Clarifier Clar"i·fi`er noun 1. That which clarifies. 2. A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works. Ure.
Clarify Clar"i·fy transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Clarified ;
present participle & verbal noun Clarifying .] [ French
clarifier , from Latin
clarificare ;
clarus clear +
facere to make. See
Clear , and
Fact .]
1. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and
clarified ."
Ure. 2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
South.
3. To glorify. [ Obsolete]
Fadir, clarifie thi name.
Wyclif (John ii. 28).
Clarify Clar"i·fy intransitive verb 1. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification. 2. To grow clear or bright; to clear up. Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another.
Bacon.
Clarigate Clar"i·gate intransitive verb [ Latin
clarigare ]
To declare war with certain ceremonies. [ Obsolete]
Holland.
Clarinet Clar"i·net` noun [ French
clarinette , dim. of
clarine , from Latin
clarus . See
Clear , and confer
Clarion .]
(Mus.) A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band. [ Often improperly called
clarionet .]
Clarino Cla·ri"no noun [ Italian a trumpet.]
(Mus.) A reed stop in an organ.
Clarion Clar"i·on noun [ Middle English
clarioun , Old French
clarion , French
clairon , Late Latin
clario ,
claro ; so called from its clear tone, from Latin
clarus clear. See
Clear .]
A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.
E. Everett.
Clarionet Clar`i·o·net" noun [ See
Clarion ,
Clarinet .]
(Mus.) See Clarinet .
Clarisonus Cla·ris"o·nus adjective [ Latin
clarisonus ;
clarus + sonus .]
Having a clear sound. [ Obsolete]
Ash.
Claritude Clar"i·tude noun [ Latin
claritudo , from
clarus clear.]
Clearness; splendor. [ Obsolete]
Beau. & Fl.
Clarity Clar"i·ty noun [ Latin
claritas , from
clarus clear: confer French
clarté .]
Clearness; brightness; splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity ,
Innumerable virgin graces row.
Beaumont.
Claro-obscuro Cla"ro-ob·scu"ro noun See Chiaroscuro .
Clarré Clar`ré" noun [ See
Claret .]
Wine with a mixture of honey and species. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Clart Clart transitive verb [ Confer Armor.
kalar mud, mire,
kalara to dirt, Swedish
lort mud.]
To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Clarty Clart"y adjective Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Clary Clar"y intransitive verb [ Confer
Clarion .]
To make a loud or shrill noise. [ Obsolete]
Golding.
Clary Cla"ry noun [ Confer Late Latin
sclarea ,
scarlea , D. & German
scharlei , French
sclarée .]
(Botany) A plant ( Salvia sclarea ) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water ,
a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.
Clash Clash intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Clashed ;
present participle & verbal noun Clashing .] [ Of imitative origin; confer German
klatschen , Prov. German
kleschen , Dutch
kletsen , Danish
klaske , English
clack .]
1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony.
Palfrey.
Clash Clash transitive verb To strike noisily against or together.
Clash Clash noun 1. A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. The roll of cannon and clash of arms.
Tennyson.
2. Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings.
Denham.
Clash gear Clash gear (Machinery) A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
Clashingly Clash"ing·ly adverb With clashing.
Clasp Clasp transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Clasped ;
present participle & verbal noun Clasping ] [ Middle English
claspen ,
clapsen , probably akin to English
clap .]
1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp). 2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. 3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "
Clasping ivy."
Milton.
Clasp Clasp noun 1. 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. 2. A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife ,
a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. --
Clasp lock ,
a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.
Clasper Clasp"er noun 1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The
claspers of vines."
Derham. 2. (Zoology) (a) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. (b) 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 Chimæra .
Claspered Clasp"ered adjective Furnished with tendrils.
Class Class (klȧs)
noun [ French
classe , from Latin
classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Greek
klh^sis a calling,
kalei^n to call, English
claim ,
haul .]
1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class ; the lower classes . 2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. 3. 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. 4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies.
Macaulay.
5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader . Class of a curve (Math.) ,
the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. --
Class meeting (Methodist Church) ,
a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.
Class Class transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Classed ;
present participle & verbal noun Classing .] [ Confer French
classer . See
Class ,
noun ]
1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages. » In scientific arrangement, to
classify is used instead of to
class .
Dana. 2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class Class intransitive verb To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes .
Tatham.
Class day Class day In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.
Classible Class"i·ble adjective Capable of being classed.
Classic Clas"sic noun 1. 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. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic .
Macaulay.
2. One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
Classic, Classical Clas"sic, Clas"sic·al adjective [ Latin
classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from
classis class: confer French
classique . See
Class ,
noun ]
1. Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. Give, as thy last memorial to the age,
One classic drama, and reform the stage.
Byron.
Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [ Roman weights and coins].
Arbuthnot.
2. 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. Though throned midst Latium's classic plains.
Mrs. Hemans.
The epithet classical , as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote.
Brande & C.
He [ Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
Macaulay.
3. Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style. Classical , provincial, and national synods.
Macaulay.
Classicals orders .
(Architecture) See under Order .
Classicalism Clas"sic·al·ism noun 1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism. 2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
Classicalist Clas"sic·al·ist noun One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art. Ruskin.
Classicality, Classicalness Clas`si·cal"i·ty, Clas"sic·al·ness noun The quality of being classical.
Classically Clas"sic·al·ly adverb 1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors. 2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
Classicism Clas"si·cism noun A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
Classicist Clas"si·cist noun One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Classifiable Clas"si·fi`a·ble adjective Capable of being classified.
Classific Clas·sif"ic adjective Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
Classification Clas`si·fi·ca"tion noun [ Confer French
classification .]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification .
(Science) See under Artifitial .
Classificatory Clas"si·fi·ca`to·ry adjective Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A
classificatory system."
Earle.
Classifier Clas"si·fi`er noun One who classifies.
Classify Clas"si·fy transitive verb [
imperfect & pp. Classified ;
present participle & verbal noun Classifying .] [ Latin
classis class + ...]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters. Syn. -- To arrange; distribute; rank.
Classis Clas"sis noun ;
plural Classes . [ Latin See
Class ,
noun ]
1. A class or order; sort; kind. [ Obsolete]
His opinion of that classis of men.
Clarendon.
2. (Eccl.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
Classman Class"man noun ;
plural Classmen .
1. A member of a class; a classmate. 2. A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified. [ Oxford, Eng.]
Classmate Class"mate` noun One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
Clastic Clas"tic adjective [ Greek ... br..., from ... to break.]
1. Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models). 2. (Min.) Fragmental; made up of brok... fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.
Clatch Clatch noun [ Confer Scot.
clatch a slap, the noise caused by the collision of soft bodies; probably of imitative origin.]
(Scot. & Dial. Eng.) 1. A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud. 2. Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.
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