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The act of flying round. [R.]

A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne.

and briskness; -- with to or into. [Obs.] "Shall we clap into it roundly, without . . . saying we are hoarse" Shak.

opyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.

constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

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

tite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces." Motley.

A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.

ation; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.

A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

together. -- Coat card, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen, or knave of playing cards. "`I am a coat card indeed.' `Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breasted…

The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

A hop-drying kiln; an oast. Knight.

hrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

tained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally. Abbot.

The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.