Definition of clan

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Clan (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously..

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Totem :: Totem (n.) A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan..
Clank :: Clank (n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink..
Smuggle :: Smuggle (v. t.) Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely.
Clan :: Clan (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald..
Clam :: Clam (v. t. & i.) To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang..
Ding :: Ding (v. i.) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang..
Privy :: Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.
Clang :: Clang (n.) Quality of tone.
Clam :: Clam (n.) A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
Clan :: Clan (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously..
Gens :: Gens (a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe..
Underaid :: Underaid (v. t.) To aid clandestinely.
Clanged :: Clanged (imp. & p. p.) of Clan.
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us..
Underplot :: Underplot (n.) A clandestine scheme; a trick.
Surrey :: Surreptitious (a.) Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods..
Clanjamfrie :: Clanjamfrie (n.) Same as Clamjamphrie.
Clandestinity :: Clandestinity (n.) Privacy or secrecy.
Underhand :: Underhand (adv.) By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly..
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
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