Part 2013

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.</def>

<blockquote>The commodities are <b>clogged</b> with impositions. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You 'll rue the time That <b>clogs</b> me with this answer. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.</syn>

<h1>Clog</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clog</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.</def>

<blockquote>In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to <b>clog</b>. <i>S. Sharp.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.</def>

<blockquote>Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds <b>clog</b> not together. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Clogginess</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clog"gi*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being clogged.</def>

<h1>Clogging</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clog"ging</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Anything which clogs.</def>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Cloggy</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clog"gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Clogging, or having power to clog.</def>

<h1>Cloisonn\'82</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cloi`son*n\'82</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F., partitioned, fr. <ets>cloison</ets> a partition.]</ety> <def>Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from <i>champlev\'82</i> enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.</def>

<i>S. Wells Williams.</i>

<h1>Cloister</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clois"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>cloistre</ets>, F. <ets>clo\'8ctre</ets>, L. <ets>claustrum</ets>, pl. <ets>claustra</ets>, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. <ets>claudere</ets>, <ets>clausum</ets>, to close. See <er>Close</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, and cf. <er>Claustral</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An inclosed place.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; (<pluf>pl.</pluf>) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.</def>

<blockquote>But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious <b>cloister's</b> pale. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.</def>

<blockquote>Fitter for a <b>cloister</b> than a crown. <i>Daniel.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Cloister garth</col> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.</cd></cs>