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rail at; to 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 prove…

A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.

(pl.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel, a vessel employed in coasting; a coaster.

[Obs.] Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Massinger. Coat armor. See under Armor. -- Coat of arms (Her.), a translation of the French cotte d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was often charged with t…

A chief man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

The charasteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.

[R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

ged; a token by which a thing may be known. Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master. Prescott. This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate. Shak.

A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

dain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.

sition; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

the President of Congress . . . urging the appointment of a commissary general, a quartermaster general, a commissary of musters, and a commissary of artillery. W. Irving Commissary general, an officer in charge of some special department of army service; as: (a) The officer in charge of the commissariat and transport…

To make a formal accusation; to make a charge. Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king Shak.

A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

erstanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

inist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.