Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.
Dryden.
3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb, v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb, n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.
Climb"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being climbed.
Climb"er (?), n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zo÷l.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
Climb"er, v. i. [From Climb; cf. Clamber.] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] Tusser.
Climb"ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.
Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. (Zo÷l.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
Clime (?), n. [L. clima. See Climate.] A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display.
Goldsmith.
||Cli*nan"thi*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; bed + &?; flower.] (Bot.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.
Clinch (kl&ibreve;nch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching.] [OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink.] 1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.
2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift.
3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South.
Clinch, v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Clinch (kl&ibreve;nch), n. 1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.