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A compound of chlorine and iodine. [R.]

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

the old imp. of chide. See Chide.

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.

Nothingness. [R.] Goodwin.

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See Crystallization. -- a.

See under Dome.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Consisting of clods; full of clods.

A rude, rustic fellow.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

A blockhead; a dolt.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.

A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.

A husk; a pod; as, a peascod. [Eng.] Mortimer.