I see thou dost but clatter.
Spenser.
Clat"ter, v. t. To make a rattling noise with.
You clatter still your brazen kettle.
Swift.
Clat"ter, n. 1. A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
The goose let fall a golden egg
With cackle and with clatter.
Tennyson.
2. Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.
3. Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ).
Throw by your clatter
And handle the matter.
B. Jonson
Clat"ter*er (?), n. One who clatters.
Clat"ter*ing*ly, adv. With clattering.
Claude" Lor*raine" glass` (?). [Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine).] A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.
Clau"dent (?), a. [L. claudens, p. pr. of claudere to shut.] Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle. [R.] Jonson
Clau"di*cant (?), a. [L. claudicans, p. pr. of claudicare to limp, fr. claudus lame.] Limping. [R.]
Clau`di*ca"tion (?), n. [L. claudicatio.] A halting or limping. [R.] Tatler.
Clause (?), n. [F. clause, LL. clausa, equiv. to L. clausula clause, prop., close of &?; rhetorical period, close, fr. claudere to shut, to end. See Close.] 1. A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
The usual attestation clause to a will.
Bouvier.
2. (Gram.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
Clause, n. [Obs.] See Letters clause or close, under Letter.
Claus"tral (?), a. [F., fr. LL. claustralis, fr. L. claustrum. See Cloister.] Cloistral. Ayliffe
||Claus"trum (?), n.; pl. Claustra. [L., a bolt or bar.] (Anat.) A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man. -- Claus"tral, a.
Clau"su*lar (?; 135), a. [From L. clausula. See Clause, n.] Consisting of, or having, clauses. Smart.
Clau"sure (?; 135), n. [L. clausura. See Closure.] The act of shutting up or confining; confinement. [R.] Geddes.
{ Cla"vate (?), Cla"va*ted (?), } a. [L. clava club.] (Bot. & Zo÷l.) Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]