Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CLUS'TER-GRAPE, n.

A small black grape. – Mortimer.

CLUS'TER-ING, ppr.

Growing in a cluster or in bunches; uniting in a bunch, or in a flock, crowd, or close body.

CLUS'TER-ING-LY, adv.

In clusters.

CLUST'ER-Y, a.

1. Growing in clusters. – Johnson.
2. Full of clusters. – Bailey.

CLUTCH, n.

A griping or pinching with the fingers; seizure; grasp.

CLUTCH, v.i. [This seems to be from the root of Sax. læccan, to seize, whence gelæccan, id. If not, I know not its origin. It may be allied to lock and latch.]

1. To double in the fingers and pinch or compress them together; to clinch. [If n is not radical in clinch, this may be from the same root.]
2. To seize, clasp or gripe with the hand; as, to clutch a dagger; to clutch prey. – Shak. Herbert.
3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp. – Collier.

CLUTCH'ED, pp.

Seized; grasped.

CLUTCH'ES, n. [plur.]

1. The paws or talons of a rapacious animal, as of a cat or dog.
2. The hands, in the sense of rapacity or cruelty, or of power. – Hudibras. Stillingfleet.

CLUTCH'ING, ppr.

Seizing with the hand.

CLUT'TER, n. [W. cluder, a heap or pile, from cludaw, to bear, to bring together, to heap. It has the elements of L. claudo.]

1. A heap or assemblage of things lying in confusion; a word of domestic application. He saw what a clutter there was with huge pots, pans and spits. – L'Estrange.
2. Noise; bustle. [This sense seems allied to clatter, but it is not the sense of the word in New England.]

CLUT'TER, v.i.

To make a bustle, or fill with confusion. The English lexicographers explain this word by noise and bustle; but probably by mistake.

CLUT'TER, v.t.

To crowd together in disorder; to fill with things in confusion; as, to clutter a room; to clutter the house.

CLUT'TER-ED, pp.

Encumbered with things in disorder.

CLUT'TER-ING, ppr.

Encumbering with things in confusion.

CLYP'E-ATE, a. [L. clypeus, a shield.]

Shaped like a Roman buckler.

CLYS'MIC, a. [Gr. κλυσμα.]

Washing; cleansing.

CLYS'TER, n. [Gr. κλυστηρ, from κλυζω, to wash or cleanse; L. clyster; D. klisteer; G. klystier; Fr. clistere; Dan. klisteer.]

An injection; a liquid substance injected into the lower intestines, for the purpose of promoting alvine discharges, relieving from costiveness, and cleansing the bowels. Sometimes it is administered to nourish and support patients who cannot swallow aliment.

CLYS'TER-PIPE, n.

A tube, or pipe used for injections.

CLYS'TER-WISE, adv.

In the manner of a clyster.

CO, prep. [CO-.]

A prefix, signifying with, in conjunction. [See Con.]

CO-A-CERV'ATE, a. [L. coacervatus.]

Heaped; raised into a pile; collected into a crowd. [Little used.] – Bacon.

CO-A-CERV'ATE, v.t. [L. coacervo; con and acervo, to heap up; acervus, a heap.]

To heap up; to pile. [Little used.]

CO-A-CERV-A'TION, n.

The act of heaping, or state of being heaped together. [Little used.] – Bacon.

COACH, or COUCH, n.

An apartment in a large ship of war near the stern, the roof of which is formed by the poop. – Mar. Dict.

COACH, n. [Fr. coche; Arm. coich; It. cocchio, a coach or coach-box; Sp. coche, a coach and a coasting-barge; Port. coche; D. koets, a coach and a couch; G. kutsche. This word seems to be radically a couch or bed, (Fr. couche, coucher,) a covered bed on wheels, for conveying the infirm.]

A close vehicle for commodious traveling, borne on four wheels, and drawn by horses or other animals. It differs from a chariot in having seats in front, as well as behind. It is a carriage of state, or for pleasure, or for traveling. Hackney-coach, a coach kept for hire. In some cities, they are licensed by authority, and numbered, and the rates of fare fixed by law. Mail-coach, a coach that carries the public mails. Stage-coach, a coach that regularly conveys passengers from town to town. [See Stage.]