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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; <as>as, a <ex>clumsy</ex> person; a <ex>clumsy</ex> workman; <ex>clumsy</ex> fingers; a <ex>clumsy</ex> gesture; a <ex>clumsy</ex> excuse.</as></def>

<blockquote>But thou in <b>clumsy</b> verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Awkward</er>.</syn>

<h1>Clunch</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clunch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Perh. fr. <ets>clinch</ets> to make fast]</ety> <def>.</def>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>Indurated clay. See <er>Bind</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 3.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.</def>

<i>Dana.</i>

<h1>Clung</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clung</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Cling</er>.</def>

<h1>Clung</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clung</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Prop. p. p. fr. OE. <ets>clingen</ets> to wither. See <er>Cling</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>Wasted away; shrunken.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Cluniac</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clu"ni*ac</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as <tt>a.</tt></def>

<h1>Cluniacensian</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clu`ni*a*cen"sian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cluniac.</def>

<h1>Clupeoid</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clu"pe*oid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L.<ets>clupea</ets> a kind of fish, NL., generic name of the herring + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the Herring family.</def>

<h1>Cluster</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clus"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>cluster</ets>, <ets>clyster</ets>; cf. LG. <ets>kluster</ets> (also Sw. & Dan. <ets>klase</ets> a cluster of grapes, D. <ets>klissen</ets> to be entangled?.)]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.</def>

<blockquote>Her deeds were like great <b>clusters</b> of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; <as>as, a <ex>cluster</ex> of islands</as>.</def> "<i>Cluster</i> of provinces."

<i>Motley.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.</def>

<blockquote>As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In <b>clusters</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your <b>clusters</b>, Who did hoot him out o' the city. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cluster</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clus"ter</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Clustered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Clustering</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.</def>