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voidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

w metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.…

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

int in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

ill. -- Bead and butt. See under Bead. -- Butt and butt, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. -- Butt weld (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See Weld. -- Full butt, headfirst with fu…

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

ich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.

Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.

together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A contrivance for clapping in theaters. [Obs.]

To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.

tch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breasted coat; or a button with a loop for a single-breasted coat. -- Coat of mail, a defensive garment of chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast…

Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.