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Their services are clocklike, to be set Backward and forward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.

Clock"work` (-wűrk`), n. The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.

Clod (kl&obreve;d), n. [OE. clodde, latter form of clot. See Clot.] 1. A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax.

The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift.

3. That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.

This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet.

4. A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt Dryden.

5. A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

Clod (kl&obreve;d), v. i To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.

Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher.

Clod, v. t. 1. To pelt with clods. Jonson.

2. To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Clod"dish (?), a. Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish. Hawthorne.

-- Clod"dish*ness, n.

Clod"dy (?), a. Consisting of clods; full of clods.

Clod"hop`per (?), n. A rude, rustic fellow.

Clod"hop`ping, a. Boorish; rude. C. BrontÚ.

Clod"pate` (?), n. A blockhead; a dolt.

Clod"pat`ed (?), a. Stupid; dull; doltish.

Clod"poll` (?), n. [Clod + poll head.] A stupid fellow; a dolt. [Written also clodpole.] Shak.

Cloff (?; 115), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

Clog (?), n. [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.] 1. That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.

2. A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.

As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog. Hudibras.

A clog of lead was round my feet. Tennyson.