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A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. What, fifty of my followers at a clap! Shak.

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

t limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak. "Clean contrary." Milton. All the people were passed clean over Jordan. Josh. iii. 17.

A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

mouth. -- Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

A blow with the hand. [Low] Clout nail, a kind of wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head; -- used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

ips the Holland coast. Dryden. We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow. Waller. The coast is clear, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. "Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus." Sir P. Sidney. Coast guard. (a) A body of men originall…

A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. Wright.

o a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. Shak. -- To come to blows. See under Blow. -- To come to grief. See under Grief. -- To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot. -- To come to one's self, to recover one's senses. -- To come to pass, to…

greement. But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of…

tivity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.

ordered by Napoleon by the decree of Berlin, Nov. 21, 1806; the object being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.

A fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. Coxe.

A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

One who blows a cornet.

To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. His left hand countered provokingly. C. Kingsley.