Part 2006

<blockquote>And let me the canakin <b>clink</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>Clink</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To give out a slight, sharp, thinkling sound.</def> "The <i>clinking</i> latch."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To rhyme. <mark>[Humorous]</mark>.</def>

<i>Cowper.</i>

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

<hw>Clink</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.</def> "<b>Clink</b> and fall of swords."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Clinkant</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clin"kant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Clnquant</er>.</def>

<h1>Clinker</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clink"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>clink</ets>; cf. D. <ets>clinker</ets> a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from <ets>clinken</ets> to clink. Cf. <er>Clinkstone</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A kind of brick. See <cref>Dutch klinker</cref>, under <er>Dutch</er>.</def>

<h1>Clinker-built</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clink"er-built</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See <er>Lapstreak</er>.</def>

<h1>Clinkstone</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clink"stone`</hw> <tt>(?; 110)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Clink</ets> + <ets>stone</ets>; -- from its sonorousness.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See <er>Phonolite</er>.</def>

<h1>Clinodiagonal</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cli`no*di*ag"o*nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ to incline + E. <ets>diagonal</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle witch the vertical axis. See <er>Crystallization</er>.</def> -- <def2><tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinidiagonal.</def></def2>

<h1>Clinodome</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cli"no*dome`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ to incline + E. <ets>dome</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>See under <er>Dome</er>.</def>

<h1>Clinographic</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cli"no*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Gr</ets>. <ets><?/ to incline</ets> + <ets>-graph</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.</def>

<h1>Clinoid</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cli"noid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ bed + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.</def>