Part 14

cloister, n. monastery, nunnery, convent, abbey, priory, cenoby. cloisterer, n. cenobite, recluse. cloistral, a. monastic, cloistered, recluse. close, a. oppressive, uncomfortable, muggy, unventilated; narrow, cramped; close-mouthed, secretive, reticent, reserved, uncommunicative, taciturn; dense, solid, compact, imporous; near, adjacent, adjoining; intimate, confidential; parsimonious, stingy, penurious niggardly, miserly, illiberal, close-fisted; exact, literal, faithful; intent, assiduous, fixed, intense. close, v. shut, stop, occlude; conclude, finish, end, terminate; inclose, encompass, confine, environ; grapple, clinch; lute, calk. close, n. conclusion, end; peroration; grapple; court, area, enclosure, inclosure, yard. close-mouthed, a. wary, cautious, secretive, uncommunicative, reserved. closeness, n. nearness, proximity, adjacency; density, compactness; intimacy; reticence, secretiveness; parsimony, stinginess, illiberality, penuriousness. closet, n. private room; clothespress, ambry. closing, a. concluding, final. closing, n. stopping up, obstruction, blockade, occlusion; peroration. clot, n. coagulation, coagulum.--v. coagulate. cloth, n. fabric, material, drapery, textile, texture, woof, weft. Associated Words: draper, drapery, drape. clothe, v. dress, attire, array, gird, drape. clothes, n. pl. dress, clothing, garments, vesture, attire, apparel, drapery, costume, raiment, garb, vestment, habiliments, regalia, uniform, livery, guise, wardrobe, rig, toggery, frippery, regimentals, paraphernalia; (clerical) vestments, canonicals; trousseau (bride's). clothing, n. clothes, raiment. Associated Words: frippery, wardrobe, habilatory. cloud, n. nebulosity, rack; cirrus, cat's-tail, mare's-tail; cumulus, stratus, nimbus; cirro-cumulus, cirro-stratus, cumulo-stratus; storm scud, wane cloud; tarnish, blemish; eclipse, obscurity. Associated Words: nephology, meteorology, nubiferous, nephelodometer, nephelometer, nephoscope, nepheloid, nephograph. cloud, v. overcast, becloud, obscure, shade, obfuscate; tarnish, sully, blacken. cloudy, a. overcast, lowering, murky, overclouded, obscure, sullen, nebulous, hazy, dim; tarnished, indistinct, blurred; variegated, mottled. cloven, a. bisulcate. clover, n. trifolium, trefoil; alsike. cloves, n. pl. Associated Words: eugenic, eugenin, clove, camphor, eugenol, caryophyllin. clown, n. buffoon, jester, merry-andrew, zany, harlequin, droll, punch, mime, _farceur_, scaramouch, _grimacier_ jackpudding; boor, lout, gawk, gawky, lubber, put, bumpkin, churl, carl, tike; rustic, hind, clodhopper, yokel, yahoo. clownish, a. boorish, ungainly, awkward, loutish, churlish, gawky. cloy, v. satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate. club, n. cudgel, bludgeon, truncheon, bat, mace, staff, shillalah, waddy, bandy, knobkerry; society, coterie, association, sorosis (woman's club). club, v. cudgel, beat, pommel; club together, combine, coöperate. club-bearer, n. claviger. Associated Word: clavigerous. clubfoot, n. talipes. clubfooted, a. taliped, talipedic. club-shaped, a. clavate, clavated. clue, n. intimation, hint, key. clump, n. cluster, tuft, bunch, collection, thicket. clumsy, a. ungraceful, lumbering, uncouth, unwieldy, unhandy, inapt, maladroit. cluster, n. bunch, clump, tuft; racematiofl, fascicle, raceme, panicle; bevy, crowd. clustered, a. aciniform, racemed, fascicled. clutch, v. seize, grasp, grip, grapple, clench, grab, snatch. clutch, n. grasp, seizure, hold; crampoons. clutter, n. litter, disorder, jumble, confusion, disarray. cluttered, a. disordered, littered, jumbled, disarranged. coach, n. stage coach, tallyho, diligence; trainer. coach dog. Dalmatian dog. coachman, n. jehu, postilion, coach-driver, coachee (Slang). coal, n. anthracite; bituminous; charcoal; culm, scoria, slack; ember. Associated Words: carbon, carboniferous, gobbing, strata, carbonize, carbonization, briquette, coke, brat, brattice, brettice. coal-dealer, n. collier. coalhod. scuttle. coal-mine, n. colliery, coalpit. coal-miner, n. collier. coal-miner's consumption. anthracosis. coal oil. kerosene, petroleum. coals, n. pl. Associated Words: brasier, brazier, brasero. coarse, a. crass, gross, unrefined, rude, unpolished, indelicate, ribald, homespun, vulgar, inelegant; unbolted, unpurified. coast, n. seashore, seaboard, seaside, shore, strand, beach. coat, n. sack, jacket, frock, tuxedo, cutaway, paletot, dreadnaught, ulster, capote, blouse, redingote, toga, cloak, surtout, duster, mackintosh, joseph, cardinal, pelerine, temiak (Eskimo). coat of arms. armorial bearings, escutcheon, arms, crest. coat of mail. hauberk, cuirass, habergeon, armor, mail. coax, v. wheedle, cajole, persuade, entice, cog, tweedle. cob, n. spike, axis; sea mew, gull. cocoanut, n. Associated Word: copra. cochineal, n. Associated Words: nopal, nopalry, carminic acid. cock, n. rooster, chanticleer; capon (castrated); weather-cock, vane; chief, leader, dominator; faucet, stop-cock. cockade, n. rosette. cockahoop, a. boastful, defiant, vainglorious, blustering. cock and bull story. canard. cockatrice, n. basilisk. cocker, v. fondle, indulge, pamper, pet, humor, coddle. cockfighting, n. cockmatch, alectoromachy, alectryomachy. cocky, a. (Slang) pert, saucy. cocoa, n. Associated Word: theobromine. coddle, v. parboil; pamper, fondle, cocker, humor, indulge. coequal, a. coördinate. coerce, v. constrain, compel, intimidate, restrain. coercion, n. compulsion, restraint, force, repression, constraint. coffee, n. Associated Words: caffeine, chiccory, biggin, pulp, parchment. coffee-chaser, n. _chasse_. coffee-house, n. café. coffin, n. casket. cog, n. cam, catch; trick, deception, fraud. cogent, a. convincing, conclusive, forcible, influential. coheir, n. parcener. coheirship, n. parcenary. coherent, n. consistent, logical. coil, n. convolution, intervolution; entanglement, toil, mesh, perplexity; querl. coil, v. convolve, intervolve. coin, n. quoin, corner, coigne, wedge, plug, key. coin, n. specie, cash; medallion. Associated Words: numismatic, numismatics, numismatist, numismatology, jugata, engrailment, nurling, milling, brockage, numismatography, numismatologist, nummary, rouleau, nummular, nummulary. coin, v. mint; neoterize, neologize; fabricate, invent, originate. coinage, n. minting; neologism, neology, neoterism. coincide, v. concur, correspond, agree, harmonize, tally. coincidence, n. concurrence, correspondence, agreement. coincident, a. concurrent, contemporaneous;--followed by _with_. coiner, n. minter; neologist, neoterist. cold, a. cool, chilly; frigid, gelid, icy; nipping, bleak, raw, frosty, freezing; unresponsive, phlegmatic, passionless, chilling, stoical, apathetic, reserved. cold, n. coldness, frigidity, gelidity, chilliness, algidity: catarrh. cold-blooded, a. poikilothermal; deliberate. colic, n. gripe, enteralgia, tormina. collar, n. neckband, carcanet, ruff, ruche, collet, rabat, piccadilly, dickey, collarette. collar-bone, n. clavicle. collect, v. assemble, accumulate. collection, n. assemblage, accumulation, aggregation, heap; offering, offertory; anthology, symposium, collectanea, miscellany, rosary, chrestomathy. college, n. Associated Words: collegiate, Alma Mater. college dress. academicals. college grounds. campus. college student. collegian. collision, n. clashing, concussion, interference, brunt, impact. colloquial, a. conversational, familiar, informal. colony, n. settlement, dependency. Associated Words: colonial, colonist, planter, colonize, colonization, colonizationist. color, n. hue, shade, tinge, tincture, tint; pigment, paint, dye, stain. Associated Words: chromatics, colorific, colorist, chromatism, chromatology, lake, decolorant, mordant, intinctivity, iridescent, iridescence, prismatic, pigmentation, fugacious, fugitive, fugacity, monochromatic, monochrome, polychromy, polychromatic, suffuse, suffusion, imbuement, chromatic, achromatic. color, n. ruddiness, redness, flush, blush, rosiness; semblance, pretext; variety, shade, kind, species; pl. flag. Antonyms: decoloration, colorlessness. color, v. dye, tinge, stain, imbue, tint, tincture, variegate; falsify, pervert, garble, palliate, gloss, distort; blush, flush. Antonyms: decolor, bleach, decolorize. colorable, a. specious, plausible, palliated. color-blindness, n. Daltonism, achromatopsy, acritochromacy. colored, a. tinged, dyed, tinted, stained, discolored; specious, plausible. colorific, a. tinctorial. coloring, n. dyeing, staining, intinction, tinting, tinction, imbuement, variegation. colorless, a. uncolored, faded; pale, pallid; neutral, characterless. colossal, a. enormous, gigantic, monstrous, huge, prodigious, Titanic. colt, n. filly (female); foal (male); hogget. coltish, a. frisky, sportive, wanton, playful. column, n. pillar, post, shaft, obelisk; file, line, row; pilaster; pl. peristyle, portico, colonnade. Associated Words: entablature, frieze, architrave, triglyph, cornice, base, shaft, capital, plinth. comb, n. crest, caruncle, head-tuft. combat, n. contest bout, struggle, contention, fight, joust, battle. combatant, n. contestant, fighter. combative, a. pugnacious, contentious, bellicose, belligerent. combination, n. union, alliance, federation, confederacy, syndicate, league, cabal, merger, coalition, conspiracy, coöperation, collusion; amalgamation, synthesis, incorporation. combine, v. unite, incorporate, merge, amalgamate, blend, coalesce, confederate. combine, n. (Colloq.) combination. combined, a. united, confederated, federated, amalgamated, incorporated. combing, n. pectination. comblike, a. pectinal, pectinate, pectinated, pectiniform. come, v. arrive, approach; come from, issue, proceed, ensue, flow, emanate, originate. come after. follow, succeed. Antonyms: precede, antecede. come again. return, recur. come and go. alternate. come between. intervene, interpose, interfere, contravene; cause estrangement, disaffect. come down. descend, alight. comely, a. good-looking, handsome, personable. Antonyms: uncomely, homely, plain. come near. approach, approximate. come round. recur; change, relent; circumvent, wheedle. come short. be deficient. come to. revive, recover; consent, yield, accede; arrive at, reach; amount to. come to a head. suppurate, mature; culminate. come under. subvene. comfort, n. ease, consolation, solace, nepenthe, encouragement. comfort, v. console, solace. comforter, n. consoler, cheerer; comfortable. comfortless, a. disconsolate, inconsolable, desolate, distressed. comical, a. See funny. coming, n. approach, arrival, advent. coming between. intervention, interposition, interference, contravention. comity, n. politeness, courtesy, civility, graciousness, urbanity. command, v. order, direct, enjoin, require, bid. command, n. order, mandate, injunction, charge, behest, requisition, bidding, direction, dictation, precept; authority, leadership, control. commanding, a. authoritative, mandatory, imperative, dictatorial, imperious. commandments, n. pl. The Decalogue. Associated Words: Kyrie elesion. commence, v. begin. commend, v. commit, consign, intrust; praise, extol recommend. commendable, a. praiseworthy, laudable. Antonyms: unpraiseworthy, illaudable. commendatory, a. laudatory, eulogistic. comment, v. remark, descant, annotate. comment, n. remark, observation; annotation, commentary, explanation. commentator, n. annotator, expositor, scholiast, glossarist, postillator. commerce, n. traffic, barter, business, tradi