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The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.

A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden.

ething that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden.

ose a bargain; to close a course of instruction. One frugal supper did our studies close. Dryden.

small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy. Bp. Hall.

A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.

In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.

y bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden.

ut thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

As black as coal; jet black; very black. Dryden.

arse metal ye are molded. Shak. To copy, in my coarse English, his beautiful expressions. Dryden.

The seashore, or land near it. He sees in English ships the Holland coast. Dryden. We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow. Waller. The coast is clear, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. "Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus." Sir…

-- Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." Dryden.

One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight.

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden.