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To call, or name. [Obs.] That other son was cleped Cambalo. Chaucer.

Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot.

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

ing the edges of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

ncipally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.

he ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. Lindley.

Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton.

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

Shield-shaped; clypeate.

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.

tive of Mexico and South America. C. scandens is a consrvatory climber with large bell-shaped flowers.

A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

Spoon-shaped.

ad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.

A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.