Part 2030

<blockquote>But make you ready your stiff bats and <b>clubs</b>; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[Cf. the Spanish name <ets>bastos,</ets> and Sp. <ets>baston</ets> staff, club.]</ety> <def>Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (<pluf>pl.</pluf>) The suit of cards having such figure.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.</def>

<blockquote>They talked At wine, in <b>clubs</b>, of art, of politics. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary <b>Club</b>, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the <b>Club</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.</def>

<blockquote>They laid down the <b>club</b>. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the <b>club</b>. <i>Pepys.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Club law</col>, <cd>government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.</cd></cs>

<i>Addison. -</i>

<cs><col>Club moss</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know species is <spn>Lycopodium clavatum</spn>, but other <spn>Lycopodia</spn> are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.</cd> -- <col>Club root</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled.</cd> -- <col>Club topsail</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Club</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Clubbed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Clubbing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To beat with a club.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>club</b> a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. <i>Farrow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; <as>as, to <ex>club</ex> exertions</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; <as>as, to <ex>club</ex> the expense</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To club a musket</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Club</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.</def>

<blockquote>Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and <b>clubbed</b> into a dream. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.</def>

<blockquote>The owl, the raven, and the bat, <b>Clubbed</b> for a feather to his hat. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To drift in a current with an anchor out.</def>

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<hw>Club"ba*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.</def> <mark>[Humorous.]</mark>

<i>G. W. Curtis.</i>

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