*club*

n. see billy, n. 1. [ PJC ]

n. a policeman's club; a nightstick.
Syn. -- truncheon, nightstick, billy, billy club. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbufōir a clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump. ] 1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. [ 1913 Webster ]

But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;
Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club. ] Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. [ 1913 Webster ]

They talked
At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Goldsmith ] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. [ 1913 Webster ]

They laid down the club. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. - [ 1913 Webster ]

Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. --
Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short “club” or “jack yard” to increase its spread. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing. ] 1. To beat with a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense. [ 1913 Webster ]

To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream
Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution. [ 1913 Webster ]

The owl, the raven, and the bat,
Clubbed for a feather to his hat. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [ Humorous. ] [ Also spelled clubable. ] G. W. Curtis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who clubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of a club. [ R. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Rude; clownish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A large, heavy fist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coarse, brutal fellow. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a large fist. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Club + foot. ] (Med.) A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a clubfoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house occupied by a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) a primitive evergreen mosslike plant with spores in club-shaped strobiles, much used in winter decoration. The best known species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.
Syn. -- club moss, lycopod. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The apartment in which a club meets. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennæ of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports, and usually having an attached golf course. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

. A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an implement used by a golfer to hit a golf ball.
Syn. -- club. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. 1. (Bot.) A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast U. S. and West Indies. [ wns=1 ] It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees (Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.
Syn. -- Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub (Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica tree and prickly ash. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sports team that plays in a major league. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An establishment providing entertainment (as singers, dancers, or comedy acts), usually open late into the night or early morning, typically serving alcoholic beverages and food.
Syn. -- cabaret. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]