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To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.

soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

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

One who carries the keys of any place.

earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. -- Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug. -- Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous…

To gain without deduction; to net. The profit which she cleared on the cargo. Macaulay. To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. -- To clear a ship for action, or To…

n the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

Supplied with clients. [R.] The least cliented pettifiggers. R. Carew.

otherwise than as a cloak. South. Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak.

ll the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

sce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar Byron.

To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

See Card clothing, under 3d Card.

A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia, or Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles. Clove camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.