Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 69
Cleaved (imp.) of Cleave.
Clave () of Cleave.
Cleaved (p. p.) of Cleave.
Cleaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave.
Cleave (v. i. ) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
My bones cleave to my skin. -- Ps. cii. 5.
The diseases of Egypt . . . shall cleave unto thee. -- Deut. xxviii. 60.
Sophistry cleaves close to and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. -- Cowper.
Cleave (v. i. ) To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. -- Gen. ii. 24.
Cleave unto the Lord your God. -- Josh. xxiii. 8.
Cleave (v. i. ) To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. [Poetic.]
New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use. -- Shak.
Cleft (imp.) of Cleave.
Clave () of Cleave.
Clove () of Cleave.
Cleft (p. p.) of Cleave.
Cleaved () of Cleave.
Cloven () of Cleave.
Cleaving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cleave.
Cleave (v. t.) 砍開，劈開 [O]；穿過；鑽進 To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. -- Shak.
Cleave (v. t.) To part or open naturally; to divide.
Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. -- Deut. xiv. 6.
Cleave (v. i.) 被劈開；裂開；披荊斬棘地前進，破浪前進 [Q] To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst. -- Zech. xiv. 4.
Cleave (v.) Separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, split, rive].
Cleave (v.) Make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock."
Cleave (v.) Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere].
Cleavelandite (n.) (Min.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Cleaver (n.) A butcher's knife having a large square blade [syn: cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper].
Cleavers (n.) 【植】茜草科之數種植物 (Bot.) A species of {Galium} ({Galium Aparine}), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, {goose grass}, {catchweed}, etc.
Cleavers (n.) Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia [syn: {cleavers}, {clivers}, {goose grass}, {catchweed}, {spring cleavers}, {Galium aparine}].
Cleche (a.) (Her.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.
Clechy (a.) See Cleche.
Cledge (n.) (Mining.) The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
Cledgy (a.) Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil. -- Halliwell.
Compare: Redshank
Redshank (n.) (Zool.) (a) 赤足鷸 A common Old World limicoline bird ({Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank ({Totanus fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
Redshank (n.) (Zool.) (b) The fieldfare.
Compare: Fieldfare
Fieldfare (n.) 鶇（畫眉鳥的一種）(Zool.) A small thrush ({Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
Fieldfare (n.) Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter [syn: fieldfare, snowbird, Turdus pilaris].
Compare: Eurasian
Eurasian (n.) 歐亞混血兒 A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
Eurasian (n.) One born of European parents in Asia.
Eurasian (a.) 歐亞的；歐亞混血兒的 Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.
Eurasian (a.) Relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia; "His mother was Eurasian, and his father Chinese"; "the Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world" [syn: Eurasian, Eurasiatic].
Eurasian (n.) A person of mixed European and Asian descent.
Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. -- Spenser.
Redshank (n.) A common Old World wading bird with long red legs [syn: redshank, Tringa totanus].
Clee (n.) A claw. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Clee (n.) (Zool.) The redshank.
Clef (n.) 【音】譜號 A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Cleft (a.) 劈開的，裂開的 Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Cleft (a.) (Bot.) 【植】半裂的 Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
Cleft (n.) [C] 裂縫，裂口； V字形凹陷 A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock. -- Is. ii. 21.
Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
Cleft (n.) (Far.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.
Syn: Crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny.
Cleft (a.) Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib [syn: cleft, dissected].
Cleft (n.) A split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin).
Cleft (n.) A long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure].
Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.
Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. -- Mortimer.
Cleg (n.) (Zool.) A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Cleg (n.) Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals [syn: horsefly, cleg, clegg, horse fly].
Cleistogamic (a.) Alt. of Cleistogamous.
Cleistogamous (a.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
Clem (v. t. & i.) To starve; to famish.
Clematis (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
Clemence (n.) Clemency.
Clemencies (n. pl. ) of Clemency.
Clemency (n.) 仁慈；寬厚；溫和 Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
Clemency (n.) Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
Clemency (n.) Good weather with comfortable temperatures [syn: {mildness}, {clemency}].
Clemency (n.) Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court" [syn: {clemency}, {mercifulness}, {mercy}].
Clement (a.) 仁慈的；厚道的；溫和的 Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. -- Shak. -- {Clem"ent*ly}, adv.
Clement (a.) (Of weather or climate) Physically mild; "clement weather" [ant: {inclement}].
Clement (a.) (Used of persons or behavior) Inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence" [ant: {inclement}].
Clement (a.) Mild, a Christian of Philippi, Paul's "fellow-labourer," whose name he mentions as "in the book of life" (Phil. 4:3). It was an opinion of ancient writers that he was the Clement of Rome whose name is well known in church history, and that he was the author of an Epistle to the Corinthians, the only known manuscript of which is appended to the Alexandrian Codex, now in the British Museum. It is of some historical interest, and has given rise to much discussion among critics. It makes distinct reference to Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians.
Clement (a.), Mild; good; merciful.
Clementine (a.) Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
Clench (n. & v. t.) See Clinch.
Clench (v.) [ T ] （常指堅決或生氣地）捏緊，握緊，咬緊 To close or hold something very tightly, often in a determined or angry way.
// The old man clenched his fist and waved it angrily at us.
// With a knife clenched in/between his teeth, he climbed up the tree to cut some coconuts.
// "Get out of here," she said through clenched teeth.
Cleped (imp. & p. p.) of Clepe.
Cleping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clepe.
Ycleped () of Clepe.
Clepe (v. t.) （古）呼叫（名字）；命名 To call, or name.
Clepe (v. i.) To make appeal; to cry out.
Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.
Clepsydra (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cleptomania (n.) See Kleptomania.
Clerestory (n.) Same as Clearstory.
Clergeon (n.) A chorister boy.
Clergial (a.) Learned; erudite; clerical.
Clergical (a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily; learned.
Clergy (n.) 神職人員；牧師；教士 [the S] [G] The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. -- Hooker.
Clergy (n.) Learning; also, a learned profession. [Obs.]
Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. -- Guy of Warwick.
Put their second sons to learn some clergy. -- State Papers (1515).
Clergy (n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy.
If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction. -- Blackstone.
Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827).
Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.
Clergy (n.) In Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) [ant: laity, temporalty].
Clergyable (a.) 有權享受神職人員特權的 Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony.
Clergymen (n. pl. ) of Clergyman.
Clergyman (n.) 神職人員，牧師；教士 [C] An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
Clergywoman (n.) (pl. Clergywomen) 女牧師 A female priest, minister, or religious leader, especially a Christian one.
‘The reverand has been for a quarter of a century a clergyman in Hampshire.’
Cleric (n.) A clerk, a clergyman.
Cleric (a.) Same as Clerical.
Clerical (a.) 神職（人員）的，牧師的；辦事員的；書記的 Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." -- Burke.
Clerical (a.) Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." -- E. Everett.
Clerical (a.) characteristic of the work performed by a clerk, secretary, or copyist, or suitable to be performed by a clerk. "Clerical staff."
A clerical error, An error made in copying or writing.
Clerical (a.) Of or relating to clerks; "clerical work."
Clerical (a.) Of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar."
Clerical (a.) Appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff."
Clericalism (n.) An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
Clericalism (n.) A policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters.
Clericity (n.) The state of being a clergyman.
Clerisy (n.) The literati, or well educated class.
Clerisy (n.) The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
Clerisy (n.) An educated and intellectual elite [syn: intelligentsia, clerisy].
Clerk (n.) [C] 辦事員，職員；書記；記帳員；【美】店員，銷售員 A clergyman or ecclesiastic. [Obs.]
All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ. -- Ayliffe.
Clerk (n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. [Obs.] "Every one that could read . . . being accounted a clerk." -- Blackstone.
He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. -- Burke.
Clerk (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it. [Eng.] -- Hook.
And like unlettered clerk still cry "Amen". -- Shak.
Clerk (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.
The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. -- Strype.
Note: In some cases, clerk is synonymous with secretary. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation, or person; whereas a secretary may be either a subordinate or the head of an office or department.
Clerk (n.) An assistant in a shop or store. [U. S.]
Clerk (n.) An employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts).
Clerk (n.) A salesperson in a store [syn: {salesclerk}, {shop clerk}, {clerk}, {shop assistant}].
Clerk (v. i.)【美】當銷售員（或職員等）Work as a clerk, as in the legal business.
CLERK, () commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. He differs from a factor in this, that the latter wholly supplies the place of his principal in respect to the property consigned to him. Pard.
Dr. Com. n. 38, 1 Chit. Pract. 80; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1287.
CLERK, () officer. A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets. In the English law, clerk also signifies a clergyman.
CLERK, () eccl. law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk.
Clerk-ale (n.) A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. [Eng.] -- T. Warton.
Clerkless (a.) Unlearned. [Obs.] -- E. Waterhouse.
Clerklike (a.) Scholarlike. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Clerkliness (n.) Scholarship. [Obs.]
Clerkly (a.) Of or pertaining to a clerk. -- Cranmer.
Clerkly (adv.) In a scholarly manner. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Clerkship (n.) State, quality, or business of a clerk.
Clerkship (n.) The job of clerk.
Cleromancy (n.) A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.
Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.
Clerstory (n.) See Clearstory.
Clever (a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. -- Macaulay.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. -- C. Kingsley.
Clever (a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. -- Byron.
Clever (a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
'T would sound more clever To me and to my heirs forever. -- Swift.
Clever (a.) Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." -- Arbuthnot.
Clever (a.) Good-natured; obliging. [U. S.]
Syn: See Smart.
Clever (a.) Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" [syn: cagey, cagy, canny, clever].
Clever (a.) Mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold" -- Bram Stoker [syn: apt, clever].
Clever (a.) Showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem" [syn: clever, cunning, ingenious].
Clever, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 1010
Housing Units (2000): 420
Land area (2000): 0.638569 sq. miles (1.653887 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.638569 sq. miles (1.653887 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14788
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.028804 N, 93.470067 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65631
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Cleverish (a.) Somewhat clever. [R.]
Cleverly (adv.) In a clever manner.
Never was man so clever absurd. -- C. Smart.
Cleverly (adv.) In a clever manner; "they were cleverly arranged"; "a smartly managed business" [syn: cleverly, smartly].
Cleverness (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.
Syn: See Ingenuity.
Compare: Ingenuity
Ingenuity (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. -- Blair.
Ingenuity (n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
He gives . . . To artist ingenuity and skill. -- Cowper.
Ingenuity (n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness. [Obs.]
The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. -- South.
Syn: Inventiveness; ingeniousness; skill; cunning; cleverness; genius.
Usage: Ingenuity, Cleverness. Ingenuity is a form of genius, and cleverness of talent. The former implies invention, the letter a peculiar dexterity and readiness of execution. Sir James Mackintosh remarks that the English overdo in the use of the word clever and cleverness, applying them loosely to almost every form of intellectual ability.
Ingenuity (n.) The power of creative imagination [syn: inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness].
Ingenuity (n.) The property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design" [syn: ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness].
Cleverness (n.) The power of creative imagination [syn: inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness].
Cleverness (n.) Intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty [syn: brightness, cleverness, smartness].
Cleverness (n.) The property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design" [syn: ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness].
Clevis (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy. Clew
Clevis (n.) A coupler shaped like the letter U with holes through each end so a bolt or pin can pass through the holes to complete the coupling; used to attach a drawbar to a plow or wagon or trailer etc.
Clew (n.) Alt. of Clue.
Clue (n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
Untwisting his deceitful clew. -- Spenser.
Clue (n.) That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. -- Macaulay.