claw wrench (klarench)

A wrench having a loose pivoted jaw and a relatively fixed one, so arranged as to bite together ether when they are made to grip an object. clay (klā), n. and a. [ G. klei ) = Dan. klæg, klæg, clay; related through dial. var. clag (see clag1, clag, claggy ) clage to clog, q. v.; and perhaps ult. LL. glus, L. gluten (> E. glue, gluten, q. v.), to Gr. γλοιός, γλοιά, sticky oil, gum, γλίνη, γλήνη, gum, γλία, glue, and to OBulg. glina, ulg. glina, clay, glenu, slime.] 1. n. 1. The material resulting from the decomposition and consequent hydration of the feldspathic rocks, especially granite s, especially granite and gnei , and of the crystalline rocks in general. As thus formed, it almost always contains more or le sand, or silicious material, mechanically intermixed. After this has , been separated, the clay itself is found to consist of a hydrated silicate of alumina, but it is not yet positively made out that there is one definite combination of this kind constituting the e ential basis of all the substances to which the name clay is applied. All clays contain hygroscopic water, which may be expelled by heating to 212° F.; but they also contain water in chemical combination, and when this is driven off by ignition the clay loses its plasticity, which cannot be restored. Ordinary clay contains more or le lime and other impurities, which render it to a certain extent fusible. The purer varieties are refractory, and are known as fire - clay (which see). (See also pipe- clay, china - clay, porcelain - clay, and kaolinite.) The plasticity of clay is of great importance, as without this quality it could not be easily worked into the various shapes for which it is used. On what condition it depends has not as yet been clearly made out. 2. Earth in general, especially in the Scriptures, as the material from which, which, according to the account in Genesis, the body of the first man was formed. I also am formed out of the clay. Arv . Are we not brothers? Imo . Job xxxiii. 6. So man and man should be; But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike. Shak ., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 3t. Moist earth; mud; slime. He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle. John ix. 6. 41. Any viscous plastic mixture used as mortar or cement. Cleme hit [sc. the ark] with clay comly with-inne. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 312. He tok a ionket of re hen, and glewide it withe glew- is he cley [L. bitumine ] and with picche. Wyclif , Ex. ii. 2 (Oxf.). Cley maad with hors or mannes heer, and oile Of tartre, alum, glas, berm, wort, and argoile, Resalgar, and our materes enbibing. Chaucer , Canon's Yeoman's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 812. 5. The human body; especially, a dead body. [Poetical.] Their spirits conquered when their clay was cold. J. Baillie. 6. Figuratively, anything which is easily molded, shaped, or influenced. All the land Was clay in Slavery's shaping hand. Whittier , Snow-Bound. Bradford clay, in geol., a bluish, slightly calcareous clay of the Oolite, well developed near Bradford in England, and remarkable for the number of apiocrinites in it.Clay proce , the method of making a stereotype printing-plate from a mold of prepared clay. This clay is a combination of potters' clay, kaolin, powdered soapstone, and plaster of Paris. - Drawn clay, clay which is shrunk or decreased in volume by burning. - Long clay, clay po e ing a high degree of plasticity. - Oxford clay, in geol., 2. To purify and whiten with clay, as sugar. -3. To puddle with clay. clay-band (klā'band), n. In coal - mining , clay ironstone, or argillaceous iron ore, in thin str a- ta. [South Wales.] clay-bead (klā'bēd), n. One of the large beads of baked clay, oval or somewhat flattened, sometimes found in ancient tombs, especially in Britt any. They are too large to have been commonly worn as ornaments, and their use is uncertain. They are doubtle identical with the whorls found in many parts of the world, as Egypt, the Troad, Greece, and Armenia, and identified as having been used by ancient peoples as weights in spinning. clay-brained (klā brānd), a. Doltish; stupid. Shak . clay-built (klā'bilt), a. Built with clay. [Rare.] Clay-built cisterns. E. Darwin, Botanic Garden. clay-clott (klā'klot), n. [ME. cleiclot .] A clod of earth; figuratively, a corpse. Clay-cold were her rosy lips- Nae spark o' life was there. Around Patroclus mourn'd the Grecian train, Stern in superior grief Pelides stood; Those slaughtering arms, so used to bathe in blood, Now clasp his clay - cold limbs. Pope , Iliad, xviii. 369. clay-colored (klā'kulord), a . Of the color of clay. Clay-colored bunting. See bunting4 . clay-course (klā kōrs), n. In mining , a seam of clay by the side of a vein; a gouge. clay-daubed (klā dâbd), a . [ME.] Daubed with 2. Bedaubed or besmeared with clay. Wheat fields, one would think, cannot come to grow un- tilled-no man made clayey or made weary thereby. Carlyle , French Rev., I. ii. 1. IMG:content-0554.png:[blocks in formation] sugar- refining , a method of removing coloring matter from sugar by the use of clay. Loaves of refined sugar are taken from the molds, the solid crust formed at the point is removed, and the upper layer at the base loosened and scooped out to make a cavity in the cen- ter, into which clay paste is put. The water from the clay drives the mola es before it, and soon changes it into a saturated solution of pure sugar by di olving some of the crystals. As the water filters through the loaf it expels 2. In stone - working , the operation of driving dry clay into a blast-hole which is too damp for used for making a blast-hole water-tight by -cle. driving clay into its crevices, in order to pro- tect the charge. clayish (klā'ish), a. [ clay + -ish1.] Partak- ing of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it: as, “ clayish water," Harvey , Consumption. clay-kiln (klā kil), n. A kiln or stove for burn- ing clay. clay-mill (klā'mil), n. A mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug-mill. claymore (klā mōr), n. [Also glaymore; claidheamhmor , i. e., great sword: Gael. and Ir. claidheamh = W. cleddyf , cleddeu (see cleddyo ) = L. gladius (> E. glaive , q. v.), a sword; Gael. mor = W. mawr = Corn. maur = Bret. meur , great, akin to L. magnus , great, and to E. much, mickle .] 1. The name, in the Highlands of Scotland, of the heavy two-handed sword. This weapon remained in use among the Highlanders af- ter it had been generally abandoned elsewhere. It had a cro -guard sometimes reinforced with curved quillons and shells. The Highland men drew their claymores , And gie a warlike shout. Bonny Baby Livings ton (Child's Ballads, IV. 44). 2. A name given inaccurately in the eighteenth century to the basket-hilted broadsword made 1, 2. Basket-hilted Broadswords of the 17th century (afterward called Claymores). 3. Two-handed Sword, or Claymore proper. cld. An abbreviation of cleared : applied to goods or shipping cleared at the custom-house. term., term., composed of two suffixes, -co (see -ic) + two suffixes, see a -lo (-lus): see -le, -el, -ule, -ule, etc. In recent F. and E. the term. is usually -cule .] A dim in- utive termination, of Latin origin, occurring in article , particle, corpuscle , muscle , homuncle , etc., the diminutive force being in some cases unfelt in English. In corpuscle and muscle the pronun- ciation of e is a imilated to the preceding s. In icicle , chronicle, and some other words, the termination -cle is of different origin. cleach (klēch), v . A dialectal form of clutch. cleaching-net (klē'ching-net), n. A hoop-and- pole fish-net used by hand. Formerly also called cleek- net . Thenne cleme hit [the ark] with clay comly with-inne, & alle the endentur [crevices] dryuen daube with-outen. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 312. Sche took a leep [basket] of egge [sedge), and cawmede [var. clemede ] it with tar and pitch. Wyclif , Ex. ii. 3 (Purv.). to be used with one hand, and closely resembling 2. To smear upon; spread over; plaster. the cuira ier's broadsword of the seventeenth century in England. The blades of these swords were often marked with the stamp of Andrea Ferrara. See sword . Hence-3. A soldier armed with a claymore. Macaulay . clay-pit (klā'pit), n. A pit where clay is dug. clay-stone (klā'ston), n. One of the concre- tionary ma es of clay frequently found occur- ring in alluvial deposits, in the form of flat rounded disks, either simple or variously unit- ed so as to give rise to curious shapes. They are sometimes almost as regular as if turned Yf wormes feel [many] uppon hem be withoute, A strape of bra as let strape hem of therwith, And cleme uppon the wounde oxe dounge aboute. clean (klēn), a. [ clæne , clean, pure, bright, = OS. klēni = OFries. klēn = MD. klēne , D. kleen , klein = LG. klēn , small (> Icel. klenn , snug, puny, = Sw. klên , dial. klajn , = Dan. klein , thin, slight), = OHG. chleini , bright, pure, MHG. kleine , klein , clean, neat, fine, small, G. klein , small. Cf. W. glain, glan = Ir. Gael. glan , clean, pure, radiant.] 1. Unmixed with foreign or extraneous matter; free from admixture; unadulterated; pure. Coupes of clene gold and peces of seluer, Rynges with rubyes and riche es i-nouwe. All this is preef of holsum aire and clene , And there as is contraier is aire unclene. IMG:content-0555.png:[blocks in formation] clean 1036 cleanse Thow tauztest hem in the trinitee to take baptesme, And be clene thorw that crystennynge of alle kynnes synnes. Piers Plowman (B), xiv. 184. He knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. John xiii. 11. Mr. will be a formidable rival among the better cla . "He is a very clean man. He got his nomination in a very clean way. Springfield Rep., quot. in Merriam's Life of Bowles, II. 261. 4. Among the Jews: (a) Of persons, free from ceremonial defilement. And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean. Lev. xii. 8. (b) Of animals and things, not causing cere cleverly. [Obsolescent.] IMG:content-0556.png:[blocks in formation] clean (klēn), v. t. [ Dampier, Voyages, an. 1688. Clean'd their vigorous wings. Thomson , Autumn, 1. 857. forbidden by the ceremonial law for use in sacrifice and for food. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean , there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark. Gen. vii. 8, 9. But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. Luke xi. 41. 5. Free from defect in substance or execution; without blemish or shortcoming: as, a clean garden; clean timber; a clean proof (in printing); to make a clean copy from a draft; to make a clean job of a piece of work.-6. Clear; bright; keen; incisive. And Deffebus, my dere son, I dem hym the next; With counsell & comford of clene men of wit, That fare shall in fere & feliship to gedur. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2798. Of youre clene witte and youre consayte I am full gladde in harte and thought, And hym to mete with-outen latt I am redy. 7t. Noble; excellent; notable. cleaning: with off: as, to clean off filth. Cleaning-and-sorting machine, in brewing, a form of grain cleaner used for freeing barley, previous to malting, from all foreign substances, such as other grain, the seeds of gra and weeds, dust, and dirt; a malt-cleaning machine. -To clean out. (a) To deprive of all available exhaust the pecuniary resources of. means; He [Bentley] must have been pretty well cleaned out. De Quincey. (b) To remove completely; clear out. [Colloq.] = Syn. Clean, Cleanse. Cleanse is stronger than clean, expre ing more thorough work. Clean is generally used of physical purification; cleanse, of physical or moral. Clean is more common. Having bought my boat,.. I require a menial to clean it now and then. Howells, Venetian Life, vii. I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers. Cleanse me from my sin. Neh. xiii. 9. Ps. li. 2. Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me. Emerson, Inspiration. For he was school'd by kinde in all the skill Of close conveyance, and each practise ill Of coosin age and cleanly knaverie. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale. 5. Neat; trim; well-shaped. Compare clean, a., 9. As the kynge come fro chirche on a day, ther mette hym a comly man, well araied, and clenly. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 45. He [the verse-maker] may both vse, and also manifest his arte to his great praise, and need no more be ashamed thereof than a shoemaker to haue made a cleanly shoe, or a Carpenter to haue buylt a faire house. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 253. cleanly (klēn'li), adv . [ clenliche , clænlice (= MD. klein lick = OHG. cleinlihho ), adv., clæntic , a.: see cleanly , a., clean , a., and -ly2 .] 1. Entirely; wholly; completely. [ Clean is generally used in this sense.] All the councell fro kourtt was clenely depertid. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 11527. When Castor had clanly consayuit his [Antenor's] wille, He onswared him. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 1918. The pollen-ma es were not removed nearly so cleanly as those which had been naturally removed by insects. Darwin, Fertil, of Orchids by Insects, p. 98. 2. In a clean manner; neatly; without soil or uncleanne . Whether our natives might not live cleanly and comfortably. Bp. Berkeley, Querist. Dickens. He was very cleanly dre ed. 3. Decently; morally; with freedom from vice or impurity. If I do grow great,. I'll. man should do. live cleanly, as a nobleShak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. IMG:content-0557.png:[blocks in formation] What brother or sistir of this frater nite dye, he shal haue, of the clene katel [chattel, property] of the Gilde, xx. me es songyn for his soule. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 46. Clean bill of health. See bill of health, under bill3. Clean hands, freedom from wrong-doing; innocence of evil intention: originally biblical and used in the broad est sense, but now used especially with regard to financial transactions: as, he retired from office with clean hands. He that hath clean hands , and a pure heart. Ps. xxiv. 4. The clean thing, the right course to pursue; the honorable thing to do. [Colloq.] It would have been the clean thing to say at once that no debate would be allowed, instead of profe ing a readine to go into debate, and then to refuse discu ion. Washington Patriot, April 3, 1871. To make a clean breast of. See breast. - To make a clean sweep. See sweep. clean (klēn), adv. [ All his apparell cleane brusht, and his shoes made cleane. Rhodes, Boke of Nurture (E. E. T. S.), p. 70. 2. Quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely; fully: as, the dam was carried clean away. Contricioun hadde clene forzeten to crye and to wepe. Piers Plowman (B), xx. 367. The people.. pa ed clean over Jordan. Josh. iii. 17. Now a ball or two may pa clean through your body, and never do any harm at all. Sheridan , The Rivals, v. 3. definite; precise: as, a clean - cut mouth; a clean cut statement. A fine orator with a clean - cut perception of the political facts of the situation and a patriotic desire to serve all. S. Bowles, in Merriam, II. 420. One who or that which His kyrtel of clene whijt clenlyche y-sewed. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 229. Nor fold my fault in cleanly -coin'd excuses. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1073. To have a quick hand and convey things cleanly. Middle ton, Witch, ii. 3. cleaner (klēʼnėr), n . cleans. Specifically-(a) A curriers' knife. (b) In found 5t. Clearly; unmistakably. ing , a hand-tool used in making molds. (c) One of a pair of small card-cylinders in a carding-machine which remove the fiber from another small cylinder called a worker , and return it to the main card-cylinder; an urchin. -Cotton seed cleaner. See cotton-seed. IMG:content-0558.png:[blocks in formation]