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rp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. Goldsmith.

An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

ho clips off the edges of coin. The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. Locke.

es of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

A blockhead; a dolt.

A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion. As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog. Hudibras. A clog of lead was round my feet. Tennyson.

To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.

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

eness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

nce found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.

A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheve.

The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

A petticoat. [Obs.] "A child in coats." Locke.

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. Knight. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South Amer…

A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

nces no one has any clear idea, farther than of certain simple ideas coexisting together. Locke. So much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.

Coexistent. Locke.

The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam. Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. -- Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.

In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincigly; conclusively. Locke.

ss. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. Locke.