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Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

posite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to…

Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

Bound together.

one who undertakes the office of carrying (goods or persons) for hire. Such a carrier is bound to carry in all cases when he has accommodation, and when his fixed price is tendered, and he is liable for all losses and injuries to the goods, except those which happen in consequence of the act of God, or of the enemies…

titution; to effect a commutation. He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind. Jer. Taylor.

An inclosing limit; boundary; circumference; as, within the compass of an encircling wall.

Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. Locke.

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

ngle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.

To acknowledge; to admit; to concede. But since (And I confess with right) you think me bound. Tennyson.

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.

tone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia. A conglomerate, therefore, is simply gravel bound together by a cement. Lyell.

One who swears or is sworn with others; one bound by oath with others; a compurgator. Burrill.

One bound by a common cath with others. [Obs.]

combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each intermediate idea with those that it connects before he can use it in a syllogism. Locke.