clamor, clamour (klamor)

[ After, rising with great ioy and clamour , they sing a prayer of prayse in hope hereof. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 197. The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. Shak., Rich. II., i. 1. Interpreted it, with its multitudinous echoes and rever Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, xi. be rations, as the clamor of the fiends and night hags. 2. Any loud and continued noise. IMG:content-0516.png:[blocks in formation] By cause his galyottes and offycers made suche clamoure for vytaylles. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 70.. A violent clamour was raised against the king by the priests of Debra Libanos, as having forsaken the religious principles of his predece ors. Bruce , Source of the Nile, II. 533. = Syn. Hubbub, uproar, noise, din, ado. clamor, clamour (klam'or), v . [ clamor , clam our, n.] I. trans. 1. To utter in a loud voice; shout. Meli a clamour'd , "Flee the death." Tennyson, Prince , iv. IMG:content-0517.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0519.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0520.png:[blocks in formation] rake. clam.-2. The mouth, or the lip. [Vulgar, New Eng.] coalesces with the clamp, and thus an open clam-scraper (klam's krāpėr), n . Same as drag- pa age is formed between the two cells. Also called clamp - cell . - 5. pl. Andirons. [Prov. clam-shell (klam's hel), n. 1. The shell of a Eng.]-Binding-screw clamp. See binding -screw. - Collar and clamp. See collar. Geometrical clamp, a clamp which depends solely on the rigidity of matter and not on friction. - Horseshoe clamp, in ship - build- ing , an iron strap for attaching the gripe and forefoot.- Molders' clamp, in founding , a frame for holding toge- ther firmly the parts of a flask, so that the metal may safely be poured into the mold.