Click \Click\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clicked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clicking.]

[Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. See Clack, and cf. Clink, Clique.]

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. --Goldsmith.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Click \Click\, v. t.

1. To move with the sound of a click.

She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. --Thackeray.

2. To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.

[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. --Ben Jonson.

When merry milkmaids click the latch. --Tennyson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Click \Click\, n.

1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

2. A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

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Click \Click\, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. Clutch.]

To snatch. [Prov. Eng.]

--Halliwell.

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Click \Click\, n. [Cf. 4th Click, and OF. clique latch.]

1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

2. The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)