clam

9 definitions found

clam - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Clam \Clam\, v. i.
     To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden
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  Clam \Clam\, n.
     Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." --Carlyle.
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  Clam \Clam\ (kl[a^]m), n. [Cf. Clamp, Clam, v. t.,
     Clammy.]
     1. (Zool.) A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those
        that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the
        quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or
        hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the
        United States. The name is said to have been given
        originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian
        bivalve.
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              You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or
              cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes,
              or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. --Capt. John
                                                    Smith (1616).
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              Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a
              cockle; it lieth under the sand.      --Wood (1634).
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     2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
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     3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
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     Blood clam. See under Blood.
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  Clam \Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.]
     A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime
     at once. --Nares.
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  Clam \Clam\ (cl[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clammed; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Clamming.] [Cf. AS. cl[ae]man to clam, smear; akin
     to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile,
     or E. clammy.]
     To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.
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           A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they
           cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting
           out again.                               --L'Estrange.
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  Clam \Clam\, v. t. & i.
     To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to
     clang. --Nares.
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clam - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  clam
      n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell
           closes with viselike firmness
      2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar,
         dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam]
      3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
      v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

clam - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  CLAM
  
     <mathematics, tool> A system for symbolic mathematics,
     especially General Relativity.  It was first implemented in
     ATLAS assembly language and later Lisp.
  
     See also ALAM.
  
     ["CLAM Programmer's Manual", Ray d'Inverno & Russell-Clark,
     King's College London, 1971].
  
     (1994-11-08)
  

clam - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "clam":
     Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta,
     Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Laconian, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea,
     Phoronidea, Spartan, angle, bait the hook, blue point, bob,
     coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, dap, dib, dibble,
     drive, fish, fly-fish, gig, go fishing, grig, guddle, jack,
     jacklight, jig, laconic, langouste, limpet, littleneck clam,
     lobster, mussel, net, oyster, periwinkle, prawn, quahog, scallop,
     seine, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft-shell crab, spin, steamer,
     still-fish, torch, trawl, troll, whale, whelk