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Cling   /klɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Cling  v. t.  (past & past part. clung, obs. clong; pres. part. clinging)  
1.
To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. (Obs.) "I clung legs as close to his side as I could."
2.
To make to dry up or wither. (Obs.) "If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee."



Cling  v. i.  (past & past part. clung, obs. clong; pres. part. clinging)  To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; usually followed by to or together. "And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus?"



noun
Cling  n.  Adherence; attachment; devotion. (R.) "A more tenacious cling to worldly respects."






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"Cling" Quotes from Famous Books



... Following the ocean southward, we find the same race extending to the Loire, the Garonne, the Pyrenees; stretching somewhat inland also, but clinging everywhere to the Atlantic, as we also saw it cling in Ireland. In earlier centuries, long before our era opened, we find this same race spread far to the east,—as far, almost, as the German and Italian frontier,—so that at one time it held almost complete possession of France. South of the Pyrenees ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston

... the front gate and adorn the side yards, attest the care and neatness of the mistress. Though she has lived on the prairie for forty years, yet the expressions that savor of her early life in a densely-wooded State still cling to her, and if you find her in her working-dress among her flowers she will beg you to excuse her appearance, adding, "I look as if I was just out of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... inch wide; slash in the middle a short distance, and slip the strip over the head of the pin (Fig. 113); bend at the shoulders, fold remaining lengths once for arms, and, with dampened thumb and finger, lightly twist the ends into hands. The edges of the cotton forming arms and hands will cling together. Tie a bright ribbon sash around Miss Dolly's waist; then make her hair of a strip of dark raw cotton; fit and press it on the wooden head, twisting the ends to resemble long braids; pinch the cotton up on the top of the head to form a pompadour; ...
— Little Folks' Handy Book • Lina Beard

... Renewing my efforts, I at length reached the boat and grasped the rudder. But the rudder came away in my hand, having been displaced in the capsizing of the boat. This, however, aided me in keeping afloat till I was enabled to reach the boat again and cling to the keel. ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton

... criticised and so made to appear before the world as a man who spent so many valuable years in Africa for the sake of burdening the geographical mind with theory that has detained him so long in Africa, doing his utmost to test the value of the main theory which clung to him, and would cling to him until he proved or ...
— How I Found Livingstone • Sir Henry M. Stanley


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