CLAUSE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.

2.
n.

A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

3.
n.

See Letters clause or close, under Letter.