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Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak.

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

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

s, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.…

of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

Shield-shaped; clypeate.

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

A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

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

The cobra de capello.

Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are substituted for wires.

A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

Spoon-shaped.

A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! Shak.

The larval stage of a tapeworm (Tænia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

lly: (a) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape. (b) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England. [Writting also quoif.] From point and saucy ermine down To the plain coif and russet gown. H. Brocke. The judges, . . . althout they are not of the fi…