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Clownishness. L'Estrange.

any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. They laid down the club. L'Estrange. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decorati…

To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore.

into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. Not less the bee would range her cells, . . . The foxglove cluster dappled bells. Tennyson. Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson. Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collect…

clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

oarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

One who breeds gamecocks. L'Estrange.

exceeding 16º in twenty-four hours or 20º in thirty-six hours, independent of the diurnal range.

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.

Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n.

he act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.

The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.

Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

sult of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come united. How come you thus estranged Shak. How come her eyes so bright Shak.

Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute. A dame who herself was common. L'Estrange. Common bar (Law) Same as Blank bar, under Blank. -- Common barrator (Law), one who makes a business of instigating litigation. -- Common Bench, a name sometimes given to the English Court of Common Pleas. -- Common brawler (Law), one…

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.