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To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden. [Obs.] Bailey.

eges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

To write in occult characters. His notes he ciphered with Greek characters. Hayward.

Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

ouncil. See under Council. -- City court, The municipal court of a city. [U. S.] -- City ward, a watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city. [Obs.] Fairfax.

ty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top.

ng [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

ders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward.

slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

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