Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves..

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass..

Anaclastics :: Anaclastics (n.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics.

Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft..

Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..

Anticlastic :: Anticlastic (a.) Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle..

Clash :: Clash (v. i.) To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

Clash :: Clash (v. i.) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

Clash :: Clash (v. t.) To strike noisily against or together.

Clash :: Clash (n.) A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

Clash :: Clash (n.) Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc..

Clashed :: Clashed (imp. & p. p.) of Clas.

Clashing :: Clashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clas.

Clashingly :: Clashingly (adv.) With clashing.

Clasp :: Clasp (v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp)..

Clasp :: Clasp (v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

Clasp :: Clasp (v. t.) To surround and cling to; to entwine about.

Clasp :: Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc..

Clasp :: Clasp (n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand..

Clasped :: Clasped (imp. & p. p.) of Clas.

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril..

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera..

Claspered :: Claspered (a.) Furnished with tendrils.

Clasping :: Clasping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clas.

Class :: Class (n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes..

Class :: Class (n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies..

Class :: Class (n.) A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc..

Class :: Class (n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety..

Class :: Class (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader..

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