CLUB, n. 1. Properly, a stick or piece or wood with one end thicker and heavier than the other, and no larger than can be wielded with the hand.2. A thick heavy stick, that may be managed with the hand, and used for beating, or defense. In early ages, a club was a principal instrument of war and death; a fact remarkably perpetuated in the accounts which history relates of the achievements of Hercules with his club. Plin. Lib. 7. Ca. 56. This use of the club was the origin of the scepter, as a badge of royalty.3. The name of one of the suits of cards; so named from its figure.4. A collection or assembly of men; usually a select number of friends met for social or literary purposes. Any small private meeting of persons.5. A collection of expenses the expenses of a company, or unequal expenses of individuals, united for the purpose of finding the average or proportion of each individual. Hence the share of each individual in joint expenditure is called his club, that is, his proportion of a club, or joint charge.6. Contribution; joint charge.CLUB, v.i. 1. To join, as a number of individuals, to the same end; to contribute separate powers to one end, purpose or effect.Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the streamOf fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.2. To pay an equal proportion of a common reckoning or charge.
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