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f the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.

A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).

. . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog. Hudibras. A clog of lead was round my feet. Tennyson.

the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell

om or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.

material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. And old shoes and clouted upon their feet. Josh. ix. 5. Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer.

Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

to clover hay. -- In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] - - Sweet clover. See Meliot.

The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.

ttle care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

bble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.

A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvæ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]

ifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.