Word Meanings - CLAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell. 2. To thrust,

Additional info about word: CLAP

1. To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings. Then like a bird it sits and sings, And whets and claps its silver wings. Marvell. 2. To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon. He had just time to get in and clap to the door. Locke Clap an extinguaisher upon your irony. Lamb. 3. To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance. To clap hands. To pledge faith by joining hands. Shak. To express contempt or derision. Lam. ii. 15. To clap hold of, to seize roughly or quickly. -- To clap up. To imprison hastily or without due formality. To make or contrive hastily. "Was ever match clapped up so suddenly" Shak.

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• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• THRUSTING
  The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. (more info) 1. The act of pushing with force. The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. pl.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• CLAPS
  Variant of Clasp Chaucer.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• SINGSTER
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• SILVER
  A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite,
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• FREE SILVER
  The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.