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Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness. "T would sound more clever To me and to my heirs forever. Swift.

To more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray.

Adherence; attachment; devotion. [R.] A more tenacious cling to worldly respects. Milton.

To curtail; to cut short. All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.

To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

t. And old shoes and clouted upon their feet. Josh. ix. 5. Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer.

To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

all into the clutches of an adversary. I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.

ns in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

rseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

The act of croaking. [R] Dr. H. More.

column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebræ more or less consolidated.

ose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak.

sue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

t daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

e will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted. No better nor more cogent reason. Dr. H. More. Proofs of the most cogent description. Tyndall. The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands, Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. Cowper.

. is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. Foxe.