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a. Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Clamp, Clam, v. t., Clammy. ] 1. (Zool.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). [ 1913 Webster ]

Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand. Wood (1634). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blood clam. See under Blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clammed p. pr. & vb. n. Clamming. ] [ Cf. AS. clæman to clam, smear; akin to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile, or E. clammy. ] To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [ R. ] Dryden [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Claminess; moisture. [ R. ] “The clam of death.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. clamor. ] A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call. Cf. Claimant. ] Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously. “Clamant children.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. clamatio, fr. L. clamare to call. ] The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. clamator, pl. clamatores, a bawler. ] (Zool.) A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the Clamatores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clambered p. pr. & vb. n. Clambering. ] [ OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. Clamp, Climb. ] To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The narrow street that clambered toward the mill. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of clambering. T. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ascend by climbing with difficulty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clambering the walls to eye him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Low, worthless people; the rabble. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clammy manner. “Oozing so clammily.” Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being clammy or viscous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Clammier superl. Clammiest. ] [ Cf. AS. clām clay. See Clam to clog, and cf. Clay. ] Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. strong-scented herb (Polanisia graveolens) common in the southern U. S. covered with intermixed gland and hairs.
Syn. -- Polanisia graveolens, Polanisia dodecandra. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. clamour, clamur, F. clameur, fr. L. clamor, fr. clamare to cry out. See Claim. ] 1. A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation from many people. Shak. [ Also spelled clamour. ]
Syn. -- clamor, hue and cry. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Any loud and continued noise. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Outcry; exclamation; noise; uproar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clamored p. pr. & vb. n. Clamoring. ] 1. To salute loudly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The people with a shout
Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stun with noise. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur&unr_;ion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to talk in a loud voice; to complain; to make importunate demands.
Syn. -- clamor, roar, vociferate, holler, hollo. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to dispute in a loud voice.
Syn. -- brawl, wrangle, clamor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who clamors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux. ] Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. “My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion.” Southey.

-- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. and v. same as clamor. [ PJC ]

adj. same as clamorous.
Syn. -- blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Cf. LG. & D. klamp, Dan. klampe, also D. klampen to fasten, clasp. Cf. Clamber, Cramp. ] 1. Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. (b) (Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A mollusk. See Clam. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clamped pos>p. pr. & vb. n. Clamping. ] 1. To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. an imitative word. Cf. Clank. ] A heavy footstep; a tramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. [ 1913 Webster ]

The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sudden restriction on an activity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the shell of a clam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
Syn. -- grapple. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. conclamatio. ] An outcry or shout of many together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his funeral conclamation. May (Lucan). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kykla`minos, kyklami`s. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A white amorphous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen Europæum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. declamatio, from declamare: cf. F. déclamation. See Declaim. ] 1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. [ 1913 Webster ]

The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A declaimer. [ R. ] Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. declamatorius: cf. F. déclamatoire. ] 1. Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To disclaim; to expel. [ Obs. ] “Money did love disclame.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a shining forth, fr. &unr_; to shine forth; &unr_; out + &unr_; to shine. ] (Med.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is generally restricted to a convulsive affection attending pregnancy and parturition, and to infantile convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Med.) Same as Eclampsia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exclamatio: cf. F. exclamation. ] 1. A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [ ! ]; -- called also exclamation point. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. exclamatif. ] Exclamatory. Earle. -- Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker. South. -- Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly adv. [1913 Webster]