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Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top.

r shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

Having club-shaped antennæ. See Antennæ -- n.

A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

Club-shaped; clavate. Craig.

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot.

principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton.

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

ess, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.…

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

Shield-shaped; clypeate.

A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

native of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a consrvatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

Spoon-shaped.