Clime
(Clime) n. [L. clima. See Climate.] A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display.
Goldsmith.
Clinanthium
(||Cli*nan"thi*um) n. [NL., fr. Gr. bed + flower.] (Bot.) The receptacle of the flowers in a
composite plant; — also called clinium.
Clinch
(Clinch) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative
of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.]
1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.
2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.
3. To bend or turn over the point of so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South.
Clinch
(Clinch), v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Clinch
(Clinch) n.
1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as,
to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
2. A pun. Pope.
3. (Naut.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a
ship's gun to the ringbolts.
Clincher
(Clinch"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope.
2. That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
Clincher-built
(Clinch"er-built) a. See Clinker-built.
