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Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also cirrhose.]

An ancient instrument resembling the harp.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.

Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne. -- Clod"dish*ness, n.

A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." Ezek. viii. 11.

Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv.

lub; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite. Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden.

A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.