Hypertext Webster Gateway: "clam"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clam \Clam\, n. [Cf. {Clamp}, {Clam}, v. t., {Clammy}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
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).
Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a
coclke; it lieth under the sand. --Wood (1634).
2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
{Blood clam}. See under {Blood}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clam \Clam\, v. i.
To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clam \Clam\, n.
Claminess; moisture. [R.] ``The clam of death.'' --Carlyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clam \Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.]
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime
at once. --Nares.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Clam \Clam\, v. t. & i.
To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to
clang. --Nares.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
clam
n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
2: (United States) 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
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