1. clause - Noun
2. clause - Verb
3. Clause - Proper noun
A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
See Letters clause / close, under Letter.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine. George Herbert
I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. Elliott Smith
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... it is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people. Frank I. Cobb
I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first. Charisma Carpenter
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. Michael Kinsley
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. Charles Morgan