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Cleave
- verb - come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
- make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone"
- Sever
- Split
- To hew
Cleche
- - Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided.
Cledge
- - The upper stratum of fuller's earth.
Cledgy
- - Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.
Clefts
- noun - a long narrow opening
- a split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)
Cleggs
- noun - large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
Clench
- noun - a small slip noose made with seizing
- hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"
- squeeze together tightly; "clench one's jaw"
- the act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"
Cleome
- noun - any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers
- tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs
Clergy
- noun - in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)