The man clapt his fingers one day to his mouth, and blew upon them. L'Estrange. His shield thrown by, to mitigate the smart He clapp'd his hand upon the wounded part. Dryden. If you leave some space empty for the air, then clap your hand upon the mouth of the vessel, and the fishes will contend to get uppermost in the water. Ray on the Creation. It would be as absurd as to say, he clapped spurs to his horse at St. James's, and gallopped. away to the Hague. Addison. By having their minds yet in their perfect freedom and indifferency, they pursue truth the better, having no bias yet clapped on to mislead them. Locke. I have observed a certain cheerfulness in as bad a system of features as ever was clapped together, which hath appeared lovely. Addison. Let all her ways be unconfin'd, And clap your padlock on her mind. Prior. Socrates or Alexander might have a fool's coat clapt upon them, and perhaps neither wisdom nor majesty would secure them from a şneer. Watts on the Mind. 3. To do any thing with a sudden hasty motion, or unexpectedly. We were dead asleep, And, how we know not, all clapt under hatches. Shakspeare. He was no sooner entered into the town, but a scambling soldier clapt hold of his bridle, which he thought was in a begging or in a drunken fashion. Wotton's Life of Buck. So much from the rest of his countrymen, and indeed from his whole species, that his friends would have clapped him into bedlam, and have begged his estate. Spectator Have you observ'd a sitting hare, List'ning, and fearful of the storm Of horns and hounds, clap back her ear? Prior. We will take our remedy at law, and clap an action upon you for old debts. Arbuthnot, 4. To celebrate or praise by clapping the hands; to applaud. I have often heard the stationer wishing for those hands to take off his melancholy bargain, which clapped its performance on the stage. Dedication to Dryden's Spanish Friar. 5. To infect with a venereal poison. [See the noun.] If the patient hath been clapt, it will be the more difficult to cure him the second time, and worse the third. Wiseman. Let men and manners ev'ry dish adapt: Who'd force his pepper, where his guests are clapt? King. 6. To CLAP up. To complete suddenly, without much precaution. No longer than we well could wash our hands, To clap this royal bargain up of peace. Shaks. Was ever match clapt up so suddenly? Shaks. A peace may be clapped up with that suddenness, that the forces, which are now in motion, may unexpectedly fall upon his skirts. Howel. 7. To CLAP up. To imprison with little formality or delay. Being presented to the emperor for his admirable beauty, he was known, and the prince clapt him up as his inveigler. Sandys, To CLAP. v. n. 1. To move nimbly with a noise. Every door flew open T'admit my entrance; and then clapt behind me, To bar my going back. Dryden. A whirlwind rose, that with a violent blast Shook all the doom: the doors around me Dryden. clapt. 2. To enter with alacrity and briskness upon any thing. Come, a song. -Shall we clap into 't roundly, without saying we are hoarse? Shakspeare. 3. To strike the hands together in applause. All the best men are ours; for 't is ill hap If they hold, when their ladies bid 'em clap. Ŝhak. CLAP. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A loud noise made by sudden collision. Give the door such a clap as you go out, as will shake the whole room, and make every thing rattle in it. Swift. 2. A sudden or unexpected act or motion. It is monstrous to me, that the south-sen should pay half their debts at one clap. Swift. 3. An explosion of thunder. 4. There shall be horrible claps of thunder, and flashes of lightning, voices and earthquakes. Hakewill on Providence. The clap is past, and now the skies are clear. Dryden. An act of applause. The actors, in the midst of an innocent old play, are often startled in the midst of unexpect ed claps or hisses. Addison. 1. One who claps with his hands; an ap plauder. 2. The tongue of a bell. He hath a heart as sound as a bell: and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks. Shakspeare. I saw a young lady fall down the other day, and she much resembled an overturned bell without a clapper. Addison. 3. CLAPPER of a Mill. A piece of wood shaking the hopper." look on. Hudibras. To CLAPPERCLAW. v. a. [from clap and claw.] To tonguebeat; to scold. They are clapperclawing one another. I'll Shakspeare. They 've always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapperclawing. CLARENCEUX, or CLA'RENCIEUX. n. s. The second king at arms: so named from the duchy of Clarence. CLARE-OBSCURE. n. s. [from clarus, bright, and obscurus, Lat.] Light and shade in painting. As masters in the clare-obsture With various light your eyes allure: A flaming yellow here they spread, Draw off in blue, or charge in red; Yet from these colours, oddly mix'd, Your sight upon the whole is fix'd. CLARET. n. s. [clairet, Fr.] French wine, of a clear pale red colour. Prior. Red and white wine are in a trice confounded into claret. Boyle. The claret smooth, red as the lips, we press In sparkling fancy, while we drain the bowl. Thomson. CLA'RICHORD. n. s. [from clarus and chorda, Latin.] A musical instrument in form of a spinet, but more ancient. It has forty-nine or fifty keys, and seventy strings. Chambers. CLARIFICATION. n. s. [from clarify] The act of making any thing clear from impurities. Liquors are, many of them, at the first, thick and troubled; as muste, and wort: to know the means of accelerating clarification, we must know the causes of clarification. Bacon.' To CLA'RIFY. v. a. [clarifier, French.] 1. To purify or clear any liquor; to separate from feculencies or impurities. The apothecaries clarify their syrups by whites of eggs, beaten with the juices which they would clarify; which whites of eggs gather all the dregs and grosser parts of the juice to them; and after, the syrup being set on fire, the whites of eggs themselves harden, and are taken forth. Bacon. 2. To brighten; to illuminate. sense is rare. This To CLA'RIFY. v. n. grow bright. 3. Those that are not convinced what help this is to magistracy, would find it, if they should chance to clash. South. To contradict; to oppose. Wherever there are men, there will be clai ing some time or other; and a knock, or a contest, spoils all. L'Estrange The absurdity in this instance is obvious; and yet every time that clashing metaphors are put together, this fault is committed. Spectator. To CLASH. v. a. To strike one thing against another, so as to produce a noise. The nodding statue clasb'd his armis; And with a sullen sound, and feeble cry, Half sunk, and half pronounc'd the word o victory. Dryda CLASH. n. 5. [from the verb.] 1. A noisy collision of two bodies. The clash of arms, and voice of men, we hear. Denbam. He nobly seiz'd thee in the dire alarms Of war and slaughter, and the clash of arms. 2. Opposition; contradiction. South. To clear up; to Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another; he marshalleth his thoughts more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words. Bacon's Essays. CLARION. . s. [clarin, Spanish; from clarus, loud, Lat.] A trumpet; a wind instrument of war. And after to his palace he them brings, With shams, and trumpets, and with clarions sweet; And all the way the joyous people sings. Spens. Then strait commands, that at the warlike sound Of trumpets loud, and clarions, be uprear'd The mighty standard. Milton's Paradise Lost. Let fuller notes th' applauding world amaze, And the loud clarion labour in your praise. Pope. CLARITY. n. s. [clarté, French; claritas, Latin.] Brightness; splendour. A light by abundant clarity invisible; an understanding which itself can only comprehend. Sir Walter Raleigh. Man was not only deceivable in his integrity, but the angels of light in all their clarity. Brown. CLARY. n. s. [herminium, Lat.) An herb. Plants that have circled leaves do all abound with moisture. The weakest kind of curling is roughness; as in clary and burr. Bacon, To CLASH. v. n. [kletsen, Dutch, to make a noise.] 1. To make a noise by mutual collision; to strike one against another. Three times, as of the clashing sound Denham. Those few that should happen to clash, might rebound after the collision. Bentley. How many candles may send out their light, without clashing upon one another! which argues the smallness of the parts of light, and the largeness of the interstices between particles of air and other bodies. Cheyne. 2. To act with opposite power, or contrary direction." Pepe Then from the clashes between popes and kings, Debate, like sparks from flint's collision, springs. Denbam. In the very next line he reconciles the fathers and scripture, and shews there is no clash betwist them. Atterbury. CLASP. n. s. [chespe, Dutch.] 1. A hook to hold any thing close; as a book, or garment. The Scorpion's claws here grasp a wide extent, And here the Crab's in lesser clasps are bent. Addison. He took me aside, opening the clasps of the parchment cover. Arbuthnot and Pepe. 2. An embrace, in contempt. Your fair daughter, Transported with no worse nor better guard, But with a knave of hire, a gondalier, To CLASP. v. a. [from the noun.] To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor. Shaksp. I. To shut with a clasp. Sermons are the keys of the kingdom of hea ven, and do open the scriptures; which being but read, remain, in comparison, still clasped. Hooker, There Caxton slept, with Wynkin at his side; One clasp'd in wood, and one in strong cow hide. Popt. 2. To catch and hold by twining. Direct Milten. The clasping ivy where to climb. 3. To hold with the hands extended; to enclose between the hands. Occasion turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received; and after the belly, which is hard to clasp. Bacon. 4. To embrace. Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never claspt, but bred a dog. Shaki. Thy suppliant, 1 beg, and clasp thy knees. Milton's Par. Last. He stoop'd below The flying spear, and shunn'd the promis'd blow Then creeping, clasp'd the hero's knees, and pray'd. Dryden. Now, now, he clasps her to his panting breast; Now he devours her with his eager eyes. Smilb. 5. To enclose. CLA Boys, with women's voices, dril or thread of a creeping plant, by The tendrels or claspers of plants are given only to such species as have weak and infirm stalks. Ray on the Creation. CLA'SPKNIFE. n. s. [from clasp and knife.] A knife which folds into the handle. CLASS. n. s. [from classis, Lat.] 1. A rank or order of persons. Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry, according to their capacity of judging, into three Dryden. classes. 2. A number of boys learning the same lesson at the school. We shall be seized away from this lower class in the school of knowledge, and our conversation shall be with angels and illuminated spirits. Watts on the Mind. 3. A set of beings or things; a number ranged in distribution, under some common denomination. Among this herd of politicians, any one set make a very considerable class of men. Addison. Whate'er of mongrel, no one class admits A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. Pope. To CLASS. v. a. [from the noun.] To range according to some stated method of distribution; to range according to different ranks. I considered that, by the classing and methodizing such passages, I might instruct the reader. Arbuthnot on Coins. CLASSICAL. adj. [classicus, Latin.] } CLA'SSICK. 1. Relating to antique authors; relating to literature. Poetick fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classick ground. Addison. With them the genius of classick learning dwelleth, and from them it is derived. 2. Of the first order or rank. : Felton. From this standard the value of the Roman weights and coins are deduced in the settling of which I have followed Mr.Greaves, who may be justly reckoned a classical author on this subArbuthnot on Coins. ject. CLA'SSICK. n. s. [classicus, Lat.] An author of the first rank: usually taken for ancient authors. The classicks of an age that heard of none. Pope CLA'SSIS. n. s. [Latin.] Order; sort; body. He had declared his opinion of that classis of men, and did all he could to hinder their growth. Clarendon. To CLA'TTER. v. n. [clatɲunge, a rattle, Saxon.] 1. To make a noise by knocking two sonorous bodies frequently together. Now the sprightly trumpet from afar Hadrous'd the neighing steeds to scour the fields, While the fierce riders clatter'd on their shields. Dryden. 2. To utter a noise by being struck together. All that night was heard an unwonted clatter- 3. Helmets and broken lances spread the ground. To talk fast and idly. Here is a great deal of good matter Now, siker, I see thou do'st but clatter; Spenser. All those airy speculations, which bettered not men's manners, were only a noise and clatDecay of Piety. tering of words. To CLA'TTER. V. a. 1. To strike any thing so as to make it sound and rattle. I only with an oaken staff will meet thee, And raise such outcries on thy clatter'd iron, That thou oft shalt wish thyself at Gath. Milt. When all the bees are gone to settle, Swift. You clatter still your brazen kettle. 2. To dispute, jar, or clamour: a low Martin. word. CLATTER. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A rattling noise made by the frequent and quick collision of sonorous bodies. A clatter is a clash often repeated with great quickness, and seems to convey the idea of a sound sharper and shriller than rattle. [See the verb.] I have seen a monkey overthrow all the dishes By this great clatter, one of greatest note Grow to be short; Throw by your clatter, And handle the matter. O'Rourk's jolly boys Ne'er dreamt of the matter, Till rous'd by the noise And musical clatter. The jumbling particles of matter Shakspeare. Ben Jonson. Swift. Swift. CLA'VATED. adj. [clavatus, Lat.] Knob bed; set with knobs. Dict. Dict Dict. These appear plainly to have been slavated spikes of some kind of echinus ovaries. Woodru. CLAUDENT. adj. [claudens, Lat] Shutting; enclosing; confining. To CLAUDICATE. v. n. [claudico, Lat.] To halt; to limp. CLAUDICATION. n. s. [from claudicate.] The act or habit of halting. CLAVE. The preterit of cleave. CLAVELLATED adj. [clavellatus, low Latin.] Made with burnt tartar: a chyChambers. mical term. Air, transmitted through clavellated ashes into an exhausted receiver, loses weight as it passes Arbuthnot. through them. CLA'VER, n. s. [clæper pynt, Sax.] This is now universally written clover, though not so properly. See CLOVER. CLAVICLE. n. s. [clavicula, Lat.] The collar bone. Some quadrupeds can bring their fore feet unto their mouths; as most that have clavicles, or collar bones. Brown. A girl was brought with angry wheals down her neck, towards the clavicle. Wiseman. CLAUSE. n. s. [clausula, Latin.] 1. A sentence; a single part of a discourse; a subdivision of a larger sentence; so much of a sentence as is to be construed together. God may be glorified by obedience, and obeyed by performance of his will, although no special clause or sentence of scripture be in every such action set before men's eyes to warrant it. Hooker. 2. An article, or particular stipulation. The clause is untrue concerning the bishop. Hooker. When, after his death, they were sent both to Jews and Gentiles, we find not this clause in their commission. South. CLAUSTRAL. adj. [from claustrum, Lat.] Relating to a cloister, or religious house. Claustral priors are such as preside over monasteries, next to the abbot or chief governour in such religious houses. Ayliffe. CLA'USURE. n. s. [clausura, Lat.] Confinement; the act of shutting; the state of being shut. In some monasteries the severity of the clausure Geddes. is hard to be born. CLAW. n. s. [clapan, Saxon.] 1. The foot of a beast or bird, armed with sharp nails; or the pincers or holders of a shellfish. I saw her range abroad to seek her food, T' embrue her teeth and claws with lukewarm blood. Spenser. What's justice to a man, or laws, That never comes within their claws? Hudibras. He softens the harsh rigour of the laws, Blunts their keen edge, and grinds their harpy claws. Garth. 2. Sometimes a hand, in contempt. To CLAW. v. a. [clapan, Saxon.] 1. To tear with nails or claws. Look, if the wither'd elder hath not his poll claw'd like a parrot! Shakspeare. 2. To pull, as with the nails. I am afraid we shall not easily claw off that name. 3. To tear or scratch in general. South. But we must claw ourselves with shameful And heathen stripes, by their example. Hudibras. They for their own opinions stand fast, Only to have them claw'd and canvast. Hudibras. 4. To scratch or tickle. I must laugh when I am merry, and claw no Shakspeare. man in his humour. 5. To flatter: an obsolete sense. CLAWBACK. See 6. To CLAW off, or away. To scold; to You thank the place where you found money; but the jade Fortune is to be clawed away for 't, if you should lose it. L'Estrange. CLA'WBACK. n. s. [from claw and back.] A flatterer; a sycophant; a wheedler. The pope's clawbacks. Jewel CLA'WED. adj. [from claw.] Furnished or armed with claws. Among quadrupeds, of all the clawed, the lion is the strongest. Grew's Cosmologia. CLAY. n. s. [clai, Welsh; kley, Dutch.] 1. Unctuous and tenacious earth, such as will mould into a certain form. 2. To Clays are earths firmly coherent, weighty and decompact, stiff, viscid, and ductile to a great gree while moist; smooth to the touch, not easily breaking between the fingers, nor readily diffusible in water; and, when mixed, not readily subsiding from it. Hill on Fossils. Deep Acheron, Whose troubled eddies, thick with ooze and clay, Are whirl'd aloft. Dryden Expose the clay to the rain, to drain it from salts, that the bricks may be more durable. Woodward on Fossils. The sun, which softens wax, will harden clay, Watti. CLAY. v. a. [from the noun.] To cover with clay; to manure with clay. This manuring lasts fifty years: then the ground must be clayed again. CLAY-COLD. adj. [clay and cold.] Life less; cold as the unanimated earth. Mortimer. I wash'd his clay-cold corse with holy drops, And saw him laid in hallow'd ground. Rew CLAY-PIT. n. 5. [clay and pit.] A pit where clay is dug. Woodward. "I was found in a clay-pit. CLAYES. n. s. [claye, Fr. In fortifica tion.] Wattles made with stakes inter. wove with osiers, to cover lodgments. Chambers. CLA'YEY. adj. [from clay.] Consisting of clay; abounding with clay. soil. Some in a lax or sandy, some a heavy or clayey Derbam. CLA'YISH. adj. [from clay.] Partaking of the nature of clay; containing particles of clay. Small beer proves an unwholesome drink; perhaps, by being brewed with a thick, muddish, and clayish water, which the brewers covet. Harvey on Consumptions. CLA'Y MARL. n. s. [clay and marl.] A whitish, smooth, chalky clay. Claymarl resembles clay, and is near a-kin to it; but is more fat, and sometimes mixed with chalkstones. Mortimer's Husbandry. CLEAN. adj. [glan,Welsh ; clæne, Sax.] 1. Free from dirt or filth: as, clean water Both his hands, most filthy feculent, Above the water were on high extent, And fain'd to wash themselves incessantly; Yet nothing cleaner were for such intent, But rather fouler. Fairy Queen. They make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion Matiber. Pope came off clean with Homer; but they say, Broome went before, and kindly swept the way. Henley. To CLEAN. v. a. [from the adjective.] To free from dirt or filth. Their tribes adjusted, clean'd their vig'rous wings, He minded only the clearness of his satire, and the cleanness of expression. Dryden's Juvenal. 3. Purity; innocence. The cleanness and purity of one's mind is never better proved, than in discovering its own faults at first view. Pope. To CLEANSE. v. a. [clænrian, Saxon.] Cleanse the pale corpse with a religious hand 2. To purify from guilt. Prior. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil. Not all her od❜rous tears can cleanse her crime, 3. To free from noxious humours by pur- Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; And many a circle, many a short essay, Wheel'd round and round. CLEANLILY. adv. [from cleanly.] In a cleanly manner. CLEANLINESS. n. s. [from cleanly.] 1. Freedom from dirt or filth. I shall speak nothing of the extent of this city, the cleanliness of its streets, nor the beauties of Addison. its piazza. 2. Neatness of dress; purity; the quality contrary to negligence and nastiness. The mistress thought it either not to deserve, or not to need, any exquisite decking, having no adorning but cleanliness. From whence the tender skin assumes Sidney. Swift. Swift. Such cleanliness from head to heel; No humours gross, or frowzy steams, No noisome whiffs, or sweaty streams. CLEANLY. adj. [from clean.] 1. Free from dirtiness; careful to avoid filth; pure in the person. Next that, shall mountain 'sparagus be laid, Pull'd by some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. An ant is a very cleanly insect, and throws out of her nest all the small remains of the corn on which she feeds. 2. That makes cleanliness. In our fantastick climes, the fair 3. Pure; innocent; immaculate. Addison. Prior. Perhaps human nature meets few more sweetly relishing and cleanly joys, than those that derive from successful trials. 4. Nice; addressful; artful. Glanville. Through his fine handling, and his cleanly play, If I do grow great, I'll leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should. Shakspeare. CLE'ANNESS. n. s. [from clean.] He shewed no strength in shaking of his staff; but the fine cleanness of bearing it was delightful. Sidney. This oil, combined with its own salt and sugar, makes it saponaceous and cleansing; by which quality it often helps digestion, and excites apArbuthnot on Aliments. petite. 4. To free from leprosy. 5. Shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded. Mark. To scour; to rid of all offensive things. This river the Jews proffered the pope to cleanse, so they might have what they found. Addison on Italy. CLEANSER. n. s. [clænrene, Sax.] That which has the "quality of evacuating any foul humours, or digesting a sore; a detergent. cleanser. If there happens an imposthume, honey, and even honey of roses, taken inwardly, is a good Arbuthnot. CLEAR. adj. [clair, Fr. klaer, Dutch; clarus, Lat.] 1. Bright; transpicuous ; pellucid; transparent; luminous; without opacity or cloudiness; not nebulous; not opacous; not dark. The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear, That, had the self-enamour'd youth gaz'd here, He but the bottom, not his face, had seen. Denb. 2. Perspicacious; sharp. Michael from Adam's eyes the film remov'd, A tun about was every pillar there; A polish'd mirrour shone not half so clear.Dryd. 3. Cheerful; not clouded with care or anger. |