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ds; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

boot sole. Clouted cream, clotted cream, i. e., cream obtained by warming new milk. A. Philips.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

ith jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

ly distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

ersons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser.

ler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. Chaucer. -- To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy. -- To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisiti…

The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.

o possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. Ye did communicate with my affliction. Philip. iv. 4.

nt.), a stand for holding cases of type when in use. -- Composing rule (Print.), a thin slip of brass or steel, against which the type is arranged in a composing stick, or by the aid of which stickfuls or handfuls or type are lifted; -- called also setting rule. -- Composing stick (Print.), an instrument usually of m…

To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips.

ection of the surface of a right cone and a plane. The conic sections are the parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. The right lines and the circle which result from certain positions of the plane are sometimes, though not generally included. -- Conic sections, that branch of geometry which treats of the parabola, ellipse,…

ine through the two foci. -- Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. -- Conjugate focus (Opt.) See under Focus. -- Conjugate mirrors (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at th…

lid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]