Clutch (n.) Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
Clutch (n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.
Clutched (imp. & p. p.) of Clutch
Clutching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clutch
Clutch (n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.
Clutch (n.) To close tightly; to clinch.
Clutch (v. i.) To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at.
Clutter (n.) A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
Clutter (n.) Clatter; confused noise.
Cluttered (imp. & p. p.) of Clutter
Cluttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clutter
Clutter (v. t.) 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 (v. i.) To make a confused noise; to bustle.
Clutter (n.) To clot or coagulate, as blood.
Clypeastroid (a.) 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 (a.) Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
Clypeate (a.) Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.
Clypeiform (a.) Shield-shaped; clypeate.
Clypei (pl. ) of Clypeus
Clypeus (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.
Clysmian (a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.
Clysmic (a.) Washing; cleansing.
Clyster (n.) A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Cnemial (a.) Pertaining to the shin bone.
Cnidae (pl. ) of Cnida
Cnida (n.) One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a nematocyst; a lasso cell.
Cnidaria (n. pl.) A comprehensive group equivalent to the true Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.
Cnidoblast (n.) One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidae.
Cnidocil (n.) The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.
Co- () A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See Com-.
Coacervate (a.) Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.
Coacervate (v. t.) To heap up; to pile.
Coacervation (n.) A heaping together.
Coach (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
Coach (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
Coach (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
Coach (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
Coached (imp. & p. p.) of Coach
Coaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coach
Coach (v. t.) To convey in a coach.
Coach (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
Coach (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
Coachbox () The seat of a coachman.
Coachdog () One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog.
Coachee (n.) A coachman
Coachfellow (n.) One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade.
Coachmen (pl. ) of Coachman
Coachman (n.) A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.
Coachman (n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.
Coachmanship (n.) Skill in driving a coach.
Coachwhip snake () A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).
Coact (v. t.) To force; to compel; to drive.
Coact (v. i.) To act together; to work in concert; to unite.
Coaction (n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.
Coactive (a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.
Coactive (a.) Acting in concurrence; united in action.
Coactively (adv.) In a coactive manner.
Coactivity (n.) Unity of action.
Coadaptation (n.) Mutual adaption.
Coadapted (a.) Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth.
Coadjument (n.) Mutual help; cooperation.
Coadjust (v. t.) To adjust by mutual adaptations.
Coadjustment (n.) Mutual adjustment.
Coadjutant (a.) Mutually assisting or operating; helping.
Coadjutant (n.) An assistant.
Coadjuting (a.) Mutually assisting.
Coadjutive (a.) Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.
Coadjutor (n.) One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
Coadjutor (n.) The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.
Coadjutorship (n.) The state or office of a coadjutor; joint assistance.
Coadjutress (n.) Alt. of Coadjutrix
Coadjutrix (n.) A female coadjutor or assistant.
Coadjuvancy (n.) Joint help; cooperation.
Coadjuvant (a.) Cooperating.
Coadjuvant (n.) An adjuvant.
Coadunate (a.) United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.
Coadunation (n.) Union, as in one body or mass; unity.
Coadunition (n.) Coadunation.
Coadventure (n.) An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
Coadventure (v. i.) To share in a venture.
Coadventurer (n.) A fellow adventurer.
Coafforest (v. t.) To convert into, or add to, a forest.
Coag (n.) See Coak, a kind of tenon.
Coagency (n.) Agency in common; joint agency or agent.
Coagent (n.) An associate in an act; a coworker.
Coagment (v. t.) To join together.
Coagmentation (n.) The act of joining, or the state of being joined, together; union.
Coagulability (n.) The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.
Coagulable (a.) Capable of being coagulated.
Coagulant (n.) That which produces coagulation.
Coagulate (a.) Coagulated.
Coagulated (imp. & p. p.) of Coagulate
Coagulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coagulate
Coagulate (v. t.) To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
Coagulate (v. i.) To undergo coagulation.
Coagulated (a.) Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled.
Coagulation (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.
Coagulation (n.) The substance or body formed by coagulation.
Coagulative (a.) Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent.
Coagulator (n.) That which causes coagulation.