cloom
English
Etymology
A variant of clam (“to clog”).
Verb
cloom (third-person singular simple present clooms, present participle clooming, simple past and past participle cloomed)
- (obsolete) To close with glutinous matter.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cloom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)