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The quality of being classical.

The state or quality of being clean.

The quality of being cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.

The quality or state of being clear.

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

State, quality, or business of a clerk.

The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters. "A close prison." Dickens.

l to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

to call a new legislature, to closet its members. Bancroft. He had been closeted with De Quadra. Froude.

The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure.

Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.

lly abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.