ppl. a. Also 6 (in sense 4) claustered. [f. CLUSTER + -ED.]

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  1.  Growing or placed in a cluster, forming a cluster; grouped, closely collected.

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 367. Mony clustered clowde clef alle in clowtez.

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1627.  Drayton, Agincourt, ccxvii. Ere they through the cluster’d crouds could get.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Ecl., IV. 34. Cluster’d Grapes shall blush on every Thorn.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 205. Heads 1/8 in. long, sessile, clustered.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner. & Ferns, 142. Clustered crystals, or klinorhombic solitary crystals.

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  b.  Arch. Clustered pillar (column, pier): ‘several slender pillars or shafts attached to each other so as to form one’ (Gwilt, Encycl. Archit.).

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1874.  Parker, Illust. Gothic Archit., I. iii. 98. The pillars are clustered, and clustered vaulting-shafts are introduced.

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1879.  Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., II. 78. The great feature of Gothic architecture, the clustered pier.

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  2.  Furnished or covered with clusters.

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1645.  Quarles, Sol. Recant., xi. 5. Now maist thou sit beneath thy clustred Vine.

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1804.  J. Grahame, Sabbath, 438. The cluster’d vine there hardly tempts The traveller’s hand.

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1855.  M. Arnold, Poems, Gipsy Child, 6. The swinging waters and the cluster’d pier.

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  3.  In the names of various species of plants that produce their flowers or fruit in clusters.

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1861.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., III. 342. C[ampanula] glomeráta (Clustered Bell-flower). Ibid., V. 296. Juncus, Clustered Alpine Rush.

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  † 4.  Coagulated, clotted. Obs.

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a. 1547.  Surrey, Æneid, II. 352. His crisped lockes all clustred with his blood.

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1551.  Turner, Herbal, I. D iiij b. Persely helpeth the hardenes of the pappes that cometh of claustered [1578 Lyte, Dodoens, 606 clustered] mylke.

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