Part 2005

<blockquote>I <b>clung</b> legs as close to his side as I could. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make to dry up or wither.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine <b>cling</b> thee. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cling</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cling</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Adherence; attachment; devotion.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>A more tenacious <b>cling</b> to worldly respects. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Clingstone</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cling"stone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.</def></def2>

<h1>Clingy</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cling"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Apt to cling; adhesive.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Clinic</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clin"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Clinical</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One confined to the bed by sickness.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>One who receives baptism on a sick bed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hook.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.</def>

<h1>Clinical, Clinic</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw><hw>Clin"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Clin"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ bed, fr. <?/ to lean, recline: cf. F. <ets>clinique</ets>. See <er>Lean</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.</def>

<-- 3. a lesson or series of lessons taught to persons not expert in some activity, in which the errors of the students are pointed out, and remedial actions are suggested. (fig.) (sports), a performance so excellent as to be considered a model for emulation. -->

<cs><col>Clinical baptism</col>, <cd>baptism administered to a person on a sick bed.</cd> -- <col>Clinical instruction</col>, <cd>instruction by means of clinics.</cd> -- <col>Clinical lecture</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Clinical medicine</col>, <col>Clinical surgery</col></mcol>, <cd>that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.</cd></cs>

<h1>Clinically</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clin"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a clinical manner.</def>

<h1>Clinique</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cli*nique"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A clinic.</def>

<h1>Clinium</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clin"i*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ bed.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>See Clinanthium.</def>

<h1>Clink</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clink</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Clinked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Clinking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>clinken</ets>; akin to G. <ets>klingen</ets>, D. <ets>klinken</ets>, SW. <ets>klinga</ets>, Dan. <ets>klinge</ets>; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. <er>Clank</er>, <er>Clench</er>, <er>Click</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.</def>