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the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

dant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.

Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

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

shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

Having club-shaped antennæ. See Antennæ -- n.

A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

Club-shaped; clavate. Craig.

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot.

To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.] Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. Beau. && Fl.

ng one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

rincipally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

ng; the union of parts; junction. [Obs.] The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. Chapman.

To concrete into lumps; to clot. [Obs.] "Clottered blood." Chapman.

to render gloomy or sullen. One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth. Shak. Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks. Milton. Nothing clouds men's minds and impairs their honesty like prejudice. M. Arnold.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton.