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Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.

tly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top.

shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

Having club-shaped antennæ. See Antennæ -- n.

A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

Club-shaped; clavate. Craig.

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

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 clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement. -- To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as…

ivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

ic, and other cleargy. Guy of Warwick. Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515).

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

A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.

nt, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

incipally 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.

prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. -- Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.…

For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.