[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

clam \clam\, v. i.
   to be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. r. --dryden
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

clam \clam\, n.
   claminess; moisture. r. "the clam of death." --carlyle.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

clam \clam\ kla^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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

            clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a
            cockle; it lieth under the sand.      --wood 1634.
      1913 webster

   2. ship carp. strong pinchers or forceps.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. mech. a kind of vise, usually of wood.
      1913 webster

   blood clam. see under blood.
      1913 webster
see also:
clamp clam clammy mya arenaria venus mercenaria spisula solidissima 
tridacna gigas blood clam blood 

[4] : 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.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

clam \clam\ cla^m, v. t. imp.  p. p. clammed; p. pr. 
   vb. n. clamming. cf. as. claeman 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.
   1913 webster

         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.
   1913 webster
see also:
clammed clamming 

[6] : 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.
   1913 webster

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

clam
     n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud
     2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar syn: dollar, dollar
        bill, one dollar bill, buck
     3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams
     v : gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean
     also: clamming, clammed
see also:
dollar dollar bill one dollar bill buck clamming clammed 

[8] : 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

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

clam
     
         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
     
     
see also:
symbolic mathematics atlas assembly language lisp alam 

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