Word Meanings - CLINGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to cling; adhesive.

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CLEMATIS
  A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• CLERICALISM
  An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.
• CLIENTAGE
  1. State of being client. 2. A body of clients. E. Everett.
• CLOTTY
  Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.
• CLARIBELLA
  A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLAVIER
  The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium. Note: Clavier (
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• CLYPEATE
  Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• CLAIK
  See CLAKE
• CLAVICORNES
  A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• CLUB
  Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. The suit of cards having such figure. 3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.;
• CLOY
  1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed. 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. cloy the hungry edge
• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• CLAP
  1. To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell. 2. To thrust,
• INCLEMENCY
  1. The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity. The inclemency of the late pope. Bp. Hall. 2. Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather);
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• ECLECTICISM
  Theory or practice of an eclectic.
• SIPHUNCLED
  Having a siphuncle; siphunculated.
• ADENOSCLEROSIS
  The hardening of a gland.
• CORPUSCLE
  A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone
• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• CORACLE
  A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.
• TRICLINATE
  Triclinic.
• DECLAMATOR
  A declaimer. Sir T. Elyot.