Vocabulary : Clink to Clinographic

Clink : To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. ;; To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. ;; To rhyme. [Humorous]. ;; A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. ;; A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.
Clinkant : See Clinquant.
Clinked : of Clink
Clinker : A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. ;; 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. ;; A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. ;; A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Clinker-built : 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.
Clinking : of Clink
Clinkstone : An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
Clinodiagonal : That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization. ;; Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.
Clinodome : See under Dome.
Clinographic : Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
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