clingn.¹

Brit.

/klɪŋ/, U.S.

/klɪŋ/

Etymology: < cling v.¹

a. The act of clinging; adherence, adhesion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > clinging to something

cling1641

clinging1884

1641 J. Milton Animadversions Pref. 2 Out of a more tenacious cling to worldly respects.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 166 The anchored cling to solid principles of duty and action.

b. In cling hold, etc. (see quots.), stem of cling v.¹ or cling n.¹ used in combination.

ΚΠ

1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 162 The ordinary cling holds, when the fingers cling over an edge or knob and hold the weight in suspense.

1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 162 A cling ‘over’-hold..pulls us inward.

1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 162 A cling ‘under’-hold keeps body and eyes free at the length of our arms, bent or straight.

†2. A clasp, embrace. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun]

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complexion1493

clipa1586

brace1589

twine1602

fold1609

grasp1609

claspa1616

abrazoa1626

colla1627

cling1633

hug1659

folding1713

squeeze1790

cuddle1825

bear squeeze1845

bear hug1870

clinch1901

bosie1952

side hug1984

cwtch1992

bro hug2000

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. xlix. 13 Bacchus unborn lay hidden in the cling Of big-swoln grapes.

1633 P. Fletcher Poems 254 Fast clasp'd by th' arched zodiack of her arms, Those closer clings of love.

3. Contraction of wood with drought.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > contraction of wood with drought

cling1664

1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright 13 So there be no Clings in the Buldge.

4. A disease of cattle:

a. A hidebound condition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > close-clinging skin or emaciation

hidebound1559

hidebinding1748

clingc1800

c1800 in A. Young Ann. Agric. 30 297 The cling..is supposed to be occasioned by an adhesion of the lights to the sides, and the cattle are frequently hidebound with it.

b. A diarrhoea which makes sheep ‘clung’ or wasted.

ΚΠ

1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 401 Diarrhœa, or cling, or breakshaw.

1808 J. Walker Ess. Nat. Hist. 525 (Jam.) Ovis morbo, the cling dicto, correpta..confestim extenuata, morte occumbit.

5. Short for clingstone adj. and n. Also attributive in cling peach.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of types of stone-fruit

Persic1599

masculine1629

plummy1724

freestone1828

cling1845

ber1860

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach

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man peach1629

nutmeg1629

Roman peach1629

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Rambouillet1664

winter peach1664

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Orleans1674

pavie1675

Magdalenea1678

minion1691

admirable1693

maudlin1699

clingstone1705

nipple peach1719

rareripe1722

melter1766

vanguard1786

freestone1807

cling1845

lemon cling1848

peregrine1903

doughnut peach1993

1845 A. J. Downing Fruits & Fruit Trees Amer. xxii. 494 The Catherine cling is a very fine, old English variety.

1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 510 We have a late, large peach which we call the Allman Cling.

1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 510 It is sometimes called the Heath Cling, which it resembles.

1872 San Francisco Weekly Bulletin 27 Sept. Cling peaches are moderately plentiful.

1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie iii. 92 One [peach] was a white cling, one was a yellow.

1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie iv. 126 I led her straight to our best cling peach tree.

1968 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XLIX. 16 Another reason for vocabulary change is the widespread use of commercial terms... These include..cling peach for cling-stone peach.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clingv.¹

Brit.

/klɪŋ/, U.S.

/klɪŋ/

Forms: past tense and past participle clung /klʌŋ/. Forms: Old English cling-an, Middle English cling-e(n, Middle English clyng-e(n, clyngyn), Middle English–1500s clinge, Middle English clyng, Middle English– cling. past tense Old English–Middle English (and in northern dialectOld English–1800s) clang, (Middle English clange); plural Old English clungon, Middle English clunge(n; singular and plural Middle English–1500s clong, clonge, 1500s– clung. past participle Old English–Middle English clungen, (Old English ge-, Middle English i-, Middle English clungyn, clungun), Middle English clongen, clongyn, clongun, Middle English–1500s clunge, clong, 1500s cloung, Middle English– clung. weak past tense and participle 1600s–1700s, dialect1800s clinged, cling'd.

Etymology: Old English clingan , clang , clungen , strong verb, also in East Frisian klingen and klinken (klunk , klunken ), used precisely in sense 2 (Doornkaat-Koolman II. 261). Compare also dialect German sich klinken to fasten oneself on, to cling to , Danish klynge sig to gather in clusters, crowd together; further Middle High German klingen to climb, clamber (Grimm, s.v. klimmen 1168), and Swedish klänge to climb, klänge a tendril. These all point to a strong stem klink- varying with kling- , the former giving the causative klankjan , Old English clęnc(e)an , clench v.¹, and the latter appearing in Old English cling-an . The original sense was evidently ‘to stick fast’, whence the early senses ‘stick together’, ‘shrink together’, and the later ‘stick or cleave to ’. Compare clench v.¹, clink v.²For the double stem-form clink- , cling- , compare the same under the echoic clink v.¹; also Old English cringan , crinkan to cringe v., scringan , scrinkan to shrink v. (In sense 8 cling may be a variant of clink v.² Compare also clinger n. 2, clinging n. 2.

†1.

a. intransitive. To adhere together in a stiff or firm mass: said of the freezing or congealing of liquids, the hardening of clay by drought, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > cohere

clingOE

clitchc1400

clutchc1425

coagmentate1578

congeal1584

clung1601

cohere1616

conglutinatea1625

a800 Corpus Gloss. 1744 Rigentia, forclingendu.]

OE Andreas (1932) 1260 Land wæron freorig cealdum cylegicelum, clang wæteres þrym ofer eastreamas, is brycgade blæce brimrade.

c1300 K. Alis. 915 Theo sunne ariseth..Theo nessche clay hit makith clyng.

c1300 K. Alis. 2903 Mury hit is in sonne-risyng!.. Weyes fairith, the clayes clyng.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4699 Þe erth it clang, for drught and hete.

c1485 Early Eng. Misc. (Warton Club) 8 I clynge as dothe a whettyne cake.

†b. Often in past participle (cf. sunk adj., fallen adj., etc.). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxviii. 38 Whanne was pouder held in the erthe, and clottis weren clunge togidere?

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 63 Idried and iclunge by hete of the sonne.

a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 142 In cloddres of blod his her was clunge.

1490 in Anglia X. 372 The erthe þat is byfore clongen with þe colde froste of wynter.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 109^v A hard knoppe of fleshe being clong, and rolled vp in it selfe.

c. A relic of this survives in cling together, which however passes into later senses.

ΚΠ

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 156^v His bodie his [sic] leane, and more clong togeather then it was woont to be.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 354 Driuing the Horsse into a sweate..whereby his lippes are clung together.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 64 Like bunches of grapes, clung to each other.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §11. 84 When I endeavoured to squeeze it [snow]..it at first refused to cling together.

2. Applied to the drawing together or shrinking and shrivelling up of animal or vegetable tissues, when they lose their juices under the influence of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, disease, age; to become ‘drawn’, to shrink up, wither, decay. Obsolete exc. dialect.

a. of the living human body.

ΚΠ

c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxxv. 212 Marceo, ic clinge, marcesco.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 743 Nu þu miht ule sitte and clinge.

c1305 Pilate 222 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 Nou ic her clynge awei.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 823 His fete waxes calde, his bely clynges.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 50 Whan þow clomsest for colde or clyngest for drye.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2524 For betere is ous forto die amonges our fos in fiȝte, þan her-inne clynge & drie & daye for hunger riȝte.

a1400 Cov. Myst. 54 (Mätz.) My hert doth clynge and cleve as clay.

1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms lxxvii. (1842) 29 My bonys..clynge, and waxe alle drye.

†b. said of the dead body. (A favourite alliteration with clay and clod.) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 856 Oure corses in clottez clynge.

c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 85 In coold clay now schal y clinge. [See also 2e.]

†c. of plants. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8764 Þis tre bigan to cling.

d. of timber or woodwork. northern dialect in later use.

ΚΠ

1747 R. Maxwell Pract. Bee-master 20 Some make Covers like Barrels, with Iron-hoops around them: These Covers cling, as we say, with the Summer's Drought, then they drive the Hoops strait, which makes them tight again.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Cling, to shrink or contract, as wood in drying.

e. In all these uses the past participle clungen, clung, was esp. frequent; it belonged originally to the intransitive sense, but it probably suggested the operation of an agent, and led the way to the later transitive construction (3). Cf. clung adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles

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a1000 Solomon & Saturn 304 Beoð cealde geclungene.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20747 His arms war al clungen dri.

1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms App. (1842) 52 That I be nouȝt in clottess clunge.

c1450 Erle Tolous 494 Methynkyth thou fadyste all away, As man that ys clongyn in clay.

3. transitive.

†a. (from 1) To press together, compress. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > compress or constrict

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rinea1398

compress1398

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astrict1548

sneap1598

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constringe1609

coarctate1620

compinge1621

choke1635

compel1657

cramp1673

hunch1738

constrict1759

tighten1853

scrunch1861

throttle1863

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 87 The Ocean of one coast, the Iberian sea on the other, do cling and press the sides [of Spain] together.

b. To cause to adhere, attach, stick together. dialect in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to > cause to adhere

stickc1425

clam1598

cling1606

plaster1623

beglue1658

adhere1845

clitch1863

paste1863

key1923

1606 Bp. J. Hall Arte Diuine Medit. §vi So are wee when our thoughts are clingd together by the world.

1698 E. Tyson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 120 I could observe them matted or cling'd together by a Yellowish Substance.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xii. 291 His untrimmed hair..With cotton cords intwisted, clung with gum.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cling, to stick together as with gum; to cause to adhere.

c. (from 2) To cause (the body, etc.) to shrink or draw together; to contract, shrivel, parch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles

shrenchc950

clinker1495

wizen1513

rivel1543

clinga1547

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warpa1616

pucker1616

plight1638

weazen1821

a1547 Earl of Surrey in Nugæ Antiquæ (1804) II. 359 Clings not his gutts with niggishe fare, To heape his chest withall.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 38 If thou speak'st false [printed fhlse], Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue Till Famine cling thee.

1816 Ld. Byron Darkness 50 Kept..famished men at bay Till hunger clung them.

4. intransitive. To adhere or stick to (some part, e.g. as skin or dried flesh to bone), as the result or accompaniment of shrivelling and contraction. (Also in past participle)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere > as a result of contraction

clingc1325

c1325 Metr. Hom. (1862) 88 His skin was klungen to the bane, For fleische upon him was thar nane.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4569 Þair hidd was clongun [Gött. clungen] to þe ban, Sua lene sagh i neuer nan.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. lviii. 124 His belly will be clung vp to his backe, and his backe rising vp like a Camell.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 512 His Armes clung to his Ribs..till..down he fell A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone.

a. intransitive. To adhere, stick fast, attach oneself firmly to, as by a glutinous surface, or by grasping with prehensile organs. (Now the leading sense.)

ΘΚΠ

cleavec897

to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a burc1330

sita1398

clinga1400

clengec1400

engleim?1440

adhere1557

clag1563

clasp1569

clencha1600

clung1601

clam1610

yclingec1620

affix1695

clinch1793

to stick (to one) like wax1809

cleam-

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5955 Hungre flees, sare bitand, þat bath þai clang on man and best.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24204 Care clinges in mi hert cald.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Liii^v/1 To Cling, clingere.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 Lyke dooues in tempest clinging fast closlye to geather.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 350 Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling.

1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 60 Inverted shrubs, and moss of gloomy green, Cling from the rocks.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxii. 449 The broken ice clung to the rocks.

1871 S. Smiles Boy's Voy. Round World (1875) xiv. 141 The quicksilver clings to the gold and forms an amalgam with it.

b. said of human beings with their arms.

ΚΠ

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. (R.) All knew me; cling'd about me.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 8 As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together, And choake their Art.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxxvii. 76 My maids clung round me, and refused to be parted.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Friend 21 Sept. 93 Dear Ellen did not..weep at all, But closelier she did cling.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 87 He was despatched as he clung to an altar.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 40 Then they clung about The old man's neck, and kiss'd him many times.

c. of a garment, esp. when wet.

ΚΠ

a1792 J. Reynolds Art Painting Note 30 (R.) The disposing of the drapery, so as to appear to cling close round the limbs.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxiii. 98 A single vest Clings round her limbs.

1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxxiv. 256 His fisher's coat dripping wet and clinging to his form.

d. transferred. To be or remain close to, as if attached.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > remain near to

to hold quarter withc1550

clap1608

to hang togethera1616

hug1824

cling1842

1842 R. Browning In a Gondola in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics The very night is clinging Closer to Venice' streets.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §18. 122 Some heavy clouds..clung to the mountains.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. ii. 15 The fog clings so.

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 239 [Thus] did Fabius follow his foe from place to place, always clinging to the hills.

a. figurative. To adhere or cleave to, in attachment, fellowship, sympathy, practice, or idea.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > cling to

cling1582

hug1649

to hang by the lug ofa1652

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 46 Hee leaues thee conquourd, and clingd to the partye triumphant.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §6. 195 The more fiercely Christians are assaulted, the more closely they will cling together.

1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 28 Now your orphan hearts Will closer cling in your calamity.

1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. iii. i. 537 The possession of land is in Ireland..the sine quâ non of existence. It is, therefore, clung to with desperate tenacity.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 108 They still..clung to the doctrine of non-resistance.

b. of things, habits, practices.

ΚΠ

a1680 Earl of Rochester Alexis & Strephon xiii, in Poems (1984) 11 As Trees are by their Bark embrac'd, Love to my Soul doth cling.

1828 C. Lamb Old Margate Hoy in Elia 2nd Ser. 29 Old attachments cling to her in spite of experience.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 119 Their phrases..clung to his memory.

7. transitive (elliptical). To cling to, clasp, embrace.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)]

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freeOE

beclipc1000

windc1175

fang?c1200

yokec1275

umgripea1300

to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300

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cwtch1965

1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. B3^v To slide from the mother, And cling the daughter-in-law.

1638 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 194 Temptations offered, I still scorne. Deny'd; I cling them still.

†8. To cause to cling, make fast, fasten. Obsolete. (Perhaps a by-form of clinch v.¹ or clink v.²)

ΚΠ

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 They clinge thee scalinges too wals [L. hærent parietibus scalæ].

1732 J. Swift Exam. Abuses Dublin 10 I..clung my Legs as close to his Sides as I could.

1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 153 Unmercifully clinging their Hands in a split Block.

1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 412 The People cling'd their Fingers of both their Hands between one another, holding the two Thumbs..close together.

a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xix. 225 This made Ragotin cling his legs still more close to the horse's sides.

9. Of doubtful meaning and position: ? To press, stick in; or possibly = clink v.¹ 7b.

ΚΠ

?a1400 Morte Arth. 1865 Sir Clegis clynges in, and clekes another.

Compounds

The verbal stem used attributively.

cling film n. plastic film so thin that it attaches readily to an object about which it is wrapped, sold commercially to cover and preserve food, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > plastic > wrapping film

film1917

plastic film1939

plastic wrap1949

shrink-wrap1961

shrink film1967

Saran Wrap1968

cling film1975

1975 Food Manuf. Nov. 74/1 British Cellophane Ltd. announce the introduction of a polyethylene cling film for fresh food wrapping—BCL Cling Film 301.

1983 Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 11/1 Kitchen cling film was used to cover aircraft cockpit instruments and control panels because for long periods there was 100 per cent. relative humidity in the atmosphere.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cling
释义	clingn.¹ Brit. /klɪŋ/, U.S. /klɪŋ/ Etymology: < cling v.¹ 1. a. The act of clinging; adherence, adhesion. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > [noun] > clinging to something cling1641 clinging1884 1641 J. Milton Animadversions Pref. 2 Out of a more tenacious cling to worldly respects. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 166 The anchored cling to solid principles of duty and action. b. In cling hold, etc. (see quots.), stem of cling v.¹ or cling n.¹ used in combination. ΚΠ 1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 162 The ordinary cling holds, when the fingers cling over an edge or knob and hold the weight in suspense. 1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 162 A cling ‘over’-hold..pulls us inward. 1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft iv. 162 A cling ‘under’-hold keeps body and eyes free at the length of our arms, bent or straight. †2. A clasp, embrace. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun] beclipping1340 complexion1493 clipa1586 brace1589 twine1602 fold1609 grasp1609 claspa1616 abrazoa1626 colla1627 cling1633 hug1659 folding1713 squeeze1790 cuddle1825 bear squeeze1845 bear hug1870 clinch1901 bosie1952 side hug1984 cwtch1992 bro hug2000 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. xlix. 13 Bacchus unborn lay hidden in the cling Of big-swoln grapes. 1633 P. Fletcher Poems 254 Fast clasp'd by th' arched zodiack of her arms, Those closer clings of love. 3. Contraction of wood with drought. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > contraction of wood with drought cling1664 1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright 13 So there be no Clings in the Buldge. 4. A disease of cattle: a. A hidebound condition. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > close-clinging skin or emaciation hidebound1559 hidebinding1748 clingc1800 c1800 in A. Young Ann. Agric. 30 297 The cling..is supposed to be occasioned by an adhesion of the lights to the sides, and the cattle are frequently hidebound with it. b. A diarrhoea which makes sheep ‘clung’ or wasted. ΚΠ 1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 401 Diarrhœa, or cling, or breakshaw. 1808 J. Walker Ess. Nat. Hist. 525 (Jam.) Ovis morbo, the cling dicto, correpta..confestim extenuata, morte occumbit. 5. Short for clingstone adj. and n. Also attributive in cling peach. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of types of stone-fruit Persic1599 masculine1629 plummy1724 freestone1828 cling1845 ber1860 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach presse1604 avant-peach1611 man peach1629 nutmeg1629 Roman peach1629 muscat1664 Rambouillet1664 winter peach1664 rumbullion1670 Orleans1674 pavie1675 Magdalenea1678 minion1691 admirable1693 maudlin1699 clingstone1705 nipple peach1719 rareripe1722 melter1766 vanguard1786 freestone1807 cling1845 lemon cling1848 peregrine1903 doughnut peach1993 1845 A. J. Downing Fruits & Fruit Trees Amer. xxii. 494 The Catherine cling is a very fine, old English variety. 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 510 We have a late, large peach which we call the Allman Cling. 1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 510 It is sometimes called the Heath Cling, which it resembles. 1872 San Francisco Weekly Bulletin 27 Sept. Cling peaches are moderately plentiful. 1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie iii. 92 One [peach] was a white cling, one was a yellow. 1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie iv. 126 I led her straight to our best cling peach tree. 1968 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. XLIX. 16 Another reason for vocabulary change is the widespread use of commercial terms... These include..cling peach for cling-stone peach. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clingn.² Brit. /klɪŋ/, U.S. /klɪŋ/ Etymology: A word having the same relation to clink, as clang to clank. Ringing. Also cling-clang. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] ringOE ringingc1300 ringlinga1398 trongling1398 tinging1495 cling1578 sing-sing1659 tang1669 dingle-dangle1694 chang1788 dingling1822 ding-a-ling1886 clappering1891 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun] > clink or chink clinkingc1386 clinkc1540 tink?1576 cling1578 chink1581 chinking1589 jinking1888 jink1898 plink1916 1578 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 189 Gif yee will give them caip and bell The cling thereof they will yow sell. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 182 With martial strides, and a cling, cling, cling of spurs. 1902 E. Nesbit Five Children & It vii. 186 The children could hear the cling-clang of armour. 1926 Glasgow Herald 1 Mar. 10 Bing-bang, cling-clang clatter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clingv.¹ Brit. /klɪŋ/, U.S. /klɪŋ/ Forms: past tense and past participle clung /klʌŋ/. Forms: Old English cling-an, Middle English cling-e(n, Middle English clyng-e(n, clyngyn), Middle English–1500s clinge, Middle English clyng, Middle English– cling. past tense Old English–Middle English (and in northern dialectOld English–1800s) clang, (Middle English clange); plural Old English clungon, Middle English clunge(n; singular and plural Middle English–1500s clong, clonge, 1500s– clung. past participle Old English–Middle English clungen, (Old English ge-, Middle English i-, Middle English clungyn, clungun), Middle English clongen, clongyn, clongun, Middle English–1500s clunge, clong, 1500s cloung, Middle English– clung. weak past tense and participle 1600s–1700s, dialect1800s clinged, cling'd. Etymology: Old English clingan , clang , clungen , strong verb, also in East Frisian klingen and klinken (klunk , klunken ), used precisely in sense 2 (Doornkaat-Koolman II. 261). Compare also dialect German sich klinken to fasten oneself on, to cling to , Danish klynge sig to gather in clusters, crowd together; further Middle High German klingen to climb, clamber (Grimm, s.v. klimmen 1168), and Swedish klänge to climb, klänge a tendril. These all point to a strong stem klink- varying with kling- , the former giving the causative klankjan , Old English clęnc(e)an , clench v.¹, and the latter appearing in Old English cling-an . The original sense was evidently ‘to stick fast’, whence the early senses ‘stick together’, ‘shrink together’, and the later ‘stick or cleave to ’. Compare clench v.¹, clink v.²For the double stem-form clink- , cling- , compare the same under the echoic clink v.¹; also Old English cringan , crinkan to cringe v., scringan , scrinkan to shrink v. (In sense 8 cling may be a variant of clink v.² Compare also clinger n. 2, clinging n. 2. †1. a. intransitive. To adhere together in a stiff or firm mass: said of the freezing or congealing of liquids, the hardening of clay by drought, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > cohere clingOE clitchc1400 clutchc1425 coagmentate1578 congeal1584 clung1601 cohere1616 conglutinatea1625 a800 Corpus Gloss. 1744 Rigentia, forclingendu.] OE Andreas (1932) 1260 Land wæron freorig cealdum cylegicelum, clang wæteres þrym ofer eastreamas, is brycgade blæce brimrade. c1300 K. Alis. 915 Theo sunne ariseth..Theo nessche clay hit makith clyng. c1300 K. Alis. 2903 Mury hit is in sonne-risyng!.. Weyes fairith, the clayes clyng. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4699 Þe erth it clang, for drught and hete. c1485 Early Eng. Misc. (Warton Club) 8 I clynge as dothe a whettyne cake. †b. Often in past participle (cf. sunk adj., fallen adj., etc.). Obsolete. ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxviii. 38 Whanne was pouder held in the erthe, and clottis weren clunge togidere? a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 63 Idried and iclunge by hete of the sonne. a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 142 In cloddres of blod his her was clunge. 1490 in Anglia X. 372 The erthe þat is byfore clongen with þe colde froste of wynter. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 109^v A hard knoppe of fleshe being clong, and rolled vp in it selfe. c. A relic of this survives in cling together, which however passes into later senses. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 156^v His bodie his [sic] leane, and more clong togeather then it was woont to be. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 354 Driuing the Horsse into a sweate..whereby his lippes are clung together. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 64 Like bunches of grapes, clung to each other. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §11. 84 When I endeavoured to squeeze it [snow]..it at first refused to cling together. 2. Applied to the drawing together or shrinking and shrivelling up of animal or vegetable tissues, when they lose their juices under the influence of heat, cold, hunger, thirst, disease, age; to become ‘drawn’, to shrink up, wither, decay. Obsolete exc. dialect. a. of the living human body. ΚΠ c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxxv. 212 Marceo, ic clinge, marcesco. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 743 Nu þu miht ule sitte and clinge. c1305 Pilate 222 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 Nou ic her clynge awei. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 823 His fete waxes calde, his bely clynges. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 50 Whan þow clomsest for colde or clyngest for drye. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2524 For betere is ous forto die amonges our fos in fiȝte, þan her-inne clynge & drie & daye for hunger riȝte. a1400 Cov. Myst. 54 (Mätz.) My hert doth clynge and cleve as clay. 1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms lxxvii. (1842) 29 My bonys..clynge, and waxe alle drye. †b. said of the dead body. (A favourite alliteration with clay and clod.) Obsolete. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 856 Oure corses in clottez clynge. c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 85 In coold clay now schal y clinge. [See also 2e.] †c. of plants. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8764 Þis tre bigan to cling. d. of timber or woodwork. northern dialect in later use. ΚΠ 1747 R. Maxwell Pract. Bee-master 20 Some make Covers like Barrels, with Iron-hoops around them: These Covers cling, as we say, with the Summer's Drought, then they drive the Hoops strait, which makes them tight again. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Cling, to shrink or contract, as wood in drying. e. In all these uses the past participle clungen, clung, was esp. frequent; it belonged originally to the intransitive sense, but it probably suggested the operation of an agent, and led the way to the later transitive construction (3). Cf. clung adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles wizenc890 clinga1000 shrinkc1000 rivelOE snurpc1300 wrinkle1528 warp1579 shrivel1588 pucker1598 shirpc1639 tuck1797 weazen1821 cringle1823 swivel1898 a1000 Solomon & Saturn 304 Beoð cealde geclungene. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20747 His arms war al clungen dri. 1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms App. (1842) 52 That I be nouȝt in clottess clunge. c1450 Erle Tolous 494 Methynkyth thou fadyste all away, As man that ys clongyn in clay. 3. transitive. †a. (from 1) To press together, compress. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > compress or constrict thrumc1275 constrainc1374 nip1381 rinea1398 compress1398 withstrainc1400 coarctc1420 pincha1425 strain1426 nipe1440 thrumble1513 comprime?1541 astrict1548 sneap1598 cling1601 wring1603 constringe1609 coarctate1620 compinge1621 choke1635 compel1657 cramp1673 hunch1738 constrict1759 tighten1853 scrunch1861 throttle1863 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 87 The Ocean of one coast, the Iberian sea on the other, do cling and press the sides [of Spain] together. b. To cause to adhere, attach, stick together. dialect in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to > cause to adhere stickc1425 clam1598 cling1606 plaster1623 beglue1658 adhere1845 clitch1863 paste1863 key1923 1606 Bp. J. Hall Arte Diuine Medit. §vi So are wee when our thoughts are clingd together by the world. 1698 E. Tyson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 120 I could observe them matted or cling'd together by a Yellowish Substance. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xii. 291 His untrimmed hair..With cotton cords intwisted, clung with gum. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cling, to stick together as with gum; to cause to adhere. c. (from 2) To cause (the body, etc.) to shrink or draw together; to contract, shrivel, parch. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles shrenchc950 clinker1495 wizen1513 rivel1543 clinga1547 shrivel1609 warpa1616 pucker1616 plight1638 weazen1821 a1547 Earl of Surrey in Nugæ Antiquæ (1804) II. 359 Clings not his gutts with niggishe fare, To heape his chest withall. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 38 If thou speak'st false [printed fhlse], Vpon the next Tree shall thou hang aliue Till Famine cling thee. View more context for this quotation 1816 Ld. Byron Darkness 50 Kept..famished men at bay Till hunger clung them. 4. intransitive. To adhere or stick to (some part, e.g. as skin or dried flesh to bone), as the result or accompaniment of shrivelling and contraction. (Also in past participle) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere > as a result of contraction clingc1325 c1325 Metr. Hom. (1862) 88 His skin was klungen to the bane, For fleische upon him was thar nane. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4569 Þair hidd was clongun [Gött. clungen] to þe ban, Sua lene sagh i neuer nan. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. lviii. 124 His belly will be clung vp to his backe, and his backe rising vp like a Camell. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 512 His Armes clung to his Ribs..till..down he fell A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone. View more context for this quotation 5. a. intransitive. To adhere, stick fast, attach oneself firmly to, as by a glutinous surface, or by grasping with prehensile organs. (Now the leading sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere cleavec897 to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a burc1330 sita1398 clinga1400 clengec1400 engleim?1440 adhere1557 clag1563 clasp1569 clencha1600 clung1601 clam1610 yclingec1620 affix1695 clinch1793 to stick (to one) like wax1809 cleam- a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5955 Hungre flees, sare bitand, þat bath þai clang on man and best. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24204 Care clinges in mi hert cald. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Liii^v/1 To Cling, clingere. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 Lyke dooues in tempest clinging fast closlye to geather. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 350 Silent bats in drowsy clusters cling. 1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 60 Inverted shrubs, and moss of gloomy green, Cling from the rocks. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxii. 449 The broken ice clung to the rocks. 1871 S. Smiles Boy's Voy. Round World (1875) xiv. 141 The quicksilver clings to the gold and forms an amalgam with it. b. said of human beings with their arms. ΚΠ ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. (R.) All knew me; cling'd about me. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 8 As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together, And choake their Art. View more context for this quotation 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxxvii. 76 My maids clung round me, and refused to be parted. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Friend 21 Sept. 93 Dear Ellen did not..weep at all, But closelier she did cling. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 87 He was despatched as he clung to an altar. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 40 Then they clung about The old man's neck, and kiss'd him many times. c. of a garment, esp. when wet. ΚΠ a1792 J. Reynolds Art Painting Note 30 (R.) The disposing of the drapery, so as to appear to cling close round the limbs. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxiii. 98 A single vest Clings round her limbs. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxxiv. 256 His fisher's coat dripping wet and clinging to his form. d. transferred. To be or remain close to, as if attached. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > remain near to to hold quarter withc1550 clap1608 to hang togethera1616 hug1824 cling1842 1842 R. Browning In a Gondola in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics The very night is clinging Closer to Venice' streets. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §18. 122 Some heavy clouds..clung to the mountains. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. ii. 15 The fog clings so. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 239 [Thus] did Fabius follow his foe from place to place, always clinging to the hills. 6. a. figurative. To adhere or cleave to, in attachment, fellowship, sympathy, practice, or idea. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > retain or keep [verb (transitive)] > cling to cling1582 hug1649 to hang by the lug ofa1652 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 46 Hee leaues thee conquourd, and clingd to the partye triumphant. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §6. 195 The more fiercely Christians are assaulted, the more closely they will cling together. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 28 Now your orphan hearts Will closer cling in your calamity. 1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. iii. i. 537 The possession of land is in Ireland..the sine quâ non of existence. It is, therefore, clung to with desperate tenacity. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 108 They still..clung to the doctrine of non-resistance. b. of things, habits, practices. ΚΠ a1680 Earl of Rochester Alexis & Strephon xiii, in Poems (1984) 11 As Trees are by their Bark embrac'd, Love to my Soul doth cling. 1828 C. Lamb Old Margate Hoy in Elia 2nd Ser. 29 Old attachments cling to her in spite of experience. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 119 Their phrases..clung to his memory. 7. transitive (elliptical). To cling to, clasp, embrace. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] clipc950 freeOE beclipc1000 windc1175 fang?c1200 yokec1275 umgripea1300 to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300 umbefold14.. collc1320 lapc1350 bracec1375 embracec1386 clapa1400 folda1400 halsea1400 umbeclapa1400 accollc1400 fathomc1400 halchc1400 haspc1400 hoderc1440 plighta1450 plet?a1500 cuddlec1520 complect1523 umbfoldc1540 clasp1549 culla1564 cully1576 huggle1583 embosom1590 wrap1594 collya1600 cling1607 bosom1608 grasp1609 comply1648 huddlea1650 smuggle1679 inarm1713 snuggle1775 cwtch1965 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. B3^v To slide from the mother, And cling the daughter-in-law. 1638 T. Heywood Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 194 Temptations offered, I still scorne. Deny'd; I cling them still. †8. To cause to cling, make fast, fasten. Obsolete. (Perhaps a by-form of clinch v.¹ or clink v.²) ΚΠ 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 They clinge thee scalinges too wals [L. hærent parietibus scalæ]. 1732 J. Swift Exam. Abuses Dublin 10 I..clung my Legs as close to his Sides as I could. 1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 153 Unmercifully clinging their Hands in a split Block. 1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. v. 412 The People cling'd their Fingers of both their Hands between one another, holding the two Thumbs..close together. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xix. 225 This made Ragotin cling his legs still more close to the horse's sides. 9. Of doubtful meaning and position: ? To press, stick in; or possibly = clink v.¹ 7b. ΚΠ ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1865 Sir Clegis clynges in, and clekes another. Compounds The verbal stem used attributively. cling film n. plastic film so thin that it attaches readily to an object about which it is wrapped, sold commercially to cover and preserve food, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > plastic > wrapping film film1917 plastic film1939 plastic wrap1949 shrink-wrap1961 shrink film1967 Saran Wrap1968 cling film1975 1975 Food Manuf. Nov. 74/1 British Cellophane Ltd. announce the introduction of a polyethylene cling film for fresh food wrapping—BCL Cling Film 301. 1983 Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 11/1 Kitchen cling film was used to cover aircraft cockpit instruments and control panels because for long periods there was 100 per cent. relative humidity in the atmosphere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † clingv.² Etymology: By-form of clink v.¹ Obsolete. rare. intransitive. = clink v.¹ 1a. ΚΠ c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 81 Clepyng or clyngynge of a bell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹1633n.²1578v.¹OEv.²c1440
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