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The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.

Any loud and continued noise. Addison.

A striking of hands to express approbation. Unextrected claps or hisses. Addison.

; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. My companion . . . left the way clear for him. Addison.

One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.

the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

rden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. The commodities are clogged with impositions. Addison. You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer. Shak.

me caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

tion; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

A swadding cloth.

gs 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 Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.…

The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.

To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.

A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.]

To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. Shak. "A cobbled saddle." Thackeray.

A mender of shoes. Addison.

man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

Addicted to cockfighting.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

A clause added to a will.