The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. / Any loud and continued noise. / A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

(intransitive) To cry out and/or demand. / (transitive) To demand by outcry. / (intransitive) To become noisy insistently. / (transitive) To influence by outcry. / (obsolete, transitive) To silence.

A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other. / Quality of tone. / The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.

(transitive) To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang. / (intransitive) To give out a clang; to resound.

Imitative of a loud metallic ringing sound. / (humorous) Said after someone has name-dropped (mentioned a famous person with whom they are acquainted).

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

To dig for clams.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.

To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.