v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Clashed p. pr. & vb. n. Clashing. ] [ Of imitative origin; cf. G. klatschen, Prov. G. kleschen, D. kletsen, Dan. klaske, E. clack. ] 1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. [ 1913 Webster ]

However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strike noisily against or together. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. [ 1913 Webster ]

The roll of cannon and clash of arms. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clashes between popes and kings. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mach.) A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. With clashing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clasped p. pr. & vb. n. Clasping ] [ OE. claspen, clapsen, prob. akin to E. clap. ] 1. To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To surround and cling to; to entwine about. “Clasping ivy.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. --
Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. “The claspers of vines.” Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. (b) One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with tendrils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul. ] 1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. [ 1913 Webster ]

She had lost one class energies. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session. [ PJC ]

7. A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness. [ PJC ]

Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. --
Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction. [ 1913 Webster ]