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n. (Meteorol.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 proceeding without interruption for twenty four hours every day. around-the-clock nursing care
Syn. -- day-and-night, nonstop, round-the-clock, twenty four hours a day. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Apron. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ba`ros weight + cyclone + -meter. ] (Meteorol.) An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beclouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Beclouding. ] To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cloth worn around the breech. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. covering for the loins.
Syn. -- breechcloth, loincloth, G-string. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum; -- a foprm of sandpaper. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ L. cera wax + E. cloth. ] A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thin, loosely-woven cotton cloth of a gauze texture, such as is used in pressing cheese curds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Cloacæ [ L. ] 1. A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A privy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a cloaca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of. cloque cloak (from the bell-like shape), bell, F. cloche bell; perh. of Celtic origin and the same word as E. clock. See 1st Clock. ] 1. A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense; a mask; a cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cloak bag, a bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloaked p. pr. & vb. n. Cloaking. ] To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

Syn. -- See Palliate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a concealed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The material of which of which cloaks are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. personal possessions; -- an informal term; as, did you take all your clobber?.
Syn. -- stuff. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., prop., bell. ] (Aëronautics) An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. clucge bell; akin to D. klok clock, bell, G. glocke, Dan. klokke, Sw. klocka, Icel. klukka bell, LL. clocca, cloca (whence F. cloche); al perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. clog bell, clock, W. cloch bell. Cf. Cloak. ] 1. A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions; in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands, pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face, thus showing the hours and minutes. The works of a mechanical clock are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. In electrical or electronic clocks, the time may be indicated, as on a mechanical clock, by hands, but may also be indicated by direct digital readout, with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals. The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout. Some clocks also indicate the seconds. Clocks are not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person. Specialized clocks, such as atomic clocks, may be constructed on different principles, and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observations. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. A watch, esp. one that strikes. [ Obs. ] Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The striking of a clock. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarm clock. See under Alarm. --
Astronomical clock. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. --
Electric clock. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. --
Ship's clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. --
Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the time taken to traverse a measured course; as, it was a world record clocking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their services are clocklike, to be set
Backward and forward at their lord's command. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. European weed naturalized in the southwestern U. S. and Mexico (Erodium cicutarium), having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender pinlike fruits that stick straight up; it is often grown for forage.
Syn. -- redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, filaria, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. -- of rotatory motion. dextral [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. & adv. in the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.
Syn. -- right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. clodde, latter form of clot. See Clot. ] 1. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. “Clods of a slimy substance.” Carew. “Clods of iron and brass.” Milton. “Clods of blood.” E. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clod
Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To pelt with clods. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw violently; to hurl. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne.

-- Clod"dish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Consisting of clods; full of clods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rude, rustic fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Boorish; rude. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blockhead; a dolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid; dull; doltish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Clod + poll head. ] A stupid fellow; a dolt. [ Written also clodpole. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [ Written also clough. ] McCulloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay. ] 1. That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose,
And quits his clog. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

A clog of lead was round my feet. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. [ 1913 Webster ]

In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. --
Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. --
Clog dancer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clogged p. pr. & vb. n. Clogging. ] 1. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. [ 1913 Webster ]

The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commodities are clogged with impositions. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

You 'll rue the time
That clogs me with this answer. Shak.

Syn. -- Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]