clakegoose (klakgos)

Same as clack - goose. clam1 (klam), n. [(1) Also clamm; In the year 1818, Sir John Ro , in command of H. M. S. on voyage of discovery for the purpose of exploring Battin's Bay inventec machine for taking up soundings from the bottom of any fathomable depth, which he called a "deep-sea clamm. " A large pair of forceps were kept asunder by a bolt, and the instrument so bolt striking ground, a applied. clair-obscure (klar'ob-skūr'), n. [Also clare obscure; chiaroscuro.] Same as chiaroscuro. As masters in the clare obscure With various light your eyes allure. Prior , Alma, ii. 25. order to prevent the claim from being forfeited. Claims clairvoyance (klar-voi'ans), n. [F., clairvoy- may also be made for water-rights, for mining purposes, adjacent to streams. [Cordilleran mining region.]-Ala- ant : see clairvoyant .] 1. A power attributed bam a claims, certain claims of the United States against to persons in a mesmeric state, by which they Great Britain for damages inflicted on American shipping during the civil war by privateers built, equipped, and supplied in England, and sent out from British ports to prey on American commerce. The most famous of these are supposed to discern objects concealed from sight, and to see what is happening at a distance. has contrighthand the hot stigate the forceps, which retained within them a considerable quantity of the bottom, whether sand, mud, or small stones. Sir C. W. Thomson, Depths of the Sea, p. 209. 2. A stick laid acro a stream of water to serve as a bridge. [Prov. Eng.] -3. A rat-trap. [Prov. Eng.] clam1 (klam), v.; pret. and pp. clammed, ppr. clamming. [Chiefly dial., in part denominative of clam1, n., and in part a var. of clem1 (AS. * clemman, etc.: see clem1 ) as the factitive of the orig. verb which is the common source IMG:content-0512.png:[blocks in formation] of clam1, n., clam2, a., clam2, v., and clem1, clamancy (klam'an-si), n. [ clamant : see clem2, clem3, cleam, claim2, cloam, etc.: see -cy.] Urgency; urgency arising from neces- these terapinch tras o clog clamant (klamant), a. [= OF. claimant , cla- words. Cf. clamp1, v.] I. 1. To sity. [Scotch.] pinch.-2. To up; close by pre ure; shut.-3. To castrate, as a bull or ram, by compre ion.-4. To rumple; crease.-5. To snatch.-6. To pinch with hunger; emaciate; starve. II. in trans. 1. To stick close. - 2. To grope grasp ineffectually. [Scotch.] -3. To die of hunger; starve. or In reality we are clamming and very near starved to death. Arnold, Cotton Famine, p. 224. [In all senses obsolete or provincial.] clam2 (klam), a. [Sc. also clem (see clem3 ); clam = MD. D. klam , clammy, moist, = MLG. klam , close, fast, rigid, oppre ed, discouraged, = MHG. chlam, klam, close, small, weak, G. klamm , narrow, close, scarce, clammy (also MHG. klemm , close, G. dial. klemm , close, scarce), = Dan. klam , clammy, damp; of like origin with clam1, n., and clam1, v., namely, from the pret. * klam of the orig. verb * kliman , pre or adhere together, stick: see clam1 , п., and clam1, v.] 1. Sticky; viscous; clammy (which see). Clam, or cleymous [see claimous ], glutinosus, viscosus. Prompt. Parv., p. 79. A clam pitchie ray shot from that Centrall Night. Dr. H. More , Sleep of the Soul, iii. 33. 2. Moist; thawing, as ice.-3. Vile; mean; unworthy. In vile and clam coveitise of men. Wyclif , Select Works (ed. Arnold), III. 29. clam2 (klam), v.; pret. and pp. clammed , ppr. clamming. [Chiefly dial., in part from clam2 , a., and in part a var. of clame2 , claim2 , which is a var. of clem2 , cleam, q. v.; in meaning and form mixed with and ult. related to clam1, clem1, q. v.] I. trans . 1. To smear; daub; clog with glutinous or viscous matter. He spitte in the erthe, and made clay of the spittyng, and clammyde cley on his eyen. Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), II. 93. IMG:content-0513.png:[blocks in formation] Carlyle, French Rev., I. v. 5.