Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 70
Clue (n.) (Naut.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
Clue (n.) (Naut.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
Clue (n.) (Naut.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
Clew garnet (Naut.), One of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards.
Clew line (Naut.), A rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard.
Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.
Clewing (imp. & p. p. & vb. n.) of Clew.
Clew (v. t.) To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.]
Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. -- Beau. & Fl.
Clew (v. t.) (Naut.) To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard.
To clew down (Naut.), To force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines.
To clew up (Naut.), To draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling.
Clew (n.) A ball of yarn or cord or thread.
Clew (n.) Evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew, cue].
Clew (v.) Roll into a ball [syn: clue, clew].
Cliche (n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Clicked (imp. & p. p.) of Click.
Clicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Click.
Click (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
Click (v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.
Click (v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
Click (n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
Click (n.) 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.
Click (v. t.) To snatch.
Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
Click (n.) The latch of a door.
Click beetle () See Elater.
Clicker (n.) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
Clicker (n.) One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
Clicket (n.) The knocker of a door.
Clicket (n.) A latch key.
Clicky (a.) Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.
Clidastes (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.
Cliency (n.) State of being a client.
Client (n.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
Client (n.) A dependent; one under the protection of another.
Client (n.) (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
Client (n.) [ C ] (Customer) (B2) 客戶；顧客，主顧；委託人 A customer or someone who receives services.
// Mr Black has been a client of this firm for many years.
// We always aim to give our clients personal attention.
Client (n.) [ C ] (Computer) （連接在伺服器上的）客戶機 A computer that is connected to a server (= large central computer) from which it gets information.
Clientage (n.) State of being client.
Clientage (n.) A body of clients.
Cliental (a.) Of or pertaining to a client.
Cliented (a.) Supplied with clients.
Clientelage (n.) See Clientele, n., 2.
Clientele (n.) The condition or position of a client; clientship
Clientele (n.) The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.
Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.
Clientship (n.) Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron.
Cliff (n.) （尤指海邊的）懸崖，峭壁 [C] A high, steep rock; a precipice.
{Cliff swallow} (Zool.), A North American swallow ({Petrochelidon lunifrons}), which builds its nest against cliffs; the {eaves swallow}.
Cliff (n.) (Mus.) See {Clef}. [Obs.]
Cliff (a.) A steep high face of rock; "he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town"; "a steep drop" [syn: {cliff}, {drop}, {drop-off}].
Compare: Precipice
Precipice (n.) 斷崖，絕壁；危急的處境；災難的邊緣 A very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one.
‘We swerved toward the edge of the precipice.’
Compare: Clef
Clef (n.) (Music) 【音】譜號 Any of several symbols placed at the left hand end of a stave, indicating the pitch of the notes written on it.
Cliff limestone () A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.
Cliffy (a.) Having cliffs; broken; craggy.
Clift (n.) A cliff.
Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Clift (n.) The fork of the legs; the crotch.
Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.
Climacter (n.) See Climacteric, n.
Climacteric (a.) Relating to a climacteric; critical.
Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.
Climacteric (n.) Any critical period.
Climacterical (a. & n.) See Climacteric.
Climatal (a.) Climatic.
Climatarchic (a.) Presiding over, or regulating, climates.
Climate (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
Climate (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
Climate (v. i.) To dwell.
Climatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Climatical (a.) Climatic.
Climatized (imp. & p. p.) of Climatize.
Climatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climatize.
Climatize (v. t. & i.) 使順應氣候 To acclimate or become acclimated.
Compare: Acclimate (【美】= Acclimatize)
Acclimate (v. t. ) (v. t.) 使適應新環境，使服水土 (v. i.) 服水土To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. -- J. H. Newman.
Acclimate (v.) Get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" [syn: {acclimatize}, {acclimatise}, {acclimate}].
Climatography (n.) 氣候誌 A scientific description of climates.
Climatological (a.) 氣候學的 Of or pertaining to climatology.
Climatologist (n.) 氣候學家 One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Climatology (n.) 氣候學 The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Climature (n.) A climate.
Climax (n.) [C] 頂點，最高點；高潮；（修辭學中的）層進法 Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. -- Glanvill.
Climax (n.) (Rhet.) (Rhetoric) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
Climax (n.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
Climax (n.) The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success" [syn: {climax}, {flood tide}].
Climax (n.) The decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" [syn: {climax}, {culmination}].
Climax (n.) The moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse [syn: {orgasm}, {climax}, {sexual climax}, {coming}].
Climax (n.) The most severe stage of a disease.
Climax (n.) Arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness.
Climax (v.) 使達到頂點（或高潮） End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" [syn: {culminate}, {climax}].
Compare: Culminate
Culminate (v. i.) (v. i.) 達到最高點；達到高潮；告終 [（+in）] ；（天體）到子午線 (v. t.) 使達最高點（或高潮）；使結束 Reach a climax or point of highest development.
‘The tensions and disorders which culminated in World War II.’
Culminate (v. i.) [With object ] Be the climax or point of highest development of.
‘Her book culminated a research project on the symmetry studies of Escher.’
Culminate (v. i.) [Astronomy] [Astrology] (Of a celestial body) Reach the highest point at the meridian.
‘Thus if the fixed star Regulus culminates on the Midheaven as Mercury rises on the ascendant it is referred to as a paran of Mercury and considered to have an influence upon its meaning.’
Climbed (imp. & p. p.) of Climb.
Clomb () of Climb.
Climbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Climb.
Climb (v. i.) 爬，攀登；沿著...攀緣而上；登上；爬，攀登；逐漸上升；徐徐上升，攀緣向上 To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Climb (v. i.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb (v. t.) To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb (n.) 攀登；爬 The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
Climbable (a.) Capable of being climbed.
Climber (n.) One who, or that which, climbs
Climber (n.) A plant that climbs.
Climber (n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
Climber (v. i.) To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.
Climbing () p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.
Clime (n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Clinanthium (n.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
Clinched (imp. & p. p.) of Clinch
Clinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clinch
Clinch (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Clinch (v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
Clinch (v. t.) To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
Clinch (v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Clinch (n.) The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
Clinch (n.) A pun.
Clinch (n.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Clinch (v.) ( Informal) (Win) [ T ] 獲得；最終贏得；達成 To finally get or win something.
// I hear he finally clinched the deal to buy the land he wanted.
Clinch (v.) (Decide) Clinch it使下定決心；使敲定；使確定 To make someone decide what to do after a lot of thought or discussion.
// When they said the job would involve travelling to Paris, that clinched it (for her) (= that made her certain that she wanted the job).
Clinch (n.) [ C ] （打架時的）扭抱；（表示親熱時的）擁抱 The position two people are in when they are holding each other tightly in their arms, when fighting or showing love.
Clincher (n.) 緊鉗；夾子；決定性的論點；關鍵；決定勝利的最後一擊 One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. -- Pope.
Clincher (n.) That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Clincher (n.) An argument that is conclusive [syn: {clincher}, {determiner}, {determining factor}].
Clincher (n.) A point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively [syn: {clincher}, {decisive factor}].
Clincher (n.) A tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets.
Compare: Conclusive
Conclusive (a.) 決定性的；確實的；最終的 (Of evidence or argument) Having or likely to have the effect of proving a case; decisive.
‘Conclusive evidence.’
‘The findings were by no means conclusive.’
Conclusive (a.) (Of a victory) Achieved easily or by a large margin.
‘A conclusive 5–O win’
Compare: Conclusively
Conclusively (adv.) 決定性地；確定地 In a decisive way that has the effect of proving a case.
‘The story had been conclusively debunked.’
‘I have shown conclusively that there was no such epidemic.’
Conclusively (adv.) In a way that is achieved easily or by a large margin.
‘Wars are difficult to win conclusively.’
Clincher-built (a.) See Clinker-built.
Clung (imp. & p. p.) of Cling.
Clong () of Cling.
Clinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cling