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ne Order, established in 1098 at Cîteaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. -- a.

A burst of sound; a sudden explosion. Horrible claps of thunder. Hakewill.

iminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year. Swift .

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

One of a breed of small or medium-sized spaniels kept for hunting or retrieving game or for household pets. They usually weigh from eighteen to twenty-eight pounds. They have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but…

Full of thought; thoughtful. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.

, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers.

Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within. In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. Sir J. Davies.

mplete set; completeness. To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons. Hakluyt.

t to. Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . . Should compliment their foes and shun their friends. Prior.

e or fine; -- with in before the penalty. The king of Egypt . . . condemned the land in a hundred talents of silver. 2 Cron. xxxvi. 3.

lood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

hich follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result. Shun to taste, And shun the bitter consequence. Milton.