clamancet

[ME., IMG:content-0514.png:[blocks in formation] mant (see claimant ) = Pg. clamante, an ( t- ) s , ppr. of clamare , cry: see claim1 , v. Cf. clamjamfery ery (klam-jam'fe-ri), n. Same as claimant.] 1. Crying; g; beseeching. [Poetical.] clanjamfrie. IMG:content-0515.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Urgent; calling for prompt attention or relief, etc.; crying: as, a very clamant case. The combat was merely preliminary to something great er even if le clamant-the contest over the American university question. New Princeton Rev., I. 145. 3. Crying for punishment or vengeance; highly aggravated. [Scotch.] clamationt (kla-ma's hon), n. [=It.clam azione, clamatio ( n- ), clamare , pp. clamatus , cry out: see clamant and claim1 , v.] The act of crying out. Their iterated clam a tions . Sir T. Browne. Clam a to res (klam-a-tō'rēz), n. pl . [NL., pl. of L. clam at or , one who cries out, clamare , pp. clamatus , cry out: see claim1, v.] 1. In Cabanis's cla ification (1842), an order of inse orial birds, consisting of a majority of those non-oscine forms which had been called Pica riæ by Nitzsch, having ten primaries, the first of them well developed, and the feet neither zygodactyl nor anisodactyl. It was an artificial a emblage, and is now recognized, if at all, only in a modifled (1841). sense. The name was adapted from Andreas Wagner 21. The gallinaceous birds, or Gallinæ : so called from the crowing or clamoring of the males, especially as instanced in domestic poultry. clamatorial (klam-a-to'ri-al), a. [ Clama tores + -ial .] Of or pertaining to the Clam a to res. clambt. Obsolete strong preterit of climb. Chaucer.