CLAW

n. Kla4. Lat., chela. Fr., griffe, onglette. 1. In birds 1869) are more or le transverse, minute, nail-like spiculse of bone and many mammals, the horny hook-like appendage of a digit. 2. which perforate the lamellae of a Havers i an system and bolt them The chela of a crustacean. 3. A limb or appendage terminating in together. [A, 94.] 2. See CLAVICLE. chelae or a hook-like proce . [L, 14, 147, 168.] 4. The long and CLAVIDvE (Lat.), n. f. pi. Kla(kla3)'vi2d(wiM)-e(as-e2). A famslender base of a petal, as in Dianthus. [B, 19 (a. 24).] Griffin's of the Gymnoblastea anthomedusce. [L, 121.] c. An ancient instrument, described and figured by Scultetus, conily 3 a sisting of four hook-like blades, which were approximated by screw [s. 310]