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Webster 1913 Edition
Climb
Climb
(klīm)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Climbed
(klīmd)
, Obs. or Vulgar
Clomb
(klŏm)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Climbing
.] [AS.
climban
; akin to OHG. chlimban
, G. & D. klimmen
, Icel. klīfa
, and E. cleave
to adhere.] 1.
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
2.
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
Black vapors
climb
aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.
3.
(Bot.)
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
Climb
,Verb.
T.
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb
,Noun.
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
Warburton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Climb
CLIMB
, v.i.1.
To creep up by little and little, or step by step; to mount or ascend, by means of the hands and feet; to rise on any fixed object, by seizing it with the hands and lifting the body, and by thrusting with the feet; as, to climb a tree or a precipice.And he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore tree. Luke 19.
2.
To mount or ascend with labor and difficulty.3.
To rise or ascend with a slow motion.Black vapors climb aloft.
CLIMB
, v.t.1.
To ascend by means of the hands and feet, implying labor, difficulty and slow progress; as, to climb a wall, or a steep mountain.2.
To mount or ascend, with labor or a slow motion; as, to climb the ascents of fame.