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i. [ME.clinen, clynen, ME. enclinen (of which clinen is rather a clipped form), mod. E. encline, incline, q. v.), With alle mekenes I clyne to this acorde, Bowynge down my face. Coventry Mysteries, p. 114. IMG:content-0591.jpg:[blocks in formation] cling (kling), v.; pret. and pp. clung, ppr. cling ing. [ Ferly [wondrous] fayre watz the folde [earth], for the forst [frost] clenged. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1694. All night long a cloud clings to the hills. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 2. To hold fast, especially by the hands or by coiling round or embracing, or, figuratively, by refusing to abandon or give up. As two spent swimmers, that do cling together. Shak., Macbeth, i. 2. Two babes of love close clinging to her waist. Pope, Dunciad, ii. 158. Ida station'd there Unshaken, clinging to her purpose, firm. Tennyson, Prince , v. 3. To rush with violence. [Prov. Eng.] Sir Clegis clynges in, and clekes [clutches] another. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1865. 41. To wither; shrivel. In coold clay now schal y clinge. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 85, [Rare.] IMG:content-0592.png:[blocks in formation] The cling of big-swoln grapes. P. Fletcher , Purple Island, i. clingstone (kling's ton), a. and n. I. a. Having the pulp adhering firmly to the stone: said of a cla of peaches. Clingstone peaches are distinguished from freestone peaches, the pulp of which separates readily and cleanly from the stone. II. n. A peach of this cla .