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See Clarinet.

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.

A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

Corresponding relation.

One of the same religion with another.

A heaping together. [R.] Bacon.

Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling. Sojth.

Mutual adaption. R. Owen.

Union, as in one body or mass; unity. Jer. Taylor. The coadunation of all the civilized provinces. Coleridge.

Coadunation. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albumin…

The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms. Bentley.

A coalitionist.

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.

Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.

The unoin or articulation of bones to form a joint.

The act of croaking. [R] Dr. H. More.