<HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: club - clue</TITLE></HEAD>
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<A NAME="club">
<B>club, </B>noun, verb, <B>clubbed,</B> <B>clubbing,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a heavy stick of wood, thicker at one end, used as a weapon. <BR> <I>Ex. The farmer used the branch as a club to kill the snake.</I> (SYN) cudgel. <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. Once possessed of the club of the industry-wide strike, he is hardly likely to disarm himself (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a stick or bat used to hit a ball in some games. <BR> <I>Ex. golf clubs.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an Indian club. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Nautical.) a light, small spar used to hold a small sail, especially one at the top of a mast of a vessel which is rigged fore and aft. <DD><B> 5a. </B>a group of people joined together for some special purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. a tennis club, a canoe club, a nature-study club.</I> (SYN) association, society. <DD><B> b. </B>the building, rooms, or facilities used by a club; clubhouse or clubroom. <DD><B> c. </B>a night club. <BR> <I>Ex. fashionable clubs and resorts.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a business organization which offers certain benefits to members or subscribers. <BR> <I>Ex. a record club, a book club, an investment club.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a group of nations associated in some enterprise or activity. <BR> <I>Ex. the NATO club, the Common Market club. ... to keep Germany partitioned and out of even associate membership in the atomic club (C. L. Sulzberger).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a figure shaped like a trefoil leaf. <DD><B> 9. </B>a playing card with one or more black, trefoil-leaf figures. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to beat or hit with a club or something similar; knock down with a club. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys clubbed the hornets' nest with a long stick. The hikers clubbed the snake to death with their walking sticks. (Figurative.) They [unions] have proved by repeated strikes that they could club the city into giving them better contracts (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to turn (a rifle) around to use as a club. <DD><B> 3. </B>to gather or form into a club-shaped mass. <BR> <I>Ex. He had a few gray hairs plaited and clubbed behind (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to contribute as one's share toward a common fund or for a certain purpose; make up by contributing jointly. <BR> <I>Ex. The alumni of the school clubbed a fund of money for needy students.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to combine into one; join together; unite. <BR> <I>Ex. ... clubbing our books in a common library (Benjamin Franklin).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to join together for some special purpose. <DD><B> 2. </B>to contribute to a common fund; share expenses. <BR> <I>Ex. The children clubbed together to buy a birthday present for their mother.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to form a club. <DD><B> 4. </B>to gather into a mass. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a club or clubs. <BR><I>expr. <B>clubs,</B> </I>the suit of playing cards marked with black trefoil-leaf figures. <BR> <I>Ex. In this game, clubs are trump.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="clubbable">
<B>clubbable</B> or <B>clubable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fit to be a member of a club; sociable; companionable. <BR> <I>Ex. Essentially Wilson was a clubbable man. He loved good company and he loved a good game of golf or bridge (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="clubbed">
<B>clubbed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> club-shaped; thick at the end. </DL>
<A NAME="clubber">
<B>clubber, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who belongs to a club or clubs; clubman. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who wields a club. <BR> <I>Ex. [His] reputation as a clubber and as an efficient riot-queller is much more than local (New York Voice).</I> </DL>
<B>clubby, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of a clubbable or social nature. <BR> <I>Ex. Your natural impulse in the dark is to be clubby (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>pervaded by the characteristics of a club. <BR> <I>Ex. English literary life is almost too clubby, too narrowly dominated by a set of good companions (Saturday Review).</I> adv. <B>clubbily.</B> noun <B>clubbiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="clubcar">
<B>club car,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a car of a passenger train equipped with swivel or movable armchairs, frequently also with a buffet or bar. </DL>
<A NAME="clubchair">
<B>club chair,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of easy chair with thick upholstery, a low back, and upholstered arms. </DL>
<A NAME="clubcollar">
<B>club collar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a short, close-fitting collar that opens at the front. </DL>
<A NAME="clubdom">
<B>clubdom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the realm or world of clubs; clubs collectively. </DL>
<A NAME="clubfighter">
<B>club fighter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a professional boxer of average ability who fights hard and can absorb punishment. </DL>
<A NAME="clubfoot">
<B>clubfoot, </B>noun, pl. <B>-feet.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a deformed foot, appearing short and distorted. <DD><B> 2. </B>a deformity of the foot caused by faulty development before birth; talipes. The front part is twisted and appears shortened. </DL>
<A NAME="clubfooted">
<B>clubfooted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a clubfoot. </DL>
<A NAME="clubgrass">
<B>club grass,</B> <B>=cattail </B>(def. 1).</DL>
<A NAME="clubhand">
<B>clubhand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a deformed hand. <DD><B> 2. </B>a rare deformity of the hand, caused by faulty development before birth. </DL>
<A NAME="clubhaul">
<B>clubhaul, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bring (a square-rigged vessel) about when dangerously close to a lee shore or similar peril by dropping the lee anchor, maneuvering the vessel's head into the wind, and cutting the cable as it pays off on the other tack. </DL>
<A NAME="clubhouse">
<B>clubhouse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a building used by a club. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the clubhouse, a two-story structure that has everything, including a glass front and a handsome dining room (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="clubland">
<B>clubland, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the realm of clubs; clubdom. <BR> <I>Ex. His spare time was spent in clubland or driving his car in the country (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="clublaw">
<B>club law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the use of the club to enforce obedience; physical force as contrasted with argument; law or rule of the physically stronger. <BR> <I>Ex. Club law ... may make hypocrites, it can never make converts (George Bancroft).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a rule in the game of loo that when clubs are trumps no player may pass or give up his hand. </DL>
<A NAME="clubman">
<B>clubman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a man who belongs to a club or clubs; man who enjoys club activities. <DD><B> 2. </B>a man armed with a club. </DL>
<A NAME="clubmobile">
<B>clubmobile, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a bus or truck used as a traveling canteen or club to serve soldiers, workers, firemen, or disaster victims. </DL>
<A NAME="clubmoss">
<B>club moss,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a group of flowerless plants, related to the ferns and not true mosses, that are either erect or creeping, usually mosslike, and bear club-shaped cones which contain reproductive spores; ground pine; lycopod; lycopodium. Club mosses are often used in Christmas decorations. <DD><B> 2. </B>a huge fossil tree that 300 million years ago grew along with tree ferns in steaming hot swamps and was turned into coal or became petrified. </DL>
<A NAME="clubroom">
<B>clubroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a room for club activities. </DL>
<A NAME="clubroot">
<B>clubroot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a disease of cabbages and allied plants caused by a certain slime mold which produces swellings on the roots. </DL>
<B>clubs, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>club.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="clubsandwich">
<B>club sandwich,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sandwich, usually of more than one layer, consisting of toast and fillings such as chicken, ham, or bacon with lettuce, tomatoes, and mayonnaise. </DL>
<A NAME="clubshaped">
<B>club-shaped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the shape of a club; thicker at one end than at the other. </DL>
<A NAME="clubsoda">
<B>club soda,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> unflavored carbonated water, used in making mixed drinks. </DL>
<A NAME="clubsofa">
<B>club sofa,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of sofa similar in style to a club chair. </DL>
<A NAME="clubsteak">
<B>club steak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small beefsteak cut from the tip of the loin. </DL>
<A NAME="clubtopsail">
<B>club topsail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large fore-and-aft topsail with its head extended by a light spar and its foot by a club longer than a gaff, so as to permit greater area of sail. </DL>
<A NAME="clubwheat">
<B>club wheat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of wheat characterized by a short, dense head and short, stiff straw. <BR> <I>Ex. Club wheats are grown only in the Pacific Coast states (K. S. Quisenberry).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="clubwoman">
<B>clubwoman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-women.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman who belongs to a club or clubs; woman who enjoys club activities. </DL>
<A NAME="cluck">
<B>cluck, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the sound that a hen makes when calling her chickens. <BR> <I>Ex. With several motherly clucks the hen rounded up her chicks.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a sound like this. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Slang, Figurative.) a stupid person; blockhead; fool. <BR> <I>Ex. "You are a complete cluck," Susan declared. "So are you," her witty knight countered (Delmore Schwartz).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(of a hen) to make a cluck when calling chickens. <BR> <I>Ex. The hens began to cluck as we gathered the eggs from their nests.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a sound like this. <BR> <I>Ex. When Guerin, her jockey, clucked to her, she bounded to the front and won (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to call by clucking. </DL>
<A NAME="clue">
<B>clue, </B>noun, verb, <B>clued,</B> <B>cluing</B> or <B>clueing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a fact or object which aids in solving a mystery or problem. <BR> <I>Ex. The police could find no fingerprints or other clues to help them in solving the robbery. I hadn't a clue as to how the things should be served ... I had never seen whale meat in that form (Edith Iglauer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=clew.</B> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to indicate (something) by means of a clue. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to give a clue to. <BR> <I>Ex. A marine won't just tell you something or fill you in; he'll "clue" you (New York Times).</I> adj. <B>clueless.</B> </DL>
