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The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. Millon.

To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]

One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

Capable of being classed.

In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.

Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

. "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak. "Clean contrary." Milton. All the people were passed clean over Jordan. Josh. iii. 17.

erature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Liter…

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson. The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.

A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

il, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. -- Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay.