Lexic.us

Definition of Clawed

1. Adjective. Having or resembling a claw or claws; often used as a combining form. "Sharp-clawed"

Definition of Clawed

1. a. Furnished with claws.

Definition of Clawed

1. Verb. (past of claw) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clawed

1. claw [v] - See also: claw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clawed

Literary usage of Clawed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Representations of the four-clawed Dragon used by certain Mandarins, and by tire People on ... The five-clawed dragon is an emblem of Imperial power. ..."

2. Therapeutic Gazette (1917)
"CLAW-FOOT OR clawed TOES. BY ARTHUR J. DAVIDSON, MD, PHILADELPHIA, Associate in ... —clawed toes. (Hoffman.) the foot when the toes are in flexion; ..."

3. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"... sepals lanceolate acute and linear- lanceolate 3-nerved petals white?, lip brown, side lobes short broad, raid- lobe broadly clawed ..."

4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2005)
"Avram's hands were clawed with cold and caked with mud and still echoing the feeling of frozen skin and frozen dirt, and balled up into fists, ..."

5. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"First, Cruciform (crucis, of a cross) or cross- shaped corollas consist of four long-clawed petals, placed at right angles to each other, as in Mustard, ..."

6. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... which will make" all our fortunes t " says Mrs. Stubbs, getting up off her knees, and making believe to smile as she clawed hold of my hand and kissed ..."

7. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"The exceptions to this are chiefly of Etruscan origin, as where the tusked and clawed and serpent- wreathed Charan is shown leading away the soul ; or the ..."

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