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

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

A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

Club-shaped; clavate. Craig.

One who carries a club; a club bearer.

Bearing a club or a key.

A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.

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

tain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.

A club or association for boarding at a common table, as in a college, the members sharing the expenses equally; as, to board in commons.

meeting; a close or secret assembly. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; --used in some French games.

To drop the bait gently on the surface of the water. To catch a club by dapping with a grasshoper. Walton.

The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.

To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight. [Obs.] His hideous club aloft he dites. Spenser.

ocieties, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.