9 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Clam \Clam\, v. i. To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Clam \Clam\, n. Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." --Carlyle. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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). [1913 Webster] Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand. --Wood (1634). [1913 Webster] 2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood. [1913 Webster] {Blood clam}. See under {Blood}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Clam \Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.] A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. --Nares. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Clam \Clam\, v. t. & i. To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. --Nares. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: clam n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud 2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: {dollar}, {dollar bill}, {one dollar bill}, {buck}] 3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams v : gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean [also: {clamming}, {clammed}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]: CLAMA 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)
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