C.uvel 
built. 
clinant 
clinant (kli'nant), a. [< L. *dinan(t-)>t, ppr. 
(cf. diiuitits, pp.) of "dinarr. lean, incline: see 
dine.'] In math., relating to angles considered 
as differences or remainders. 
clinanthium (kH-nan'thi-um), n. ; pi. dinan- 
tliin (-ii). [NL., < Gr. K~/.'IVT/, a bed (< nfmiv, 
slope: see tjinc), + bvOtic,, a flower: see im/lii-r. \ 
In fcr., the receptacle of a composite plant. 
Also calleil i'ii iiiniHiiiiiii. 
clinch, ''. ini'l See 1'ii-iich. 
clinch-built (klinch'bilt), a. Same as dinclier- 
liiiilt. 
clincher, . See /< ///. 
clincher-built, clinker-built (klin'cher-, 
kling'ker-bilt), n. [The form elinker-, as also 
in rliitkrr-in> rl:. after 
D., G., or Dan.; cf. 
Dan. klinkbi/i/iii I. or 
lii/i/;/i t /inn klink, 
clincher-built (byg- 
get. pp. of biii/n<; 
built: see /)/;/-).] 
Made of pieces, as 
boards or plates of 
metal, which over- 
lap one another: as, 
clincher-built boats. 
In woodwork the upper 
edge of each strake or 
plank is overlapped by 
tll<:li>creducof the one 
uliove, ami tin -e BJ 
cured to one another by (Haa^s " From Kcello Truck." ) 
nails driven through the 
laps or bands. In metal-work plates of metal are lapped 
in tile same manner and riveted. Also finn-h >mi/f 
clincher-plating, clinker-plating (klin'cher-, 
kliug'ker-pla'ting), . Plates of metal used in 
clincher-built structures. 
clincher-work, clinker-work (klin'cher-, 
kliug'k6r-werk), n. [Cf . D. klinkwerk = G. klin- 
kerwerk (= Sw. klink), clincher-work.] In ship- 
building, boiler-making, etc., work which is 
clincher-built: opposed to carvel-work. See 
clincher-built. Also called lap-jointed work. 
clinet, v. '. [ME. dinen, dynen, < OF. diner = Pr. 
dinar = Oil. clinare (usually in comp. : It. - 
clinare = OF. endiner, > ME. endinen (of which 
dinen is rather a clipped form), mod. E. encline, 
incline, q. v.), < L. * clinare, lean, incline (in 
pp. dinatus and in comp. inclinare, etc.), =Gr. 
nAivetv, lean, slope, bend, incline, recline, de- 
cline, = AS. hlinian, E. lean : see lean*. Hence 
ult. (from L.) decline, encline, incline, recline, 
divous, acclivous, acclivity, declivity, proclivity. 
etc., (from Gr.) clinic, enclitic, proclitic, etc.] 
To incline ; bend or bow down. 
With alle me kenes I dyne to this acorde, 
Bowynge down my face. 
Coventry Mysteries, p. 114. 
Clynyn or declynen, decline. Clyne or bowe down, de- 
clino, inclino. Prompt. Pan., p. 82. 
cling (kling), v. ; pret. and pp. dung, ppr. ding- 
ing. [< (1) ME. clingen (pret. clang, pi. "dung- 
en, donge, pp. dungen, dongen), adhere closely, 
also shrink, shrivel, < AS. elingan (pret. clang, 
pi. "dungon, pp. ge-dungen), shrink, shrivel, in 
comp. be-dingan, hold in, surround ; (2) mixed 
with ME. denyen (pret. denged), prop, facti- 
tive of preceding, = G. klingen, climb, = Dan. 
klynge, cluster, crowd (klynge, a cluster, klynge 
op, hang up, klynge sig op, clamber up) f = Sw. 
klanga, climb (kltinge, a tendril) ; associated in 
sense, and perhaps ult. in origin (ult. / "kli I), 
with climb, clamber, clam^, dam'*, etc., dive 1 , 
cleave 1 , etc.: see these words.] I, intrant. 1. 
To adhere closely; be attached; stick: as, a 
wet garment dings to the limbs. 
Ferly [wondrous] fayre watj the folde [earth], for the forst 
[frost] clewii-il. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1694. 
All night long a cloud clingt to the hills. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
2. To hold fast, especially by the hands or by 
coiling round or embracing, or, figuratively, by 
refusing to abandon or give up. 
As two spent swimmers, that do <ihi together. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 2. 
Two babes of love close clinging to her waist. 
Pope, Dunciad, ii. 158. 
Ida station d there 
Unshaken, clinging to her purixae, nrra. 
Tennyson, 1'rincess, v. 
3. To rush with violence. [Prov. Eng.] 
Sir L'legis cliin'ir* in, and clekes [clutches] another. 
Morte Arthurs (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1865. 
4f. To wither; shrivel. 
In could clay now schal y clinge. 
llitiniix In Vinjln. etc. (K. E. T. S.), p. 85. 
1047 
imt ,,f this erthe into theerthe, 
There to ,7//e/. a* a clot of clay. 
//V ' I I.. T. S.), p. v>. 
II. tranx. 1. To cause to adhere closely ; ap- 
ply firmly and closely. [Rare.] 
I clung my legs as close to his tides as I could. Swift. 
2. To consume; waste to leanness; shrivel. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
I poll the next tree shall tlloll hallK ali\e 
Till famine, c//,,./ thcc. Shut., Maclwth, v. 5. 
He ... kept 
Ttic bints anil beasts and fumislt'd men at ha\ . 
Till hunger clung them. /;'///(, liarkness. 
cling (kling), . [< fling, r.] 1. Adherence; 
attachment; the act of holding fast ; embrace. 
[Rare.] 
Fast clasped by th' arched zodiack of her arms, 
Those closer clingt of love. Fletcher, 1'oems, p. 254. 
It is the anchored '/,>; to solid principles of duty and 
action, which knows how t swing with the tide, but i 
never carried away by it that we demand in public 
men. Lowell, study Windows, p. 160. 
2f. A bunch; a cluster; an aggregation of sev- 
eral things that cling together. 
The cliiuj of big-swoln grapes. 
P. Fletcher, Purple Island, i. 
clingstone (kling'ston), a. and n. I. a. Having 
the pulp adhering firmly to the stone: said of 
a class of peaches. Clingstone peaches are distin- 
guished from Jrtettone peaches, the pulp of which sepa- 
rates readily and cleanly from the stone. 
II. . A peach of this class. 
Clingy (kling'i), a. [< ding + -yi. Cf. sticky.] 
Apt to cling: adhesive. Johnson. [Rare.] 
clinic (klin'ik). . and n. [< F. dinique = 8p. 
clinico = Pg. It. dinico, < LL. dinicus, a bed- 
ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed. L. 
a physician, < Gr. ithvtictic, pertaining to a bed 
(<5 K^iviKAf, a physician, ^K)JVIK^ (no. re^vi/, art), 
the medical art), < K).ivt/, a bed, couch, < Mt-civ, 
lean, recline : seeefin*.] I. a. Same as clinical. 
n. n. 1. One confined to bed by sickness. 
[Rare.] 
Bring to as a clinick, . . . and we will instantly restore 
him sound, and in health. KUlingbfck, Sermons, p. l;U. 
2. Ecdes., formerly, one who received baptism 
on a sick-bed. 
Suppose the clinic, or death-bed penitent, to be ... 
forward in these employments. 
Jar. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 187. 
3. In med., an examination of a patient by an 
instructor in the presence of his students, ac- 
companied by remarks on the nature and treat- 
ment of the case. Also written dinique. 
clinical (klin'i-kal), a. [< clinic + -al.~] Per- 
taining to a sick-bed ; pertaining to a clinic. 
Clinic or clinical baptism. See bautimn. clinical 
convert, one converted on his death-bed. Clinical lec- 
ture, a discourse delivered by an instructor to students 
of medicine or surgery, at the bedside or in the presence 
of patients suffering from the diseases or injuries described, 
with a view to practical instruction and demonstration. 
Clinical surgery or medicine, that form of surgical or 
medical instruction which is imparted to the student at 
the bedside or in the presence of the patient. 
clinically (klin'i-kal-i), ado . In a clinical man- 
ner ; by the bedside. 
clinician (kli-nish'an), n. [< clinic + -ian; 
after physician, mathematician.] One who 
makes a practical study of disease in the per- 
sons of those afflicted by it. 
clinicist (klin'i-sist), n. [< clinic + -ist.'} One 
who studies diseases at the bedside, and is 
skilled in the recognition and treatment of 
them: a clinician. 
Clinidae (klin'i-de), n. pi. [KL., < Clinus + 
-ifte.] A family of blenmoid fishes, typified by 
the genus Clin us. They have a moderately long or ob- 
long oody with regular scales, a projecting head, the dor- 
sal tin divided into a long spinous and a short soft portion, 
and the ventral tins jugular in position and having a spine 
and two or three rays. The species mainly inhabit tropi- 
cal and subtropical seas, though several reach the coast 
of the 1'nited States. 
clinidium (kli-nid'i-um), n.; pi. dinidia (-ii). 
[ML., (. (?) Gr. K/Uvtiv, incline; cf. Gr. lAtv'i&iav, 
dim. of K/Uv^, a bed : see clinic. Cf . dinode.] In 
lii-hi'nology, one of the short filaments which, 
inclosed in a clinosporangium, produce at their 
summits spore-like bodies called dinospores. 
clinique (kli-nek'), . [F., < LL. dinicus: see 
<//.] Same as clinic, 3. 
clink (klingk), v. [< ME. dinken (not in AS.) = 
MD. D. klinken, clink, tinkle, = (with ng instead 
of nk) MD. LG. klingen = OHG. ch/ingan, MHG. 
G. klingen = Dan. klinge, freq. klingrc, = Sw. 
klinga = Icel. klingja, ring, tinkle, etc. ; cf. AS. 
clynian (once), ring, as a shield when struck, 
= OFries. klinna, ring, as a coin. An imitative 
word, which may be regarded (in E.) as a weak- 
ened form of clank : see clank and dang. In the 
sense of 'clench, clinch,' etc. (see II., 2), dink 
clinkumbell 
is but a var. of </<///, ( v <//, with which 
ill its orif.'. M-ll.-i- I. lei. 1 I l> eln.-ely related: gee 
f/i ni'/i, rlnii'li. Coinplil-e rlii'l. 1. i-llul;. with I'lili'k, 
'liiiil;. As to the iniitiit ion. >(. clnnl,-, iml, . imiir. 
mi'/. I I. in I runs. 1. To ring or jingle; chink; 
give forth a sharp inetiillii- soun.l, or a si. 
sion of such sounds, as small metallic or other 
sonorous bodies in collision. 
Mauv a jew elle.l hWord 
at tie -ide of kmi/lit or lord. 
'illiii,,, Worrii l.aitbl) Paradise, II. 108. 
2. To cause a clinking sound by striking two 
objects, as ghiNws. togctlier. 
So till lip thy can, ami c/i'iit ith me. 
It. II. tit<lilanl, In Alsatla. 
3. To make a jingle ; chime. 
And yet I liiintt ese.-pt the Rlline, 
Because it clink* with Caroline. 9n " 
H. trans. 1. To cause to produce a sharp, 
ringing sound: as, to clink glasses in drinking 
healths. 
And I shall cliiJ&n vow so mery a )> 
That I shal waken al this conipanye. 
Chaucer, I'rol. to Shipman's Tale, 1. 24. 
But, while they [the passengers] are at the tables, one 
may be seen K"ing round aiming the cars with a lantern 
andahaniMii i. intent upon a graver business. Hfitclinlr- 
ing the wheels to try if they are sound. 
li. II". V/../.n.-", I lid V,,l. of Life, pp. 260, 261. 
2. To clench ; weld ; clasp ; seize quickly. 
[Scotch.] 
Clink (klingk), . [= MD. klinrh-, a Mow, also 
a latch, I), klink, a blow, also a latch, rivet, also 
a clock. = MLG. klitikt; klettke, a hitch, bolt, = 
MHG. G. klinke, a latch (klinkbolscn, a bolt, riv- 
et), = Dan. klinke, a latch, rivet, clinker, = Sw. 
klinka, a latch, Iclink, clincher-work : all various- 
lyfrom the verb. In the senses of 'latch,' 'key,' 
cf. dicket, < dickl.] i. A sharp, ringing sound 
made by the collision of sonorous (especially 
metallic) bodies. 
The clyiUce &. the clamour claterit in the aire. 
Detraction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L 588S. 
The flint and fall of swords. Shak,, Othello, ii. S. 
There is no rustle of silks, no waving of plumes, no clink 
of golden spurs. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser. , p. 229. 
2. A smart stroke. [Scotch.] 
Ane got a clink on the head. Old Ballad. 
3. Money; chink: as, "ueedfu' dink," Burns. 
[Scotch.] 4f. A latch. 
Tho, creeping close liehind the Wicket 
Prcvelie he peeped out through a chinck. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 
5t. A key. Coles, 1717. 6. pi. Long iron nails. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
clinkantt, a. See clinquant. 
clinker (kling'ker), . [< dink + -er 1 . In the 
sense of 'vitrified brick, etc., also spelled klin- 
ker, being ^ G. klinker, < D. klinker, a vitrified 
brick, also a sounder, a vowel, MD. klinckacrd 
(> Sw. klinkert), a vitrified brick, also (= MLG. 
klinkart, klinkert) a certain gold com ; cf . Dan. 
klinke, a clinker: see dink, n."] 1. That which 
clinks. Specifically 2. A metal-heeled shoe 
used in dancing jigs. 3. The partly melted 
and agglutinated residuum of the combustion 
of coal which has a fusible ash. 4. A partial- 
ly vitrified brick or mass of bricks. 5. A kind 
of hard Dutch or Flemish brick, used for pav- 
ing yards and stables. 6. Vitrified or burnt 
matter thrown up by a volcano. 7. A scale of 
black oxid of iron, formed when iron is heated 
to redness in the open air. 8. A deep impres- 
sion of a horse's or cow's foot ; a small puddle 
so formed. Grose. [Prov. Eue.] 
clinker (kling'ker), v. i. [< clinker, n.] To 
form clinker ; become incrusted with clinker. 
They [boiler-grates] will not clinker np. 
Fibre and Fabric, V. 17. 
clinker-bar (kling'ker-bar), n. In steam-en- 
gines, a bar fixed across the top of the ash-pit 
for supporting the rods used for clearing the 
fire-bars. 
clinker-built, clinker-plating, etc. See clinch- 
er-built, etc. 
clinking (kling'king), n. [< dink + -ing 1 .'] 
Crackling : a term used by file-makers. 
clink-shell (kliugk'shel), n. A shell of the ge- 
nus Anomia or family Anomiida;: so called be- 
cause when strung or shuffled together they 
make a clinking sound. 
clinkstone (klingk'ston), n. [< clink +' stone; 
from its sonorousness.] Same as phonolite. 
Clinkumbell (kling'kum-bel), . [Sc., < dink + 
-urn, an unmeaning syllable, + bell 1 ."] One who 
rings a bell ; a bellman. 
Now Clinkumoell. wi' rattlin' tow [rope], 
Begins to jow and croon. Burnt, Holy Fair. 
