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A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.

(Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

To encompass with a wall. Shak.

To surround with a rampart or wall. Johnson.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circuit; space; inclosure. [R.] The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. Byron.

A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

To ascend by climbing with difficulty. Clambering the walls to eye him. Shak.

c head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zoöl.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.

An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey. Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons. Macaulay.

es or confines; an inclosure. O thou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death. Shak.

e Holland coast. Dryden. We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow. Waller. The coast is clear, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. "Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus." Sir P. Sidney. Coast guard. (a) A body of men originally empl…

Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.] The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. R. Carew.

wise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.

The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb. "A comb of honey." Wyclif. When the bee doth leave her comb. Shak.

ong beyond compare. Milton. Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships. Waller.

An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.