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adj. 1. broad in scope or content.
Syn. -- all-embracing, across-the-board, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, global, panoptic, wide. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. see billy, n. 1. [ PJC ]

n. a policeman's club; a nightstick.
Syn. -- truncheon, nightstick, billy, billy club. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the type genus of the bird family Cinclidae. It includes the water ouzels Cinclus aquaticus of Europe and Cinclus mexicanus of western North America.
Syn. -- genus Cinclus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. circumcludere, -clusum, to inclose. ] Act of inclosing on all sides. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbufōir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump. ] 1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. [ 1913 Webster ]

But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;
Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club. ] Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. [ 1913 Webster ]

They talked
At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. [ 1913 Webster ]

They laid down the club. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. - [ 1913 Webster ]

Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. --
Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short “club” or “jack yard” to increase its spread. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing. ] 1. To beat with a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense. [ 1913 Webster ]

To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream
Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution. [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl, the raven, and the bat,
Clubbed for a feather to his hat. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [ Humorous. ] [ Also spelled clubable. ] G. W. Curtis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who clubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a club. [ R. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Rude; clownish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A large, heavy fist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a large fist. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Club + foot. ] (Med.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a clubfoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house occupied by a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) a primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles, much used in winter decoration. The best known species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.
Syn. -- club moss, lycopod. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The apartment in which a club meets. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennæ of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clucked three to the wars. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The call of a hen to her chickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A click. See 3d Click, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clucked p pr. & vb. n. Clucking. ] [ AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken, G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin. ] To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The noise or call of a brooding hen. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. clewe, clowe, clue, AS. cleowen, cliwen, clywe ball of thread; akin to D. kluwen, OHG. chliwa, chliuwa, G. dim. kleuel, knäuel, and perch. to L. gluma hull, husk, Skr. glaus sort of ball or tumor. Perch. akin to E. claw. √26. Cf. Knawel. ] 1. A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail. (b.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail. (c.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clew garnet (Naut.), one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards. --
Clew line (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is run up to its yard. --
Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Clew, n. ] A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. not providing any clue. [ PJC ]

2. completely uninformed or unaware; hopelessly ignorant; utterly bewildered. [ PJC ]

interj. Silence; hush. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named from the estate of the Duke of Newcastle. ] (Zool.) A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump, klumpen, Dan. klump, Sw. klump; perh. akin to L. globus, E. globe. Cf. Club. ] 1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cluster; a group; a thicket. [ 1913 Webster ]

A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. G. klümpern to clod. See Clump, n. ] To form into clumps or masses. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Clump, n. ] Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being clumsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Clumsier superl. Clumsiest. ] [ OE. clumsed benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. Sw. klummsen benumbed with cold. Cf. 1st Clam, and 1st Clamp. ] 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed,
Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

Syn. -- See Awkward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. fr. clinch to make fast ] 1. (Mining) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the hard beds of the lower chalk. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Cling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See Cling, v. i. ] Wasted away; shrunken. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cluniac. [ 1913 Webster ]