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consonant clusters. The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving consonant clusters beginning
Phonological history of English consonant clusters
Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters
Simplification of consonant clusters in certain environments
historical linguistics, cluster reduction is the simplification of consonant clusters in certain environments or over time. Cluster reduction can happen in different
Cluster_reduction
Digraph representing a sound that has changed
wine–whine merger. It is also referred to as glide cluster reduction. Before rounded vowels, a different reduction process took place in Middle English, as a
Pronunciation_of_English_⟨wh⟩
Group of consonants without a vowel in between
Some consonant clusters originate from the loss of a vowel in between two consonants, usually (but not always) due to vowel reduction caused by lack of
Consonant_cluster
Sound changes
S-cluster reduction, in some types of Caribbean English, where for example spit is pronounced pit. NG-coalescence – reduction of the final cluster [ŋɡ]
Phonological history of English consonants
Phonological_history_of_English_consonants
Variety of the English language
vocalised "l", so Nile and now are similar-sounding. Certain final consonant clusters tend to be reduced in conversational speech, so list [lɪs] drops its final
Singapore_English
Omission of sounds in words or phrases
lost in the singulative. Aphaeresis Apocope Clipping (morphology) Cluster reduction Contraction Crasis Disemvoweling Elision in the French language Haplology
Elision
Variety of American English
historical origins of AAVE. Consonant cluster reduction is a phonological process where a final consonant group or cluster, consisting of two adjacent consonant
African-American Vernacular English
African-American_Vernacular_English
Statistical method in data analysis
hierarchical clustering (also called hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA) is a method of cluster analysis that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. Strategies
Hierarchical_clustering
Process of reducing the number of random variables under consideration
and feature extraction. Dimensionality reduction can be used for noise reduction, data visualization, cluster analysis, or as an intermediate step to
Dimensionality_reduction
Grouping a set of objects by similarity
Cluster analysis, or clustering, is a data analysis technique aimed at partitioning a set of objects into groups such that objects within the same group
Cluster_analysis
Phonetic phenomenon in Uralic languages
affected, not other consonants. Moreover, only the last member of a consonant cluster was subject to gradation, and single stops and affricates were only affected
Consonant_gradation
Name list
Gabus also appear. The Hungarian variation was formed by consonant cluster reduction and the shortening of the Latin version. The meaning of the original
Gábor_(given_name)
Sound change converting an alveolar consonant to a rhotic consonant
/r/ in a variety of consonant clusters, often with nasalization of the following vowel. For example, the /kn/ cluster developed into /kr/, as in Scottish
Rhotacism
Loss of a sound within a word
second vowel of a word was deleted unless it was adjacent to a consonant cluster or a final consonant. Apheresis (linguistics) Apocope Clipping (morphology)
Syncope_(phonology)
Supercomputer platform
A PlayStation 3 cluster is a distributed system computer composed primarily of PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Before and during the console's production
PlayStation_3_cluster
Loss of word-final sounds
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Apocope
Vector quantization algorithm minimizing the sum of squared deviations
clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean (cluster centers or cluster centroid). This results in a partitioning of the
K-means_clustering
Sound change of vowels assimilating to each other, especially in Germanic languages
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Umlaut_(linguistics)
Syllabic separation of two adjacent vowels
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Vowel_hiatus
Clustering methods
spectral clustering techniques make use of the spectrum (eigenvalues) of the similarity matrix of the data to perform dimensionality reduction before clustering
Spectral_clustering
Type of secondary articulation in speech
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Velarization
Situational pronunciation of /r/ in non-rhotic varieties of English
insertion of an r in its place. Sometimes this occurs in conjunction with the reduction of the final vowel in the first word to a schwa: examples of this are
Linking_and_intrusive_R
Continuous sequence of sounds in spoken language
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Connected_speech
Protein family with an iron–sulfur center transferring electrons
an electron to the 2Fe-2S cluster, then releasing the electron to the cytochrome c or cytochrome f heme iron. The reduction of the Rieske center increases
Rieske_protein
Acquisition of language skills during childhood
consonant, e.g., [ɡʌk] for ‘duck’ - Consonant cluster reduction: omission of a consonant in a target word cluster, e.g., [kæk] for ‘cracker’ - Velar fronting:
Phonological_development
English words that indicate a question is being asked, as a grammatical category
underwent further sound changes and spelling changes, notably wh-cluster reductions, resulting in the initial sound being either /w/ (in most dialects)
English_interrogative_words
Austronesian language of West Papua, Indonesia
are consonant-glide clusters that form through the morphophonological processes described above. Additionally, an underlying cluster of a consonant followed
Wamesa_language
Production of a sound while the velum is lowered
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Nasalization
Change in tone contour based on adjacent syllable tones
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Tone_sandhi
Botanical term for a cluster of flowers
In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An
Inflorescence
English-based creole language spoken in Guyana
which are isomorphic with the Jamaican phoneme system: Th-stopping Cluster reduction Avoidance of [ʃ], [ʒ], [f], [v] phonemes H dropping Semivowels Non-rhoticity
Guyanese_Creole
Pronouncing "l" sounds as vowels
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L-vocalization
Polish urban dialect of Bydgoszcz
as cóś, doktór, or dopieru; consonant cluster reductions and affricate simplifications: among cluster reductions (syllable initial gd-: [g]dzie; medial
Bydgoszcz_dialect
Consonant sound change
It is also possible for entire consonant clusters to undergo lenition, as in Votic, where voiceless clusters become voiced, e.g. itke- "to cry" → idgön
Lenition
Elision through dissimilation
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Haplology
English dialects native to the Caribbean
described as 'the general quality of CE [Caribbean English] vowels, the sharp reduction in the number of diphthongal glides and, the most distinguishing feature
Caribbean_English
Phonetic changes in the Old Irish language
/L m N R/ when occurring after a vowel and not before a consonant. Cluster reduction involving *n: *nt *nk > unlenited /d ɡ/ (normally written t c). Note
Phonological history of Old Irish
Phonological_history_of_Old_Irish
Vowel sound change
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Monophthongization
Density-based data clustering algorithm
Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is a data clustering algorithm proposed by Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg
DBSCAN
Sounds and pronunciation of the Russian language
расще́лина ('cleft'). There are also a few isolated patterns of apparent cluster reduction (as evidenced by the mismatch between pronunciation and orthography)
Russian_phonology
Phonological assimilation
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Consonant_harmony
Phonetic sound change
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Consonant voicing and devoicing
Consonant_voicing_and_devoicing
Group of closely related Berber languages and dialects
consonant taking the voicing of the second (e.g. /edˤkăr/ > [etˤkăr]). Cluster reduction turns word/morpheme-final /-ɣt, -ɣk/ into [-qː] and /-kt, -ɟt, -ɡt/
Tuareg_languages
Stage of the English language from the contemporary period
(1600–1725), some major phonological changes in English included: Initial cluster reductions, like of /ɡn, kn/ into /n/: making homophones of gnat and nat, and
Modern_English
Korean rice cake variety
book on medicine. The word became chɑppsɑl (ᄎᆞᆸᄡᆞᆯ) with consonant cluster reduction and then became chɑpsɑl (ᄎᆞᄡᆞᆯ) with degemination. Due to the loss
Chapssal-tteok
Phenomenon in linguistics
all-postalveolar consonant clusters [tʃɹ] and [dʒɹ]. This phenomenon also occurs in /str/, resulting in the all-postalveolar consonant cluster [ʃtʃɹ]. The affrication
Assimilation_(phonology)
Comparison of languages
the diphthongization. The consonant clusters of Proto-Tai had mostly merged in Proto-Southwestern Tai, but clusters were re-introduced with Khmer, Sanskrit
Comparison_of_Lao_and_Thai
Insertion of a sound at the beginning of a word
languages or the derivation from protolanguages. An example is that /s/ + stop clusters (known as s impurum), in Latin, gained a preceding /e/ in early Romance
Prothesis_(linguistics)
Class of enzymes
the Fe-S cluster and drive reduction of the P-cluster, and finally to the FeMo-co, where reduction of N2 to NH3 takes place. The reduction of nitrogen
Nitrogenase
Vowel shift
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Raising_(sound_change)
English-based creole spoken in Sierra Leone
There are 24 phonemes in the consonant inventory of Krio. Consonant cluster reduction is a common process in phonology. It is typically applied to lexical
Krio_language
Sound change within a word that indicates grammatical information
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Apophony
Phonological process
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Final-obstruent_devoicing
Galaxy cluster in the constellation Fornax
E. W.; et al. (June 2006). "The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey and Data Reduction Procedures". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement
Fornax_Cluster
Merging of two syllables into one
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Synalepha
Dialect of English spoken in Ireland
front vowel. (de Gruyter 2004, p. 88) Local Dublin features consonant cluster reduction, so that plosives occurring after fricatives or sonorants may be left
Hiberno-English
Sound change
pp. 239–245, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001768 Tomaka, Maciej (2017), "On reduction in English: what the English don't say", New Horizons in English Studies
Triphthong_smoothing
Sound changes
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Fronting_(sound_change)
Concept in phonetics
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Coarticulation
Sound change that either results in a palatal or palatalized consonant or a front vowel
Romance, clusters of a voiceless obstruent with /l/ were palatalized once or twice. This first palatalization was unconditioned. It resulted in a cluster with
Palatalization_(sound_change)
Word initial consonantal sound changes in Irish
of a following consonant or the prothesis of ⟨n-⟩ to a vowel. The cluster reductions involved in eclipsis turned nasal stops followed by a voiced stop
Irish_initial_mutations
Consonantal change
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Fortition
Collection of bound atoms or molecules
ionized cluster of metals. Cluster ion beams are produced by bombarding the surface with high energetic inert gas (krypton and xenon) ions. The cluster production
Nanocluster
Sound changes affecting each other
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Chain_shift
Type of sound change at morpheme or syllable boundaries
change). Korean has sandhi which occurs in the final consonant or consonant cluster, such that a morpheme can have two pronunciations depending on whether
Sandhi
Vowel sound change
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I-mutation
Secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages
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Labialization
a cluster or if the following syllable begins with a consonant. thorn cluster reduction Before a syllabic nasal consonant, dental–dorsal clusters lost
Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
Glossary_of_sound_laws_in_the_Indo-European_languages
Phonological sound change
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Assibilation
Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
phonotactics of a given language may discourage vowels in hiatus or consonant clusters, and a consonant or vowel may be added to help pronunciation. Epenthesis
Epenthesis
Modification or development of a language
least effort tends to result in phonetic reduction of speech forms. See vowel reduction, cluster reduction, lenition, and elision. After some time, a
Language_change
Alternate phonetic realization of a morpheme
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Alternation_(linguistics)
Systematic change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language
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Vowel_shift
Loss of the vowel at the beginning of a word
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Apheresis_(linguistics)
Phenomenon in phonology
term reduction refers to phonemic merger. It is not to be confused with the meaning of the word "reduction" in phonetics, such as vowel reduction, but
Phonological_change
Concept in linguistics
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Phonological_rule
Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure
affricate or fricative. Reduction: Whereas the weakening of consonants is called lenition, the weakening of vowels is called reduction. For example, in most
Sound_change
Process of not pronouncing an "h" sound
this syllable-initial /h/, either alone or in the cluster /hj/. (For the cluster /hw/ and its reduction, see Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩.) H-dropping
H-dropping
Type of linguistic sound change
American English. Words with primary stress on a syllable with such a cluster also did not experience coalescence: tune /tjuːn/ and assume /əˈsjuːm/
Fusion_(phonetics)
disagreement. Cluster C personality disorders are characterised by a consistent pattern of anxious thinking or behavior. Earlier, this cluster has included
Classification of personality disorders
Classification_of_personality_disorders
Grammatical change of vowels in Indo-European languages
vowel length (quantitative gradation: photograph / photography shows reduction of the first vowel to a schwa), others in vowel coloring (qualitative
Indo-European_ablaut
Phonological process of sound change
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Synaeresis
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
and a few others) do tone languages occur as individual members or small clusters within a non-tone dominated area. In some locations, like Central America
Tone_(linguistics)
Class of vowel change
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Metaphony
Consonant sound change
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Delateralization
Lengthening of vowel sounds in place of a deleted consonant
in which consonant clusters with dissimilar consonants preceded by a short vowel undergo assimilation resulting in consonant clusters with similar consonants
Compensatory_lengthening
International treaty
Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster munitions, a
Convention on Cluster Munitions
Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions
Adding sounds to the end of a word
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Paragoge
Pronunciation of a latent word-final consonant immediately before a following vowel sound
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Liaison_(French)
Sound system of Spanish
time. Some common error patterns (found 10% or more of the time) are cluster reduction, liquid simplification, and stopping. Less common patterns (evidenced
Spanish_phonology
Iron–nickel (Fe–Ni) clusters are metal clusters consisting of iron and nickel, i.e. Fe–Ni structures displaying polyhedral frameworks held together by
Iron–nickel_clusters
Simplifying data to facilitate analysis
histograms, clustering, sampling, etc. Data reduction can be obtained by assuming a statistical model for the data. Classical principles of data reduction include
Data_reduction
Velar consonant that is labialized
most dialects and /h/, respectively, via Grimm's law followed by wh-cluster reductions. By contrast, in Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages
Labialized_velar_consonant
Concept in phonology
see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, vowel reduction is any of various changes in the acoustic quality of vowels as a result
Vowel_reduction
Phonology of Hindi and Urdu
eliminate clusters through processes such as cluster reduction and epenthesis. Schmidt (2003:293) lists distinctively Sanskrit/Hindi biconsonantal clusters of
Hindustani_phonology
Sound change happening in linguistics
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Consonant_mutation
Machine learning technique useful for dimensionality reduction
observations could be represented as clusters of observations with similar values for the variables. These clusters then could be visualized as a two-dimensional
Self-organizing_map
Variety of Mandarin Chinese
non-standard Taiwanese Guoyu tends to exhibit frequent, informal elision and cluster reduction when spoken. For example, 這樣子 zhè yàngzi 'this way, like so' can be
Taiwanese_Mandarin
Switching the order of sounds
to -). Prakrit lost many of its consonant clusters from Sanskrit to aspirates due to metathesis. Clusters with /h/ also became reversed.[citation needed]
Metathesis_(linguistics)
CLUSTER REDUCTION
CLUSTER REDUCTION
Male
English
Anglicized form of Gaelic Alaster, ALYSTER means "defender of mankind."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of costards (Anglo-Norman French, from coste ‘rib’), a variety of large apples, so called for their prominent ribs. In some cases, it may have been a nickname (from the same word) for a person with an apple-shaped (i.e. round) head.Dutch : status name for a churchwarden, from Late Latin custor ‘guard’, ‘warden’.Variant spelling of German Koster.This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
Male
Gaelic
Gaelic form of Latin Alexandrus, ALISTER means "defender of mankind."
Girl/Female
Assamese, Celebrity, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil, Traditional
Flame; Lustre; Glow; Shine; Luster; Nice
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly from Middle English cloutere, clutere, an occupational name for a cobbler or patcher, from an agent derivative of cloute, clut(e) ‘patch’.Possibly an altered form of German Klutterer, an occupational name for a traveling entertainer, Middle High German kluterære, or a shortened form of Klüttermann ‘clodhopper’, a nickname for a peasant.
Male
Gaelic
Gaelic form of Latin Alexandrus, ALASTER means "defender of mankind."
Surname or Lastname
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English
Americanized spelling of German Köster or Küster ‘sexton’ (see Kuster).English : variant of Coster.The American military officer George Custer (1839–76) was a descendant of a German officer from Hesse by the name of Küster.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the city of Gloucester. The place originally bore the British name Glēvum (apparently from a cognate of Welsh gloyw ‘bright’), to which was added the Old English element ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’).
Male
English
 English surname transferred to forename use, derived from the city name Chester, from an Old English form of Latin castra, CHESTER means "legionary camp."Â
Surname or Lastname
English and North German
English and North German : metonymic occupational name for a plasterer, from Middle English, Middle Low German plaster (from Latin emplastrum ‘(wound) plaster’ (originally a paste), from Greek emplastron, a derivative of emplassein ‘to shape or form’; the term was carried over into building terminology to mean ‘bonding agent’).English : habitational name from any of various places called Plaistow (in East London, Derbyshire, Sussex, and elsewhere), from Old English plegestÅw ‘place where people gather for sport or play’. This can also be a variant of Plaisted (through interchangeable use of the Old English elements stÅw and stede, both meaning ‘place’, in earlier times).German and Ashkenazic Jewish (Pflaster) : from Middle High German pflaster (German Pflaster, from Latin plastrum) ‘street pavement’, ‘pavement’, cognate with 1.
Boy/Male
Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Grape Cluster
Male
English
English slang term for someone who breaks things transferred to forename use, originally derived from the verb bust, BUSTER means "to break, smash," hence "breaker, destroyer, smasher."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Chester, the county seat of Cheshire, or from any of various smaller places named with this word (as for example Little Chester in Derbyshire or Chester le Street in County Durham), which is from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’).
Girl/Female
British, English, Finnish
Bunch; Cluster
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Lister.
Male
Gaelic
Gaelic form of Latin Alexandrus, ALESTER means "defender of mankind."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Leicester, named in Old English from the tribal name Ligore (itself adapted from a British river name) + Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’).English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.English and Scottish : variant of Lister.
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : occupational name for a treasurer or accountant, from Middle English counter (from Old French conteor).
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the city name Leicester which was recorded in the 10th century as Ligora caester "Ligora's fort." Ligora is related to Liguria, a very old place name of obscure origin, dating back to pre-Roman times. There has been some speculation concerning a possible connection between Ligora/Liguria and Celtic Lug, LESTER means "oath."
Girl/Female
Australian, Finnish
Bunch; Cluster
CLUSTER REDUCTION
CLUSTER REDUCTION
Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Complete Lotus
Girl/Female
Indian
Beautiful
Male
Spanish
Spanish form of Latin Emidius, EMIDIO means "half-god, demigod." Literally, this name also means "weary, tired."
Girl/Female
Tamil
Armlet
Boy/Male
Muslim
Fighter, Strong spirit
Girl/Female
Muslim
Beloved, Lover
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh, Telugu
Eyelash
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Lord Shiva's Companion; Dancer of Heaven
Male
Finnish
Pet form of Finnish Iisakki, IIKKA means "he will laugh."
CLUSTER REDUCTION
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n.
Alt. of Lustre
v. t.
To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
v. t.
To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
v. t.
To raise a blister or blisters upon.
n.
A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
n.
Glitter; luster.
n.
Clatter; confused noise.
a.
Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
v. i.
To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
n.
Same as Clyster.
v. t.
Alt. of Lustre
n.
One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of cannon; a caster of accounts.
n.
Same as Luster.
a.
Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.
n.
A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
n.
Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.
n.
A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
v. i.
To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
imp. & p. p.
of Cluster
n.
One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.