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Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

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

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.

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

A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.

A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.

To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of. Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. Sir T. Browne.

is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.

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

ies" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

The act of knowing; knowledge; perception. I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience. Shak.

Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. South.

Having the power of knowing. [Obs.] "An innate cognoscitive power." Cudworth.

An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are k…

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.] Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people. Bacon.