cloy 
cloy 2 t (kloi), r. t. [Appar. a corruption of 
ctau\ r., by confusion with cloy 1 .} To stroke 
with a claw. 
His royal bird 
Prunes the immortal wing, and doii* his beak, 
As v\ hen his god is plcas'd. .S7m., rymliclinf, v. 4. 
cloyert (kloi'er), n. [< cloy 2 + -cr 1 .} One who 
intrudes on the profits of young sharpers by 
claiming a share. [Thieves' slang.] 
Then there's urlifi>i; or Knap, thatdons any new brother 
in that trade and Miaps will have half iti any booty. 
MicUUtton ""/ li'kk.-i\ KnariiiK (Jirl. 
cloyless (kloi ' les), a. [< cloy 1 + -less.} Not 
causing satiety. 
Epicurean cooks 
Sharpen with clot/less sauce his appetite. 
.sVmA-., A. and C., II. 1. 
cloymentt (kloi 'ment), . [< </<>//! + -/< n/. \ 
Surfeit; repletion b'eyond the demands of ap- 
petite. 
Alas, their love may be cull d appetite . . . 
That sutler surfeit, rluumfiil, and revolt. 
.SV/<.*., T. N., ii. :,. 
club 1 (klub), . [< ME. club, Hiibb, cliibbf, also 
club, etc., < Icel. klubba = Sw. klubba = Dan. 
klub, prob. an assimilated form (bb < ib, m/i) 
of Icel. klumba, a club, = Sw. Dan. klmi//:, 
clump, lump ; cf. Sw. klnbb } a clump, block ; 
1001 
club-moss 
He had a few gray hairs plaited and clubbed behind. clubbing-drinkt (klub'ing-drin"k). " A bcver- 
/,,,,,. Knickeri,cker, ,,. IT. ag( . JS , ^ tav Ilt .Coffee-house. 
He hath a drink called cauphe |cnYe|. which in made of 
a brown berry, and it may be called their rluHnnn .///,,/, 
between meals. //, illiSO). 
clubbish 1 (klub'ish), . [< club 1 + -//ii.] Kude; 
clownish; rustic. 
Ten kings do die before one clubbinh clowne. 
j .'. . ./ ... Magi., p. 231. 
IL-I n iouTar applioation of club 1 in the senaVof a clubbish- (klub'ish), a. [< <///-' + -,\/,i. ] Dis- 
' clump' or 'knot,' i. e., of men (see club 1 , 3) ; Posed to associate or club together ; clubable. 
cf. Sw. klubb, a clump, etc. (see club 1 ), dial, a clubbist (klul/ist), n. [< club'* + -il.} One 
who belongs to a party, club, or association ; 
a supporter of clubs. [Hare.] 
The crowd hli'Hileil nut, u ilh r;e.-. . ;il *|-M of this latter 
tin- name of a Jacobin ti. iiHn.in a iuSbut ; and shook 
Itself to seize him. Carliil. , ton h !: v., III. iv. a. 
Literary clubs and clulMit*. 
of social life In all large cities, many of them , , . -/"I""; " '"'""i";""' * VI "- ' 
"ccnpyiinT largo buildings containing meeting-rooms, li- ClUbby (klub l), a. [< flub* + -y 1 .} Of a club- 
brarfes, restaurants, etc. able or social disposition. Kulti. 
We now use the word clubbe for a sodality in a tavern. dub-COmpasseS (klub'kum'pas-ez), n. pi. A 
form of compasses having a bullet or cone at 
the extremity of one leg, which is inserted in a 
hole. 
4. Mi/it., to demoralize or confuse by a blun- 
der in tactical manojuvers: as, to club a bat- 
talion. [Slang.] 
club'-' (klub), n. [Appears first in the middle 
oi the 17th century, written club or rlubbr, ami 
applied to convivial societies originating and 
meeting in Coffee-houses and taverns; prob. a 
crowd; G. klum/i, a lump, mass, crowd: see 
(In mil 1 .} 1. A company of persons organized 
to meet for social intercourse, or for the pro- 
motion of some common object, as literature, 
science, politics, etc. Admission to the membership 
of clubs is commonly by ballot Clubs are now an Impor- 
tant icaturet' 
, 
Aubrey (loss)), 
What right has any man to meet in factious clubt to 
vilify the government .' Dryden, Ded. of The Medal, 
. 
The end of our club la to advance convention and club-flstt (klub'fist), H. A large heavy fist ; 
fncn.Uhp .v,>>,i.etters. hence, a brutal fellow. Mir. for Mags. 
l"." . ",1? - ~?:.? he j^ mted expenses of club-fisted (klub'fis'ted), a. Having a burly 
Dan. klumpfi'idet, clubfooted': see clump* ami a company; joint charge ; mess account. list. 
clown. As the name of a suit of cards, elitbx is 
a translation of Sp. Imstox, the suit of clubs, 
pi. of busto, a club, a cudgel (see basto, baxtim). 
The figure on these cards is now a trefoil or 
clover-leaf; cf. Dan. kliivcr = D. klarer, a club 
at cards, lit. 'clover': see clover.] 1. A stick 
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for club-foot (klub'filt), n. [< club 1 + foot. Cf. G. 
our part of the club. '''/'.", Diary. 
4. The contribution of an individual to a joint 
charge. 
The fine fellows are always inviting him to the tavern, 
and make him pay his club. Sirift, Journal to Stella, vi. 
or piece of wood suitable for being wielded club 2 (klub), v. ; pret. and pp. clubbed, ppr. 
clubbing. [< dub*, n.} I. in trans. 1. To com- 
bine or join together, as a number of individ- 
uals, for a common purpose ; form a club : as, 
to club together to form a library. 2. Specifi- 
cally, to contribute to a common fund ; com- 
bine to raise money for a certain purpose. 
We were resolved to club for a coach. Taller, Xo. 137. 
in the hand as a weapon ; a thick, heavy stick 
used as a weapon; a cudgel. 
but make you ready your stiff bats and club*. 
Shak., Cor., i. 1. 
As he nulled off his helmet, a butcher slew him with 
the stroak of a club. Sir J. Hayward. 
2. In the games of golf and shinty, a staff with 
a crooked and heavy head for driving the ball. 
See golf-club, 1. 3. A round solid mass; a 
clump ; a knot. 
The hair carried into a club, according to the fashion. 
Bulwfr. 
4. A playing-card that is marked with trefoils 
in the plural, the suit so marked. 
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, 
And spades, the emblem of untimely graves. 
Covrper, Task, iv. 218. 
The suit of clubs upon the Spanish cards is not the tre- 
foils as with us, but positively clubs, or cudgels, of which 
we retain the name, though we have lost the figures; the 
original name is bastos. The spades are swords, called in 
Spain espados; in this instance we retain the name and 
some faint resemblance of the figure. 
Strult, Sports and Pastimes, p. 424. 
The owl, the raven, and the bat 
Clubbed for a feather to his hat 
Siri/t. 
3. To be united in producing a certain effect ; 
combine into a whole. 
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream 
Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. 
Dryden. 
II. trans. 1. To unite; add together by con- 
tribution; combine. 
l.lnmpfuss = D. klomjnoet = Icel. klumbufotr = 
Dan. klumpfod (= Sw. klampfot), a club-foot: 
see clubi.] 1. A deformed or distorted foot; a 
foot which is set awry from the ankle, and is 
generally also imperfect in shape or undersized. 
2. A similar twisted condition of the feet 
which is normal in some animals, as sloths. 
3. [Without the hyphen.] Congenital distor- 
tion of the foot; the state of having a club- 
foot or club-feet ; talipes (which see) : as, to 
be afflicted with clubfoot; the surgical treat- 
ment of clubfoot. Also called clubbing ciub- 
foot moss. Same as club-mots. 
clubfooted (klub'fuf'ed), a. [< club-foot + 
-erf 2 .] Having a club-foot or club-feet; affect- 
ed with clubfoot ; taliped. 
clubfootedness (klub'fut'ed-nes), n. The 
state of being clubfooted or taliped. 
Club-grass (klub'gras), n. A kind of grass con- 
stituting the small genus C'orynenhonix, native 
to southern Europe. It has a jointed beard, 
which is club-shaped at the apex. 
should each of us have the advantage of using the books 
of all the other members. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 119. 
The two brothers who clubbed their means to buy an 
elephant. T. Hook, Gilbert Ourney, III. i. 
5. In en torn., a suddenly broadened outer por- 
2. To divide into an average amount for each 
individual concerned: as, to club the expense 
; __ v/t . of an entertainment. 
tion of an antenna, formed by" two,"threeTor chrt> 3 (klub), v. i. ; pret. and pp. clubbed, ppr. 
more enlarged terminal joints, as in most wee- dubbing. [Cf. ciufti.] Naut., to drift down a 
vils. See cut under clauatc^. 6. In fungi of current with an anchor dragging on the bottom. 
the family Clavariei, the claviform receptacle clubability, clubbability (klub-a-bil'i-ti), . 
or one of its branches. M. C. Cooke, British [< dubable : see -bility.~\ The quality of being 
Fungi, p. 335. 7. A small spar to which the clubable or social. 
By thus clubMiui our books In a common library, we Clubhaul (klub'hal), t: t. Naut., to tack (a 
ship) when in danger of missing stays and drift- 
ing ashore, by letting go the lee anchor as soon 
as the ship's head comes into the wind, and 
then causing the vessel to pay off in the right 
direction by hauling on a hawser previously at- 
tached to the anchor and led in on the lee quar- 
ter. The hawser is then cut, and, the sails be- 
ing trimmed, the ship stands off on the new 
tack. 
club-headed (klub'hed'ed), a. [<c/&l + head 
+ -erf 2 . Cf. clodpoll, blockhead, etc.] Having 
a thick head: as, "club-headed antennas," Der- 
luini. 
head of a gaff-topsail or the clue of a staysail clubable, clubbable (klub'a-bl), a. [< club* + club-house (klub'hous), M. A house occupied 
-able.'} Having the qualities that make a man by a club, or in which a club assembles, it u a 
fit to be a member of a social club ; companion- 
able; sociable. 
John Gibson Lockhart was not a social or clubbable man. 
Carruthers. 
A very small body of citizens entitled to be classed as 
clubable men. The Century, XXV. 811. 
club-ballt (klub'bal), n. A game. See extract. 
Club-ball is a pastime clearly distinguished from cambuc 
or goff. . . . The difference seems to have consisted in 
the one being played with a curved bat and the other with 
place of meeting and entertainment, always open to those 
who are members of the club. To the original coffee-room 
and news-room the typical modern club-house adds library 
and reading-room, and usually card-, billiard-, and smok- 
ing-rooms, baths, ete., and often bedrooms. The cuisine 
and domestic departments are also complete. 
club-law (klub'la), n. 1 . Government by clubs 
or violence; the use of arms or force in place 
of law. 2. In the game of loo, a rule that when 
clubs are trumps no player may pass or give up 
his hand. 
Strut!, Sports and Pastimes, I p. 173": clubman.! (klub'man), n. ; pi. clubmen (-men), 
clubbed (klubd), a. [< ME. cl ubbed, clobbed, club- [< C/M&I + man.} One who carries a club; one 
shaped, also rude; < club 1 + -ed?.} Shaped 
like a club ; thickened at the end. 
Grete clobbed staves. Chaucer, Prol. to Monk's Tale, 1. 10. 
a. a, Clubs. f>, Hoisting-pole. 
who fights with a club. 
Alcides, surnam'd Hercules, 
The only clubman of his time. 
The finger-ends are swollen, and a clubbed appearance ,. ^,2 *'"""'' "" *** 
club-man 2 
is present. 
appe: 
Buck's Uaiutbook of Med. Sci., V. 98. 
Specifically, in entom. : (a) Clavate ; dilated toward the 
apex : as, clubbed antennae or tlbiee. See cut under cla- 
rafd. (6) Forming a club: as, clubbed terminal joints of 
the antenna;. 
or jib is bent to make the sail set to the best 
advantage. 
club 1 (klub), . t.; pret. and pp. clubbed, ppr. clubber 1 "(klub'er), . [< club 1 , v., + -er 1 .} One 
clubbing. [< club 1 , n. See clubbed.} 1. To beat who clubs; one who strikes with a club. 
with a club. 2. To convert into a club; use clubber 2 (klub'er). n. [<&&>.., + -er 1 ."} One 
as a club : as, to club a musket (by taking hold who belongs to a club; a clubbist ; a club-man 
the barrel and striking with the butt). clubbing (klub'ing), n. [Verbal n. of club 1 , 
('..regarded as intransitive.] 1. The state of 
being or becoming clubbed or club-shaped, as 
the hands or feet. 2. Same as clubfoot. See 
club-foot, 3. 3. The act of beating with a club : 
(klub 'man), n. [< club* + man.} 
A member of a club ; one who prefers the life 
of clubs. 
covet the applause of the 
A*. A. Rev., CXXIII. 480. 
'mis' 
manager 
Hawthorne does not 
clever club-man. 
Here occurred a short, sharp, and obstinate hand-to- 
hand conflict with bayonets and clubbed muskets 
The Century, XXXI. 455. 
3. To unite, as the hair, in a solid mass or knot 
resembling a club. 
as, the police resorted to clubbing. 
r), . [< cZ12 + 
or purveyor for a 
club-moss (klub'mds), n. The common name 
of plants of the order Lycopodiacea?, more par- 
ticularly of the genus Lycopodium. Also called 
clubfoot moss. 
The club-moss (Selago) was a fetish of another kind. 
The man who carried the divine object was secure against 
all misfortune: and blindness could be cured by the 
