Clam

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
clam
    n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell
         closes with viselike firmness
    2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: {dollar},
       {dollar bill}, {one dollar bill}, {buck}, {clam}]
    3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
    v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clam \Clam\, v. i.
   To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. [R.] --Dryden
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clam \Clam\, n.
   Claminess; moisture. [R.] "The clam of death." --Carlyle.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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            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).
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            Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a
            cockle; it lieth under the sand.      --Wood (1634).
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   2. (Ship Carp.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
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   3. pl. (Mech.) A kind of vise, usually of wood.
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   {Blood clam}. See under {Blood}.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clam \Clam\, n. [Abbrev. fr. clamor.]
   A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime
   at once. --Nares.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clam \Clam\, v. t. & i.
   To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to
   clang. --Nares.
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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
CLAM

   <mathematics, tool> A 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)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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