Search the Dictionary

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

wo persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

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

, 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.

The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of bloot.

See Body cavity, under Body.

A neck or cervix. Dunglison.

See Calumba.

An order of birds, including the pigeons.

A dovecote or pigeon house.

A dovecote; a pigeon house. Sir T. Browne.

A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.

See Buffalo fly, under Buffalo.

A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.

A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

Of or pertaining to the United States, or to America.