clang color (klangkulor)

Same as clang tint. clangor (klang'gor or klang'or), n. [Also sometimes clangour; = F. clangueur = Pg. clangor = It. clangore, And hear the trumpet's clangour pierce the sky. Dryden. Carlyle, French Rev., I. iii. 9. Not without clangour, complaint, subsequent criminal trials, and official persons dying of heartbreak. IMG:content-0524.png:[blocks in formation] I only knew the whole clamjamfery of them were there. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, ix. clank (klangk), n. [Not in ME. or AS.; = MD. D. klank = MHG. klanck , a ringing sound; in form from the pret. ( * klank ) of the verb represented by MD. D. MHG. G. klinken = E. clink , and parallel to clang , similarly related to OHG. chlingan, MHG. G. MLG. D. klingen : see clink, and ef. clang , n. and v. Phonetically, clank and clink may be regarded as nasalized forms of clack and click ; as imitative verbs they belong to an extensive group of more or le imitative words of similar phonetic form: see clack , click1 , clang , clash , clatter , clap1 , etc.] A sharp, hard, metallic sound: as, the clank of chains or fetters. You mark him by the crashing bough, And by his corselet's sullen clank , And by the stones spurned from the bank. Scott , Rokeby, ii. 14.