Clung
(Clung), a. [Prop. p. p. fr. OE. clingen to wither. See Cling, v. i.] Wasted away; shrunken.
[Obs.]
Cluniac
(Clu"ni*ac) n. (Eccl. Hist.) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded
in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. — Also used as a.
Cluniacensian
(Clu`ni*a*cen"sian) a. Cluniac.
Clupeoid
(Clu"pe*oid) a. [L. clupea a kind of fish, NL., generic name of the herring + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Of
or pertaining to the Herring family.
Cluster
(Clus"ter) n. [AS. cluster, clyster; cf. LG. kluster (also Sw. & Dan. klase a cluster of grapes,
D. klissen to be entangled?.)]
1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes,
Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine.
Spenser.
2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
"Cluster of provinces." Motley.
3. A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
As bees . . .
Pour forth their populous youth about the hive
In clusters.
Milton.
We loved him; but, like beasts
And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,
Who did hoot him out
o' the city.
Shak.
Cluster
(Clus"ter), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clustered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clustering.] To grow in clusters or
assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
His sunny hair
Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's.
Tennyson.
The princes of the country clustering together.
Foxe.
Cluster
(Clus"ter), v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Not less the bee would range her cells, . . .
The foxglove cluster dappled bells.
Tennyson.
Or from the forest falls the clustered snow.
Thomson.
Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns
collected together.
Clusteringly
(Clus"ter*ing*ly), adv. In clusters.
Clustery
(Clus"ter*y) a. [From Cluster, n.] Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
Clutch
(Clutch) n. [OE. cloche, cloke, claw, Scot. clook, cleuck, also OE. cleche claw, clechen,
cleken, to seize; cf. AS. gelæccan (where ge- is a prefix) to seize. Cf. Latch a catch.]
1. A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp. "The clutch of poverty." Cowper.
An expiring clutch at popularity.
Carlyle.
But Age, with his stealing steps,
Hath clawed me in his clutch.
Shak.
