| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| clabber | noun | Milk curdled so as to become thick., To become clabber; to lopper. |
| clachan | noun | A small village containing a church. |
| clacked | imp. & past participle | of Clack |
| clacker | noun | One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill., A claqueur. See Claqueur. |
| claimed | imp. & past participle | of Claim |
| claimer | noun | One who claims; a claimant. |
| clammed | imp. & past participle | of Clam |
| clamant | adjective | Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. |
| clamber | verb i. | To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; — also used figuratively., The act of clambering., To ascend by climbing with difficulty. |
| clamped | imp. & past participle | of Clamp |
| clamper | noun | An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. |
| clanged | imp. & past participle | of Clang |
| clangor | verb t. | A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. |
| clanked | imp. & past participle | of Clank |
| clapped | imp. & past participle | of Clap |
| clapper | noun | A person who claps., That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell., A rabbit burrow. |
| clarify | verb t. | To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; — said of liquids, as wine or sirup., To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate., To glorify., To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification., To grow clear or bright; to clear up. |
| clarino | noun | A reed stop in an organ. |
| clarion | noun | A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill. |
| clarity | noun | Clearness; brightness; splendor. |
| clashed | imp. & past participle | of Clash |
| clasped | imp. & past participle | of Clasp |
| clasper | noun | One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril., One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea., One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera. |
| classed | imp. & past participle | of Class |
| classic | noun | Alt. of Classical, A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; — originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language., One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature. |
| classes | plural | of Classis |
| classis | noun | A class or order; sort; kind., An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church. |
| clastic | adjective | Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models)., Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock. |
| clatter | verb i. | To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds., To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue., To make a rattling noise with., A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds., Commotion; disturbance., Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. |
| clavate | adjective | Alt. of Clavated |
| clavier | noun | The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium. |
| clavies | plural | of Clavy |
| clawing | present participle & vb. noun | of Claw |
| claying | present participle & vb. noun | of Clay |
| clayish | adjective | Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it. |
| cleaned | imp. & past participle | of Clean |
| cleaner | noun | One who, or that which, cleans. |
| cleanly | superl. | Habitually clean; pure; innocent., Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc., Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful., In a clean manner; neatly., Innocently; without stain., Adroitly; dexterously. |
| cleanse | verb t. | To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. |
| cleared | imp. & past participle | of Clear |
| clearer | noun | One who, or that which, clears., A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. |
| clearly | adverb | In a clear manner. |
| cleaved | imp. | of Cleave, of Cleave, of Cleave |
| cleaver | noun | One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher’s instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces. |
| clement | adjective | Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. |
| cleping | present participle & vb. noun | of Clepe |
| clerisy | noun | The literati, or well educated class., The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity. |
| clerkly | adjective | Of or pertaining to a clerk., In a scholarly manner. |
| clewing | imp. & past participle & vb. noun | of Clew |
| clicked | imp. & past participle | of Click |
| clicker | noun | One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy., One who as has charge of the work of a companionship. |
| clicket | noun | The knocker of a door., A latch key. |
| cliency | noun | State of being a client. |
| clifted | adjective | Broken; fissured. |
| climate | verb 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., 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., To dwell. |
| climbed | imp. & past participle | of Climb |
| climber | noun | One who, or that which, climbs, A plant that climbs., A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot., To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. |
| clinium | noun | See Clinanthium. |
| clinked | imp. & past participle | of Clink |
| clinker | noun | A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln., Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag., A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging., A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. |
| clinoid | adjective | Like a bed; — applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone. |
| clipped | imp. & past participle | of Clip |
| clipper | noun | One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin., A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses., A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. |
| clivers | noun | See Cleavers. |
| clivity | noun | Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. |
| cloacae | plural | of Cloaca |
| cloacal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a cloaca. |
| cloaked | imp. & past participle | of Cloak |
| clogged | imp. & past participle | of Clog |
| clomben | imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed). | |
| closing | present participle & vb. noun | of Close |
| closely | adverb | In a close manner., Secretly; privately. |
| closure | verb t. | The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink., That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed., That which incloses or confines; an inclosure., A conclusion; an end., A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was originally applied to this proceeding. |
| clotted | imp. & past participle | of Clot, Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. |
| clotbur | noun | The burdock., Same as Cocklebur. |
| clothes | plural | of Cloth, Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; — a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort., The covering of a bed; bedclothes. |
| clothed | imp. & past participle | of Clothe |
| clotter | verb i. | To concrete into lumps; to clot. |
| cloture | noun | See Closure, 5. |
| clouded | imp. & past participle | of Cloud |
| clouted | imp. & past participle | of Clout |
| cloying | present participle & vb. noun | of Cloy |
| clubbed | imp. & past participle | of Club, Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. |
| clubber | noun | One who clubs., A member of a club. |
| clucked | imp. & past participle | of Cluck |
| clumber | noun | A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently. |
| clumper | noun | To form into clumps or masses. |
| cluniac | noun | A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. — Also used as a. |
| cluster | noun | A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch., A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands., A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob., To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters., To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. |
| clutter | noun | A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter., Clatter; confused noise., To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room., To make a confused noise; to bustle., To clot or coagulate, as blood. |
| clypeus | noun | The frontal plate of the head of an insect. |
| clysmic | adjective | Washing; cleansing. |
| clyster | noun | A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema. |