Clutch
(Clutch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clutched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clutching.] [OE. clucchen. See Clutch,
n.]
1. To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
Collier.
Is this a dagger which I see before me . . . ?
Come, let me clutch thee.
Shak.
2. To close tightly; to clinch.
Not that I have the power to clutch my hand.
Shak.
Clutch
(Clutch), v. i. To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; often followed by at.
Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market.
Bankroft.
Clutter
(Clut"ter) n. [Cf. W. cludair heap, pile, cludeirio to heap.]
1. A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
L'Estrange.
2. Clatter; confused noise. Swift.
Clutter
(Clut"ter), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cluttered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cluttering.] To crowd together in
disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
Clutter
(Clut"ter), v. i. To make a confused noise; to bustle.
It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
Tennyson.
Clutter
(Clut"ter), v. t. [From Clod, n.] To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] Holland.
Clypeastroid
(Clyp`e*as"troid) a. [NL. Clypeaster (L. clupeus shield + aster star) + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like
or related to the genus Clupeaster; applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores
on the upper side.
Clypeate
(Clyp"e*ate) a. [L. clupeatus, p. p. of clupeare to arm with a shield, fr. clupeus, clipeus
shield.]
1. (Bot.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.