Part 2032

<hw>Club"house`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A house occupied by a club.</def>

<h1>Clubroom</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Club"room`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The apartment in which a club meets.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Club-rush</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Club"-rush`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus <spn>Scirpus</spn>. See <er>Bulrush</er>.</def>

<h1>Club-shaped</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Club"-shaped</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antenn\'91 of certain insects.</def>

<h1>Cluck</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cluck</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Clucked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Clucking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>cloccian</ets>; cf. D. <ets>klokken</ets>, G. <ets>glucken</ets>, <ets>glucksen</ets>, LG. <ets>klukken</ets>, Dan. <ets>klukke</ets>; all prob. of imitative origin.]</ety> <def>To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.</def>

<i>Ray.</i>

<h1>Cluck</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cluck</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.</def>

<blockquote>She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has <b>clucked</b> three to the wars. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cluck</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cluck</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The call of a hen to her chickens.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A click. See 3d <er>Click</er>, 2.</def>

<h1>Clucking</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cluck"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The noise or call of a brooding hen.</def>

<h1>Clue</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Clew</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as <er>Clew</er>.</def>

<blockquote>You have wound a goodly <b>clue</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This <b>clue</b> once found unravels all the rest. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Serve as <b>clues</b> to guide us into further knowledge. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Clum</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>interj.</tt> <def>Silence; hush.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Clumber</h1> <Xpage=269>