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s), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. Goldsmith.

he earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.

or retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

n with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21 The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.

he clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.

ons of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay.…

A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.

ted in silence all these reasons. Milton. Minds combat minds, repelling and repelled. Goldsmith.

gin. Here the anthem doth commence. Shak. His heaven commences ere the world be past. Goldsmith.

book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents. His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.

esp., to put together or compose out of materials from other books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay.

The state of being complex; complexity. A. Smith.

Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.

ound word; the result of composition. Shak. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun. Goldsmith. When the word "bishopric" was first made, it was made as a compound. Earle.

law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughter I condemn. Goldsmith.

act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed. He [Goldsmith] was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.

The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity (Physics), the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree. J. D. Everett. -- Thermo…

s I confess it needs must be. Tennyson. As an actor confessed without rival to shine. Goldsmith.