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rary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.

A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.

With clashing.

To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound. Arms on armor clashing, brayed Horrible discord. MIlton. And varying notes the war pipes brayed. Sir W. Scott.

To clash or interfere. [R.] Bacon.

To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.

; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.

Colliding; clashing. [Obs.]

To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. Shak. An oyster may be crossed onlove. Sheridan.

at plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit. [Obs.] The one discording with the other. Bacon.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or work; a disagreement tending to prevent or retard progress. Angle of friction (Mech.), the angle which a plane onwhich a body is lying makes with a horizontal plane,when the hody is just ready to slide dewn the plane.

Clash or collision of heads in contest. Dryden.

To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on. If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another Locke. Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them. Woodward.

To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. Together hurtled both their steeds. Fairfax.

To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.

To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute. When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar. Spenser. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

Discord; a clashing of interests. "Endless jarrings and immortal hate." Dryden.

To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; to jostle. Shak. The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.