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A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

. Hemans. The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

Habitually clean; pure; innocent. "Cleanly joys." Glanvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.

paqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. Denham. Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. Canticles vi. 10.

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St.Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

ow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally used in a bad sense.

y of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

astening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.

To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons, parties, or states, having different interests. A coalition of the puritan and the blackleg. J. Randolph. The coalition between the religious and worldly enemies of popery. Macaulay.

ive series of complex red compounds of cobalt and ammonia. Modifications of these are the purpureo-cobaltic compounds.

Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2. [Obs.] Withals (1608).

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

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.