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a learned profession. [Obs.] Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. Guy of Warwick. Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515).

A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.

o bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke.

A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.

To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.

To put into cocks or heaps, as hay. Under the cocked hay. Spenser.

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

(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having small spiny-crested pods.

ed at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the con…

To put into a coffer. Bacon.

in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial. They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin. Gen. 1. 26.

mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

To put a collar on. To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

Disputing or wrangling. [Obs.] -- n.