n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being climbed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Grand climacteric
Great climacteric
I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, climbs:
v. i. [ From Climb; cf. Clamber. ] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]
p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. [ 1913 Webster ]
Climbing fern.
Climbing perch. (Zool.)