clidosternal2 (klidosternal)

and n. [ II. n. A tortoise of the group Clidosterna . Also cleidosternal . cliency (kli'en-si), n. client i a , protection.] being a client. client (kli'ent), n. G. client = Dan. IMG:content-0584.png:[graphic] [ client +-cy. Cf. ML. The state or condition of [ IMG:content-0585.png:[blocks in formation] clientship (klient-ship), n. [ client + -ship .] The condition of being a client; a state of be- ing under the protection of a patron. Dryden . cliff 1 (klif), n. [Early mod. E. clife (pl. cleeves , cleves ), clif , clef (dat. clife , clefe, clive, cleve, pl. clives, cleves, clevis, etc.), clif (pl. clifu , cleofu ) (=OS. klif = D. klif = LG. klif , a cliff, a rock, = Icel. klif = OHG. kleb ), a cliff, prob. orig. a place climbed or to be climbed, clifan (pp. * clifen ), in comp. ōthclifan , adhere, = Icel. klifa , climb: see clivel and cleavel . The MD. klippe , kleppe , D. klip = LG. klippe (>G. klippe ) = Dan. klippe = Sw. klippa , a cliff, crag, are appar. of other origin; cf. clip1 .] The steep and rugged face of a rocky ma ; a steep rock or headland; a precipice. And romynge on the clyves by the sea. Chaucer , Good Women, 1. 1470. Here es a knyghte in the is klevys , encle ide with hilles. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2396. England's shore, whose promontory cleeves Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. The rest was craggy cliff , that overhung Still as it rose, impo ible to climb. Milton , P. L., iv. 547. cliff (klif), n. A variant of clef . cliff-brake (klif brak), n. See brakes . cliff-dweller (klif'dwel-ér), n. A member of one of the aboriginal tribes in the southwestern United States who built their dwellings in nat- ural rece es in cliffs. cliff-limestone (klif'lim stōn), n. A name once extensively used by geologists for certain rocks in the Mi i ippi valley, partly of Silurian and partly of Devonian age, forming cliffs or bluffs along that stream. The name has been dropped since the completion of more accurate surveys. cliff-swa cliff-swallow (klif's wol"ō), n. A bird of the family Hirundinidæ and genus Pet roc he lid on : so called from affixing its bottle-nosed nests of mud to cliffs. There are several species; the best- known is P. lunifrons , abundantly but irregularly distrib- uted in North America, and in populous districts usually building its nests under eaves, whence it is often called eaves-swallow. It is 54 inches long and about 12 in extent of wings; the upper parts and a spot on the breast are dark, lustrous steel-blue; the under parts are rusty-gray; the rump is rufous; the chin, throat, and sides of the head are chestnut; and the forehead is marked with a white or light crescent. The tail is scarcely forked. Also called mud - swallow , crescent- swallow , and republican swal- low . clif + -ig : see broken; craggy. 2. The condition of being the client of a law- yer or other representative of one's interests. -3. A body of clients, in any sense of the word. The general interest of the profe ion and of the client- clift1+ (klift), n. A variant of cleft1 . age and the aim of the judges are to bring each cause to matter at one cent per pound. Science, VIII. 71. cliental (kli'en-tal), a. [ client + -al.] 1. Pertaining to a client or clients. clift1 (klift), v. t. [ clift1 , n.] To split. Through clifted stones. Congreve, Mourning Bride, i. 3. clift2 (klift), n. [A form of cliff1 , due appar. to confusion with clift1 = cleft1 .] A cliff. I view the coast old Ennius once admir'd; Where clifts on either side their points display. Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, vi. 17. Dickens , Great Expectations, xx. cliftonite (klifton-it), n. [Named after R. B. I sat down in the cliental chair, placed over against Mr. Jaggers's chair. Clifton , a profe or of physics at Oxford.] A form of graphitic carbon occurring in cubic or cubo-octahedral crystals in the meteoric iron of Young deg in in West Australia. IMG:content-0586.png:[blocks in formation] The vagrant winds were abroad, rioting among the clifty heights where they held their tryst. C. E. Craddock (Mi Murfree), Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 56. cliid (kli'id), n. A pteropod of the family Cliida . Cliidæ (kli'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., Clio , 2 ( b ), + -ida . ] Same as Clionida1 . clikett, n. A Middle English form of clicket . clima (klī'mä), n. [L., appar. a particular use of clima , a region: see clime2 , climate .] An an- cient Roman measure of land, a square of 60 Roman feet on the side. IMG:content-0587.png:[blocks in formation] τήρ , a step of a staircase or ladder, a danger- ous period of life, κλίμαξ , a ladder, climax: see climax .] A climacteric. climactert (kli-mak'ter), v. t. [ climacter , n.] To bring to a climacteric, especially to the grand climacteric. Drayton. [Rare.] climacterian (kli-mak-tēʻri-an), n. And visitation, with the morning hail, tery + -an.] An author or a speaker who is Will be admitted. B. Jonson, Cat i line, iii, 3. given to or skilled in the use of the rhetorical figure called climax . [Rare.] Hence-2. A region or country; any distinct portion of the earth's surface. O, forfend it, God, That, in a Christian climate , souls ref in'd Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed! Shak., Rich. II., iv. 1. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate . Add is on, The Royal Exchange. climate 3. The characteristic condition of a country or region in respect to amount or variations of heat and cold, moisture and dryne , wind and calm, etc.; especially, the combined result of all the meteorological phenomena of any region, as affecting its vegetable and animal productions, the health, comfort, pursuits, and intellectual development of mankind, etc. The climate's delicate; the air most sweet. Shak . , W. T., iii. 1. This talent of moving the pa ions cannot be of any great use in the northern climates . Swift. [As used by the Greeks, the word κλίμα denoted properly a slope or an incline, and was applied to mountain-slopes ( κλί ματα ὀρῶν), but especially to apparent slope or inclination of the earth toward the pole. Hence the word came gradually to be used as nearly the equivalent of zone (but not of the divisions of the earth's surface now so named). A change of "climate" took place, in going north, on arriving at a place where the day was half an hour longer or shorter, according to the season, than at the point from which the start was made. The same was the meaning of the word climate as used by the early English naviga tors (see def. 1). Gradually the change temperature consequent on moving north or south came to be considered of more importance than the length of the day. Hence the word climate came finally to have the meaning now attached to it.] - Continental climate. See continental. climatet (klimat), v. i. [ IMG:content-0588.jpg:[blocks in formation]