clam : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: clam	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for clam
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
clam n burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness a piece of paper money worth one dollar Synonym(s): dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams v gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clam \Clam\, n. [Cf. {Clamp}, {Clam}, v. t., {Clammy}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam ({Mya arenaria}), the quahog or round clam ({Venus mercenaria}), the sea clam or hen clam ({Spisula solidissima}), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the {Tridacna gigas}, a huge East Indian bivalve. You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. --Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. --Wood (1634). 2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps. 3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. {Blood clam}. See under {Blood}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clam \Clam\ (cl[dd]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clammed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clamming}.] [Cf. AS. cl[91]man to clam, smear; akin to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile, or E. clammy.] To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clam \Clam\, v. i. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clam \Clam\, n. Claminess; moisture. [R.] [bd]The clam of death.[b8] --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clam \Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.] A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. --Nares.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clam \Clam\, v. t. & i. To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. --Nares.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
CLAM A system for {symbolic mathematics}, especially General Relativity. It was first implemented in {ATLAS} {assembly language} and later {Lisp}. See also {ALAM}. ["CLAM Programmer's Manual", Ray d'Inverno & Russell-Clark, King's College London, 1971]. (1994-11-08)