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To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.

Capable of being climbed.

One who, or that which, climbs:

p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. (Zoöl.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.

To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.

To climb over. Surrey.

To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

A climber of the Alps.

ng long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. [Obs.] If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. Point d'appui. Etym: [F., a point of support.] (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advant…

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

Capable of being ascended; climbable.

nder branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.