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A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.

which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be. Chesterfield. The sweet civilities of life. Dryden.

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

lent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified." Ure.

Capable of being classified.

uation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified. [Oxford, Eng.]

en ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. Le

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.

ons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.

Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

lar portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

etween partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey. Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons. Macaulay.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

esture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's

A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shopper as a warrant that his goods have been duly enstered and have paid duty.

A codifier; a maker of codes. [R.]

the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.