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To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. Feltham. To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]

A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustuan the ends of beams.

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses. [U. S.]

A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.

One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

adhere to, especially by twining round or embraching. [Obs.] I clung legs as close to his side as I could. Swift.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.

The Muse who presided over history.

e or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift.

A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; (pl.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy. Bp. Hall.

one with authority or power. Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts. His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer. Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.

y 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.

ter; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

A large, 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.