clog dancing (klogdan sing)

The act of dancing with clogs. cloggine (klog'i-nes), n. [ cloggy + -ne .] The state of being cloggy or clogged. clogging (klog'ing), n. [Verbal n. of clog , v .] Anything which clogs; obstruction; hindrance; clog. Truth doth clear, unweave, and simplifie, Search, sever, pierce, open and disgregate All ascititious cloggins . Dr. H. More, Psych a than asia, II. iii. 25. cloggy (klog'i), a . [ clog + -y1. Cf. claggy , cladgy, cledgy .] Clogging or having power to clog; obstructive; adhesive. 1053 one side, and a series of arcades with piers and columns, or an open colonnade, surrounding an interior court, on Cloister of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain. the opposite side. The original purpose of cloisters was to afford a place in which the monks could take exercise and recreation. They [the Capuchins] have a faire garden belonging to their Monastery, neare to which they have a Cloister . Coryat , Crudities, I. 19. Hence-3. A place of religious retirement; a monastery; a convent; a nunnery; a religious house. We come into a Cloyster of greky he monke, whose Churche is of the holy Cro e. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 39. For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitle moon. Shak ., M. N. D., i. 1. Alcuin cannot help recalling those days of his youth and manhood which he had spent in his own England, beneath the still cloister built by a Wilfrid. Rock , Church of our Fathers, i. 281. 4. Any arcade or colonnade round an open court. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Of cloisters, branch'd like mighty woods.