466 Mr. Pickering on the present state of the English language 
CLITCHY ; clammy, sticky, glutinous. I have heard this word used in a few 
instances by old people in New England; but it is very rarely heard. In 
Devonshire, in England, they have the frovincial word clatchy, in this 
sense ; and it is doubtless the same word, a little varied in the pronuncia- 
tion. See London Monthly Magazine, for Jan. 1809, p. 545. 
CLOSURE; a shutting up, a closing, I have never seen this word but once in 
any American publication—‘ Very soon after the closure of our ports, I 
did submit to the consideration of the senate a proposition,” &¢. Letter to 
the Hon. H, G. Otis, by the Hon. J. Q. Adams, Boston, 1808. The use of the 
word.in this passage was objected to by one of our own critics, in“ Re- 
marks and Criticisms” on this Letter, (published in the New York Even- 
ing Post) in the following terms: “ We ‘object, too, to his new word c/o- 
sure, as it is at best a superfluous word, and has no support in analogy.” 
Dr. Johnson has the word closure in this sense, upon the authority of Boyle ; 
but it seems to be rarely, if ever, used by the writers of the present day. 
CLOTHIER; a fuller; “ one who fulls and scours cloths; 3 an nant 
“maker of cloths.” roe 
there at the present day + PS aie Sora a 
** ‘The clothiers all, not able to maintain 
The many to them ‘longing, have put off 
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers,” 
It is to be observed, that although we use clothier for fullery po the: 
place, where the cloth is cleansed and dressed, is called a fulling-mill. 
COMPANIONING ; used in the following passage of an American poem : 
s - Companioni jing, > far: 1 — +} I ste nwn? 
‘Upon which one of our own critics makes this remark : “ Companioning is 
a word inyented without taste, low and unpoetical. ”* Review of Linn’s Va- 
lerian, a narrative poem, in the Monthly Anthology for 1807, p. 321, The 
word was never used in this country, I presume, by any body but the in~ 
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