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ghts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another. Bacon.

une is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange. To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one) on the gall, to find falt with; to vex. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ill revert to the customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality. Bacon.

To more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray.

th up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

A grapple in wrestling. Bacon.

inst the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

lum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

In hair dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.

A heaping together. [R.] Bacon.

arge, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

To burn to charcoal; to char. [R.] Charcoal of roots, coaled into great pieces. Bacon.

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.

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

A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.]

An andiron with a knob at the top. Bacon.

Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as, cocciferrous trees or plants.

A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.