Clink, v. a. Ring, jingle, chink.
Clink, n. Ring, jingle, chink, tinkle.
Clinker, n.
- 1. Hard-burnt brick, Dutch brick, Flemish brick.
- 2. Scoria, slag, incombustible refuse (of furnaces).
Clip, v. a.
- 1. Cut.
- 2. Prune, trim, pare, curtail, cut short.
Clip, n.
- 1. Shearing, cutting.
- 2. Quantity sheared (as of wool), season’s shearing.
- 3. (Colloq.) Blow (with the hand), rap, knock, lick, whack, thwack, thump.
- 4. Spring-clasp, spring-holder, letter-clip.
Clique, n. [Fr.] [Generally used in a bad sense.] Coterie, club, brotherhood, sodality, clan, junto, cabal, camarilla, party, gang, set, ring, private or exclusive association.
Cloak, n.
- 1. Mantle.
- 2. Mask, veil, cover, blind, pretext.
Cloak, v. a. Mask, hide, veil, cover.
Cloak, n.
- 1. Timekeeper, timepiece, horologe.
- 2. Beetle, scarab, scarabee, scarabæus, coleopter.
- 3. Embroidery (on stockings), broidery, embroidered figure.