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Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

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

A state of being united togheter as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell.

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

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

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds. Clattering loud with clamk. Longfellow.

Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle. [R.] Jonson

To hook or link (together); hence, to marry. Scott.

To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson.

To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.

embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.

ve 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.

ce 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.