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noun

Cluster n.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. "Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine."

A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands. "Cluster of provinces."

A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. "As bees... Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters." "We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city."

verb

Cluster v. t. To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body. "Not less the bee would range her cells,... The foxglove cluster dappled bells." "Or from the forest falls the clustered snow."

Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.

Cluster v. i. (past & past part. clustered; pres. part. clustering) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. "His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's." "The princes of the country clustering together."

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Etymology of 'Cluster'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cluster" Quotes from Famous Books

... way through the forest paths until he had come to the outskirts of the woodlands, where, here and there, fields of barley, corn, or green meadow lands lay smiling in the sun. So he came to the highroad and to where a little thatched cottage stood back of a cluster of twisted crab trees, with flowers in front of it. Here he stopped of a sudden, for he thought that he heard the sound of someone in sorrow. He listened, and found that it came from the cottage; so, turning his footsteps thither, ...

— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle

... by eager fancy with all manner of charms and riches. The more effectually the eastern Mediterranean was closed, the stronger grew the impulse to venture upon unknown paths in order to realize the vague but glorious hopes that began to cluster about these remote countries. Such an era of romantic enterprise as was thus ushered in, the world has never seen before or since. It was equally remarkable as an era of discipline in scientific thinking. In the maritime ventures ...

— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... amenities of life were not missed because they can hardly have been known; but the restrictions on building and the absence of local authority must early have given rise to bitterness and discontent. Certainly we must admire the constancy of men who were content to live, a solitary cluster, on the coast, with an unexplored interior and savage inhabitants behind them, and with no more secure prospect of material progress than a process of undetected squatting on the ...

— The Story of Newfoundland • Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead

... maple pours its nectar, They shall share the luscious treat; Where the woodland strawb'ries cluster, Glad shall stray ...

— God's Answers - A Record Of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the - Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada • Clara M. S. Lowe

... attraction. Round the temples and summit her light hair lay in thick loose curls. It did not "stray" anywhere. On the contrary, it was very intelligent hair, and knew exactly what to do with itself, how to curl upwards here and catch the light, how to cluster together there in adorable circles and half-circles in the shadow. And then came her forehead, a smooth band of white velvet, upon which two bow-like eyebrows were delicately traced. Excepting these and the ...

— To-morrow? • Victoria Cross

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