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To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. Ex. xvii. 2.

tly; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

-- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.

A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving.

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. Dryden.

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

t; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

uge East Indian bivalve. You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a coclke; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634).

o scold. [Obs.] In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndal…

lay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. -- Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug. -- Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite. -- Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. -- Fire clay , a variety…

amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.…

A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.

Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift.

Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning. "Where the original is close no version can reach it in the same compass." Dryden.

gged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.