Clap
- n. Gonorrhea.
- v. t. To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one’s hands; a clapping of wings.
- v. t. To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; — often followed by to, into, on, or upon.
- v. t. To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.
- v. t. To express contempt or derision.
- v. i. To knock, as at a door.
- v. i. To strike the hands together in applause.
- v. i. To come together suddenly with noise.
- v. i. To enter with alacrity and briskness; — with to or into.
- v. i. To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
- 1n. 1 Gonorrhea.
- 1v. t. 1 To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one’s hands; a clapping of wings.
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.