Club

klub, n. a heavy tapering stick, knobby or ma y at one end, used to strike with: a cudgel: a bat used in certain games: an instrument for playing golf, variously with wooden heads, iron heads, and wooden heads with bra soles: a bunch; one of the four suits of cards: a combination: a clique, set: an a ociation of persons for the joint study of literature, politics, ., or for social ends: an a ociation of persons who po e a building as a common resort for the members: a club-house, or the house occupied by a club.— v.t. to beat with a club: to gather into a bunch: to combine: to throw soldiers into confusion.— v.i. to join together for some common end: to combine together: to share in a common expense.— adjs. Club′bable , sociable; Clubbed , like a club.— n. Club′bing , beating: combination: a disease in some plants.— adj. Club′bish , given to clubs.— ns. Club′bism , the club system; Club′bist , Club′-foot , a deformed foot.— adj. Club′-foot′ed .— n. Club′-gra , a species of gra having a club-shaped articulation.— v.t. Club′-haul , ( naut. ), to tack by dropping the lee anchor and slipping the cable.— adj. Club′head′ed , having a thick head.— ns. Club′-house , a house for the accommodation of a club; Club′-law , government by violence; Club′-man , one who carries a club: a member of a club; Club′-mas′ter , the manager of, or purveyor for, a club; Club′-mo , one of the four genera of Lycopod i aceæ ; Club′-room , the room in which a club meets; Club′-rush , a plant of many varieties of the genus Scripus or rush.— n.pl. Clubs (see Clumps ). [Ice. and Sw. klubba ; same root as Clump .]