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To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

Colliding; clashing. [Obs.]

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

A sudden flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. Shak. An oyster may be crossed onlove. Sheridan.

An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

t plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. Wher the duck dabbles Wordsworth.

To cut into jags or points; to slash; as, to dag a garment. [Obs.] Wright.

ater, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

A dashboard or splashboard. [U. S.]

with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb. While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. Spenser. Such souls, Whose sudden visitations daze the world. Sir H. Taylor. He comes out of the room in a dazed state, that is an odd though a sufficient substitute for interest. Dickens.…

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. [Obs.] The one discording with the other. Bacon.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.