Clathrate: Definition and part of speech

Clathrate

  1. a. Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.
  2. a. Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Clatter: Definition and part of speech

Clatter

  1. n. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
  2. v. i. To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
  3. v. i. To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
  4. v. t. To make a rattling noise with.
  5. n. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
  6. n. Commotion; disturbance.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Claude Lorraine glass: Definition and part of speech

Claude Lorraine glass

  1. A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.