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Proceeding in a circle; circular. [Obs.] "With motion circuline". Dr. H. More.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.

Scholarship. [Obs.]

The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.

One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope.

See Clinker-built.

stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.

Apt to cling; adhesive. [R.]

One confined to the bed by sickness.

Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism, baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. -- Clinical instruction, instruction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of livin…

In a clinical manner.

A clinic.

See Clinanthium.

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

See Clnquant.

A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.