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ll of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.

Silence; hush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

wo 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.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

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imp. & p. p. of Cling.

A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

Cluniac.

Of or pertaining to the Herring family.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

In clusters.

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.

A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.