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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

... that sprang from their summits was nearly forty feet from the ground. They were indeed elegant trees. Mr Hooker, when he saw them, said they were the pinang, or betel-nut palm—Areca catechu. We found the nuts growing from a stalk hanging down in the centre, forming a loose conical cluster. Ali no sooner set eyes on them, than he climbed one of the trees, and brought down a bunch of the nuts. He put several of them into the bag he carried by his side, and we proceeded some distance, till we came to a stony place, ...

— In the Eastern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... a little in imagination on this sacred ground. Let us note a few of the interesting thoughts which cluster around it, and listen to the Saviour's farewell themes of converse there ...

— Memories of Bethany • John Ross Macduff

... to make them imposing. The whole way from Grasse to Vence is by a beautiful Corniche road, nearly on the same level (1090 ft.) throughout its entire course, disclosing at every turn exquisite views towards the sea. The Pont du Loup, with its little cluster of houses and orange-gardens, is at the top of a long narrow valley, just at the point where the Loup rushes forth from a rocky gorge. On the top of a plateau, about 500 ft. over the Pont du Loup, is the ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... later, by the appearance on my desk of a small pot containing a specimen of camellia japonica in flower. I knew the school-children were in the habit of making presents to me in this furtive fashion,—leaving their own nosegays of wild flowers, or perhaps a cluster of roses from their parents' gardens,—but I also knew that this exotic was too rare to come from them. I remembered that See Yup had a Chinese taste for gardening, and a friend, another Chinaman, who kept a large nursery ...

— Stories in Light and Shadow • Bret Harte

... a pair of horsemen about two gunshots away galloping down the uneven ridge towards us, with about a dozen in a cluster close behind. We leapt into saddle at once, made off through the oaks for perhaps a couple of hundred yards, and then wheeling sharply struck back across the hillside towards Sabugal. We were still in good cover, but the enemy had posted his men more thickly than we had guessed, ...

— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch

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