marking the divisions of the ship's watches. — Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to
keep sidereal time.
Clock
(Clock) v. t. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clock
(Clock), v. t. & i. To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]
Clock
(Clock), n. (Zoöl.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle
Clocklike
(Clock"like`) a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Their services are clocklike, to be set
Backward and forward at their lord's command.
B. Jonson.
Clockwork
(Clock"work`) n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery
which produces regularity of movement.
Clod
(Clod) n. [OE. clodde, latter form of clot. See Clot.]
1. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron
and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax.
The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller
clod.
Bacon.
2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
The clod
Where once their sultan's horse has trod.
Swift.
3. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us.
T. Burnet.
4. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden.
5. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
Clod
(Clod) v. i To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See
Clot.
Clodded in lumps of clay.
G. Fletcher.
Clod
(Clod), v. t.
1. To pelt with clods. Jonson.
2. To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
