Clubbist to Coach
Clubbist
(Club"bist) n. A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [R.] Burke.
Clubfist
(Club"fist`) n.
1. A large, heavy fist.
2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.
Clubfisted
(Club"fist`ed), a. Having a large fist. Howell.
Clubfoot
(Club"foot) n. [Club + foot.] (Med.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually
congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Clubfooted
(Club"foot`ed), a. Having a clubfoot.
Clubhand
(Club"hand`) n. (Med.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.
Clubhaul
(Club"haul`) v. t. (Naut.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the
wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as
she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.
Clubhouse
(Club"house`) n. A house occupied by a club.
Clubroom
(Club"room`) n. The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.
Club-rush
(Club"-rush`) n. (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the
genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped
(Club"-shaped) a. Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennæ of certain insects.
Cluck
(Cluck) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clucked ; p pr. & vb. n. Clucking.] [AS. cloccian; cf. D. klokken,
G. glucken, glucksen, LG. klukken, Dan. klukke; all prob. of imitative origin.] To make the noise, or
utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray.
Cluck
(Cluck), v. t. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clucked three to the wars.
Shak.
Cluck
(Cluck), n.
1. The call of a hen to her chickens.
2. A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Clucking
(Cluck"ing), n. The noise or call of a brooding hen.
Clue
(Clue) n. [See Clew, n.] A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.
You have wound a goodly clue.
Shak.
This clue once found unravels all the rest.
Pope.
Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge.
Locke.
Clum
(Clum) interj. Silence; hush. [Obs.] Chaucer.
