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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise<?/ above its predecessor in impressiveness.</def>

<blockquote>"Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy <b>climax</b>. <i>J. D. Forbes.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The highest point; the greatest degree.</def>

<blockquote>We must look higher for the <b>climax</b> of earthly good. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To cap the climax</col>, <cd>to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Climb</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Climb</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Climbed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>, <mark>Obs. or Vulgar</mark> <er>Clomb</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Climbing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>climban</ets>; akin to OHG. <ets>chlimban</ets>, G. & D. <ets>klimmen</ets>, Icel. <ets>kl\'c6fa</ets>, and E. <ets>cleave</ets> to adhere.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.</def>

<blockquote>Black vapors <b>climb</b> aloft, and cloud the day. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.</def>

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<hw>Climb</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.</def>

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<hw>Climb</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.</def>

<i>Warburton.</i>

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<hw>Climb"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being climbed.</def>

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<hw>Climb"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, climbs</def>: <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant that climbs.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.</def>

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<hw>Climb"er</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Climb</er>; cf. <er>Clamber</er>.]</ety> <def>To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Tusser.</i>

<h1>Climbing</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Climb"ing</hw>, <def><tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> of <er>Climb</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Climbing fern</col>. <cd>See under <er>Fern</er>.</cd> -- <col>Climbing perch</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Anabas</er>, and <er>Labyrinthici</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Clime</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clime</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>clima</ets>. See <er>Climate</er>.]</ety> <def>A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See <er>Climate</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher <b>climes</b> a nobler race display. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>