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facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton.

cea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

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

That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell. Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

A mantelpiece.

Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.

hich cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.

A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.

A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

s. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.

That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.

A pert of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

ed in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. -- Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. -- Clog dancer.…

An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey. Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons. Macaulay.

of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt.

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

A house occupied by a club.