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Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.

A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.

tion; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings. Denham.

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.

icuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. One truth is clear; whatever is, is right. Pop

to Clement, esp. to St.Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

A pun. Pope.

One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope.

ch separate parts are fastened or closed. Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever. Pope.

rts; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn. And the nice conduct of a clouded cane. Pope.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.

rouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

fingers or claws; 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.

To convey in a coach. Pope.

The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope.

and the blackleg. J. Randolph. The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. Macaulay.

rinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.