Climatic Cli·mat"ic adjective Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Climatical Cli·mat"ic·al adjective Climatic.
Climatize Cli"ma·tize transitive verb & i. [
imperfect & past participle Climatized ;
present participle & verbal noun Climatizing .]
To acclimate or become acclimated.
Climatography Cli`ma·tog"ra·phy noun [
Climate +
-graphy .]
A description of climates.
Climatological Cli`ma·to·log"ic·al adjective Of or pertaining to climatology.
Climatologist Cli`ma·tol"o·gist noun One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Climatology Cli`ma·tol"o·gy noun [
Climate +
-logy : confer French
climatologie .]
The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.
Climature Cli"ma·ture noun [ Confer French
climature .]
A climate. [ Obsolete]
Shak.
Climax Cli"max noun [ Latin , from Greek ... ladder, staircase, from ... to make to bend, to lean. See
Ladder ,
Lean ,
intransitive verb ]
1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill. 2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax .
J. D. Forbes.
3. The highest point; the greatest degree. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good.
I. Taylor.
To cap the climax ,
to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [ Colloq.]
Climb Climb (klīm)
intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Climbed (klīmd), Obsolete or Vulgar
Clomb (klŏm);
present participle & verbal noun Climbing .] [ Anglo-Saxon
climban ; akin to Old High German
chlimban , G. & Dutch
klimmen , Icelandic
klīfa , and English
cleave to adhere.]
1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
Dryden.
3. (Botany) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb Climb transitive verb To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb Climb noun The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.
Climbable Climb"a·ble adjective Capable of being climbed.
Climber Climb"er noun One who, or that which, climbs :
(a) (Botany) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zoology) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
Climber Climb"er intransitive verb [ From
Climb ; confer
Clamber .]
To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [ Obsolete]
Tusser.
Climbing Climb"ing present participle & verbal noun of Climb . Climbing fern .
See under Fern . --
Climbing perch .
(Zoology) See Anabas , and Labyrinthici .
Clime Clime noun [ Latin
clima . See
Climate .]
A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate . Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display.
Goldsmith.
Clinanthium Cli·nan"thi·um noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... bed + ... flower.]
(Botany) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium .
Clinch Clinch (klĭnch; 224)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Clinched ;
present participle & verbal noun Clinching .] [ Middle English
clenchen , prop. causative of
clink to cause to clink, to strike; confer Dutch
klinken to tinkle, rivet. See
Clink .]
1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "
Clinch the pointed spear."
Dryden. 2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift. 3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail. 4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South.
Clinch Clinch intransitive verb To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Clinch Clinch (klĭnch)
noun 1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch . 2. A pun. Pope. 3. (Nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Clincher Clinch"er noun 1. One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope. 2. That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Clincher-built Clinch"er-built adjective See Clinker-built .
Cling Cling (klĭng)
intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Clung (klŭng),
Clong (klŏng), Obsolete);
present participle & verbal noun Clinging .] [ Anglo-Saxon
clingan to adhere, to wither; akin to Danish
klynge to cluster, crowd. Confer
Clump .]
To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together . And what hath life for thee
That thou shouldst cling to it thus?
Mrs. Hemans.
Cling Cling transitive verb 1. To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. [ Obsolete]
I clung legs as close to his side as I could.
Swift.
2. To make to dry up or wither. [ Obsolete]
If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee.
Shak.
Cling Cling noun Adherence; attachment; devotion. [ R.]
A more tenacious cling to worldly respects.
Milton.
Clingstone Cling"stone` adjective Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. --
noun A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.
Clingy Cling"y adjective Apt to cling; adhesive. [ R.]
Clinic Clin"ic noun [ See
Clinical .]
1. One confined to the bed by sickness. 2. (Eccl.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed. [ Obsolete]
Hook. 3. (Medicine) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
Clinical Clin"ic·al (klĭn"ĭk*
a l),
Clin"ic (klĭn"ĭk) ,
adjective [ Greek
kliniko`s , from
kli`nh bed, from
kli`nein to lean, recline: confer French
clinique . See
Lean ,
intransitive verb ]
1. Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed. 2. Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject. Clinical baptism ,
baptism administered to a person on a sick bed. --
Clinical instruction ,
instruction by means of clinics. --
Clinical lecture (Medicine) ,
a discourse upon medical topics illustrated by the exhibition and examination of living patients. --
Clinical medicine ,
Clinical surgery ,
that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.
Clinically Clin"ic·al·ly adverb In a clinical manner.
Clinique Cli·nique" noun [ French]
(Medicine) A clinic.
Clinium Clin"i·um noun [ New Latin , from Greek
kli`nh bed.]
(Botany) See Clinanthium .
Clink Clink (klĭnk)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Clinked (klĭnkt);
present participle & verbal noun Clinking .] [ Middle English
clinken ; akin to German
klingen , Dutch
klinken , SW.
klinga , Danish
klinge ; probably of imitative origin. Confer
Clank ,
Clench ,
Click ,
intransitive verb ]
To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink .
Shak.
Clink Clink (klĭnk)
intransitive verb 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The
clinking latch."
Tennyson. 2. To rhyme. [ Humorous]. Cowper.
Clink Clink noun A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "
Clink and fall of swords."
Shak.
Clink Clink noun A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [ Colloq.] "I'm here in the
clink ."
Kipling.
Clinkant Clin"kant (klĭn"k
a nt)
adjective See Clinquant .
Clinker Clink"er (klĭnk"ẽr)
noun [ From
clink ; confer Dutch
clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from
clinken to clink. Confer
Clinkstone .]
1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. 2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag. 3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. 4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker , under Dutch .
Clinker-built Clink"er-built adjective (Nautical) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak .
Clinkstone Clink"stone` noun [
Clink +
stone ; -- from its sonorousness.]
(Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite .
Clinodiagonal Cli`no·di·ag"o·nal noun [ Greek
kli`nein to incline + English
diagonal .]
(Crystallog.) That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization . --
adjective Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
Clinodome Cli"no·dome` noun [ Greek
kli`nein to incline + English
dome .]
(Crystallog.) See under Dome .
Clinographic Cli"no·graph"ic adjective [ Greek
kli`nein to incline +
-graph .]
Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Clinoid Cli"noid adjective [ Greek
kli`nh bed +
-oid .]
(Anat.) Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
Clinometer Cli·nom"e·ter noun [ Greek
kli`nein to incline +
-meter .]
(Geol.) An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.
Clinometric Clin`o·met"ric adjective 1. Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer. 2. Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
Clinometry Cli·nom"e·try noun (geol.) That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
Clinopinacoid Cli`no·pin"a·coid noun [ Greek
kli`nein to incline + English
pinacoid .]
(Crystallog.) The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
Clinorhombic Cli`no·rhom"bic adjective [ Greek
kli`nein to incline + English
rhombic : confer French
clinorhombique .]
(Crystallog.) Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
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