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Shad \Shad\ (sh[acr]d), n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species ({Clupea sapidissima}), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose ({C. alosa}), and the twaite shad. ({C. finta}), are less important species. [Written also {chad}.] Note: The name is loosely applied, also, to several other fishes, as the gizzard shad (see under {Gizzard}), called also {mud shad}, {white-eyed shad}, and {winter shad}. {Hardboaded}, [or] {Yellow-tailed}, {shad}, the menhaden. {Hickory}, [or] {Tailor}, {shad}, the mattowacca. {Long-boned shad}, one of several species of important food fishes of the Bermudas and the West Indies, of the genus {Gerres}. {Shad bush} (Bot.), a name given to the North American shrubs or small trees of the rosaceous genus {Amelanchier} ({A. Canadensis}, and {A. alnifolia}) Their white racemose blossoms open in April or May, when the shad appear, and the edible berries (pomes) ripen in June or July, whence they are called Juneberries. The plant is also called {service tree}, and {Juneberry}. {Shad frog}, an American spotted frog ({Rana halecina}); -- so called because it usually appears at the time when the shad begin to run in the rivers. {Trout shad}, the squeteague. {White shad}, the common shad. | |
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d8Cr88pe \[d8]Cr[88]pe\ (kr[acir]p; Eng. kr[amac]p), n. [F.] Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not. {Cr[88]pe de Chine} ([?]) [F. de Chine of China], Canton crape or an inferior gauzy fabric resembling it. {C. lisse} (l[emac]s) [F. lisse smooth], smooth, or unwrinkled, crape. | |
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Calash \Ca*lash"\, n. [F. cal[8a]che; of Slavonic origin; cf. Bohem. kolesa, Russ. koliaska calash, koleso, kolo, wheel.] 1. A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. The baroness in a calash capable of holding herself, her two children, and her servants. --W. Irving. 2. In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front. 3. A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure. 4. A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage. | |
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d8Bancal \[d8]Ban*cal"\, n.; pl. {-cales}. [Sp., fr. banca, banco, bench. Cf. {Bench}.] An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form. | |
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Calice \Cal"ice\, n. [See {Calice}.] See {Chalice}. | |
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Calico \Cal"i*co\, n.; pl. {Calicoes}. [So called because first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies: cf. F. calicot.] 1. Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. --Beck (Draper's Dict. ). 2. Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. Note: In the United States the term calico is applied only to the printed fabric. {Calico bass} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, fresh-water fish ({Pomoxys sparaides}) of the rivers and lake of the Western United States (esp. of the Misissippi valley.), allied to the sunfishes, and so called from its variegated colors; -- called also {calicoback}, {grass bass}, {strawberry bass}, {barfish}, and {bitterhead}. {Calico printing}, the art or process of impressing the figured patterns on calico. | |
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Calico \Cal"i*co\, a. Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Calk \Calk\ (k[acr]lk), v. t. [E. calquer to trace, It. caicare to trace, to trample, fr. L. calcare to trample, fr. calx heel. Cf. {Calcarate}.] To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. [Written also {calque}] | |
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Calk \Calk\ (k[add]k), n. [Cf. AS. calc shoe, hoof, L. calx, calcis, heel, calcar, spur.] 1. A sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a horse or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also {calker}, {calkin}. 2. An instrument with sharp points, worn on the sole of a shoe or boot, to prevent slipping. | |
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Calk \Calk\ (k[add]k), v. i. 1. To furnish with calks, to prevent slipping on ice; as, to calk the shoes of a horse or an ox. 2. To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet. | |
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Calk \Calk\ (k[add]k), v. t. [imp. &p. p. {Calked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Calking}.] [Either corrupted fr. F. calfater (cf. Pg. calafetar, Sp. calafetear), fr. Ar. qalafa to fill up crevices with the fibers of palm tree or moss; or fr. OE. cauken to tred, through the French fr. L. calcare, fr. calx heel. Cf. {Calk} to copy, Inculcate.] 1. To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch. 2. To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. | |
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Callose \Cal"lose\, a. [See {Callous}.] (Bot.) Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots. | |
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Callous \Cal"lous\, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum, callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.] 1. Hardened; indurated. [bd]A callous hand.[b8] --Goldsmith. [bd]A callous ulcer.[b8] --Dunglison. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. [bd]The callous diplomatist.[b8] --Macaulay. It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. --T. Arnold. Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See {Obdurate}. -- {Cal"lous*ly}, adv. -- {Cal"lous*ness}, n. A callousness and numbness of soul. --Bentley. | |
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Callus \Cal"lus\, n. [L. See {Callous}.] 1. (Med.) (a) Same as {Callosity}. (b The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. 2. (Hort.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. | |
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Calk \Calk\ (k[acr]lk), v. t. [E. calquer to trace, It. caicare to trace, to trample, fr. L. calcare to trample, fr. calx heel. Cf. {Calcarate}.] To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. [Written also {calque}] | |
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Calque \Calque\, v. t. See 2d {Calk}, v. t. | |
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Calk \Calk\ (k[acr]lk), v. t. [E. calquer to trace, It. caicare to trace, to trample, fr. L. calcare to trample, fr. calx heel. Cf. {Calcarate}.] To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held. [Written also {calque}] | |
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Calque \Calque\, v. t. See 2d {Calk}, v. t. | |
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Calx \Calx\, n.; pl. E. {Calxes}, L. {Calces}. [L. Calx, calcis. limestone; cf. Gr. [?] gravel. [?], [?], pebble, Skr. [?] gravel, Ir. carraic rock Gael. carraig, W. careg, stone. Cf. {Chalk}.] 1. (Chem.) (a) Quicklime. [Obs.] (b) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder. Note: Metallic calxes are now called oxides. 2. Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post. | |
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Calyx \Ca"lyx\, n.; pl. E. {Calyxes}, L. {Calyces}. [L. calyx, -ycis, fr. Gr. [?] husk, shell, calyx, from the root of [?] to cover, conceal. Cf. {Chalice Helmet}.] 1. (Bot.) The covering of a flower. See {Flower}. Note: The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal. 2. (Anat.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papill[91]. | |
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d8Caulis \[d8]Cau"lis\, n.; L. pl. {Caules}. [L., a stem.] (Bot.) An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers. | |
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Caulk \Caulk\, v. t. & n. See {Calk}. | |
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Chloral \Chlo"ral\, n. [Chlorine + alcohol.] 1. (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid, {CCl3.CHO}, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol. 2. (Med.) Chloral hydrate. {Chloral hydrate}, a white crystalline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also {chloral}. | |
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Celiac \Ce"li*ac\, a. (Anat.) See C[d2]llac. | |
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Cd2liac \C[d2]"li*ac\, Celiac \Ce"li*ac\, a. [L. coeliacus, Gr. [?], fr. [?] belly, fr. [?] hollow.] Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen. {C[d2]liac artery} (Anat.), the artery which issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm; -- called also {c[d2]liac axis}. {C[d2]liac flux}, {C[d2]liac passion} (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food. | |
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d8Cello \[d8]Cel"lo\, n.; pl. E. {Cellos}, It. {Celli}. A contraction for {Violoncello}. | |
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d8Chalaza \[d8]Cha*la"za\, n.; pl. E. {Chalazas}, L. {Chalaz[91]}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] hail, pimple.] 1. (Bot.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus. 2. (Biol.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle. | |
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Chalaze \Cha*laze"\, n. Same as {Chalaza}. | |
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Chalice \Chal"ice\, n. [OR. chalis, calice, OF. chalice, calice, F. calice, fr. L. calix, akin to Gr. [?] and E. helmet. Cf. {Calice}, {Calyx}.] A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. | |
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Chalk \Chalk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chalked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chalking}.] 1. To rub or mark with chalk. 2. To manure with chalk, as land. --Morimer. 3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. --Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. --Herbert. {To chalk out}, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] [bd]I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.[b8] --Burke. | |
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Chalk \Chalk\, n. [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx limestone. See {Calz}, and {Cawk}.] 1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone. 2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See {Crayon}. {Black chalk}, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. {By a long chalk}, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] --Lowell. {Chalk drawing} (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See {Crayon}. {Chalk formation}. See {Cretaceous formation}, under {Cretaceous}. {Chalk line}, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. {Chalk mixture}, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. {Chalk period}. (Geol.) See {Cretaceous period}, under {Cretaceous}. {Chalk pit}, a pit in which chalk is dug. {Drawing chalk}. See {Crayon}, n., 1. {French chalk}, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. {Red chalk}, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle. | |
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Chalky \Chalk"y\, a. Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste. | |
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Challis \Chal"lis\, n. [F. chaly, challis, a stuff made of goat's hair.] A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses. [Written also {chally}.] | |
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Choleic \Cho*le"ic\, a. (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid. | |
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Cholic \Chol"ic\, Cholinic \Cho*lin"ic\, a. [Gr. [?], from [?] bile.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile. {Cholic acid} (Chem.), a complex organic acid found as a natural constituent of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals. | |
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Chylous \Chy"lous\, a. [Cf. F. chyleux.] (Physiol.) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle. | |
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Cilice \Cil"ice\, n. [F. See {Cilicious}.] A kind of haircloth undergarment. --Southey. | |
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Iodal \I"o*dal\, n. [Iod- + alcohol.] (Chem.) An oily liquid, {Cl3.CHO}, analogous to chloral and bromal. | |
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Clack \Clack\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clacking}.] [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. F. claquer to clap, crack, D. klakken, MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. {Clack}, n., {Clatter}, {Click}.] 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. --Thackeray. | |
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Clack \Clack\, v. t. 1. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. 2. To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. --Feltham. {To clack wool}, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.] | |
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Clack \Clack\, n. [Cf. F. claque a slap or smack, MHG. klac crack, W. clec crack, gossip. See {Clack}, v. t.] 1. A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object. 2. Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve. 3. Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating. Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack. --South. {Clack box} (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. {Clack dish}, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. --Shak. {Clack door} (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. {Clack valve} (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound. | |
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Claggy \Clag"gy\, a. [Cf. {Clog}.] Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings. | |
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Claik \Claik\, n. See {Clake}. | |
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Clake \Clake\, Claik \Claik\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The bernicle goose; -- called also {clack goose}. | |
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Clake \Clake\, Claik \Claik\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The bernicle goose; -- called also {clack goose}. | |
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Clash \Clash\, v. t. To strike noisily against or together. | |
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Clash \Clash\ n. 1. A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. The roll of cannon and clash of arms. --Tennyson. 2. Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings. --Denham. | |
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Clash \Clash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clashing}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. G. klatschen, Prov. G. kleschen, D. kletsen, Dan. klaske, E. clack.] 1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. --Palfrey. | |
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Class \Class\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Classed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Classing}.] [Cf. F. classer. See {Class}, n.] 1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages. Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. --Dana. 2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. | |
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Class \Class\ (kl[adot]s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul.] 1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes. 2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. 3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc. 4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay. 5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. {Class of a curve} (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. {Class meeting} (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction. | |
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Class \Class\, v. i. To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. --Tatham. | |
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Clause \Clause\, n. [F. clause, LL. clausa, equiv. to L. clausula clause, prop., close of [?] rhetorical period, close, fr. claudere to shut, to end. See {Close}.] 1. A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. --Bouvier. 2. (Gram.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate. | |
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Clause \Clause\, n. [Obs.] See {Letters clause [or] close}, under {Letter}. | |
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Clayes \Clayes\, n. pl. [F. claie hurdle.] (Fort.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [Obs.] | |
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Clayish \Clay"ish\, a. Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. | |
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Clechy \Cle"chy\, a. See {Cl[82]ch[82]}. | |
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Cleek \Cleek\, n. 1. A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron-headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft. 2. Act of cleeking; a clutch. [Scot.] | |
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Cleek \Cleek\, v. t. [pret. {Claught}; pret. & p. p. {Cleeked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleeking}.] [ME. cleken, clechen, to seize, clutch; perh. akin to E. clutch.] [Scot & Dial. Eng.] 1. To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck. 2. To catch or draw out with a cleek, as a fish; to hook. 3. To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. --Scott. | |
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Cleg \Cleg\, n. [Northern Eng. & Scot. gleg: cf. Gael. crethleag.] (Zo[94]l.) A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] --Jamieson. | |
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Click \Click\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clicked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clicking}.] [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. {See Clack}, and cf. {Clink}, {Clique}.] To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. --Goldsmith. | |
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Click \Click\, v. t. 1. To move with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. --Thackeray. 2. To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. --Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. --Tennyson. | |
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Click \Click\, n. 1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol. 2. A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward. | |
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Click \Click\, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. {Clutch}.] To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Click \Click\, n. [Cf. 4th {Click}, and OF. clique latch.] 1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of {Ratched wheel}. 2. The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Clicky \Click"y\, a. Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. [bd]Their strange clicky language.[b8] --The Century. | |
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Clique \Clique\, v. i. To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together. | |
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d8Cloaca \[d8]Clo"a"ca\, n.; pl. {Cloac[91]}. [L.] 1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome. 2. A privy. 3. (Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes. | |
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Cloak \Cloak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cloaking}.] To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. --Spenser. Syn: See {Palliate}. | |
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Cloak \Cloak\ (?; 110), n. [Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st {Clock}.] 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. 2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. --South. {Cloak bag}, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. --Shak. | |
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Cloche \Cloche\, n. [F., prop., bell.] (A[89]ronautics) An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of a[89]roplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like. | |
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Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Regulated} (-l[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Regulating}.] [L. regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See {Regular}.] 1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. --Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. --Bancroft. 2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances. 3. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc. {To regulate a watch} [or] {clock}, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time. Syn: To adjust; dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order; rule; govern. | |
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Beat \Beat\, n. 1. A stroke; a blow. He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. --Dryden. 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. 3. (Mus.) (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. 4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re[89]nforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8. 5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. 6. A place of habitual or frequent resort. 7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. [Low] {Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. {Beat of a watch}, [or] {clock}, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals. | |
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Clock \Clock\, n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. {Cloak}.] 1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. 2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] --Walton. 3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] --Dryden. 4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. --Swift. Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc. {Alarm clock}. See under {Alarm}. {Astronomical clock}. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. {Electric clock}. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. {Ship's clock} (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. {Sidereal clock}, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time. | |
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Clock \Clock\ (kl[ocr]k), v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking. | |
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Clock \Clock\, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See {Cluck}. [R.] | |
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Clock \Clock\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ({Scarab[91]us stercorarius}). | |
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Regulate \Reg"u*late\ (-l[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Regulated} (-l[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Regulating}.] [L. regulatus, p. p. of regulare, fr. regula. See {Regular}.] 1. To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. --Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. --Bancroft. 2. To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances. 3. To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc. {To regulate a watch} [or] {clock}, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time. Syn: To adjust; dispose; methodize; arrange; direct; order; rule; govern. | |
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Beat \Beat\, n. 1. A stroke; a blow. He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. --Dryden. 2. A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse. 3. (Mus.) (a) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit. (b) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. 4. (Acoustics & Mus.) A sudden swelling or re[89]nforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See {Beat}, v. i., 8. 5. A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. 6. A place of habitual or frequent resort. 7. A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. [Low] {Beat of drum} (Mil.), a succession of strokes varied, in different ways, for particular purposes, as to regulate a march, to call soldiers to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. {Beat of a watch}, [or] {clock}, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals. | |
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Clock \Clock\, n. [AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. {Cloak}.] 1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. 2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] --Walton. 3. The striking of a clock. [Obs.] --Dryden. 4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. --Swift. Note: The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc. {Alarm clock}. See under {Alarm}. {Astronomical clock}. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. {Electric clock}. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. {Ship's clock} (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. {Sidereal clock}, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time. | |
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Clock \Clock\ (kl[ocr]k), v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking. | |
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Clock \Clock\, v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See {Cluck}. [R.] | |
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Clock \Clock\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle ({Scarab[91]us stercorarius}). | |
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Clog \Clog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clogging}.] 1. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. --Dryden. 2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel. 3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. The commodities are clogged with impositions. --Addison. You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer. --Shak. Syn: Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict. | |
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Clog \Clog\, n. [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.] 1. That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. --Burke. 2. A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion. As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog. --Hudibras. A clog of lead was round my feet. --Tennyson. 3. A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. {Chopine}. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. --Harvey. {Clog almanac}, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a {Runic staff}, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. {Clog dance}, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. {Clog dancer}. | |
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Clog \Clog\, v. i. 1. To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. --S. Sharp. 2. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. --Evelyn. | |
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Cloggy \Clog"gy\, a. Clogging, or having power to clog. | |
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Cloke \Cloke\, n. & v. See Cloak. [Obs.] | |
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Close \Close\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Closed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Closing}.] [From OF. & F. clos, p. p. of clore to close, fr. L. claudere; akin to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, conclude, sluice. Cf. {Clause}, n.] 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up. 3. To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction. One frugal supper did our studies close. --Dryden. 4. To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine. The depth closed me round about. --Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. --Herbert. {A closed sea}, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation. | |
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Close \Close\, v. i. 1. To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? --Byron. 2. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock. 3. To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. --Prescott. {To close} {on [or] upon}, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. [bd]Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. {To close with}. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. {To close with the land} (Naut.), to approach the land. | |
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Close \Close\ (? [or] ?), n. [OF. & F. clos an inclosure, fr. clos, p. p. of clore. See {Close}, v. t.] 1. An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey. Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons. --Macaulay. 2. A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] --Halliwell 3. (Law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not inclosed. --Bouvier. | |
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Close \Close\, a. [Compar. {Closer}; superl. {Closest}.] [Of. & F. clos, p. p. of clore. See {Close}, v. t.] 1. Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box. From a close bower this dainty music flowed. --Dryden. 2. Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters. [bd]A close prison.[b8] --Dickens. 3. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc. If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal. --Bacon. 4. Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close prisoner. 5. Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden. [bd]He yet kept himself close because of Saul.[b8] --1 Chron. xii. 1 [bd]Her close intent.[b8] --Spenser. 6. Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. [bd]For servecy, no lady closer.[b8] --Shak. 7. Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. --Locke. 8. Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning. [bd]Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass.[b8] --Dryden. 9. Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to. Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall. --Mortimer. The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing -- not a faint hearsay. --G. Eliot. 10. Short; as, to cut grass or hair close. 11. Intimate; familiar; confidential. League with you I seek And mutual amity, so strait, so close, That I with you must dwell, or you with me. --Milton. 12. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote. [bd]A close contest.[b8] --Prescott. 13. Difficult to obtain; as, money is close. --Bartlett. 14. Parsimonious; stingy. [bd]A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise.[b8] --Hawthorne. 15. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; as, a close translation. --Locke. 16. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer. 17. (Phon.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open. {Close borough}. See under {Borough}. {Close breeding}. See under {Breeding}. {Close communion}, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. {Close corporation}, a body or corporation which fills its own vacancies. {Close fertilization}. (Bot.) See {Fertilization}. {Close harmony} (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. {Close time}, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. {Close vowel} (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. {Close to the wind} (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel. | |
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Close \Close\, n. 1. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction. [Obs.] The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. --Chapman. 2. Conclusion; cessation; ending; end. His long and troubled life was drawing to a close. --Macaulay. 3. A grapple in wrestling. --Bacon. 4. (Mus.) (a) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence. (b) A double bar marking the end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. --Dryden. Syn: Conclusion; termination; cessation; end; ending; extremity; extreme. | |
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Close \Close\, adv. 1. In a close manner. 2. Secretly; darkly. [Obs.] A wondrous vision which did close imply The course of all her fortune and posterity. --Spenser. | |
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Closh \Closh\, n. [CF. F. clocher to limp, halt.] A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. --Crabb. | |
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Closh \Closh\, n. [CF. D. klossen to play at bowls.] The game of ninepins. [Obs.] --Halliwell. | |
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Paddle \Pad"dle\, n. [See {Paddle}, v. i.] 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. 2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut. xxiii. 13. 3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. 4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called {clough}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. 6. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. 7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.] See {Paddle staff} (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] {Paddle beam} (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. {Paddle board}. See {Paddle}, n., 3. {Paddle box}, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. {Paddle shaft}, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. {Paddle staff}. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also {plow staff}. [Prov. Eng.] {Paddle steamer}, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. {Paddle wheel}, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length. | |
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Cloff \Cloff\ (?; 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also {clough}.] --McCulloch. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Clough \Clough\, n. [OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) cl[d3]h, akin to G. klinge ravine.] 1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. --Nares. 2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Clough \Clough\ (?; 115), n. (Com.) An allowance in weighing. See {Cloff}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, n. [See {Paddle}, v. i.] 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. 2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut. xxiii. 13. 3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. 4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called {clough}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. 6. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. 7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.] See {Paddle staff} (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] {Paddle beam} (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. {Paddle board}. See {Paddle}, n., 3. {Paddle box}, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. {Paddle shaft}, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. {Paddle staff}. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also {plow staff}. [Prov. Eng.] {Paddle steamer}, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. {Paddle wheel}, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cloff \Cloff\ (?; 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also {clough}.] --McCulloch. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Clough \Clough\, n. [OE. clough, cloghe, clou, clewch, AS. (assumed) cl[d3]h, akin to G. klinge ravine.] 1. A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. --Nares. 2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Clough \Clough\ (?; 115), n. (Com.) An allowance in weighing. See {Cloff}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cluck \Cluck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clucked}; p pr. & vb. n. {Clucking}.] [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. --Ray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cluck \Cluck\, v. t. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cluck \Cluck\, n. 1. The call of a hen to her chickens. 2. A click. See 3d {Click}, 2. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coalesce \Co`a*lesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coalesced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coalescing}.] [L. coalescere, coalitium; co- + alescere to grow up, incho. fr. alere to nourish. See {Aliment}, n.] 1. To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce. 2. To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce. The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations. --Campbell. Certain combinations of ideas that, once coalescing, could not be shaken loose. --De Quincey. Syn: See {Add}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Co-ally \Co`-al*ly"\, n.; pl. {Co-allies}. A joint ally. --Kent. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coalfish \Coal"fish`\, n. [Named from the dark color of the back.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The pollock; -- called also, {coalsey}, {colemie}, {colmey}, {coal whiting}, etc. See {Pollock}. (b) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska. (c) The cobia. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Co-lessee \Co`-les*see"\, n. A partner in a lease taken. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colic \Col"ic\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. --Milton. 2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colic \Col"ic\, n. [F. colique, fr. L. colicus sick with the colic, GR. [?], fr. [?], [?], the colon. The disease is so named from its being seated in or near the colon. See {Colon}.] (Med.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. {Hepatic colic}, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. {Intestinal colic}, [or] {Ordinary colic}, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. {Lead colic}, {Painter's colic}, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic lead poisoning. {Renal colic}, the severe pain produced by the passage of a calculus from the kidney through the ureter. {Wind colic}. See {Intestinal colic}, above. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colicky \Col"ick*y\, a. Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coly \Co"ly\, n.; pl. {Colies}. [NL. colius, prob. fr. Gr. [?] a kind of woodpecker.] Any bird of the genus {Colius} and allied genera. They inhabit Africa. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colleague \Col*league"\ (k[ocr]l*l[emac]g"), v.t & i. To unite or associate with another or with others. [R.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colleague \Col"league\ (k[ocr]l"l[emac]g), n. [F. coll[egrave]gue, L. collega one chosen at the same time with another, a partner in office; col- + legare to send or choose as deputy. See {Legate}.] A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. Syn: Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
College \Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[8a]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See {Colleague}.] 1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. --Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer. Taylor. 2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges. Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils. 3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. [bd]The gate of Trinity College.[b8] --Macaulay. 4. Fig.: A community. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden. {College of justice}, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. {The sacred college}, the college or cardinals at Rome. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Collish \Col"lish\, n. (Shoemaking) A tool to polish the edge of a sole. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Collogue \Col*logue"\, v. i. [Cf. L. colloqui and E. dialogue. Cf. {Collocution}.] To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief. [Archaic or Colloq.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. --Greene. He had been colloguing with my wife. --Thackeray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colloquy \Col"lo*quy\, n.; pl. {Colloquies}. [L. colloquium. See {Collocution}.] 1. Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation. They went to Worms, to the colloquy there about religion. --A. Wood. 2. In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colossus \Co*los"sus\, n.; pl. L. {Colossi}, E. {Colossuses}. [L., fr. Gr. [?].] 1. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. --Shak. Note: There is no authority for the statement that the legs of the Colossus at Rhodes extended over the mouth of the harbor. --Dr. Wm. Smith. 2. Any man or beast of gigantic size. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Colza \Col"za\, n. [F., fr. D. koolzaad, prop., cabbage seed; kool (akin to E. cole) + zaad, akin to E. seed.] (Bot.) A variety of cabbage ({Brassica oleracea}), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cooly \Coo"ly\, Coolie \Coo"lie\, n.; pl. {Coolies}. [Hind. k[?]l[c6] a laborer, porter: cf. Turk. k[?]l, ky[?]leh, slave.] An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coolish \Cool"ish\, a. Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. --Goldsmith. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Coulisse \Cou*lisse"\, n. 1. A fluting in a sword blade. 2. The outside stock exchange, or [bd]curb market,[b8] of Paris. [French Use] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cowleech \Cow"leech`\ (kou"l?ch`), n. [2d cow + leech a physician.] One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cowlick \Cow"lick`\ (-l?k`), n. A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cowlike \Cow"like`\ (-l?k`), a. Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Culex \Cu"lex\, n. [L., a gnat.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of mosquitoes to which most of the North American species belong. Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as {C. sollicitans}, which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and {C. pipiens}, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see {Anopheles}, above.) The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, {Stegomyia}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cully \Cul"ly\ (k?l"l?), n.; pl. {Cullies} (-l[?]z). [Abbrev. fr. cullion.] A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull. I have learned that . . . I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cullis \Cul"lis\ (k[?]l"l[?]s), n. [OF. cole[8b]s, F. coulis, fr. OF. & F. couler to strain, to flow, fr. L. colare to filter, strain; cf. LL. coladicium. Cf. {Colander}.] A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly. [Obs.] When I am exellent at caudles And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me. --Beau. & Fl. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cullis \Cul"lis\, n.; pl. {Cullises} (-[?]z). [F. coulisse groove, fr. the same source as E. cullis broth.] (Arch.) A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Culls \Culls\ (k?lz), n. pl. [From Cull,, v. t.] 1. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out. 2. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Calais, ME (city, FIPS 9585) Location: 45.13373 N, 67.20910 W Population (1990): 3963 (1773 housing units) Area: 88.2 sq km (land), 15.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 04619 Calais, VT Zip code(s): 05648 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Chalco, NE (CDP, FIPS 8640) Location: 41.18341 N, 96.13389 W Population (1990): 7337 (2399 housing units) Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Chalk, TX Zip code(s): 79248 | |
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Challis, ID (city, FIPS 13780) Location: 44.50774 N, 114.22393 W Population (1990): 1073 (493 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83226 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Chehalis, WA (city, FIPS 11475) Location: 46.66485 N, 122.96505 W Population (1990): 6527 (2694 housing units) Area: 14.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98532 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Chelsea, AL (CDP, FIPS 14104) Location: 33.32628 N, 86.63743 W Population (1990): 1329 (486 housing units) Area: 24.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35043 Chelsea, IA (city, FIPS 12990) Location: 41.92080 N, 92.39520 W Population (1990): 336 (156 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52215 Chelsea, MA (city, FIPS 13205) Location: 42.39590 N, 71.03349 W Population (1990): 28710 (11574 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 02150 Chelsea, MI (village, FIPS 15020) Location: 42.31444 N, 84.02196 W Population (1990): 3772 (1446 housing units) Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48118 Chelsea, OK (city, FIPS 13700) Location: 36.53473 N, 95.43186 W Population (1990): 1620 (777 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74016 Chelsea, SD (town, FIPS 11500) Location: 45.16718 N, 98.74221 W Population (1990): 33 (14 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Chelsea, VT Zip code(s): 05038 Chelsea, WI Zip code(s): 54419 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
College, AK (CDP, FIPS 16750) Location: 64.86954 N, 147.82340 W Population (1990): 11249 (4255 housing units) Area: 41.2 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Colusa, CA (city, FIPS 14946) Location: 39.20610 N, 122.01133 W Population (1990): 4934 (1896 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95932 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Colwich, KS (city, FIPS 15100) Location: 37.78170 N, 97.53755 W Population (1990): 1091 (325 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67030 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cowles, NE (village, FIPS 10985) Location: 40.17098 N, 98.44797 W Population (1990): 42 (19 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Culleoka, TN Zip code(s): 38451 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
clock 1. n 1. [techspeak] The master oscillator that steps a CPU or other digital circuit through its paces. This has nothing to do with the time of day, although the software counter that keeps track of the latter may be derived from the former. 2. vt. To run a CPU or other digital circuit at a particular rate. "If you clock it at 100MHz, it gets warm.". See {overclock}. 3. vt. To force a digital circuit from one state to the next by applying a single clock pulse. "The data must be stable 10ns before you clock the latch." | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
clocks n. Processor logic cycles, so called because each generally corresponds to one clock pulse in the processor's timing. The relative execution times of instructions on a machine are usually discussed in clocks rather than absolute fractions of a second; one good reason for this is that clock speeds for various models of the machine may increase as technology improves, and it is usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing the instruction set. Compare {cycle}, {jiffy}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Calc and mathematical tool written in {Emacs Lisp} by Dave Gillespie Emacs}. You can use Calc as only a simple four-function calculator, but it also provides additional features including choice of algebraic or {RPN} ({stack}-based) entry, logarithms, trigonometric and financial functions, {arbitrary precision}, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, dates, times, infinities, sets, algebraic simplification, differentiation, and integration. Latest version: 2.02, as of 1994-11-08. FTP calc-2.02.tar.z from your nearest {GNU archive site}. (2000-10-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Calico {C+@} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
call/cc {call-with-current-continuation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CALS Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support: a DoD standard for electronic exchange of data with commercial suppliers. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CCalc A {symbolic mathematics} system for {MS-DOS}, available from {Simtel}. (1995-04-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CELLAS CELLular ASsemblies. A {concurrent} {block-structured} language. [Mentioned in "Attribute Grammars", LNCS 323, p.97]. (1994-12-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
class 1. {object-oriented language}; analogous to a {derived type} in a {procedural language}. A class may also be considered to be a set of objects which share a common structure and behaviour. The structure of a class is determined by the {class variables} which represent the {state} of an object of that class and the behaviour is given by a set of {methods} associated with the class. Classes are related in a {class hierarchy}. One class may be a specialisation (a "{subclass}") of another (one of its "{superclasses}") or it may be composed of other classes or it may use other classes in a {client-server} relationship. A class may be an {abstract class} or a {concrete class}. See also {signature}. 2. 3. distinguished by their most significant bits. 3. It was one of the first attempts to add {object-oriented} features to {C}. (1995-05-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CLiCC A {Common Lisp} to {C} compiler by Heinz Knutzen supplement to existing {CLISP} systems for generating portable applications. Target {C} code must be linked with CLiCC {run-time library} to produce an executable. Version 0.6.2 conforms to a subset of {Common Lisp} and {CLOS} called CL_0 or CommonLisp_0 and based on {CLtL1}. It runs with {Lucid Lisp}, {AKCL} or {CLISP}. Work on {CLtL2} and {ANSI-CL} conformance is in progress. {(ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-kiel.de/pub/kiel/apply/)}. (1994-01-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
click other {pointing device}. This generates an {event}, also specifying the screen position, which is processed by the {window manager} or {application program}. On a mouse with more than one button, the unqualified term usually implies pressing the left-most button (with the right index finger), other buttons would be qualified, e.g. "{right-click}". {Keyboard} modifiers may also be used, e.g. "shift-click", meaning to hold down the shift key on the keyboard while clicking the mouse button. If the mouse moves while the button is pressed then this is a {drag}. (1995-03-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
clique Given a {graph} with {nodes} N, a clique C is a {subset} of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). In other words, a clique contains all, and only, those nodes which are directly connected to all other nodes in the clique. [Is this correct?] (1996-09-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CLIX ["Overview of a Parallel Object-Oriented Language CLIX", J. Hur et al, in ECOOP '87, LNCS 276, Springer 1987, pp.265-273]. (1994-12-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
clock A processor's clock or one {cycle} thereof. The relative execution times of instructions on a computer are usually measured by number of clock cycles rather than seconds. One good reason for this is that {clock rate}s for various models of the computer may increase as technology improves, and it is usually the relative times one is interested in when discussing the {instruction set}. (1994-12-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CLOS {Common LISP Object System} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
clu2c {(ftp://ftp.is.titech.ac.jp/pub/clu2c/)}. (2000-08-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CLX interface to the {X Window System}, equivalent to {Xlib}. It works with {CMU Common Lisp}. Latest version: 5.01, as of 1992-08-26. {(ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/)}. (1992-08-26) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cauls In Isa. 3:18 this word (Heb. shebisim), in the marg. "networks," denotes network caps to contain the hair, worn by females. Others explain it as meaning "wreaths worn round the forehead, reaching from one ear to the other." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cilicia a maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor. Tarsus, the birth-place of Paul, was one of its chief towns, and the seat of a celebrated school of philosophy. Its luxurious climate attracted to it many Greek residents after its incorporation with the Macedonian empire. It was formed into a Roman province, B.C. 67. The Jews of Cilicia had a synagogue at Jerusalem (Acts 6:9). Paul visited it soon after his conversion (Gal. 1:21; Acts 9:30), and again, on his second missionary journey (15:41), "he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches." It was famous for its goat's-hair cloth, called cilicium. Paul learned in his youth the trade of making tents of this cloth. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cloak an upper garment, "an exterior tunic, wide and long, reaching to the ankles, but without sleeves" (Isa. 59:17). The word so rendered is elsewhere rendered "robe" or "mantle." It was worn by the high priest under the ephod (Ex. 28:31), by kings and others of rank (1 Sam. 15:27; Job 1:20; 2:12), and by women (2 Sam. 13:18). The word translated "cloke", i.e., outer garment, in Matt. 5:40 is in its plural form used of garments in general (Matt. 17:2; 26:65). The cloak mentioned here and in Luke 6:29 was the Greek himation, Latin pallium, and consisted of a large square piece of wollen cloth fastened round the shoulders, like the abba of the Arabs. This could be taken by a creditor (Ex. 22:26,27), but the coat or tunic (Gr. chiton) mentioned in Matt. 5:40 could not. The cloak which Paul "left at Troas" (2 Tim. 4:13) was the Roman paenula, a thick upper garment used chiefly in travelling as a protection from the weather. Some, however, have supposed that what Paul meant was a travelling-bag. In the Syriac version the word used means a bookcase. (See {Dress}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
College Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version "second quarter", the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, following the Targum, gave the Hebrew word its post-Biblical sense, as if it meant a place of instruction. It properly means the "second," and may therefore denote the lower city (Acra), which was built after the portion of the city on Mount Zion, and was enclosed by a second wall. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Colossae or Colosse, a city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander. It was about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates, and was consequently of some mercantile importance. It does not appear that Paul had visited this city when he wrote his letter to the church there (Col. 1:2). He expresses in his letter to Philemon (ver. 1:22) his hope to visit it on being delivered from his imprisonment. From Col. 1:7; 4:12 it has been concluded that Epaphras was the founder of the Colossian church. This town afterwards fell into decay, and the modern town of Chonas or Chonum occupies a site near its ruins. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Cilicia, which rolls or overturns | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Colhozeh, every prophet | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Colosse, punishment; correction |