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Show CiL. - Cii Three crabbed months had fowr'd themfelves t He cut the cleaving fky And in 2 moment vanifh'd from her eye death Pope's Odyffey 2. To {uffer divifion Ere I could make thee open thy white hand And clepe thyfelf my love It cleaves with a gloffy polite fubftance plane, but with fome little unevennefs no CLERGY. / It was the cleverer mockery of the twa Shakefpeare [clerge, Fr CLe'aVER. n [ [from cleave. 1. A butcher's inftrument to cut animal W into joints hold tha God' clerg are a ftat whic You gentlemen keep a parcel of roaring bullie about me day and night, with huzzas and huntin horns, and ringing the changes on butchers cleawvers Arbuthnot hath been, and will be as long as there is a churc upon earth, necefiary, by the plain word of Go himfelf; a fate whereunto the reft of God's peopl muft be fubjeé, as touching things that appertai to their foul's health Hooker And axes made to hew dowa lives The convocation give a greater fu Than ever, at one time, the cergy ye "Tho' arm'd with all thy c/eavers, knives Hudbras 2. A weed. Improperly written CLIVER CLEEs. . /. The two parts of the foot o beafts which are cloven-footed. Skinzer It is a country word, and probably corrupted from clawws CreEra g o rom®elf, U key," Fri) - I mufick, a mark at the beginning of th line of a fong whic fhews th ton or key in which the piece is to begin Chambers Di "CLEFT. part. paf. [from cleave. - yided; parted afunder Did to his predeceffors part withal How I have fped among the clergymen The fums I have collefted fhall exprefs. Shakefp It feems to be in the power of a reafonable c/ergymanr to make the moft ignorant man comprehen his duty Savift Cre'ricavr. adj. [clericus, Lat.] Relating to the clergy: as, a clerical man a man in orders Milton's Paradife Loft 1 never did on ¢/ef? Parnaflus dream Nor tafte the facred Heliconian ftream Unlef o The cafcades feem to break through the clefr and cracks of rocks Addifon's Guardian The extremity of this cape has a long c/eft in it which was enlarged and cut into fhape by Agrippa who made this the great port for the Roman ficet CLERK 2. In farriery Clefts appear on the bought of the pafterns, an are caufed by a fharp and malignant humour which frets the fkin; and it is accompanied wit pain, and a noifome ftench 2 CLE'MENCEY Thea in the clzmency of upward ai We'll fcour our fpots, and the dire thunder fcar Dryden CLE'MENT adj [clemens, Lat. gentle ; merciful; kind ; tender com 4. A petty writer in publick offices; a officer of various kinds Take a juft view, how many may remar ‘Who 's now a lord, his grandfive was a clerk Granwville It may feem difficult to make out the bills o fare for the fuppers of Vitellius I queftion no but an expert c/erk of a kitchen can do it A rbutbnot Letting them thrive again on the abatement Shakefpeare 4 CLEPE v. a, [clypian " call. Obiolete Sax. 5. The layman who reads the refponfe to the congregation in the church, t dire¢t the reft Cre'rksHIP. 2. fi [from clerk. 1 Scholarfhip it beSawift's Mifcellanies came vacant To to be fituated o the fide of a roc hill5 as, Clevelard CLE'VER logy.] Clifton, Stancliff L'Eflrd"gl I read Dyer's letter more for the file thay th news. The manhas a clever pen, it muf be owned 2. Juft; fit; proper Addifor's Freeholder commodious I can't but think *twould found more ¢/pye To me, and to my heirs for ever P'opa 3. Well-fhaped; handfome She called him gundy-guts, and he calleg loufy Peg, though the girl was a tight c/tlverwente}l as ‘m).' W-as Arbuthno Th1§ is a low word, fcarcely ever ufe but in burlefque or converfation; an applied to any thing a man likes, without a fettled meaning CLEVERLY. adv. [from clever.] Dex teroudly ; fitly ; handfomely Thefe would inveigle rats with th' feent And fometimes catch them with a fnap As cleverly as th' ableft trap Hudibras A rogue upon the highway may have as ftrong a arm, and take off a man's head as clewerly, as th executioner South CLr'vERNESS. 7 /0 [from clever.] Dexterity ; fkill ; accomplifhment CLEW. 2. /. [clype, Sax. #louwen, Dutch. 1. Thread wound upon a bottom ; a ball o thread Eftfoons untwifting his deceitful c/ew He gan to weave a web of wicked guile. Spenfer While, guided by fome c/ezv of heav'nly thread The perplex'd tabyrinth we backward tread Rofcommon They fee fmall c/ezvs draw vafteft weights along Not in their bulk, butin their order, ftrong. Diyd 2. A guide ; a direction: becaufe men diret themfelves by a clew of thread in labyrinth This alphabet muft be your own c/aw to guid Holde you Is there noway, no thought, no beam of light No c/eav to guide me thro'.this gloomy maze To clear my honour, yet preferve my faith ? Swith The reader knows not how to tranfport hi thoughts over to the next particular, for want o fome clew, or conneing idea, to lay hold of Watts's Eogick 3. CLEW of the Jail of a JBip, is the lowe corner of it, which reaches down to tha earing where the tackles and fheets ar Harris faftened Zo CLEW. . . [from clew, a fea t_erm. To clew the fails, is to raife them, 1norder t is done by whic be furled rope faftened to the clew of a fail,‘callc; the clew-garnet Harris To CLICK. w. n. [cliken, Dutch ; cliqueter French; or perhaps the diminutive o clack.] 'To make a fharp, fmall, fuccel five noife The folgmn death-watch clict'd, the hour fh died And fhrilling crickets in the chimney cried CLr'ckER. 7 f. [from click. Gay A low wor for the fervant of a falefman, who ftand Creve. ) In compofition, at the beginCrir ning or end of the prope Crive. name of a place, denotes i You are more clement than vile men "7ho of their broken debtors take a third CrencH Addifon kind an o cler o offic Th 2 Mild He fold the clerk/bip of his parifh, whe paflionate See CLivcH another as counfellor, he let the thought drop 1. Mercy ; remiffion of feverity ; willingnefs to {pare; tendernefs in punifhing Mildnefs ; foftnefs unde South My lord Baflanio gave his ring awa Unto the judge; and then the boy, his cler That took fome pains in writing, he begg'd mine Shakefpeare My friend was in doubt whether he could no exert the juftice upon fuch a vagrant; but no having his clerk with him, who is a neceffar Lat. 2 La A {cholar; a man of letters 3. A man employe writer 7. [. [clemence, Fr. clementia 1 have ftated the true notion of c/emency, mercy compaflion, good-nature, humanity, or whateve elfc it may be called, fo far as is confiftent wit Addifon wifdom clericas any more than the wifeft, men T9 CLE'FTGRAFT. v. a. [cleft and graft. To engraft by cleaving the flock of Filberts may be c/efigrafied on the common nut DMortimer Sax They might talk of book-learning what the would; but, for his part, he never faw more unfeaty fellows than great c/erks were Sidney The greateft c/erks being not always the honefteft Ben Fonfon [clepic All perfons were {tiled clerks, that ferved in th church of Chrift, whether they were bifhops, priefts or deacons Ayliffe His horfe it is the heralds weft tree, and inferting a branch 7. / 1. A clergyman Farrier's Diét No, 'tis a mare, and hath a c/f? more properly rea tin. Addifor on Italy The reft of it, being more grofs and ponderous does not move far; but lodges in the c/efts, craggs and fides of the rocks, near the bottoms of them Woodavard we ma clarichords Dryden CrerT. 7 /0 [from cleave. ‘3. A f{pace made by the feparatio parts ; a crack ; a crevice and in college they ufe to line the table-men Bacon's Natyral Hiftory Fat with incenfe ftrew' On the ¢/eftr wood Shakefpeare Cre'rReYMmaN. . /. [clergy and man.] man in holy orders ; a man fet apart fo miniftration of holy things ; not a laick In clericals the keys are lined clerus, Lat xagoe, Greek.] The body of men fe apart by due ordination for the fervic of God Neavton's Opticks 1. Dexterous ; fkilful o adj, [of no certain etymo at the door to invite cuftomers Th c/ick. [fro / # Cr1'ckET er of a door CLI'ENT. . /[ 1. On wh [cliens, Latin. Skinner fo t advoc a t applie counfel and defence Ther is due from the judge to the advocat fome commendation, where caufes are well hand led; for that upholds in the elient the reputatio of l,;is couniels . Bacon's Effays Advocase |