CPage 228
- English Word Cleft Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleft Definition of Cleave
- English Word Cleft Definition imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
- English Word Cleft Definition Divided; split; partly divided or split.
- English Word Cleft Definition Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.
- English Word Cleft Definition A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock.
- English Word Cleft Definition A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.
- English Word Cleft Definition A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
- English Word Cleft-footed Definition Having a cloven foot.
- English Word Cleftgraft Definition To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
- English Word Cleg Definition A small breeze or horsefly.
- English Word Cleistogamic Definition Alt. of Cleistogamous
- English Word Cleistogamous Definition Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
- English Word Clem Definition To starve; to famish.
- English Word Clematis Definition A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
- English Word Clemence Definition Clemency.
- English Word Clemencies Definition of Clemency
- English Word Clemency Definition Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
- English Word Clemency Definition Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
- English Word Clement Definition Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.
- English Word Clementine Definition Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
- English Word Clench Definition See Clinch.
- English Word Clepe Definition To call, or name.
- English Word Clepe Definition To make appeal; to cry out.
- English Word Cleped Definition of Clepe
- English Word Cleping Definition of Clepe
- English Word Clepsine Definition A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.
- English Word Clepsydra Definition A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.
- English Word Cleptomania Definition See Kleptomania.
- English Word Clerestory Definition The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.