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

essarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. -- Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. -- Cubuc cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube.…

State of being client.

See Clientele, n., 2.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.

An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Containing or resembling collagen.

The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

sturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.

A system or structure of many parts united. A regular compages of pipes and vessels. Ray.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their connerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.

Work done by a cooper.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

See Courage [Obs.] To Canterbury with full devout corage. Chaucer.