clintonite (klintonit)

and a. [After De Witt Clinton: see Clintonia.] I. n. A micaceous mineral of a reddish-brown to copper alis. cies are certainly known; the most common is Clione boreClionidæ (kli-on'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., clipl (klip), v. t.; pret. and pp. clipped (sometimes clipt ), ppr. clipping. [ IMG:content-0598.jpg:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0600.png:[blocks in formation] 4. In farriery , a projecting flange on the upper surface of a horseshoe, which partially embraces the wall of the hoof.-5. A metal clasp or a confining piece used to connect the parts of a carriage-gear, or to hold the hook of a whipple- tree.-6. A clasp or spring- holder for letters, papers, etc. clip2 (klip), v.; pret. and pp. clipped (sometimes clipt), ppr. clipping. [ clippen , klippa = Sw. klippa = Dan. klippe , clip, shear, cut. Connection with clip1 is uncertain.] I. trans. 1. To cut off or sever with a sharp in- strument, as shears or sci ors; trim or make shorter by cutting: as, to clip the hair; to clip a bird's wings. Clipping papers or darning his stockings. Swift . Her neat small room, adorn'd with maiden-taste, A clipp'd French puppy, first of favourites, graced. Crabbe, Works, I. 111. IMG:content-0601.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0602.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0603.png:[blocks in formation] forceps or nippers instead of, or in addition to, old form of candlestick, fitted with a pair of clipping-time (klip'ing-tīm), a socket. The object of the forceps was to hold a rush- light, which was too slender and irregular in shape to stand steadily in a socket. clip-chair (klip'char), n. A kind of chair used on some English railways to secure a rail to a metallic sleeper. clipe us (klip'ē-us), n.; pl. clipe i (-1). See clypeus . clip-hook (klip'huk), n. Same as sister - hook . clipper1 (klip'er), n. [ clipper , clippere (= Icel. klippari = Sw. klippare = Dan. klip- per ); clip2 , v . , + -er1.] 1. One who or that which clips; especially, one who reduces the size, value, or importance of anything by clip- ping it. And if they be such clippers of regal power and shavers of the Laws, how they stand affected to the law giving Par lament, yourselves, worthy Peeres and Commons, can Milton , Church-Government, ii., Con. of sheep-shearing. Hence-2. The nick of time. To come in clipping-time, to come as opportune- ly as one who visits a sheep-farmer at sheep-shearing time, when mirth and good cheer abound and when his help is welcome. Scott. resting upon a carriage-spring, and attached to the axle by a clip; the axle- band of a carriage-wheel. clip-pulley (klip'püli), n. A wheel or pulley having on its face a series of grips or clips that grasp and hold the band or wire rope that pa es over the pulley. The clips open automatically, and release the rope when it leaves the wheel. clipst, clipset, clipsist, n. [ME., also clippes , clippis , clippus , by apheresis for eclips , eclipse : see eclipse .] An eclipse. That is cause of this clips that closeth now the sonne. Piers Plowman (B), xviii. 135. IMG:content-0604.png:[blocks in formation] per ), a fast horse, a nag, kleppen , run fast: see clip3 . The Dan. klipper , a ve el, is prob. from E.] 1. A sailing ve el built with very sharp lines, more or le raking masts, and great spread of canvas, with a view to speed: a development of a model for the mercantile marine first built at Baltimore, U.'S., and call- ed the Baltimore clipper . The clippers, becoming famous for quick runs, and occasionally making better time than the steamers, were especially employed in the South American fruit-trade, in the China trade for car- goes of tea and opium, and in the early California traffic by the Cape Horn route (1849-50). Also called clipper -ship. PO. W. Holmes , The Island Ruin. a very 2. A person or an animal that runs swiftly, or looks as if capable of running swiftly; a very smart person; something first-rate. [Colloq.] I never saw your equal, and I've met some clippers in my time. Thackeray . 3. An Australian bird of the genus Ephthia- nur a: as, the wag-tail clipper , E. albifrons .-4. The larva of species of Sialis , a genus of neu- ropterous insects, used for bait by anglers. Also called, in the United States, crawler , dob- son , and hellgrammite . clipper-built (klip'er-bilt), a. Naut . , built after the type of a clipper. clipper-ship (klip'er-ship), n. per2 , 1 . clippfish (klip'fish), п. [= D. klipvisch = G. klippfisch , klipfisk (= Sw. klipp- fisk ), klippe , rock (see cliff 1), + fisk = E. fish .] Fish, chiefly cod, split open, salted, and dried; stock-fish. Consular Report . Dryden, Fables. clipping1t (klip'ing), n. [ clipping , clup- ping ; verbal n. of clip1 , v.] The act of em- bracing. What clipping was there! IMG:content-0605.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0606.png:[blocks in formation] joined. clipping2 (klip'ing), n. [ clippinge ; ver- bal n. of clip2 , v.] 1. The act of cutting or shearing off. This design of new coinage is just of the nature of clip- ping. Locke . 2. A sheep-shearing. [Scotland and North. Eng.]-3. That which is clipped off or out; a piece separated by clipping: as, tailors' clip- pings ; a newspaper clipping . The clippings of our beards, and the parings of our nails. Locke . clipping3 (klip'ing), p . a. [Ppr. of clip3 , v.] 1. Swift: as, a clipping pace. [Colloq.]-2. Smart; showy; first-rate. [Colloq.] in the hardy-hole of the anvil. clipsyt, a. [ME. clips i ; clips , eclipse, + -y1.] Eclipsed; darkened. Now [love] is faire and now obscure, Now bright, now clips i of manere. clique (klēk), n. [= G. clique , clike , klicke = Dan. klike , clique , a party, set, coterie; of uncertain origin.] A party; a set; a coterie; ated informally for some exclusive or intrigu- specifically, a body or group of persons a oci- ing purpose. Mind, I don't call the London exclusive clique the best Cole ridge, Table-Talk. English society. cliquish (klē'kish), a. [ clique + -ish1.] Re- lating to a clique, set, or party; disposed to Their system is a sort of worldly-spiritual cliqueism . George Eliot , Middle march, xvii. IMG:content-0607.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0608.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0609.png:[blocks in formation] He hath an earthen pot wherewith to clitch up water. Holland , tr. of the Cyropædia, p. 4. clitch2 (klich), v. i. [Cf. MD. kli en , stick, ad- here, D. kli en , be entangled, kli e , D. klis , a bur: see clitel .] To stick; adhere; be- come thick or glutinous. [Prov. Eng.] clitel (klīt), n. [In comp. clit- , in clit - bur ; also formerly clit he (and dial. clider , formerly cli- theren); clite (var. clide , and clete , mod. E. cleat1 , q. v.), clite (* clit he not found), f., colt's-foot, = MD. kle e , kli e , D. klis , a bur, = OHG. chletta , chletā, f., chletto, m., MHG. klette , klete , G. klette , f., burdock; in series with AS. clāte , E. clotel , burdock, and prob. akin to the equiv. AS. clife, E. clives, burdock (see clive3 ), appar. (like the then ult. related mod. E. cleavers , clivers ) connected with AS. cleofian, clifian, E. cleavel, adhere.] 11. Goose-gra . See cleavers , 1.-2. The burdock, Arctium Lap- pa . [Prov. Eng.] clite2t, n. An obsolete form of cleat2 . clite3 (klit), n. [E. dial., also clayte . Cf. clit .] Clay; mire. [Prov. Eng.] clitella, n. Plural of clitellum . clitellar (kli-tel'är), a . [ clitellar is , clitellar segments. IMG:content-0610.jpg:[blocks in formation] We talked long in the style of philosophic clitter - clatter . Carlyle, in Froude, I. 124. clivelt, v. i. [ME. cliven , clifan , only in comp. ōthclifan , adhere (= OS. bi - klībhan = OFries. bi - klīva ), = OHG. chlīpan , klīban , MHG. kliben , also in comp. bi - chlīban , cleave, adhere, stick (cf. causative OHG. *chleiben, kleiben , MHG. G. kleiben , cause to adhere), = Icel. klīfa (pret. kleif ) = Sw. klifva = Dan. klive , now klyve , climb (whence the ME. sense). Hence the secondary form, AS. clifian , cleofian , ME. clivien , cleovien, clevien, cliven, cleven, E. cleave : see cleave1. Cf. cliff and climb .] To climb; ascend. Ambicion, thet is kuead [wicked] wilninge heze [high] to Ayenbite of Inwyt , p. 22. IMG:content-0611.png:[graphic] clitelli, n. Plural of clitellus . Clitellio (kli-tel'i-ō), n. [NL. Cf. clitellum .] A genus of tubicolous limicoline annelids, of the family Tubificid a . A species of this genus is commonly found along the New England coast at high-water mark. clitellum (kli-tel'um), n.; pl. clitella (-a). [NL., also clitellus , clitellæ , a pack-saddle.] In zoöl ., the saddle of an annelid, as the earthworm; a peculiar glandular ring around the body, re- sulting from the swelling and other modification cliver2, n. See cleavers , 1. clive't, n. An obsolete form of cliff 1. cliver1t, n. [ME. cliver, clifer , pl. clifras , a claw; prob. clifian , adhere, cleave: see of certain segments. It is a sexual organ, producing a tough, viscid secretion by which two worms are together in a kind of copulation. Also called cingulum . A part of the body into which more or fewer of the seg- ments. enter is swollen, of a different color from the rest, provided with abundant cutaneous glands, and re- ceives the name of cingulum or clitellum . Clistocarpidæ (klis-tō-kär'pi-dē), n . pl . [NL., as clistocarp + -ida .] A family of lucernarian hydrozoans, represented by such genera as Cra- clithet, n. [See clitel .] Burdock. Gerard. terolophus and Manania , containing those Lucer- clit he rent, n. [See clit he , clitel .] Goose-gra . IMG:content-0612.jpg:[blocks in formation] pl. a gate, door, κλείειν , close: see closel , v. Cf. clathrate .] In Gr. arch ., having a roof that forms a complete covering: said of certain temples by those who hold the opinion that some of these monuments, styled by them hy- cleithral . clithridiate (klīth-rid'i-āt), α. [ κλειθρί- διον, dim. of κλειθρία , a keyhole (cf. κλεῖθρον , a bar for closing a door), κλείειν , close: see closel, v .] Shaped like a keyhole: applied to the form of the orifice of the zoœcia of certain polyzoans. Busk . Clitoria (kli-toʻri-a), n . [NL.] A genus of plants, natural order Leguminosa , found throughout the tropics of both hemispheres. The species, which blue, white, or red flowers. Several are in cultivation. C. are numerous, are climbing, rarely erect, herbs, with large Mariana , the butterfly-pea, is a native of the United States and Mexico. clit or i dean (klī-tō-rid'ē-an), a . [ clitoris (-rid-) + -ean .] Pertaining to the clitoris. clitoridectomy (klī tō-ri-dek'tō-mi), n. [ ἐξ , out, + τέμνειν, cut.] In surg., excision of the clitoris. clitoris (klī tō-ris), n. [NL., κλειτορίς , κλείειν , close, shut: see closel .] An erectile or- gan of the female of most mammals, including the human species, and of sundry birds, as the ostrich, differing from the penis of the male chiefly in its smaller size and usually imper- forate state, being as a rule not perforated or grooved by a urethra, though it is so in some animals, as lemurs. It is usually small and concealed in the normal state of the parts, as in the human female; sometimes large, pendent externally, and difficult to dis- tinguish from a penis, as in spider-monkeys ( Ateles ). clitorism (klī tō-rizm), n. [ clitoris , q. v.] The presence of a very large clitoris; hypertrophy of the clitoris. clit or it is (kli-to-rit is), n. [NL., clitoris + -it is .] In pathol . , inflammation of the clitoris. IMG:content-0613.jpg:[blocks in formation] clivers, see cleavers a cliver3 (kliv'er), n. A dialectal form of cleaver2 . clives (klīvz), n. [Prob.connected with cleavel , obs. clive , stick, fasten. Cf. cliver1 .] A hook with a spring-catch to prevent it from unfas- tening. E. H. Knight . clivi, n. Plural of clivus . Clivícola (kli-vik'ō-lä), n. [NL. (J. R. Forster, habit.] A genus of swallows, the bank-swal- lows: synonymous with Cotile and of prior date. Clivicola riparia is the type. clivity (kliv'i-ti), n. [L. clivus , a slope; cf. declivity.] A declivity; a gradient. [Rare.] clivoust (kli'vous), a. [L. clivosus , steep, hilly, clivus , a slope, a declivity, a hillside, hill: see clivus .] Sloping; steep. clivus (klī'vus), n.; pl. clivi (-vī). [L., a slope, clinare (√* cli ), slope, incline, lean: see cline .] A slope.- Clivus Blume nba chi i, clivus o is sphe- noidis, or simply clivus, in an at . , the sloping surface rising from the anterior margin of the foramen magnum to the crest of the dorsum ephippii, formed of the upper surfaces of the basilar proce of the occipital bone and of the back part of the body of the sphenoid. cloaca (klō-ākā), n.; pl. cloacas (-käz), cloaca (-sē). [= F. cloaque = Sp. Pg. It. cloaca = G. kloake = Dan. kloak , cloaca , a common sew- er, prob. cluere , cleanse.] 1. An under- ground conduit for drainage; a common sewer: as, the cloaca maxima at Rome.-2. A sink; a privy.-3. [NL.] In zoöl .: (a) In vertebrates, the enlarged termination of the rectum or lower bowel, forming a cavity originally in common with that of the allantois (in those animals which have an allantois) and permanently in common with the termination of the urogenital organs; the common chamber into which the intestine, ureters, sperm-ducts, and oviducts open, in sundry fishes, in reptiles and birds, and in the ornithodelphous mammals. This cavity is the common sewer of the body, receiving the refuse of di- gestion, the product of conception, the spermatic secretion, cloak-fathert (klōk'fä"Thėr), n. The ostensible author or doer of anything; a stalking-horse. [Rare.] The book goes under the name of Cardinal Allan, though the secular priests say he was but the cloak - father there- of, and that Parsons the Jesuite made it. cloaking (klo'king), n. [Verbal n. of cloak , v.] 1. The act of covering with or as with a cloak. To take heed of their di emblings and cloakings . 2. Cloth for making cloaks. cloak-room (klōk'röm), n . A room connected with a place of general resort, as an a embly those of special accuracy, used at sea chronometers and room or an opera-house, where cloaks, etc., are deposited. cloam, clome (klōm), n. and a. [Also clomb ; clom (not found), clam , clay, > clæman, ME. clemen, mod. E. dial. cleam = claim2, clem2 , smear, daub: see cleam, claim2 , clem2. I. n. 11. Clay. Ere Wille myzte a-spie, Deth delt him a dent and drof him to the erthe, And is closed vnder clom. Piers Plowman (A), xii. 105. 2. Earthenware. Hall i well; Wright . [Prov. Eng.] I making answer that that should depend on the pitcher, whether it were iron or clomb , he turned on his heel, presently departed from me. H. Kingsley, Raven shoe, i. cloam, clome (klōm), v . i .; pret.and pp. cloamed , clomed , ppr. cloaming , cloming. [ cloam + -en2.] Of or pertaining to earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] In your account of the ceremonies now practised in Devon at Christmas regarding the apple-trees, you are wrong in calling it a clayen cup; it should be a clome or clomen cup; thus all earthenware shops and china shops are called by the middling cla and peasantry clome or clomen shops, and the same in markets where earthen ware is displayed in Devon are called clome standings. Hone , Every-day Book, II. 1652. clock usually consists of a frame or case containing a train of wheels moved by weights or springs and regulated by a pendulum or balance-wheel, carrying hands or pointers round the face or dial-plate for marking the hours and minutes. The dial-plate may have minor dials, as for marking seconds, or be divided into several dials, as for showing the time at different places. Clocks are also most commonly made to give notice of the hour, and sometimes of le er divisions of time, by the stroke of a hammer on a bell or other sonorous object. See horology . Wel sikerer [more certain) was his crowyng in his logge [lodge], Than is a clok , or an abbay orlogge [horologe]. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 34. The time will seem longer without a clock or hour-gla than with it. Bacon . 3t. A watch; specifically, a watch that strikes the hour. That striking clock , which he had long worn in his pocket. I. Walton . ing a pendulum which by its movement makes or breaks an electric circuit, which in turn controls the movement of a number of other clocks. (b) A clock operated by a weight in the usual way, and regulated and controlled by an elec- tric current from another clock, an electric escapement being employed in some cases as the direct means of con- trolling its motion. - Flora's clock. See horologium.- Of the clock (obsolete or archaic), o'clock (a clock, a- clock, obsolete), a phrase preceded by one , two , or other number, or by what , and signifying the time of day as shown by the face of the clock or watch, or, as originally, by the strokes of the bell. That was the.xvj. daye of Maij, we come to Venyse, Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 6. 2. Figuratively, that which conceals; a cover; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pre- -er1.] A maker of cloam. IMG:content-0614.png:[blocks in formation] They make religion mere policy, a cloak , a human in Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 603. He crafty cloaks him in a Dragons skin All bright-bespect. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Imposture. The Shadow cloak'd from head to foot, Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. IMG:content-0615.png:[blocks in formation] cloak-anemone (klok'a-nem"ō-nē), n. A kind of cancrisocial sea-anemone, Adamsia palliata . cloak-bag (klōk'bag), n. A bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. I would not be a serving-man To carry the cloak - bag still. IMG:content-0616.png:[blocks in formation] cloatht, n. An obsolete form of cloth . cloatht, cloathet, v. Obsolete forms of clothe . cloathingt, n. An obsolete form of clothing . clobbedt, a . A Middle English form of clubbed . clobber (klob'ėr), n . [Perhaps Celtic: cf. Ir. clabar, mud. Cf. clabber .] A kind of coarse paste made of ground cinders and flour, used to conceal the breaks in the leather of cobbled clobber (klob'ér), v. t . [ clobber , n.] To con- ceal defects in, as by the use of clobber in cobbling shoes. - Clobbered china, old porcelain the decoration on which has been freshened up, especially by clobberer (klob'ėr-ér), n. A cobbler of the low- est cla , who patches up old shoes, and con- ceals their defects by rubbing clobber into the breaks of the leather. [Eng.] clochardt, n. Same as clocher1 . Weever . clochet, n. An obsolete form of clutch1 . clocher1t, n. [ME., also clochier , clokerre , clocher , F. clocher, cloca , clocca , > OF. cloche , a bell: see clock2 , n.] A bell-tower; a belfry. Ayliffe . clocher2t, n. See closer2 . clochette (klō-shet'), n. [F., dim. of cloche , a bell: see clock2 , n.] In decorative art , any small object resembling a bell. See clocher1 . clochiert, n. clock1t (klok), v. [ clokken , cloccian , cluck: see cluck , which is the usual form.] I. in trans. To cluck, as a hen. That eggs were made before the hardy cock Began to tread, or brooding hen to clock . She no we behinde, and no we she goth before, And clocketh hem. clock2 (klok), v . t . [ clock2 , n.] In bell-ring- ing , to sound (a bell) by pulling the clapper without moving the bell itself. See clappering . clock3 (klok), n. [First instance prob. in Pals- grave (A. D. 1530); origin unknown. Perhaps orig. applied to a bell-shaped ornament or flower: see clock2 .] 11. In the sixteenth cen- tury, a decoration applied to hoods.-2+. In the reign of Charles II. of England, a gore, plait, or piece inserted to produce the required shape of a garment.-3. A figured ornament on the side of the ankle of a stocking, either woven in the fabric or embroidered upon it. Show the red stockings, Trix. They've silver clocks , Harry. Thackeray, Esmond, vii. clock (klok), n. [E. dial. and Sc., of obscure origin, perhaps orig. imitative (cf. click - beetle and clock1 ). Cf. OHG. chuleich , glo ed scar a- bæus ; Sc. golach , goloch , a beetle.] A popu- The Silkewormes (1599). lar name of a beetle. Also clock - beetle . [Eng.] The Brize, the black-arm'd Clock , the Gnat, the Butter- flie. Dr. H. More, Psychozoia, i. 41. clockōt, v. i. [ME. clokken , clo- quer , a ibilated clocher , clochier (cf. E. closh1 ), L. claudicare , limp, claudus , lame, limping: see claudicate , claudicant .] To limp; hobble. clock2 (klok), n. [ clock , clok , clokke , a clock, = D. klok , a clock, = LG. klok , a clock, = OHG. glocka , MHG. G. glocke , a clock, a bell, = Dan. klokke , a clock, a bell, = Sw. klocka , a clock, a bell, = Icel. klukka , a bell (cf. AS. (once) clucge , a bell), clocca , cloca (also glocca , glogg a ) , a bell, > F. cloche , a bell (ML. also a cloak, › ult. E. cloak , etc., q. v.). The orig. sense is 'bell,' a bell being orig. and still usually a nece ary attachment of the clock, There konnyng clerkes shul clokke bihynde. Piers Plowman (B), iii. 34. IMG:content-0617.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0618.png:[blocks in formation] clock-watch (klok'woch), n. strikes the hours, like a clock. clockwise (klok'wiz), adv . [ -wise .] In the direction of rotation of the hands of a clock: as, the direction of the Amperian cur- rents in the south pole of a magnet is clockwise . In fact, if curve B is rotated clock - wise through a small angle round its highest point, it will coincide with that of A. Amer . Jour. Sci ., 3d ser., XXXI. 261. clockwork (klok'werk), n. and a. I. n. 1. The machinery and movements of a clock; any com- plex mechanism of wheels producing regularity or precision of movement. IMG:content-0619.png:[blocks in formation] That spreading in this dull and clodded earth Gives it a touch ethereal. Keats , Endymion, i. 297. 3t. To cover with earth, as seeds; harrow. Nowe londe, that medycyne [clover] is fore yfond, Eke diligently 41. To confine in what is earthy and base, as the soul in the body. G. Fletcher .-5. To throw with violence. Scott . [Scotch.] clod2, v. A dialectal variant of clothe . clod-breaker (klod' brā "kér), n. clod-crusher.-2. A peasant; a clodhopper; a clodpoll: used in contempt. [Rare.] In other countries, as France, the people of ordinary condition were called clod -breakers. clod-crusher (klod krush"ėr), n. A roller arm- ed with blunt spikes for dragging over newly plowed land to break the clods and render it fit for seeding. cloddert, v. i. [Early mod. E., var. of clotter , clutter1. Cf. clodder, n.] To coagulate; clot. Palsgrave. cloddert, n. [ clodder , a clot. Cf. clotter , clutter1 , and clodder , v.] A clot. In cloddres of blod his her [hair] was clunge. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 142. cloddish (klod'ish), a . [ The clods of earth, which we so constantly belabored and turned over and over, were never etherealized into thought. Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast be coming cloddish . Hawthorne, Blithe dale Romance, p. 79. 2. Clownish; boorish; doltish; uncouth; un- gainly. They [his boots] seemed to him to have a cloddish air. Disraeli , Coningsby, iii. 5. cloddishne (klod'ish-nes), n. [ cloddish + -ne .] Clownishne ; boorishne ; doltish- ne ; clumsine ; ungainline . cloddy (klod'i), a. [ clod1 + -y1.] sisting of clods; abounding with clods. IMG:content-0620.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Earthy; mean; gro . clodet, v . An obsolete variant of clothe . clod-fishing (klod'fishing), n. A method of catching eels by means of a clod or bait of lob- worms strung on worsted. The fisher allows this bait to sink to the bottom of the stream, and the eel biting it so entangles its teeth in the worsted as to be unable to let Also called bob - fishing . clodhopper (klod'hop'er), n. [ clod1 + hopper ; one who 'hops' over 'clods,' i. e., a plowman.] A clown; a rustic; a boor. Now I should think it was the clodhopper gave the gen- tleman the day's work. lump of clay. The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod . Bacon . The sluggish clod , which the rude swain Bryant , Thanatopsis. Where once their sultan's horse has trod, Grows neither gra , nor shrub, nor tree. Swift. 5. Anything earthy, base, and vile; poetically, the body of man in comparison with his soul: as, "this corporeal clod ," Milton . IMG:content-0621.png:[blocks in formation] C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, i. Clonopin clodhopping (klod'hop"ing), a. [ clod1 + hopping ; cf. clodhopper .] Like a clodhopper; customed to walking on plowed land. What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clod- hopping me enger would never do at this juncture. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xx. clodpate (klod'pāt), n. [ clod1 + pate .] A stupid fellow; a dolt; a numskull. clodpated (klod'pated), a . [ clod1 + pate + -ed2.] Stupid; dull; doltish. My clod - pated relations spoiled the greatest genius in the world, when they bred me a mechanick. Arbuthnot . clodpoll (klod' (klod'pol), n. and a. [Formerly also clodpole and clotpole ; clod1 + poll1 . Cf. clod- pate pate and blockhead .] I. n. A stupid fellow; a blockhead . dolt; a blockhead. This letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth; he will find it comes from a clodpole . Shak ., T. N., iii. 4. IMG:content-0622.png:[blocks in formation] Hence-2. Any encumbrance; anything that hinders motion or action, physical or moral, or renders it difficult; a hindrance or impediment. I am glad at soul I have no other child; For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on them. speculation. Swift , Sentiments of a Ch. of Eng. Man, ii. 3. Same as clog -almanac.-4t. A cone of the pine or other coniferous tree.-5. A kind of shoe with a very thick sole and high heels, worn either alone or as an overshoe. Clogs for the lat- ter purpose were in common use until the introduction of india-rubber overshoes, about 1840. The clogs worn in the middle ages were often exce ively high, and, like those of the Japanese, added notably to the wearer's stature. The material was commonly wood. Cheaply made clogs, still in use in the north of England and very common in France and Germany, consist of a wooden sole with a leather up- per for the front part of the foot alone, or with sometimes a low leather counter in addition. See patten and chopine . Clogges or Pattens to keepe them out of the durt thay may not burden themselues with. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 205. Shak ., T. N., iii. 2. The Turks rusht in, and apprehended him, clogging him with chains. Sandys , Travailes, p. 67. Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain, While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain. The which Acrisius caused to be made, To keep his daughter Danae clogg'd in. II. a. Stupid; dull; ignorant. What clod - pole commi ioner is this! clœochoanite (klē-ō-kō'a-nīt), a.and n. [NL. clœochoanitis , κλοιός , a collar, + χοάνη , α funnel.] I. a. In zoöl . , having a collar as well as a funnel, as an ammonite; specifically, be- longing to the Clœochoanites . II. n. An ammonoid cephalopod of the group Clœochoanites. clog-almanac clog-almanac (klog'al ma-nak), n. An early form of almanac or ca calendar, ma made by cutting notches or characters on a clog or block, block, generally of wood, but sometimes of horn, bone, or bra . "This almanac is usually a square piece of wood, containing three months on each of the four edges. The number of days in them are expre ed by notches, the first day by a notch with a patulous stroke turned up from it, and every seventh by a large-sized notch. Over against many of the notches are placed, on the left hand, several marks or symbols, denoting the golden number or cycle of the moon. The festivals are marked by symbols of the several saints i uing from the notches." Plot. Also called clog. The runic writing was cut in the wood in the direction of the grain, as may be seen in the case of some of the runic clog - almanacks which are still in existence. Is. Taylor , The Alphabet, II. 221. clog-burnisher (klog'bėrnish-er), n. A burnisher having a handle at one end and a hook and staple at the other, used at Sheffield in England for burnishing parts of knives.