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ssic drama, and reform the stage. Byron. Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. Arbuthnot.

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

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

Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts. His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.

ce of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

A variety of Cratægus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note. Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

One authorized to collect debts.