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olor. Testaceous animals (Zoöl.), animals having a firm, calcareous shell, as oysters and clams, thus distinguished from crustaceous animals, whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.

to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces. I can vent clamor from my throat. Shak.

A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.

A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.

An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it. Tush, say they, how should God perceive it Bk. of Com. Prayer (Ps. lxxiii. 11).

Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.

Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidæ; -- called also tyrant bird.

An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder.

In Russia, a published proclamation or imperial order, having the force of law.

Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5.

Incapable of being uttered. [Obs.] A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton.

hers are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. Venus's basin (Bot.), the wild teasel; - - so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's…

ering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.

Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice. -- Vis"cous*ness, n.

Vociferation; noise; clamor. [R.] R. Browning.

Noisy; clamorous. Gauden. R. Browning.

To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor. Cowper.

One who vociferates, or is clamorous. [R.]