† clunged, clung'd, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 4–6 clonged.
Extended by-form of clung ppl. a.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xlvi. (1495) 568 Erthe bounde and clongyd [Helmingh. MS. clonge] togiders is a clotte. 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. N.T. 120 b, She was in her body so shrounken and clonged together, that, etc. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 25 b, The Earth made clunged with the cold of winter. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 216 They do to open their guts, which otherwise were clunged and grown together. Ibid. I. 513 By the Northern winds..clunged and congealed withall. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Peau, He is clungd, or hidebound. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. (1682) 442 My hungerclung'd Belly. 1658 Franck North. Memoirs (1694) 177 A sort of feathers, that's clung'd and twisted. |