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Silence; hush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

To form into clumps or masses. [Obs.] Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.

two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.

The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.

d, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] Golding.

nting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reac…

To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- B…

A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

In a clumsy manner.

A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.