clavigerousadj.
a. = claviger n.: Bearing a key or keys.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Clavigerous, that bears or keeps keyes.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Clavigerous, bearing or keeping keyes.
b. Club-bearing.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Clavigerous,..bearing a Key. [and in mod. Dicts.]
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adj.1656- to scare a person rigid
- to scare a person silly
- to scare a person stupid
- to scare out
- to scare out of one's senses
- to scare seven bells out of a person
- to scare someone's daylights out
- to scare the daylight out of
- to scare the daylights out of
- to scare the lights out of
- to scare the lights out of a person
- to scare the lights out of a thing
- to scare the liver and lights out of
- to scare the liver and lights out of a person
- to scare the liver and lights out of a thing
- to scare the living daylight out of
- to scare the living daylights out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a person
- to scare the living shit, hell, etc, out of a thing
- to scare the pants off
- to scare the pants off a person
- to scare up
- to scare — bells out of
- to scarp away, down