CPage 351
- English Word Clinker Definition Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
- English Word Clinker Definition A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
- English Word Clinker Definition A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
- English Word Clinker-built Definition Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
- English Word Clinking Definition of Clink
- English Word Clinkstone Definition An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
- English Word Clinodiagonal Definition That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.
- English Word Clinodiagonal Definition Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
- English Word Clinodome Definition See under Dome.
- English Word Clinographic Definition Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
- English Word Clinoid Definition Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner side of the sphenoid bone.
- English Word Clinometer Definition An instrument for determining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level.
- English Word Clinometric Definition Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.
- English Word Clinometric Definition Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.
- English Word Clinometry Definition That art or operation of measuring the inclination of strata.
- English Word Clinopinacoid Definition The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.
- English Word Clinorhombic Definition Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.
- English Word Clinquant Definition Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
- English Word Clinquant Definition Tinsel; Dutch gold.
- English Word Clio Definition The Muse who presided over history.