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Clarty
() Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.
Clary
() To make a loud or shrill noise.
Clary
() A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.
Clashed
() of Clash
Clashing
() of Clash
Clash
() To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
Clash
() To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.
Clash
() To strike noisily against or together.
Clash
() A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
Clash
() Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.
Clashingly
() With clashing.
Clasped
() of Clasp
Clasping
() of Clasp
Clasp
() To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
Clasp
() To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
Clasp
() To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
Clasp
() An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
Clasp
() A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
Clasper
() One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
Clasper
() One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
Clasper
() One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.
Claspered
() Furnished with tendrils.
Class
() A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
Class
() A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
Class
() A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
Class
() A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
Class
() One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Classed
() of Class
Classing
() of Class
Class
() To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
Class
() To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
() To grouped or classed.
Classible
() Capable of being classed.
Classic
() Alt. of Classical
Classical
() Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Classical
() Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
Classical
() Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
Classic
() A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
Classic
() One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
Classicalism
() A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.
Classicalism
() Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
Classicalist
() One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
Classicality
() Alt. of Classicalness
Classicalness
() The quality of being classical.
Classically
() In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
Classically
() In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
Classicism
() A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.
Classicist
() One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Classifiable
() Capable of being classified.
Classific
() Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.