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The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

Unlearned. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

wer edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

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

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

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.

contribution to a common fund. They laid down the club. L'Estrange. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is…

in a coach; -- sometimes used with it. [Colloq.] "Coaching it to all quarters." E. Waterhouse.

emarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also sand mole. -- Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.]

, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

of a breed of small or medium-sized spaniels kept for hunting or retrieving game or for household pets. They usually weigh from eighteen to twenty-eight pounds. They have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but no…

A customhouse seal; a certified document given to a shopper as a warrant that his goods have been duly enstered and have paid duty.

kes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison.

The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

A dovecote or pigeon house.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.