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To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. S. Sharp.

To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.

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

To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

Full of clots, or clods. "Clotty matter." Harvey.

wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.

Clatter; confused noise. Swift.

Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of bloot.

f carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering, or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.

The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison.

or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

The hearing a matter judicially.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

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

Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. [R.]

uption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.