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s two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in bapti…

An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

Blowing around. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. "The deep, circumfluent waves." Pope.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

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

A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron.

by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.