Obs. By-form of CLING v.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 586. The hard yron … is willing to be drawne by the load stone:… it claspeth and clungeth to it.
1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, 63 b. If it … be suffred to accrue & clung together.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. App. xcii. Heavy clunging mists. Ibid., III. III. xliii. These near will to her clung.
1708–15. Kersey, To clung, to dry as Wood does, when laid up after it is cut.
