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Show C CL L His majefty's fhips were over-pefrered and chogpe with great ordnance, whereof there is fuperfluity Some folitary chiffer will I chosfe And there with holy virgins live immur'd n clods of a flimy fubffance; and camryling the Lome to their fto};es, the warmth feftoreth the Carew to life and flight 3. To load ; to burthen 4. A lump, a mafs of metal One at the forg Labouring, two mafly c/ods of iron and braf Milton Had melted 5. Any thing vile, bafe, an earthy; as the temple of the gods In which a thoufand torches, fluming bright Do burn, that to us, wretched earthly cluds In dreadful darknefs lend defired light The ipirit of man Spenfer Which God inipir'd, cannot together perif Miltew's Paradife Lofs With this corporeal clod How the purer fpirit is united to this cld, is knot too hard for our degraded intellets to untie Glanville In moral refle€tions there muft be heat, as wel as dry reafon, to infpire this cold c/od of clay whic 6 we carry about with us Buruet's Theory A dull, grofs, ftupid fellow The vulgar a dolt a fcarce animated clod Ne'er pleas'd with aught above 'em Dryden 70 Crop. . #. [from the noun.] To gather into concretions; to coagulate for this we fometimes ufe c/oz Let us go find the body, and from the ftream ‘With lavers pure, and cleanfing herbs, wath of ‘The clodded gore Milton 70 CLop. . 4. [from the noun,] To pel with clods Cro'ppy. adj. [from c/od. 1. Confifting of earth or clods; earthy muddy ; miry ; mean ; grofs bafe The glorious fun Turning with fplendour of his precious ey The meagre c/oddy earth to glittering gold. Shak 2. Full of clods unbroken Thef land the fo alway ‘unde furro about Michaelmas, and leave it as cloddy as the can Mortimer's Hyfbandry CLo'pPATE. . /. [clod and paie.] A fupi fellow a dolt CLo'pPaTED pid a thickikull adj. [from clodpate.] Stu dull ; doltifh ; thoughtlefs My clodpated relations fpoiled the greatef geniu in the world, when they bred me a mechanick Arbuthnot Cro'proLr. 2. /£ [from c/ad and 20il. A thickfkull ; a dolt; a blockhead This letter being fo -excellently ignorant, h will find that it comes from a clodpol] dekfi 70 CLOG. «. 2. [It is imagined b Skinner to0 come from g ; by Gafazdor derived from «adiex, a dog's collar, being thought to be firft hung upon ficrc dogs. t. To load with fomething that may hin der motion ; to encamber witch thackles to impede by faftenin to the neck o The lanc'd a Yein breath pediments, that.here clog his foul's flight Digby on the Soul The: wings of birds were c/s g'd with ice an fnow Dyydes Flethly lufts do debafe men's minds, and cl their fpixits, make them grofs and foul, liftief and una‘iive. Tillot fon Gun'z.,_aud.-pomat_ums thail his flight. reftrain While ¢/ogg'd he beats his filken Wwings in vain 2. To hinder ; to:obftrust. The gutter'd rocks and ¢ ngregated fands Pope Traitors enfteep'd.to c/og the guiltlels keel, Shak 2. A periftyle ; a piazza 7o CLO1STER, @, 4. [from the noun. To fhut up in a religious houfe ; to con and watch' returnin fine ; to\immure world It came, but clogg'd with fymptoms of his death They hav Clocks and jacks, though the fcrews and teet an nuts be never fo {mooth yet if they be not oiled, will hardly move; though yo clog them with never fo much weight Ray on the Creation 7o CLoG to adhere by commandment thoug in for CLo"1sTERAL. adj. [from cloiffer.] Solitary ; retired ; religioufly reclufe Upon this ground many cloifferal men, of grea learning and devotion, prefer contemplation befor action Waltor's Angler . = 1. To caalefce the of courtefy, cloiftered us within thefe walls for thre days Bacons It was of the king's firft alks to c/jffer the quee dowager in the nunnery of Bermondfey Bacor Nature affords plenty of beauties, that no ma need complain if the deformed are cloiffered up Rymer's Tragediesa 4- In the following paffage it ic improper, for its meaning always include hindrance of the wheel to fhut up fro Cloifier thee in fome religious houfe. Shakefpeare Dryden All the commoditics are e/ogged with impofitions Addifon In this fenfe perhaps, only corruptly ufed for c/od o clot CLO'ISTERED, participial adj. [from cloi Move it fometimes with a broom, that the feed clog not together Ewelyn. 1. Solitary ; inhabiting cloifters Seer. Ere the bat hath flown His clifter'd flight, there fhall be don A deed of dreadful note Shakefpeare's Macbeth 2. To be encumbered or impeded by fom extrinfick matter In working. through the bone, the teeth of th faw will begin to clog 2. Built with periftyles or piazzas Sharp's Surgery The Greeks and Romans had commonly tw cloiffered open. courts, one ferving for the women' fide, and the other for the men. Wurton's ArchitcfF Croc. u /. [from the verb. 1. A load; a weight; any encumbranc hang upon any animal or thing to hinder motion CLo"1sTRESS, 7 /. [from cloifter.}-A nun a lady wh I'm glad at foul I have no other chil For thy efcape would teach me tyranny To hang clogs on them Shakefpeare I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the knows rules of ancient liberty Milton's Paradife Regained For foma offence An H And water once a day her chamber roun With eye-offending brine Sbakefpeare CroxkE. #n. /. See CLoAk Croms. [pret. of To climb. Afk to what end they clomb that tedious height quits his clog;5 but all in vain Zo CrooM Hudibras 2. An encumbrance ; a hindrance; an obwill Rear the hive enough to let them in, and c/os up the fkirts, all but the door. Mortin. Hufbandry. Hooker They ‘re our clogs, not their gwn3 ifa man b Chain'd to a gailey, yet the galley"s free, Donne. mad 7o CLOSE. v, a. [clafz, Armorick Dutch; clos, Fr. claufus, Lat. no other ftep than reje&in the pope's fupremacy, as a clog upon his own powe and pafiions Swift Slaver is, of ail things, the greateft clg an obftacle to fpeculation Swift Sicep inftantly feil on me, call' By nature as in aid, and c/os'd mine eyes Milren's Paradife Loff When the fad wifehas c/os'd her hufband's eyés Lies the pale corps, not yet entirely dead ? Prigr. I foon fhall vifit Heétor, and the fhade Of my great anceftors. Cephifa, tho Wilt lend 2 hand to elofe thy miftrefs' eyes. Philip In France the peafantry goes barefoot5 and th all that kingdom, make Harmey on Confurpticas CLCISTER. #. zen Dat Saxon dauppro 2.. To conclude ; to end ; to finith a. /i [fiom icloggy.] Th clogged [from clog,] That whic of clogging up By additaments of fome fuch nature, fome groffe and clogigy parts are retained; or elfe much fubtilized, and otherwife altered Boyle's Hiftory of Firmufs [clas, Welth clauy cloffer, Germ kloofter Ttal. cloiftre, Fr clan JSram;, Latin. 1. A religious retirement; a monaftery a nunnery Nor in a fecret chiffer doth he kee Thefe virgin fpirits until theiz masriage-day I)mrfe:‘ #lups t. To fhut ; o lay together 3. A kind of additional fhoe, worn b women to keep them from wet 4. A wooden fhoe middle forty throughou ufe of wooden clogs @, a. [corrupted from clean - provinges. | - T'o clofe eor fhut with glutinous or vifcous matter of the flefh is an heavy clog to th Their princ Spenfer cleemian, Sax. which is ftill ufed in {fome firuétion ; an impediment Wearinef religious retire Like a chiftrefs fhe will veiled walk by chance breaks loofe itill draws after him his chain has vowe ment As a dog, committed clof Cro'coinzss ftate of bein If you find fo much blood ja his liver as wil clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the relt of the Cro'ccy. adj anatomy Shakef has the powe Im- Atterbury You 'l rue the.tim That clogs me with this anfwer Shakefpeare leg a heavy piece of wood or iron Let a man wean himfelf from thefs worldl to embarrafs Since thou haft far to go, bear not alon The clogging burthen of a guilty foul Shakefp the body of man, compared to his foul And ye high heavens Raleigh Dryd How could he have the leifure and retirednef of the c/ifter, to perform thofe a¢ts of devotion One fingal fupper did our ftudies c/ofe Dryden I clofe this with my earneft defires. that you will ferioufly confider your eftate Wake's Preparation for Death, | Edward and Henry, now the boaft of fame And virtuous Alfred, a more facred name After a'life of generous toils endur'd Clos'd their Jong glories with a figh, to fin Th' unwilling gratitude of bafe mankind Pope's Horace 3. To inclofe ; to confine ; to repofie Every on According to the gift which bounteous natur Hath in him clos'd Shakefpeare 4. To join; to unite frattures lidate fiflures to confo The armourers accomplifhing the knights With bufy bammers dlofing rivets up, Shakefpeare There |