अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

A pun.

A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

of Clinch

One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.

That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.

See Clinker-built.

of Clinch

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together.

Adherence; attachment; devotion.

To make to dry up or wither.

To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.

of Cling

A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.