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To pass through the stages of circumnutation.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

A thing rolled round another. Arbuthnot.

See Clear-cut.

Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo. She has . . . a cold and clear-cut face. Tennyson.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

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.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.

Mutually assisting. [Obs.] Drayton.

Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant. Feltham.

One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.

The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance. Pope.

A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

A joint executor.