CPage 227
- English Word Clearstraching Definition of Clearstarch
- English Word Clearwing Definition A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
- English Word Cleat Definition A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
- English Word Cleat Definition A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
- English Word Cleat Definition To strengthen with a cleat.
- English Word Cleavable Definition Capable of cleaving or being divided.
- English Word Cleavage Definition The act of cleaving or splitting.
- English Word Cleavage Definition The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
- English Word Cleavage Definition Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure.
- English Word Cleave Definition To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
- English Word Cleave Definition To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.
- English Word Cleave Definition To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.
- English Word Cleave Definition To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.
- English Word Cleave Definition To part or open naturally; to divide.
- English Word Cleave Definition To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.
- English Word Cleaved Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleaved Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleaved Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleavelandite Definition A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
- English Word Cleaver Definition One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
- English Word Cleavers Definition A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
- English Word Cleaving Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleaving Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleche Definition Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.
- English Word Clechy Definition See Cleche.
- English Word Cledge Definition The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
- English Word Cledgy Definition Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.
- English Word Clee Definition A claw.
- English Word Clee Definition The redshank.
- English Word Clef Definition A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.