claudent

English

Etymology

Latin claudens, present participle of claudere (“to shut”).

Adjective

claudent (not comparable)

1. Shutting; confining; drawing together.

   a claudent muscle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “claudent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

claudent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of claudeō