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The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

th difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson.

Low, worthless people; the rabble. [Scot.] Jamieson.

In a clammy manner. "Oozing so clammily." Hood.

State of being clammy or viscous.

Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak.

One who clamors.

Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

A mollusk. See Clam. [Obs.] Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane.

An outcry or shout of many together. [R.] Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan).

A white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (Convallaria Majalis). Its taste is first bitter, then sweet.

A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europæum.

See Safety lamp, under Lamp.

public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.