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A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the brain of man. -- Claus"tral, a.

Division into laminæ, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. -- Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. -…

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] Tusser.

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

See Clamp.

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.] Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge. Cowper.

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

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a s…

To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

e sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.

digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

Inflammable. [Obs.] Shak.