clock-case 
clock-case (klok'kas), . The case or recepta- 
cle of the works of a clock. 
clocked (klokt), a. [< clocks + - ef ;2.] Orna- 
mented with clocks or embroidered work : as, 
clocked stockings. 
clock-face (klok'fas), . 1. The dial or face 
of a clock, on which the time is shown. 2. 
The reading of a clock. [This use of the word 
was introduced by the American mathema- 
tician Chauvenet.] 
clock-maker (klok'ma"ker), >i. One who makes 
clocks. 
clock-setter (klok'sef'er), n. One who regu- 
lates clocks. 
Old Time the clock-.^il.r. Shak., K. John. iii. 1. 
clock-star (klok'stiir), n. In astron., a time- 
star, or a star observations of which are conve- 
nient for use in regulating timepieces. 
clock-stocking (klok'stok"ing), ii. A stocking 
embroidered with the ornament called clock ; a 
clocked stocking. 
Clock-tower (klok'tou"er), . [For the ME. 
words see clochcr 1 , belfry.] A tower containing 
a clock, usually with a large dial exposed in 
each of the four walls. 
Above and below, on the street side of this quadrangle, 
are club-rooms and offices, broken by a picturesque clock- 
tower. The Century, XXII. 490. 
clock-turret (klok'tur^et), w. A small clock- 
tower. 
clock-watch (klok'woch), n. A watch which 
strikes the hours, like a clock. 
clockwise (klpk'wlz), adv. [< clock 1 * + -wise.'] 
In the direction of rotation of the hands of a 
clock: as, the direction of the Amperian cur- 
rents in the south pole of a magnet is clockwise. 
In fact, if curve B is rotated clock-wise through a small 
angle round its highest point, it will coincide with that of 
A. Amer. Jam: Sci., 3d ser., XXXI. 261. 
clockwork (klok'werk), n. and a. I. . 1. The 
machinery and movements of a clock ; any com- 
plex mechanism of wheels producing regularity 
or precision of movement. 
I must not omit, that in this assembly of wax there were 
several pieces that moved by clock-work, and gave great 
satisfaction to the spectators. 
Addison, Religions in Waxwork. 
2. Figuratively, any regulated system by which 
work is performed steadily and without con- 
fusion, as if by machinery. 
II. a. Marked by machine-like regularity of 
operation: as, a clockwork system; clockwork 
movements. 
The clock-work tintinnabulum of rhyme. 
Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 529. 
clod 1 (klod), n. [< ME. clodde, a modified form 
of clotte, clot, perhaps by confusion with cloud, 
clud, cltide, a round mass, > E. cloud : see cloud 1 , 
cloud 2 , and clot 1 . Of. Sw. dial, klodd, a lump of 
snow or clay, kladd, a lump of dough.] If. Any 
lump or mass ; sometimes, a concreted mass ; 
a clot. 
Clods of blood. Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, vil. 64. 
Two massy clods of iron and brass. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 5C5. 
Specifically 2. A lump of earth, or earth and 
turf ; a lump of clay. 
The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod 
is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. 
Bacon. 
The sluggish clod, which the rude swain 
Turns with his share, and treads upon. 
Bryant, Thanatopsis. 
3. In coal-mining, indurated clay : the equiva- 
lent of bind. [Eng.] 4. A stretch of ground 
or turf; earth; soil. [Bare.] 
Byzantians boast that on the clod, 
Where once their sultan's horse has trod, 
Grows neither grass, nor shrub, nor tree. Swift. 
6. Anything earthy, base, and vile ; poetically, 
the body of man in comparison with his soul : 
as, "this corporeal clod," Milton. 
We leave behind us 
These clods of flesh, that are too massy burdens. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 6. 
He makes flat warre with God, and doth delie 
With his poore clod of earth the spacious sky. 
6. Herbert, The Church Porch. 
6. A dull, gross, stupid fellow ; a dolt. 
I am no clod of trade, to lackey pride. 
Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 2. 
7. A bait used in fishing for eels, consisting of 
a bunch of lobworms or earthworms strung on 
worsted yarn : also called a 606. See clod-fish- 
ing. 
clod 1 (klod), v. t. ; pret. and pp. clodded, ppr. 
clodding. [< ME. clodde)/, cover with earth, as 
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seeds; from the noun.] 1. To pelt with clods 
or stones. 
"Clodding " is the Belfast word for throwing stones ; clod 
the police is to pelt them. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 285. 
2. To form into clods. Holland. 
The leaven 
That spreading in this dull and clodded earth 
Gives it a touch ethereal. Keats, Endymion, i. 297. 
3f. To cover with earth, as seeds ; harrow. 
Nowe londe, that medycyne [clover] is fore yfond, 
... ye must it plowe eftesones, 
Eke diligently clodde it, pyke out stones. 
Palladiux, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 02. 
4f. To confine in what is earthy and base, as 
the soul in the body. G-.Fletclter. 5. To throw 
with violence. Scott. [Scotch.] 
clod 2 , v. A dialectal variant of clotlie. 
clod-breaker (klod 'bra" ker), . 1. Same as 
clod-crusher. 2. A peasant; a clodhopper; a 
clodpoll: used in contempt. [Rare.] 
In other countries, as France, the people of ordinary 
condition were called clod-breaker*. Brougham. 
clod-cnisher (klod'krush"er), n. A roller arm- 
ed with blunt spikes for dragging over newly 
plowed land to break the clods and render it 
fit for seeding. 
cloddertr " [Early mod. E., var. of clatter, 
clutter 1 . Cf. clodder, n.] To coagulate ; clot. 
Palsgrare. 
cloddert, [< ME. clodder, a clot. Cf. clatter, 
clutter 1 , and clodder, r.] A clot. 
In cloddres of blod his her [hair] was clnnge. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 142. 
cloddish (klod'ish), a. [< clod 1 + -ish 1 .'] 1. Of 
the nature of a clod ; earthy ; hence, earthly ; 
base ; low. 
The clods of earth, which we so constantly belabored 
and turned over and over, were never etherealized into 
thought. Our thoughts, on the contrary, were fast be- 
coming cloddish. Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance, p. 79. 
2. Clownish ; boorish ; doltish ; uncouth ; un- 
gainly. 
They [his boots] seemed to him to have a cloddish air. 
Disraeli, Coningsby, iii. 5. 
cloddishness (klod'ish-nes), n. [< cloddish + 
-ness."] Clownishness ; boorishness ; doltish- 
ness ; clumsiness : ungainliness. 
Cloddy (klod'i), a. [< clod 1 + -yl.] 1. Con- 
sisting of clods ; abounding with clods. 
The meagre cloddy earth. Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 
2. Earthy; mean; gross. 
clodet, v. An obsolete variant of clothe. 
clod-fishing (klod'fish'ing), . A method of 
catching eels by means of a clod or bait of lob- 
worms strung on worsted. The fisher allows this 
bait to sink to the bottom of the stream, and the eel biting 
it so entangles its teeth in the worsted as to be unable to 
let go. Also called bob-fixhing. 
clodhopper (klod'hop'er), n. [< clod 1 + hopper; 
one who 'hops' over 'clods,' i. e., a plowman.] 
A clown ; a rustic ; a boor. 
Now I should think it was the clodhopper gave the gen- 
tleman the day's work. 
C. Reade, Never too Late to Mend, i. 
clodhppping (klod 'hop "ing), a. [< clod* + 
hopping; cf. clodhopper. ~] Like a clodhopper; 
loutish; boorish; treading heavily, as one ac- 
customed to walking on plowed land. 
What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane ! a clod- 
hopping messenger would never do at this juncture. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xx. 
clodpate (klod'pat), n. [< clod 1 + pate."] A 
stupid fellow ; a dolt ; a numskull, 
clodpated (klod'pa"ted), a. [< clod 1 + pate + 
-eaf.~] Stupid; dull; doltish. 
My clod-pated relations spoiled the greatest genius in 
the world, when they bred me a mechanick. Arlnithnot. 
clodpoll (klod'pol), n. and a. [Formerly also 
clodpole and clotpole ; < clod 1 + poll 1 . Cf. clod- 
pate and blockhead.] I. n. A stupid fellow ; a 
dolt ; a blockhead. 
This letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no 
terror in the youth ; he will flnd it comes from a clodpole. 
Shak., T. N., iii. 4. 
Your parasite 
Is a most precious thing, dropt from above, 
Not bred mougst clods and clodpoles, here on earth. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 1. 
II. a. Stupid; dull; ignorant. 
What clod-pole commissioner is this ! 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, v. 1. 
clceochoanite (kle-o-ko'a-mt), o. and n. [< NL. 
clceoehoanitis, < Gr. K^oiof, a collar, + xoavij, a 
funnel.] I. a. In zodl., haying a collar as well 
as a funnel, as an ammonite ; specifically, be- 
longing to the Clteochoanites. 
II. . An ammonoid cephalopod of the group 
Clceochoanites. 
clog 
Cloeochoanites(kle-o-k6-a-n!'tez),n. pi. [NL., 
pi. of clwocJioamtis : see clceochoanite.} A group 
of ellipochoanoid ammonoid cephalopods which 
have a collar above as well as a funnel below 
the septum. Originally Cloioclioanites. Hyatt. 
doff (klof), n. [Origin unknown.] In com. : 
() Formerly, an allowance of 2 pounds in 
every 3 hundredweight on certain goods, after 
the tare and tret were taken, that the weight 
might hold out in retailing. (6) Now, in Eng- 
land, any deduction or allowance from the gross 
weight. Also written cloutjh. 
clog (klog), B. [< ME. clot/ge, a lump, block; 
same as So. dug, a clog, clot, impediment, en- 
cumbrance, > clng, clog, impede, obstruct, cover 
with mud or anything sticky (cf. cltiggy, cladgy, 
cledgy), connected (prob. through Dan. klteg, 
loam) with E. clay: see clay, clag 1 , cleg 1 ."] 1. A 
block or mass of anything constituting an en- 
cumbrance. 
A clog of lead was round my feet, 
A band of pain across my brow. 
Tennyson, The Letters. 
Specifically (<i) A block of wood or other material fasten- 
ed to an animal, as by a rope or chain to its leg, to impede 
its movements. (6) A block of wood fastened to or placed 
under the wheel of a vehicle to serve as a brake in descend- 
ing a hill. 
Hence 2. Any encumbrance ; anything that 
hinders motion or action, physical or moral, or 
renders it difficult ; a hindrance or impediment. 
I am glad at soul I have no other child ; 
For thy escape would teach me tyranny, 
To hang clogs on them. Shak., Othello, i. 3. 
Slavery is of all things the greatest clog and obstacle to 
speculation. Swift, Sentiments of a Ch. of Eng. Man, ii. 
3. Same as clog-almanac. 4f. A cone of the 
pine or other coniferous tree. 5. A kind of 
shoe with a very thick sole and high heels, worn 
either alone or as an overshoe. Clogs for the lat- 
ter purpose were in common use until the introduction of 
india-rubber overshoes, about 1840. The clogs worn in the 
middle ages were often excessively high, and, like those of 
the Japanese, added notably to the wearer's stature. The 
material was commonly wood. Cheaply made clogs, still 
in use in the north of England and very common in France 
and Germany, consist of a wooden sole with a leather up- 
per for the front part of the foot alone, or with sometimes a 
low leather counter in addition. See patten and chopine. 
Clagges or Pattens to keepe them out of the durt thay 
may not burden themselues with. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 205. 
Pattens date their origin to the reign of Anne ; clogs, as 
we have already shown, are of considerable antiquity. 
t'airholt, Costume, I. 374. 
Hence 6. A similar shoe used in the modern 
clog-dance. 7. A clog-dance. 8. In coal-min- 
ing, a short piece of timber placed between a 
prop and the roof which it helps to support. 
= Syn. 1. Load, weight, dead weight, burden, obstruction, 
trammel, check. 
clog (klog), r. ; pret. and pp. clogged, ppr. 
clogging. [< clog, .] I. trans. 1. T,o impede 
the movements of ; encumber ; hamper ; hob- 
ble, as by a chain, a rope, a block of wood, or 
the like : as, to clog a bullock to prevent it from 
leaping fences; to clog a wheel. 
If ... you flnd so much blood in his liver as will clog 
the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy. 
Shak., T. N., iii. 2. 
The Turks rusht in, and apprehended him, clogginghtm 
with chains. Sandys, Travailes, p. 7. 
Gums and pomatums shall his flight restrain. 
While clogg'd he beats his silken wings in vain. 
Pope, R. of the L., ii. 130. 
2f. To restrain ; confine. 
The castle all of steel, 
The which Acrisius caused to be made, 
To keep his daughter Danae clogg'd in. 
Greene, Alphonsus, iii. 
3. To choke up ; obstruct so as to hinder pas- 
sage through : as, to clog a tube ; to clog a vein. 
4. Figuratively, to throw obstacles in the way 
of; encumber; hinder; burden; trammel; ham- 
per : as, to clog commerce with restrictions. 
The bill to raise money is clogged so as to prevent the 
governor from giving his consent to it. 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 286. 
Clogged by gross vice, by slaughter stained, 
Still knew his daring soul to soar. 
Scott, Rokeby, i. 10. 
The ( indulgence vouchsafed to the Presbyterians, who 
constituted the great body of the Scottish people, was 
clogged by conditions which made it almost worthless. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vil. 
= Syn. To shackle, fetter, restrain, cumber, embarrass, 
restrict. 
II. intrans. 1. To become loaded, encum- 
bered, or choked up with extraneous matter. 
In working through the bone the teeth of the saw will 
begin to 0(017. Sharpe, Surgery. 
2. To coalesce ; unite and adhere in a cluster 
or mass ; stick together. 
Move it sometimes with a broom that the seeds clog not 
together. Evelyn, 
