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Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

s to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]

Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent. "For servecy, no lady closer." Shak.

The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak.

A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheve.

rench cotte d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was often charged with the heraldic bearings of the wearer. Hence, an heraldic achievement; the bearings of any person, taken together. -- Coat card, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen, or knave of pl…

a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.

ovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

onsisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.

A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

ing the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

Tending to collect; forming a collection. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point, collective of his sons. Young.