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out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.

or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn.

To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.

rs, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.

th 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.

Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. Shak.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

d, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power. A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp. Collier. Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . Come, let me clutch thee. Shak.

To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.

A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.

To combine or unite. [Obs.] "Co-uned together." Feltham.

A heaping together. [R.] Bacon.

To act together; to work in concert; to unite. [Obs.] But if I tell you how these two did coact. Shak.

To join together. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.