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ciples and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civil suit. Same as Civil action. -- CCivil war. See under War.…

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified." Ure.

d still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson

A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the brain of man. -- Claus"tral, a.

es hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. Addison.

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.

with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. S. Sharp.

To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.

ed closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.

The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of bloot.

of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison.

A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20).

The hearing a matter judicially.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.