Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.
Syn. -- Crack; crevice; fissure; chink; cranny.
Cleft"-foot`ed (?), a. Having a cloven foot.
Cleft"graft` (?), v. t. To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
Cleg (?), n. [Northern Eng. & Scot. gleg: cf. Gael. crethleag.] (Zo÷l.) A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson.
{ Cleis`to*gam"ic (?), Cleis*tog"a*mous (?) } a. [Gr. &?; closed (fr. &?; to shut) + ga`mos marriage.] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.
Clem (kl&ebreve;m), v. t. & i. [Cf. clam to clog, or G. klemmen to pinch, Icel. kl÷mbra, E. clamp.] To starve; to famish. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Clem"a*tis (kl&ebreve;m"&adot;*t&ibreve;s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. klhmati`s brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. fr. klh^ma twig, shoot, fr. kla^n to break off.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.
Clem"ence (?), n. Clemency. [Obs.] Spenser.
Clem"en*cy (?), n.; pl. Clemencies (#). [L. clementia, fr. clemens mild, calm.] 1. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects.
Stowe.
They had applied for the royal clemency.
Macaulay.