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not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.

; prattle; prating. Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack. South. Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening thro…

A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.

egarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald. "I have marshaled my clan." Campbell.

A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.

acter in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

& C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.

To gain without deduction; to net. The profit which she cleared on the cargo. Macaulay. To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. -- To clear a ship for action, or To…

ear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.

cy and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

ing the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay.

ears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. Sentenced to have his ears clipped. Macaulay.

A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.…

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

Conclusion; cessation; ending; end. His long and troubled life was drawing to a close. Macaulay.

the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. I. Taylor. Body cloth. See under Body. -- Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threa…

ich has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay.

A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.