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Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." Carlyle.

A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

het classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

A clergyman or ecclesiastic. [Obs.] All persons were styled clerks that served in the church of Christ. Ayliffe.

oister; to seclude from the world; to immure. None among them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.

Secretly; privately. [Obs.] That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.

Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster. "A cloudy diamond." Boyle.

s; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

Capable of being coagulated. Boyle.

To undergo coagulation. Boyle.

Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent. Boyle.

Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle.

The style of gnomon of a dial. Chambers.

the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

ecome liquid; to melt. [Obs.] The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.

cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.