CLEVEL, S. A grain of corn. Kent. CLEVEN, (1)s. (A.-S.) Rocks; cliffs.

(2) v. (A.-S.) To split; to burst. CLEVE-PINK, 8. A species of car

nation found on the Chedder cliffs.

CLEVER, (1) v. To scramble up. North.

(2) adj. Good-looking. East. Kennett says, "nimble, neat, dextrous." Lusty; very well. Lanc.

(3) adj. Affable. South. (4) adv. Clearly; fully. Kent. (5) 8. A tuft of coarse grass turned up by the plough. East. CLEVER-BOOTS, 8. A satirical CLEVER-CLUMSY, term for a person who is awkward. CLEVER-THROUGH, prep. Straight through. Leic. CLEVES, 8. Cloves.

CLEVVY, 8. A sort of draft iron for a plough. North.

CLEW, (1) 8. (4.-S.) A rock. "Bothe the clewez and the clyfez." Morte Arthure.

(2) s. A ring at the head of a scythe which fastens it to the sned.

(3) pret. t. Clawed; scratched. CLEWE, v. To cleave, or adhere to.

CLEWKIN, 8. Strong twine. North.
CLEW3THE, part. p. Coiled.
CLEY, 8. A hurdle for sheep.
CLEYMAN, S. A dauber. Pr. Parv.
CLEYMEN, v. (A.-N.) To claim.
CLEYNT, part. p. Clung.
CLEYSTAFFE, 8. A pastoral staff.
Pr. Parv.

CLIBBY, adj. Adhesive. Devon.
CLICK, (1) v. To snatch.

(2) s. A blow. East.

(3) v. To tick as a clock.

(4) "To click or flurt with ones fingers as moresco dancers." Florio. "To clicke with ones knuckles." Ib.

(5) s. (Fr.) A door-latch. (6) s. A nail or peg for hanging articles upon. North. (7) v. To catch; to seize. CLICKER, S. A servant who stood before the shop-door to invite people to buy.

CLICKET, (1) v. To fasten as with
a link over a staple. Shropsh.
(2) s. (A.-N.) A latch-key.
(3) s. A clap-dish, or anything
that makes a rattling noise.
Cotgrave.

(4) v. To chatter. Tusser.
(5) s. The tongue.
(6) s. A term applied to a fox
when maris appetens. Anciently,
a common term for a fox, as in
the following lines, describing
the properties of a good horse:

Heded of an ox,
Tayled as fox,
Comly as a kyng,
Nekkyd as a dukyng,
Mouthyd as a kliket,
Witted as a wodkok,
Wylled as a wedercoke.

MS. Cott., Galba, E, ix, f. 110.
CLICK-HANDED, adj. Left-handed.
Cornw.
CLICK-HOOKS, s. Large hooks for
catching salmon by day-light.
North.

CLICK-UP, S. A person with a
short leg, who in walking makes
a clicking noise. Linc.
CLIDER, S. Goose-grass.
CLIFE, adj. (4.-N.) Clear; fine.
CLIFT, S. (1) A cleft, or opening of
any kind.

(2) The fourchure.
(3) A cliff.

CLIFTY, adj. Lively; active. North.
CLIGHTE, pret. t. Closed; fastened.
CLIGHTY, adj. Stiff; clayey. Kent.
CLIM, (1) v. To climb.
(2) Clement.

CLINCHPOPE, s. A term of conCLENCHPOOPE, tempt.

If a gentleman have in hym any humble behavour, then roysters do cal suche one by the name of a loute, a clynchepope, or one that knoweth no facions.

Institucion of a Gentleman, 1568. Lesse wel-form'd, or more il-fac'd, and like clenchpoope looke and lim.

Warner's Albions England, 1592. CLINCQUANT, 8. (Fr. clinquant, tinsel.) Brass thinly wrought out into leaves. North. CLINE, v. To climb. Warw. CLING, V. (A.-S.) (1)To shrink up. North.

If thou speak false, Upon the next tree thou slialt hang alive 'Till famine cling thee.

(2) To embrace.

Shakesp., Macb., v, 5.

Some fathers dread not (gone to bed in wine)

To slide from the mother, and cling the daughter-in-law.

Revenger's Trag., O. P., iv, 322. (3) To rush violently. North. CLINK, (1) s. A hard blow. (2) adv. Upright. Berks. CLINK-CLANK, 8. Jingle.

'Tis prodigious to think what veneration the priesthood have raised to themselves by their usurpt commission of apostleship, their pretended successions, and their clink-clank of extraordinary ordination.

Penn's Address to Protestants, 1679. CLINKE, v. (A.-N.) To tinkle; to ring.

CLINKER, S. (1) A bad sort of coal.

(2) A cinder from an iron furnace. Shropsh.

(3) A puddle made by the foot of a horse or cow. Warw. CLINKER-BELL, S. Anicicle. Somers. CLINKERS, S. Small bricks; bricks spoilt in the burning.

CLINKET, S. A crafty fellow. North.
CLINKS, 8. Long nails.
CLINQUANT, adj. (Fr.) Shining.
CLINT, v. To clench; to finish, or
complete. Somerset.

CLINTS, 8. Chasms; crevices.
CLIP, (1) v. (A.-S.) To embrace.

But as a dame, to the end shee may at a
time more opportune at better ease, and
in a place more commodious, be catched,
clipped, and embraced, which feminine
art, I not yet knowing in first my be-
ginning, so unwarily I did reniaine
wailed with love.

Passenger of Benvenuto, 1612. (2) v. To call to. North. This is merely a form of clepe, q. v. (3) v. To shear sheep. North. (4) v. To shave. Rider. (5) v. To shorten. Craven. (6) v. To hold together by means of a screw or bandage. Shropsh. (7) 8. A blow, or stroke. East. (8) v. To quarter a carriage so as to avoid the ruts. Northampt. CLIPPER, 8. (1) A clipper of coin? I had a sister but twelve years ago, that run away with a Welsh ensign, who was hanged for a highwayman, and she burnt in Wales for a clipper.

Mountford, Greenwich Park, 1691. (2) A sheep-shearer. North. CLIPPING-THE-CHURCH, 8. An old Warwickshire custom on Easter Monday, the charity children joining hand in hand to form a circle completely round the church.

CLIPS, (1) part. p. Eclipsed. (2) s. An eclipse.

(3) s. Shears. Northumb. (4) s. Pot-hooks. North. CLIPT-DINMENT, s. (1) A shorn wether sheep. (2) A mean-looking fellow. Cumb.

(3) Imperfectly fomented. Somers. CLITE, (1) 8. Clay; mire. Kent. (2) s. Goose-grass.

(3) s. A wedge. Pr. Parv.

(4) v. To take, or pull up. North. CLITER, v. To stumble. North. CLITHE, S. The burdock. Gerard. CLITHEREN, Ss. Goose-grass. Gerard.

CLITPOLL, S. A curly head. Dorset. CLITTER, V. To make a rattling noise.

CLITTERY, adj. Changeable and stormy, applied to the weather. Hampsh.

CLITTY, adj. Stringy; lumpy. West. CLIVE, (1) 8. (A.-S.) A cliff.

(2) v. To cleave. Suffolk. CLIVER, (1)s. Goose-grass. Hampsh. (2) s. A chopping-knife. East. (3) Cliver-and-shiver, completely, totally. Somerset.

CLIVERS, S. The refuse of wheat. East.

CLIZE, S. A covered drain. Somers. CLOAM, S. Common earthenware.

Cornw. Cloamer, one who makes it.

CLOB, S. Rough material used for building cottages. Devon. CLOBE, S. A club.

CLOCHE, V. (A.-N.) To blister. CLOCHER, S. (1) A large cape or mantle.

(2) (A.-N.) A belfry. CLOCK, (1) 8. (A.-N.) A bell.

(2) 8. A sort of watch, sometimes called a clock-watch.

But he who can deny it to be a prodigy,
which is recorded by Melchior Adamus,
of a great and good man, who had a
clock watch that had laven in a chest
many years unused; and when he lay
dying, at eleven o'clock, of itself, in that
chest, it struck eleven in the hearing of
many.
Baxter, World of Spirits.

(3) s. A beetle. North.
(4) s. A sort of ornamental work
worn on various parts of dress,
now applied to that on each side
of a stocking.

(5) s. The noise made by a hen
when going to sit.

(6) s. The downy head of the dandelion. North.

CLOCK-ICE, S. Ice cracked into fantastical forms. Northampt. CLOCK-DRESSING, 8. A method of obtaining liquor on false pretences. Craven.

CLOCKS, S. Ordure of frogs. Devon. CLOCK-SEAVES, S. The blackheaded bog-rush. North. CLOD, (1) v. To break clods. (2) adj. (A.-S.) Clodded; hard. (3) s. The coarse part of the neck of an ox.

(4) s. A sort of coal. West. (5) v. To throw. North. CLODDER, v. To coagulate.

(2) A clownish fellow. (3) The wheatear. CLOD-MALL, 8. A wooden hammer for breaking clods. Shropsh. CLOFFEY, 8. A great sloven. North. CLOFFING, 8. The plant hellebore. CLOFT, 8. The jointure of two branches. North.

CLOFYD, part. p. Cleft; split. CLOG, (1) 8. A shoe with a wooden sole.

(2) s. A piece of wood fastened to a string.

(3) s. An almanac made with notches and rude figures on square sticks.

(4) v. To prepare wheat for sowing. West.

CLOGGY, adj. Sticky.

CLOGSOME, adj. Dirty; dull.
CLOGUE, v. To flatter. Sussex.
CLOG-WHEAT, s.

East.

Bearded wheat.

CLOINTER, V. To tread heavily. North.

CLOISTER-GARTH, S. The space inclosed by a cloister.

CLOIT, 8. A stupid fellow. North. CLOKARDE, S. A sort of musical instrument.

CLOKE, 8. A claw, or clutch. CLOKKE, v. (A.-N.) To limp in walking.

CLOм, v. To clutch. North.
CLOMBE, pret. t. Climbed.
CLOME, v. To gutter, as a candle.
North.

CLOME. See Cloam.

CLOME-PAN, 8. A pan for milk. Norf.

CLOMP, v. To walk heavily. Clomperton, one who walks heavily. North.

CLOMSEN, v. (4.-N.) To shrink or

contract.

CLONGEN, part. p. Shrunk; shrivelled.

CLONKER, 8. An icicle. Somerset. CLOOM, (1) s. Clay or cement.

(2) v. To cement.

CLOOR, 8. A sluice. Northumb.
CLOPE, s. A blow.

CLOPPING, adj. (Fr.) Lame; limping. Cornw.

CLOSE, (1) s. A farm-yard; an enclosure.

(2) s. A public walk. I. Wight.
(3) s. An obscure lane. North.
(4) adj. Secret; selfish.

(5) 2'. To enclose minerals in
metal.

(6) adj. Quiet; silent. Leic. CLOSE-BED, S. A press-bed. North. CLOSE-FIGHTS, s. Things employed to shelter the men from an enemy in action. CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Mean. CLOSE-GAUNTLET, 8. A gauntlet with moveable fingers. CLOSE-HAND-OUT, 8. The name of an old game.

CLOSEIK, 8. (A.-N.) An enclosure. CLOSEN, S. A small enclosure or field. Northampt.

CLOSH, S. (1) The game of ninepins.

(2) A Dutchman. South. CLOSINGS, 8. Closes; fields. In some counties we have the more pure form closen. CLOSURE, S. (1) (Fr.) An enclosure. (2) A clencher. Wight. (3) A gutter. North.

CLOT. (1) Same as Clod (6).

(2) s. A ciod. "Clodde or clotte
lande. Occo." Huloet.
(3) v. To clod.

For as the ploughman first setteth forth
his plough, and then tilleth his land,
and breaketh it in furrowes, and sonie-
timer idgeth it up againe, and at ano-
ther time harroweth it, and clotteth it,
and somtime dungeth and hedgeth it,
diggeth it, and weedeth it, purgeth it,
and maketh it cleane: so the prelate, the
preacher, hath many diverse offices to
do.
Latimer's Sermons.

(7) s. cattle.

CLOTE,

CLOT,

s. The yellow water-lily.

Take the rote of the klote, and stampe
it, and turne it on whyte wyne or ale,
and drynk at geve hoot and at morow
kolde.
MS. Med. Rec., xv Cent.

Then lay a clot-leaf, or else a wort-leaf,
on the same, but first let the water out
of the blister with a pin, and it will
draw out all the water that causeth the
pain or grief.

Lupton's 1000 Notable Things.
CLOTE, S. A wedge. Pr. P.
CLOTTRED, part. p. (A.-S.) Clotted.
CLOT-HEAD, S. A blockhead.
CLOTH-OF-ESTATE, S.
A canopy
over the seat of principal per-
sonages.

CLOTTER, S. A clothier.
CLOUCH, (1) v. To snatch or clutch.
Linc.

(2) s. A clutch. Piers Pl. CLOUD-BERRY, s. The ground mulberry.

CLOUE, S. (4.-N.) A fruit or berry. CLOUGH, 8. (1) A valley between two hills; a ravine.

Each place for to search, in hill, dale, and clough,

In thicke or in thin, in smooth or in rough.
Robinson's Rev. of Wickedn.

(2) A cliff. Morte Arth.
(3) The stem of a tree, where it
divides into branches. Cumb.
(4) A wood. Lanc.

(5) A vessel of coarse earthenware for salting meat. CLOUGHY, adj. Gaudily dressed.

North.

CLOUR, 8. (1) A lump, or swelling. North.

(2) (4.-N.) Hollow ground; a field. CLOUT, 8. (Fr. clouette.) The mark

or pin fixed in the centre of the butts, at which archers shot for practice.

Shakesp., Love's L. L., iv, 1.
Wherein our hope

Is, though the clout we do not always hit,
It will not be imputed to his wit.
B. Jon., Staple of N., Epil.

ment.

(5) s. A cloth; a piece of cloth. "A slice wher with to spread salve on clouts and make plasters." Nomenclator.

(6) v. To clothe shabbily.

I seeing him clouted, his cloathes slovenly done on, very ill liking, as ragged as a tattered fole, with never a whole clout on his back. Terence in English, 1641. (7) To mend, or patch; applied especially to shoes.

Of the scoler that gave his shoes to cloute. In the universyte of Oxeforde there was a scoler that delyted moche to speke eloquente englysshe and curious termes, and came to the cobler with his shoes whyche were pyked before (as they used [at] that tyme) to have them clouted, and sayde this wyse.

Tales and Quicke Answeres.

(8) 8. (Fr.) A nail.

CLOUTED, (from clout, a nail.) Fortified with nails.

CLOUTER, (1) s. A cobbler. Pr.

Parv.

(2) v. To do dirty work. North. CLOUTER-HEADED, adj. Stupid. CLOUTERLY, adj. Clumsy. North. CLOVE, S. Eight pounds of cheese. CLOVEL, S. A large beam, placed

across the chimney in farmhouses. Devon.

CLOVER-LAY, S. A field of clover recently mown. Hampsh. CLOVE-TONGUE, S. The black hellebore.

CLOW, (1) v. To scratch. Cumb. (2) v. To work hard. North. (3) v. To nail with clouts. West.