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Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

The act of freeing from obscurities. The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell.

To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation. T. Fuller Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndale. To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune i…

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a…

Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil. Halliwell.

The literati, or well educated class.

d . . . being accounted a clerk." Blackstone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke.

Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot.

To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.

hamplevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.

A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell

The game of ninepins. [Obs.] Halliwell.

hatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark. v. 28.