | n | |
Climb | vb | |
Climb | phr | "Climb Down" - descend with the help of one's hands. 2. withdraw or retract from a position taken up in negotiation, argument. |
Climb | phr | "Climb Into" - put on clothes. |
Climb | phr | "Climbing the Ladder" - to abandon as untenable an attitude or opinion that one has hitherto vigorously supported. |
Climb | phr | "Climb the Wall" - be distraught, harassed; go up the wall or almost beyond endurance or reasonable behavior. |
Climber | n | A mountaineer. 2. a climbing plant. 3. a person with strong social etc aspirations |
Climbing frame | n | A structure of joined bars etc. for children to play on. |
Climbing irons | n | A set of spike attachable to the boots for climbing trees or ice slopes. |
Climbing wall | n | A wall at a sports center or in a gymnasium filled with attachments to simulate a rock face for climbing practice. |
Clinch | vb | To clasp; to interlock. [1560s] To make certain; to finalize.
To fasten securely or permanently. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed. [17th century] To embrace passionately. To hold firmly; to clench. To set closely together; to close tightly. to clinch the teeth or the fist |
Clinch | n | A variation of clench. Any of several fastenings. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp. (obsolete) A pun.(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ring bolts. A passionate embrace. |
Clinch | phr | "Clinch a Deal" - make a business deal, other other, agreement final and binding. |
Clincher | n | A nail used for clinching. 2. tool used for clinching. 3. something which clinches or makes something final or firm. |
Clinching | n | A riveting together. 2. the clinching of an argument, opinion; or settles something(an argument, etc.)definitely and conclusively. 2. a sharp repartee that twists or turns about the meaning of the word. |
Clinching | adj | That settles something(an argument, etc.)definitely and conclusively |
Clinchingly | adv | In a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something. |
Cling | n | , Old English clingan: to adhere, fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. 2. adherence; attachment; devotion |
Cling | vb | To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. 2. to adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours; used especially of fabrics and films. 2. (transitive) to cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. 3. to cause to dry up or wither. 4. figuratively, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about |
Cling | phr | "Cling on Like Grim Death" - hold onto something with grim determination. |
Cling | phr | "Cling On To" - to hold on very tightly, to grip hard. 2. fig. to hold tightly. |
Cling | phr | "Cling To" - keep a firm, desperate hold on, hold on; not release one's grip on. 2. not relinquish; be unwilling to abandon |
Cling | phr | "Cling Together" - remain in one body or in contact |
Clinger | n | One who clings. 2. an emotionally clinging person. |
Clingfilm | n | Cling film, a plastic film of polyethylene that is so thin that it clings to any object about which it is wrapped, used to cover and preserve foodstuff. 2. a thin plastic wrap used as a wrap for food. |
Clingfilmed | adj | Wrapped in clingfilm or clingwrap. |
Clingfish | n | A marine fish of the order Gobiescodae which has a clinging disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed. |
Clinginess | n | The quality of being clingy or adhesive. |
Clinging | n | The clinging or holding on tenaciously or possessively. |
Clingingly | adv | In a clinging manner: tenacious and possessively |
Clingingness | n | The state or condition of being clingy. |
Clingstone | n | A peach variety. |
Clingwrap | n | Clingfilm: a plastic film of polyethylene that is so thin that it clings to any object about which it is wrapped, used to cover and preserve foodstuff. |
Clingy | adj | Having a tendency to cling. 2. clinging, sticky, adhering, tenacious. 3. overly possessive of someone, used of a boy-friend or girl-friend. |
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. 5. to embrace, hug. |
Clip | vb | OE: cleppen - to ring a bell |
Clip | phr | 'Clip One's Ear" - slap somebody on the side of the face (literally or figuratively. |
Clipboard | n | A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be fasten or 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. |
Clipping | n | Embracing, clasping; hugging |
Clippingly | adv | In a clipping manner, excellent. |
Clipsome | adj | Fit to be clasped or embraced. |
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 with clots or lumps. |
Cloddered | adj | Lumped, massed, clotty. 2. stupid, doltish, clumsy. |
Cloddiness | n | A cloddy quality or condition. 2. foolishness, stupidity. 3. awkwardness of movement. |
Cloddish | adj | Foolish, stupid, parochial. 2. pertaining to lumpy soil. 3. clumsy. |
Cloddishness | n | The state or condition of being stupid, foolish. |
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.) |
Clod-hopper | n | A ploughman or agricultural labourer. 2. a country lout, a clumsy awkward boor, a clown. 2. a plowman's heavy shoes. 3. the wheaten or clod-bird. |
Clod-hopping | adj | Literally following the plough. 2. boorish, awkward, clumsy (sl) dancing, esp. poorly. |
Clodhoppish | adj | Awkward, boorish, clumsy. |
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. |
Clot | n | A hill or a mound. 2. a solidified mass of blood or any liquid. 2. a very silly person. |
Clot | n | [OE. clot, clodde, clod; a concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulate. 2. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid; clot, coagulate |
Clot | vb | To change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; coagulate.
2. to cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state. 3. turn into curds; as "curdled milk" syn: curdle, clabber. 4. coalesce or unite in a mass; clog, to concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod. 5. to form into a slimy mass. |
Clot-bird | n | Species of bird frequently fallow land. 2. the wheat-ear, clodhopper or fallow-smitter (saxicola oenanthe) |
Clot-cold | adj | Dead, a dead person is said to be clot-cold. |
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 | "Cloth of Gold" - a tissue of gold threads interwoven with silk or wool. |
Cloth | phr | "Bring to Cloth" - accomplished, finalized, finished. |
Cloth | n | "Man of the Cloth" - clergyman; a member of the clergy. |
Cloth | phr | "Shake the Cloth in the Wind" - to be intoxicated. |
Cloth | phr | "Wear Sackcloth and ashes" - if you wear sackcloth and ashes, you show by your behaviour that you are very sorry for something you did wrong. |
Cloth-eared | adj | Somewhat deaf or insensitive to sound. |
Clothe | vb | To adorn or cover with clothing, to dress, to supply clothes or clothing. |
Clothed | adj | Adorned or bedecked with clothes or apparel, attired. |
Clotheless | adj | Without clothes, destitute of clothing. |
Clothen | vb | Made of cloth. |
Clothes | n | Items of clothing, apparel. 2. the covering of a bed, bedclothes. |
Clothes | phr | "Steal Someone's Clothes" - to plagairise some ideas. |
Clothe-sack | n | A bag for clothes; a portmanteau. |
Clothes-horse | n | A frame for airing washed clothes. 2. colloquially: an effectedly fashionable person. |
Clothes-line | n | A rope or wire etc. on which washed clothes are hung to dry. |
Clothes-monger | n | A trader or dealer in clothes, especially second-hand ones. |
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 | phr | "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" - somebody who appears to be harmless be is very dangerous. |
Clothing-maker | n | The maker of clothes. |
Cloth-maker | n | A maker of woolen cloth. |
Clothmonger | n | A draper, or a person who sells textile fabrics. |
Cloth-stone | n | Thrumstone, thread-stone (threadstone), devil's-dust; asbestos. |
Cloth-work | n | Work done in cloth. 2. a maker or manufacturer of woolen-cloth. |
Clothy | adj | Resembling or like cloth. |
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. a dark spot on the forehead of a horse between the eyes. 10. (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. |
Cloud | phr | "Cloud in the Sky" - a threat or indication of trouble to come. 2. a cloud on the horizon. |
Cloud | phr | "Cloud One's Brain" - interfere with, obscure , one's understanding and judgement. |
Cloud | n | "In the Clouds" - unreal, imaginary, mystical, absent minded; dreamy. |
Cloud | phr | "On Cloud Nine" - extremely happy. |
Cloud | phr | "Under a Cloud" - to be under suspicion; to be in temporary disgrace. 2. to be uncertain whether one may be able to carry out one's work performance on the sporting field. |
Cloud | phr | "With One's Head in the Cloud" - daydreaming, unrealistic. |
Cloudberry | n | A small plant related to the bramble found on mountains or moor heights; the mountain bramble (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. |
Cloud-heat | n | Heat produced by clouds; see 'cloud-heating'. |
Cloud-heating | n | When the sun warms the earth, warm air rises into the atmosphere, and as it rises, it expands and cools. Water condenses out of the cool air to form a cloud. |
Cloud-hopping | n | Movement of an aircraft from cloud to cloud, especially for concealment. 2. an attack by computer hackers to gain illegal access to company systems in order to steal their intellectual property. |
Cloudily | adv | In a cloudy manner, dimly, obscurely with darkened prospects. 2. in a cloud or swarm. |
Cloudiness | n | State or quality of being cloudy (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; sky-scraping. |
Cloud-land | 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. |
Cloudlessness | 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, especially the likelihood of rain, by studying the clouds. |
Cloud-ridden | adj | Full of clouds. 2. during which the sky is full of clouds. 3. covered or obscured by |
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 iodine 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 presence 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 | phr | "Show the Cloven Foot" - to give an indication of one's evil traits in one's character. |
Cloven footed | adj | Cloven hoofed, cloven footed, 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. |
Clovenness | n | The quality or state of being cleaved. |
Clover | n | The name of the species of trefoil or trifolium repens, trifolium pretense, both cultivated largely for fodder. |
Clover | phr | "Live in Clover' - to live luxuriously. |
Clover-leaf | n | A junction of roads intersecting at different levels with connecting sections forming the pattern of a four leaf clover, as a few tram line intersections. |
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. | Compact 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. |
Clutch | vb | To seize, as though with claws. 2. to grip or grasp tightly. |
Clutch | n | O.E. clyccan 'crook, clench'. A vintage clutch with a fold-over closure, made of red snakeskin. 2. the claw of a predatory animal or bird. 3. grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. 4. device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car. 4. the pedal in a car that disengages power transmission. 5. any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. 6. small handbag or purse with no straps or handle. 7. an important or critical situation |
Clutch | phr | "Clutch at Straws" - be in such a desperate situation as to resort to even the most unlikely means of salvation. |
Clutch | phr | In Someone's Clutch" - a person's power or control, especially when regarded as inescapable.. |
Clutch | phr | "In the Clutch" - at a critical moment. |
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