Clymer, George

B. of a good family, in Philadelphia, in 1739. He was chairman of the committee which prevented the tea sent out by the English govt. from being sold in that city, and was also a signer of the Declaration of American Independence. D. 1813. Cly'mer, in New York , a post-village and township of Chautauqua co., 18 m. S.W. of Maysville. Clymer, in Pennsylvania, a thriving township of Tioga co. Clypeas'tridæ, n . pl . [Lat. clypeus , a buckle, and astrum, a star.] ( Zool .) A family of the order Echinoids , containing sea-urchins which have the ambulacra petaloid, and peristome central.