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e surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Shak.

g, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

any thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another. Bacon.

One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.

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. Tyndale. To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange…

ar breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. -- Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.

The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space i…

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

A dependent; one under the protection of another. I do think they are your friends and clients, And fearful to disturb you. B. Jonson.

The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.

To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

One of the same religion with another.

One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.

One who suffers with another. Wycherley.