Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 74
Clove (imp. of Cleave.) Cleft. -- Spenser.
Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch.
Clove hook (Naut.), An iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. -- Knight.
Clove (n.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.
Clove (n.) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree ({Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.
Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin.
Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), Any fragrant self-colored carnation.
Clove (n.) (Bot.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.
Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. -- Lindley.
Clove (n.) A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Clove (n.) Aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice.
Clove (n.) Moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves [syn: clove, clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum].
Clove (n.) One of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb [syn: clove, garlic clove].
Clove (n.) Spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground.
Cloven (p. p. & a.) from Cleave, v. t.
Cloven-footed (a.) Alt. of Cloven-hoofed
Cloven-hoofed (a.) Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
Clover (n.) (Bot.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, Trifolium pratense, the white, Trifolium repens, and the hare's foot, Trifolium arvense.
Clover+weevil+(Zool.)+A+small+weevil+({Apion+apricans">Clover weevil (Zool.) a small weevil ({Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover.
Clover worm (Zool.), The larva of a small moth ({Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay.
In clover, In very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.]
Sweet clover. See Meliot.
Clover (n.) A plant of the genus Trifolium [syn: clover, trefoil].
Clover, () A protocoll similar to packet radio or AMTOR. (1995-03-03)
Clover, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 4014
Housing Units (2000): 1635
Land area (2000): 2.800157 sq. miles (7.252373 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011330 sq. miles (0.029344 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.811487 sq. miles (7.281717 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15355
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 35.112194 N, 81.226848 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Clover, SC
Clover
Clover (n.) [ U ] （常作牛飼料的）苜蓿，三葉草，車軸草 A small plant with three round leaves on each stem, often fed to cows.
Idiom: Live/ be in clover
Live/ be in clover 生活安逸舒適，養尊處優 To enjoy a life of money and comfort.
// With the income from the family estate, she's in clover.
Clovered (a.) Covered with growing clover.
Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. -- Thomson.
Clowe-gilofre (n.) Spice clove. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Clown (n.) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Clown (n.) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
The clown, the child of nature, without guile. -- Cowper.
Clown (n.) The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.
The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. -- Shak.
Clown (v. i.) To act as a clown; -- with it. [Obs.]
Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. -- B. Jonson.
Clown (n.) A rude or vulgar fool [syn: clown, buffoon].
Clown (n.) A person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior [syn: clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew]
Clown (v.) Act as or like a clown [syn: clown, clown around, antic].
Clownage (n.) Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Clownery (n.) Clownishness. -- L'Estrange.
Clownish (a.) 滑稽的；粗魯的；似小丑的 Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." -- Spenser. "Clownish mimic." -- Prior. -- {Clown"ish*ly}, adv.
Syn: Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored.
Clownish (a.) Like a clown; "a buffoonish walk"; "a clownish face"; "a zany sense of humor" [syn: {buffoonish}, {clownish}, {clownlike}, {zany}].
Clownishness (n.) 小丑；鄉下人；粗魯笨拙的人 （clown的變形） The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.
That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. -- Locke.
Cloyed (imp. & p. p.) of Cloy.
Cloying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloy.
Cloy (v. t.) （因過量吃甜食等而）倒（胃口）；使膩煩 [（+with）] To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. -- Speed.
Cloy (v. t.) To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? -- Shak.
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. -- Dryden.
Cloy (v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. -- Spenser.
He never shod horse but he cloyed him. -- Bacon.
Cloy (v. t.) To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Cloy (v. t.) To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Cloy (v.) (v. i.) 倒胃口；使人感到膩煩 Supply or feed to surfeit [syn: {surfeit}, {cloy}].
Cloy (v.) Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: {cloy}, {pall}].
Cloy (v.) [ I ] 倒胃口；感到膩煩 To become annoying or too much, after seeming pleasant or enjoyable at first.
// After a while, his prose style starts to cloy.
// She has a charm and freshness that never cloys.
Cloy (v. t.) To weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.
Cloy (v. i.) To become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance.
// A diet of cake and candy soon cloys.
Cloying (a.) (Too sweet) (Literary disapproving) Too sweet and therefore unpleasant.
// This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying.
Cloying (a.) (Too emotional) (Disapproving) Too good or kind, or expressing feelings of love in a way that is not sincere.
// She criticized the cloying sentimentality of the film.
Cloyless (a.) That does not cloy.
Cloyment (n.) Satiety.
Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. -- Shak.
Club (n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
Club (n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. -- Tennyson.
He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. -- Macaulay.
Club (n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
They laid down the club. -- L'Estrange.
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. -- Pepys.
Club law, Government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. -- Addison.
Club root (Bot.), A disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled.
Club topsail (Naut.), A kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.
Clubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Club.
Clubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Club.
Club (v. t.) To beat with a club.
Club (v. t.) (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. -- Farrow.
Club (v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
Club (v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
To club a musket (Mil.), To turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
Club (v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. -- Dryden.
Club (v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat. -- Swift.
Club (v. i.) (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Club (n.) A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" [syn: baseball club, ball club, club, nine].
Club (n.) A formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order].
Club (n.) Stout stick that is larger at one end; "he carried a club in self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club".
Club (n.) A building that is occupied by a social club; "the clubhouse needed a new roof" [syn: clubhouse, club].
Club (n.) Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball [syn: golf club, golf-club, club].
Club (n.) A playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it; "he led a small club"; "clubs were trumps".
Club (n.) A spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" [syn: cabaret, nightclub, night club, club, nightspot].
Club (v.) Unite with a common purpose; "The two men clubbed together".
Club (v.) Gather and spend time together; "They always club together".
Club (v.) Strike with a club or a bludgeon [syn: club, bludgeon].
Club (v.) Gather into a club-like mass; "club hair".
Club. () An association of persons. It differs from a partnership in this, that the members of a club have no authority to bind each other further than they are authorized, either expressly or by implication, as each other's agents in the particular transaction; whereas in trading associations, or common partnerships, one partner may bind his co-partners, as each has a right of property in the whole. 2 Mees. & Welsh. 172; Colly, Partn. 31; Story, Partn. 144; Wordsworth on Joint Stock Companies, 154, et seq.; 6 W. & S. 67; 3, W. & S. 118.
Clubbable (a.) Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.][Also spelled clubable.] -- G. W. Curtis. club moss
Clubbable (a.) Inclined to club together; "a clubbable man" [syn: clubbable, clubable].
Clubbed (a.) Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. -- Skelton.
Clubber (n.) One who clubs.
Clubber (n.) A member of a club. [R.] -- Massinger.
Clubbish (a.) Rude; clownish. [Obs.]
Clubbish (a.) Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.
Clubbish (a.) Effusively sociable; "a clubbish set"; "we got rather clubby" [syn: clubbish, clubby].
Clubbist (n.) A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [R.] -- Burke.
Clubfist (n.) A large, heavy fist.
Clubfist (n.) A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] -- Mir. for Mag.
Clubfisted (a.) Having a large fist. -- Howell.
Clubfoot (n.) (Med.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Clubfoot (n.) Congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes [syn: clubfoot, talipes].
Clubfooted (a.) Having a clubfoot.
Clubhand (n.) (Med.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
Clubhaul (v. t.) (Naut.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
Clubhouse (n.) A house occupied by a club.
Clubhouse (n.) A building that is occupied by a social club; "the clubhouse needed a new roof" [syn: clubhouse, club].
Clubroom (n.) The apartment in which a club meets. -- Addison.
Clubroom (n.) A room used for the activities of a club.
Club-rush (n.) (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped (a.) Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
Club-shaped (a.) Shaped in the form of the black trefoil or clover leaf on some playing cards.
Club-shaped (a.) Shaped in the form of a club that is larger at one end.
Clucked (imp. & p. p.) of Cluck.
Clucking (p pr. & vb. n.) of Cluck.
Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. -- Ray.
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.
Cluck (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
Cluck (n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Cluck (n.) The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) [syn: cluck, clucking].
Cluck (v.) Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, click, clack].
Clucking (n.) The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Clucking (n.) The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) [syn: cluck, clucking].
Clue (n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.
You have wound a goodly clue. -- Shak.
This clue once found unravels all the rest. -- Pope.
Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. -- Locke.
Clue (n.) A slight indication [syn: hint, clue].
Clue (n.) Evidence that helps to solve a problem [syn: clue, clew, cue].
Clue (v.) Roll into a ball [syn: clue, clew].
Clum (interj.) Silence; hush. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Clumber (n.) (Zool.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
Clumber (n.) A thickset spaniel with longish silky hair [syn: clumber, clumber spaniel].
Clump (n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
Clump (n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.
A clump of shrubby trees. -- Hawthorne.
Clump (n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.
Clump (v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. -- Blackmore.
Clump (v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Clump (n.) A grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering].
Clump (n.) A compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk].
Clump (n.) A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud].
Clump (v.) Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground [syn: clop, clump, clunk, plunk].
Clump (v.) Come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, flock, clump].
Clump (v.) Walk clumsily [syn: clump, clomp].
Clump (v.) Gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump].
Clumper (n.) To form into clumps or masses.
Clumps (n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
Clumpy (n.) Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
Clumsily (adv.) In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.
Clumsiness (n.) The quality of being clumsy.
Clumsy (a.) 笨拙的，手腳不靈活的 [（+with/ at/ in）]； 愚笨的，不圓滑的；不得體的；製作粗陋的，不便使用的 Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]
Clumsy (a.) Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.
But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. -- Dryden.
Syn: See {Awkward}.
Clumsy (a.) Lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: {gawky}, {clumsy}, {clunky}, {ungainly}, {unwieldy}].
Clumsy (a.) Not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: {awkward}, {clumsy}, {cumbersome}, {inapt}, {inept}, {ill-chosen}].
Clumsy (a.) Difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" [syn: {awkward}, {bunglesome}, {clumsy}, {ungainly}].
Clumsy (a.) Showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: {bungling}, {clumsy}, {fumbling}, {incompetent}].
Clumsy (a.) 笨拙的，不靈活的 Awkward in movement or manner.
// The first mobile phones were heavy and clumsy to use, but nowadays they are much easier to handle.
// My attempts to apologize were very clumsy (= not said well).
Clumsy (a.) (B2) 笨手笨腳，不靈巧 A clumsy person often has accidents because they do not behave in a careful, controlled way.
// That's the third glass you've smashed this week - you're so clumsy!
Clunch (n.) (Mining) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.
Clunch (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk. -- Dana.
Clunch (n.) Hardened clay.
Clung () imp. & p. p. of Cling.
Clung (a.) Wasted away; shrunken. [Obs.]
Cluniac (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.
Cluniacensian (a.) Cluniac.
Clupeoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Herring family.
Cluster (n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Cluster (n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
Cluster (n.) A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
Clustered (imp. & p. p.) of Cluster.
Clustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cluster.
Cluster (v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
Cluster (v. t.) To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Clusteringly (adv.) In clusters.
Clustery (n.) Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
Clutch (n.) A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." -- Cowper.
An expiring clutch at popularity. -- Carlyle.
But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. -- Shak.
Clutch (n.) pl. The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall into the clutches of an adversary.
I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Clutch (n.) (Mach.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.