1. A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.
2. (Gram.)
Defn: A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
CLAUSE
Clause, n. [Obs.]
Defn: See Letters clause or close, under Letter.
CLAUSTRAL
Claus"tral, a. Etym: [F., fr. LL. claustralis, fr. L. claustrum. See
Cloister.]
Defn: Cloistral. Ayliffe
CLAUSTRUM
Claus"trum, n.; pl. Claustra. Etym: [L., a bolt or bar.] (Anat.)
Defn: A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the
brain of man.
— Claus"tral, a.
CLAUSULAR
Clau"su*lar, a. Etym: [From L. clausula. See Clause, n.]