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Qualyty of tone.

adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue li…

The act of reforming anything; clearance. [R.]

That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay.

look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. To take heed of their dissembings and cloakings. Strype.

Anything which clogs. Dr. H. More.

Mutually assisting. [Obs.] Drayton.

An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford.

A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison. Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite. -- Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance…

The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

A rustic high shoe or half-boots. [Obs.] Drayton.

An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are k…

An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.