cloaca 
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cloak-fathert (klok'fii 'TH<T;. . The ostensible 
niithnr or doer of anything; a stalking-horse. 
[Ewe.] 
The hook e.oes under the name of Cardinal Allan, though 
Hie -., iil.n priests ay he wan but tlir cliulk-Jnlli'i Mli. i< 
of, ami Unit I'araons the J. suite made it. 
Hi- 1., IX. vii. -21. 
genital chamber. (2) The ca>cum, or dilatation 
of the posterior end of th inlcslinc. (il) In 
ascidians,t ho common central cavity into which 
open the atrial chambers of all Hit- ascidiozo- 
oids of an ascidiarium. 4. [NL.] In /mHml. : 
(a) In cases of necrosis, the opening in tin- 
sound bono which leads to the inclosed dead j ki (klii'king), H. fV.-rbal n. of rt.,,,1,; ,: ] 
bone. (6) The union of rectum, bolder and x gj*^ of ,. ()V 7/ ri w ' itl , or as witll a ,. lu; , k . 
organs of generation in a common outlet : a 
malformation resulting from arrest of devel- 
opment. 
cloacal (klo-ii'kal), a. [< I-. clur<tlin, < rlnm-n : 
see clixica.] 1. Pertaining to or of the nature 
of a cloaca, in any sense. 2. In ;'</., having a 
cloaca: applied specifically to the monotremes. 
'1'ln- ,-lu, i, 'a/ animals, ihr marsiipiala, the 
stand . . . In an ordar of raooeiaton. 
/',.. ,SV/. .W,)., XII. H7. 
Cloak (klok), H. [Until recently also spelled 
cloki; < M.K. CO-I/.Y;, < OF. r//.v, I-IIH/IK: </,,<!,<, a 
cloak (cf. Dim. klokki; an under-petticoat), < 
ML. c/ocrc, a cloak (so called from its shape), lit. 
abell: soo r/or/, 1 -. | 1. Properly, a loose outer 
garment without sleeves, worn by either sex as 
a protection from the weather: now frequently 
used, though erroneously, for a sleeved outer 
wrap worn by women, in tin- sixteenth century the 
rlnak was ;m ariirle ni every day wear, and was made with 
larjje loose armholes, through whieh tli' 1 sle< \vs of the 
inn I, i garment were passed, as is seen in portraits of Henry 
VIII. and the nobles of his court. Ijiter it was shortened, 
atulhecanie in e, n -i use little more than a e:tpe, though 
large and luim r!;ik.> were still used in traveling. In the 
latter part of the seventeenth eentury cloaks were aban- 
doned, except for protection from cold and wet, on ac- 
count of the changing fashion of the outer coat. Under 
the name of Spanwh cloak, this garment was worn from 
alMmt 1800 to 1840 in Great Britain and America, the shape 
being a half-circle ; it had a broad collar, often of fur or 
of velvet, which was continued down the edges of the 
cloak on Iwth sides in breadths of a foot or more. When 
in use, one of these edges was drawn across the breast 
and flung over the opposite shoulder with the breadth 
of fur or velvet turned outward, so as to form a decorative 
draping, falling from the shoulder behind. The same gar- 
ment is still worn as the most common winter dress in cer- 
tain Italian cities. 
Was St. Martin of Tours habited in a voluminous horse- 
man's cloak, or in a mere light cape that would cover the 
shoulders, it being winter time? 
JN - . and Q., 7th ser., IV. 467. 
2. Figuratively, that which conceals; a cover; 
a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pre- 
tense. 
Not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness. 
1 Pet. ii. 18. 
They make religion mere policy, a cloak, a human in- 
vention. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 603. 
Drunkard's cloak*, a barrel with one end open and a 
hole in the other, put over a drunkard's shoulders as a 
penalty. S. Doivell. 
cloak (klok), v. [< ME. "cloken (in adv. elat- 
edly), < cloke, a cloak : see cloak, n.] I. trans. 
1. To cover with or as with a cloak. 
lie crafty cloukit him in a Dragons skin 
All bright-bespect. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Hartas's Weeks, 11., The Imposture. 
The Shadow cloak'd from head to foot, 
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxiii. 
2. Figuratively, to cover up ; hide; conceal. 
David, by his wisdom and policy, thought so to have 
cloaked the matter, that it should never have been known. 
Latimer, 2d Serm. bef. Edw. VI., 1560. 
Thenceforth she sought for helps to cloak her crimes 
withal. Spenser, F. Q. 
The unscrupulous greed of conquest cloaked by pre- 
tences of spreading the blessings of British rule and Brit- 
ish religion. //. Spencer, Data of Ethics, S 81. 
~Syn. To bide, eonceal, mask, cover, veil, screen. 
II. iutrans. To intrigue; hold secret council. 
Your symonies, and bribes, 
Your cloaking with the great for fear to fall. 
Greene, James IV., v. 
cloakage (klp'kaj), n. [< cloak + -age.'} The 
act of covering with or as with a cloak. J. 
Martineau. [Rare.] 
cloak-anemone (klok'a-nem'o-ne), TO. A kind 
of cancrisocial sea-anemone, AdamsM palliata. 
cloak-bag (klok'bag), n. A bag in which a cloak 
or other clothes are carried ; a portmanteau. 
I would not be a serving-man 
To carry the cloak-bag still. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, iv. 5. 
Ordering his man to produce a cloak-bay whicli he had 
caused to be brought from Lady Booby's on purpose. 
Fielding, Joseph Andrews. 
cloakedlyt (klo'ked-li), adr. [< ME. dokedly, < 
"cloked, pp. of "clnkcii, + -ly : see cloak, v., and 
-Ii/".] In a cloaked or covert manner ; guile- 
fully. [Rare.] 
The French Ambassador came to declare, first how the 
Emperor wronged divers of his Masters Subjects and 
Vassals; arrested also his Merchants, and did cloaktdlii 
begin war. Dp. Unmet, Hist. Reformation, II. 30. 
To take heed of their dK-embliic.:< ami rfooJ 
SI I ',: '". H, 
2. Cloth for making cloaks. 
cloak-room (klok'nim), . A room connected 
with u phu-c of general resort, as an assembly- 
room or an opera-house, where cloaks, etc., are 
deposited. 
They . . . tilled the air of cloak-roomi at the (.'apitnl 
ami of private apartments with mean insinuations. hieh 
were worse than lies. ,V. .1. /;,/., ('XXIII. :I17. 
cloam, dome (klom), . and a. [Also i-lmiih; 
< MK. *rtoiii (not found), < AS. rliiui, clay, > 
I'lii'iiiini, MK. I'lcniiii, mod. K. dial, clcam = 
(In/in-, eh- in", smear, daub: see clcam, claim-, 
clem?.] I. n. If. Clay. 
Ere Wille myjto a-sple, 
Deth delt him a dent and drol him to the erthe, 
And is closed vuder clum. 
Pien Plowman (A), nil. 105. 
2. Earthenware. Halliwell; Wright. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
II. a. Of earthenware. 
I making answer that that should depend on the pitcher, 
whether it were iron or clotnb, he tunied on his heel, and 
presently departed from me. //. Kingaley, Kavenshoe, i. 
cloam, clome (klom), v. i. ; pret. and pp. doomed, 
domed, ppr. dooming, doming. [< cloam, n. Cf. 
cUam, clem*, claim 2 , v.] To gutter, as a candle. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
cloamen, clomen (klo'men), a. [< cloam + 
-en 2 .] Of or pertaining to earthenware. [Pvov. 
Eng.] 
In your account of the ceremonies now practised in 
Devon at Christmas regarding the apple-trees, you are 
wrong in calling it a clayen cup ; it should be a clonu < >r 
clomen cup ; thus all earthenware shops and china shops 
are called by the middling class and peasantry clome or 
cloinen shops, and the same in markets where earthen- 
ware is displayed in Devon are called clome standings. 
Hone, Every-day Book, II. 1652. 
cloamert, clomert (klo'mer), n. [< doom + 
-er 1 .] A maker of cloam. 
cloatht, . An obsolete form of clotli. 
cloatht, cloathet, '-. Obsolete forms of clothe. 
cloatb.in.gt, n. An obsolete form of clothing. 
clobbedt, A Middle English form of clubbed. 
clobber (klob'6r), n. [Perhaps Celtic: cf. IT. 
clabar, mud. Cf. clabber.] A kind of coarse 
paste made of ground cinders and flour, used 
to conceal the breaks in the leather of cobbled 
shoes. Dickens. [Eng.] 
clobber (klob'er), v. t. [< clobber, .] To con- 
ceal defects in, as by the use of clobber in 
cobbling shoes. Clobbered china, old porcelain the 
decoration on which has been freshened up, especially by 
additional painting. 
clobberer (klob'er-er), n. A cobbler of the low- 
est class, who patches up old shoes, and con- 
ceals their defects by rubbing clobber into the 
breaks of the leather. [Eng.] 
clochardt, Same as docker^. Wecver. 
clochet, An obsolete form of clutch^. 
clocherH, [ME.,alsocfoc/i/er, dolcerrc, <OF. 
clochier, clocher, F. clocher, < ML. docarium, 
cloccarium, a bell-tower, < cloca, clocca, > OF. 
cloche, abell: see clock 2 , n.~\ A bell-tower; a 
belfry. Ayliffe. 
clocher 2 t, See closer 1 *. 
clochette (klo-shef), . [F., dim. of cloche, a 
bell : see clock?, n.] In decorative art, any small 
object resembling a bell. 
clochiert, " See clocher 1 . 
clockH (klok), v. [< ME. clokJcen, < AS. cloccian, 
cluck: see cluck, which is the usual form.] I. 
iutrans. To cluck, as a hen. 
That eggs were made before the hardy cock 
Began to tread, or brooding hen to clock. 
The Silke.wor>ne (1599). 
II. trans. To call by clucking. 
She nowe hehinde, and uowe she goth before, 
And clocketh hem. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 25. 
clock 2 (klok), n. [< ME. dock, dob, dokkc, a 
clock, = D. Icloh, a clock, =LG. klok, a clock, = 
OHG. glocka, MHG. G. glocke, a clock, a bell, 
= Dan. klokke, a clock, a bell, = Sw. klocka, a 
clock, a bell, = Icel. MMa, a bell (of. AS. 
(once) clucgc, a bell), < ML. clocca, cloca (also 
glocca, glotiga). a bell. > F. cloche, a bell (ML. 
also a cloak, > ult. E. cloak, etc., q. v.). The 
orig. sense is 'bell.' a bell being orig. and still 
usually a necessary attachment of the clock, 
clock-beetle 
and the two word*, in nmiiy cases, lieinj; jirnc- 
tically synonym. .us. I'roii. of Celtic origin: 
Ir. tiiiel. I'liM/, (!:iel. also i /;/, a bell, u clock, 
= W. drn-h = Corn, rlnrh = .Manx i-lu<i<i, :> ln-ll ; 
from the verli repr. by Ir. i-liuj-iiim, older I'lu/j- 
nini (iacl. rlnii, I-IIKJ, rinjr. sound as a lieil. 
Cf. \V. cli-i-ii, clack, etc., with numerous dorh - 
aiives. If imitative, there is a eeriain eonaee- 
lion with K. I'lni'l. ' and r/nrl.-.\ 1. A miichinc 
ned to measure and indicate time by tin- 
motion of its parts. ci,,-ii \\a- 11, 
all such maehinei ; hut insti uim ni- ! thi>k, 
to hr ran ii <1 on til-- |'l.-"ii al- 1 ln,\\ rallr.! n-ttti-li'/i, ah'l 
tho-e of spei-ial ai 
rlitek usually oondsti of a fnune or can ' "MiaiiiiiiL' . 
of w heels mo\e'l hy wn-1 
a iienduluni or btdkl han<N >.i !> 
rolirnl the (a.-.- or dial-plate for Inarkinu Hi. 
minutes,. Tile dial-plate may ban- minoi dials, as for 
marking m-cmnls, or be divided into several diaN. an for 
, ||M\MII- ti,,- linir at ililtelvilt plarf,. I - 
rdiiirnnnly niaih- to ^\\> ln'tirc nl thi. hi'iir, :ni.l ^-iin. 
i dixi.ions of lime, hy the slr"k>' "I a bammcTon a 
bell or other sonorous object. See Inn 
ttel sikeivrlmoru certain] was bis erowjng In his logge 
oiRe, 
Than is a clot, or an abbay orlogge (horologe). 
Chaucer, TNun's l"riet Tale, L 4. 
The time will seem longer without a clock or hour-glau 
than with it. Hacon. 
2t. A stroke of the clock; the sounding of the 
hour by a clock. 
1 told the dork* and watched the wasting light Dryden. 
3t. A watch; specifically, a watch that strikes 
the hour. 
That striking cluck, which he had long worn in his pocket. 
/. \\'<lltnu. 
Astronomical clock. See aytrnnunticni. Beat of a 
Clock. Sec (vnM, . Electric Clock. () A cloik hav- 
ing a pendulum which by Ite movement makes or breaks 
an electric circuit, which in turn controls the movement of 
a numl>er of other clocks. (6) A clock operated by a weight 
in the usual way, and regulated and controlled by an elec- 
tric current from another clock, an electric escapement 
liriii- employed in some cases as the direct means of con- 
trolling its motion. Flora's Clock. See horoloaium. 
Of the Clock (obsolete or archaic) O'clock (a Clock, a- 
ClOCk, olwolete), a phrase preceded by one, two, or other 
number, or by what, and signifying the time of day as 
shown by the face of the clock or watch, or, as originally, 
by the strokes of the bell. 
That was the .xvj. daye of MalJ, we come to Venyse, 
aboute .Ij. of the cloke, at after noone. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 6. 
Euery brother and suster of the fraternite forseid schal 
come to the chirchc forseid be vlij aj the clok, that is for 
to seye be oure ladies belle. 
Enylith GiM(E. E. T. 8.), p. 448. 
Tis now the sweetest time for sleep ; the night's 
Scarce spent: Arrigo, what's o'cl<-k .' 
Beau, and t'l., Woman-Hater, I. 1. 
Pneumatic clock, one of a series of clocks govenied by 
pulsations of air, sent at regular intervals to them through 
tul>es by a central clock or regulator. The movement of 
the central clock compresses the air in the tube and causes 
a bellows to expand on each dial, thus moving the hands 
one interval. Watchman's clock, or telltale clock, a 
clock having pins projecting from the dial, one for each 
quarter of an hour, which can be pushed in. but only at 
the times marked by them on the dial. When it Is used by 
a watchman, it is his duty to push one pin in every fifteen 
minutes, thus proving that his watch has been complete. 
Clock 2 (klok), n. t. [< clock*, H.] In bell-ring- 
ing, to sound (a bell) by pulling the clapper 
without moving the bell itself. See dapperfng. 
clock 3 (klok), n. [First instance prob. in Pals- 
grave (A. D. 1530) ; origin unknown. Perhaps 
orig. applied to a bell-shaped ornament or 
flower: see clock*.] It. In the sixteenth cen- 
tury, a decoration applied to hoods. 2f. In the 
reign of Charles II. of England, a gore, plait, or 
piece inserted to produce the required shape 
of a garment. 3. A figured ornament on the 
side of the ankle of a stocking, either woven in 
the fabric or embroidered upon it. 
Show the red stockings, Trix. They've silver clock*, 
Harry. Thackeray, Esmond, vii. 
clock* (klok), n. [E. dial, and So., of obscure 
origin, perhaps orig. imitative (cf. click-beetle 
and clock 1 ). Cf. OHG. chuleicli, glossed scara- 
ba-us; So. golaeh, goloch, a beetle.] A popu- 
lar name of a beetle. Also dock-beetle. [Eng.] 
The Brize, the black-arm'd Clock, the Gnat, the Butter- 
file. Dr. H. Mure, Psychozoia, I. 41. 
Clock 6 t, '. '. [ME. clokken, < OF. (Picard) clo- 
quer, assibilated clocher, clochier (cf. E. closh 1 ), 
\ L. claudicare, limp, < dattdtig. lame, limping: 
see claudieate, daudicant.] To limp; hobble. 
I am biknowen 
There konnyng clerkes shul clokke bihynde. 
Piers Plowman (B), ill. 34. 
clock-alarm (klok'a-larm'), n. The alarm of 
an alarm-clock. 
clock-beetle (klok'be'tl), . Same as clock* : 
sometimes applied specifically to the Scarabait* 
stereorarius, or dung-beetle. [Eng.] 
