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Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

ng noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds. The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter. Tennyson.

Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. I also am formed out of the clay. Job xxxiii. 6. The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. Byron. Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the comm…

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief. Cliché casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

To curtail; to cut short. All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

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

mon chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

A double bar marking the end. At every close she made, the attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.

t on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.

devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.

rend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zoöl.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clo…

Cnemial crest, a crestlike prominence on the proximal end of the tibia of birds and some reptiles.

A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.

An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

dled at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. Burke. Punishments are manifold, that they may coerce this profligate sort. Ayliffe.

A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another. [Eng.] Cowell. Mozley & W.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.