clog-almanac 
clog-almanac (klog'al"ina-nuk), . An early 
form of almanac or calendar, made by euttiug 
notches or characters on a clog or block, gen- 
erally of wood, but sometimes of horn, bone, or 
brass. "This almanac is usually a square piece, ,f wood, 
containing three months on each ol the lour edues. The 
niiinl'er ol days in them are expressed hy notcho, th, 
in I daj by a notch with a patill.'iis stroke turned up from 
it. and every seventh l-y a lar^i- -i/rd notch. Over against 
manv ol the notches an placed, on the let! hand, several 
marks or symbols, denoting the golden nnnilicr or cycle 
of the moon. The festivals arc marked hy symbols of the 
several saints issuing from the notches." I'M. Also call- 
ed :!,. 
'I he runic writing wan cut in the wood in the direction 
of the ^rain, as mav lie seen in the case of some of tile 
runic iV'i i iitiu" inn-fa which are still in existence. 
It. raiilm; The Alphabet, II. 221. 
clog-burnisher (klog'ber'nish-er). . A bur- 
nisher having a handle at one end and a hook 
and staple at the other, used at Sheffield in Eng- 
land for burnishing parts of knives. 
clog-dance (klog'di'ms), 11. A (liuiee perforated 
with clogs, or with shoes having wooden soles 
or heels, in which the feet are made to perform 
a regular and noisy accompaniment to music. 
clog-dancer (klogMan"ser), . One who per- 
forms clog-dances. 
clog-dancing (klog'dan'sing), . The act of 
ilaiK'iug with clogs, 
clogginess (klog'i-nes), n. [< cloggy + -ness.] 
The state of being cloggy or clogged, 
clogging (klog'ing), n. [Verbal n. of clog, v.] 
Anything whiehclogs; obstruction; hindrance; 
clog. 
Truth doth clear, unweave, and simplifte, 
Search, sever, pierce, open and dlsgregate 
All ascititions <7o-/,///i\. 
I>i: B. Man, Psychathanasia, II. ill. 25. 
cloggy (klog'i), a. [< clog + -1/1. Cf. cUiggy, 
ctaayy, cledgy. ] Clogging or having power to 
clog; obstructive; adhesive. 
Some grosser and cloggy parts. Boyle, Works, I. 410. 
cloghead (klog'hed), . [Accom. from Ir. Gael. 
clogachd, Ir. also elogas, clogchas, a bell-tower, 
< clog, a bell : see clock 2 .] One of the slender 
round towers attached to various Irish churches. 
l-'nx/iroke. 
clog-hornpipe (klog'hdrn'plp), . A hornpipe 
danced with clogs on. Dickens. 
clog-pack (klog'pak), . In coal-mining, same 
as chock*, 4. [Yorkshire, Eng.] 
clogweed (klog'wed), n. The cow-parsnip, 
Hertidciim Suondylium. 
cloison (kloi son; F. pron. klwo-z6n'), n. [F., 
= Pr. clausio, <. ML. clausio(n-), < L. claudere, 
pp. clattsiis, close: see close 1 , v.] A partition; 
a dividing band; specifically, a fillet used in 
cloisonn^ work. Also spelled cloisson. See 
cloisonne. 
Each minute piece is separated from the next by a thin 
wall or cloison of ivory, about as thick as cara-lward, 
which thus formsa white outline, and sets off the brilliance 
of the coloured stones. Encyc. Brit., XVI. 860. 
cloisonnage (kloi'sp-naj), n. [F., < cloison + 
-age."} 1. The process or operation of execut- 
ing cloisoun6 work. 2. Cloisonn6 work. 
cloisonne (kloi-so-na'), a. [F., < cloison, a par- 
tition: see cloison.] Having partitions ; parti- 
tioned. Applied specifically to a kind of surface-decora- 
tion m enamel, in which the outlines of the designs are 
formed by small bands or fillets of metal bent to shape and 
fixed to a ground either of metal or of porcelain. The in- 
terstices or cells between the metal fillets are filled with 
enamel paste of appropriate colors, which is vitrified by 
heat. The surface is generally ground smooth and pol- 
ished. Beautiful examples of cloisonne enamel were pro- 
duced by the Byzantines, and in western Europe during the 
middle ages, and the art Is practised with success at the 
present day in China and Japan. 
cloister (klois'ter), . [< ME. cloister, clmjxti-r, 
cloistre, < OF. cloistre, F. cloltre = Pr. claiistrn 
= Sp. claustra, now claustro = Pg. claustro = 
It. chiostro, chiostra, claustro = AS. clustor, clus- 
ter, dauster (only in L. senses of 'prison, lock, 
barrier') (>ME. dauster, cluster, closter, parallel 
with cloister) = OS. klustar = OFries. kldster = 
D. fctoogter=MLGr. kloster, kloexter = OHG. clilox- 
ter, MHG. G. kloster = Icel. klaustr = 8w. Dan. 
kloster = Pol. klasztor = Bohem. Master, a clois- 
ter, < ML. clauxtrum, clostrum, a cloister, in class. 
L. usually in pi. claustra, rarely clostra, that 
which closes or shuts, a lock, bar, bolt, barrier, 
a place shut in, < claudere, pp. clausus, shut, 
close: see dose 1 and dose 2 .] If. An inclosure. 
Withinnc the cloistre hlisful of thy sydes 
Took mannes shap the Eternal Love and Pees. 
Chaucer, Second Nun's Tale, 1. 43. 
2. An arched way or a covered walk running 
round the walls of certain portions of monastic 
and collegiate buildings, it usually has a wall on 
105.-5 
one side, and a series of arcades with piers and columns, 
MI- nil open colonnade. SIMTiHllldin:; all inteliol i olirt, 'HI 
Cloister of Las Huclgas. Burgos, Spain. 
the opposite side. The original purpose of, Ic.i-i, rs wast" 
afford a place in which the monks could take exercise and 
recreation. 
They [the Capuchins! have a faire garden Iwlnnging to 
their Monastery near,- t" which they have a Cloister. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 19. 
Hence 3. A place of religious retirement; a 
monastery ; a convent ; a nunnery ; a religious 
house. 
We come Into a Mounter of grekysshe monke, whose 
Churche is of the holy Crosse. 
Sir Jt. Guyl/ordr., Pylgrymage, p. 39. 
For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, 
To live a barren sister all your life, 
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. 
Shak., M. N. D., I. 1. 
Alcuin . . . cannot help recalling those days of his 
youth and manhood which he had spent in his own Eng- 
land, beneath the still clointer built by a Wilfrid. 
Rock, Church of our fathers, L 281. 
4. Any arcade orcolonnade round an open court. 
And round the cool green courts there ran a row 
Of cloitlert, branch'd like mighty woods. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
Cloister monk. See monk. 
cloister (klois'ter), v. t. [< cloister, n.] 1. To 
confine in a cloister or convent. 
It was of the king's first acts to cloister the queen dowa- 
ger in tlie nunnery of Bennondsey. Bacon. 
2. To shut up; confine closely within walls; 
immure ; shut up in retirement from the world. 
Nature affords plenty of beauties, that no man need 
complain if the deformed are cloistered up. 
Jlymer, Tragedies. 
With the cessation of college-life would cease the ab- 
normal cliiiiterina of the young women. 
fop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 613. 
cloisteralt (klois'ter-al), a. An obsolete form 
of cloistral. 
cloistered (klois'terd), a. [< cloister + -ed 2 .] 
1 . Furnished with cloisters ; arranged in the 
form of a cloister. 
The court below is formed into a square by a corridor, 
having over the cheife entrance a stately cupola, covered 
with stone ; the rest is cloistered and arch'd on pillastcrs 
of rustiq worke. Evelyn, Diary, April 1, 1644. 
A lovely cloistered court he found, 
A fountain in the midst o'erthrown ami dry. 
William .Worrit, Earthly Paradise, I. 326. 
2. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a convent. 
3. Solitary; retired from the world ; secret; 
concealed. 
Let those have night, that slily love t' immure 
Their cloister'd crimes, and sin secure. 
Quarter, Emblems, i. 14. 
Ere the bat hath down 
His clowter'd flight. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. 
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, uuex- 
ercis'd and unbreath'd. Stilton, Areopagitica, p. 18. 
cloisterer f (klois'ter-er), n. [< ME. doistrer; 
as if < cloister + -er 1 ; but cf . OF. cloistricr (= 
Pr. claustrier), < cloistre, a cloister.] One be- 
longing to a cloister. 
cloisteresst (klois'ter-es), . Same as cloistress. 
cloister-garth (klois'ter-garth), n. In arch., 
the court inclosed by a cloister, 
cloistral (klois'tral), a. [Formerly also clois- 
tcral, < cloister + -al, after ML. claustralis : see 
claustral.] 1. Of or pertaining to a cloister; of 
the nature of a cloister ; belonging to or dwelling 
in a cloister. 
Many cloitteral men of great learning and devotion 
prefer contemplation before action. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 39. 
That initiatory branch of Italian art which I will ven- 
ture to name, from . . . the profession of many of the 
best masters who practised it, the cloistral epoch. 
Milnutn, Latin Christianity, xiv. 10. 
The Armenian Convent, whose cloistral buildings rise 
from the glassy lagoon, upon the south of the city [ Venice], 
near a mile away. hovxlls, Venetian Life, xiii. 
2. Secluded; retired. 
close 
AM < "hitller I was wont 
To hasten, lor I found, l-nea!h the roof 
Of that p, i i HUM! -1, IM place 
'If refuse. W,>rfl*tr;,rth, Naming of Places, Vi. 
cloistress! (klois'tres), w. [< cloister + -<,. 
Cf. fliiisli rrr. ] A nun; a woman who has 
vowed religious retirement. Also written rlnis- 
teress. [Rare.] 
Like a cloistress, sh. will veiled walk. Shak., T. N.. i. I. 
cloket ( klok), n. and r. An obsolete spelling of 
clokke'f, ' . A" obsolete form of c/..i7.-l. 
clokke'^t, " An oli-ol.-tr form of ."/.-. 
clomb 1 (klom). Obsolete or poetical preterit of 
i'l i lull. 
clomb- (klora), n. and a. See el-nun. 
clombent. Obsolete strong preterit plural of 
clome, clomen, etc. See <, <7<n<'H. 
clompertont, See HHHI/M-I -tun. 
clone (klon), n. [< NL. clonus, q. v.] In pa- 
llnil., the condition of clonus. 
Constitutions differ according to degrees of Ume and 
AMurner, Kelchcnbach's Dynamic* (1851), p. 42. 
clonget, <t. An obsolete variant of dun;/. 
clonic (klon'ik), a. [< NL. climinix, < clonus, 
q. v.] In pathol., pertaining to or exhibiting 
clonus. Clonic spasm, a spasm in which the muscles or 
muscular fibers contract and relax alternately, in 
what quii-k sill-cession, as In the latter part of an i-pihp 
tic attack : used in contradistinction to tonic spasjn. 
clonicity (klo-nis'i-ti), n. [< clonic + -ity.] In 
pathol., the condition of being clonie. 
Clonus (klo'.nus), n. [NL., < Or. K>OVOC, any 
violent confused motion, turmoil.] In pathol., 
alternating contractions and relaxations of a 
muscle following one another in somewhat 
quick succession. See clonic spasm and ankle- 
clonus. 
cloof (kl8f), n. [8c. ; also written clufe; < Icel. 
klauf, cloven foot, hoof, = Dan. klov, a hoof; 
from root of E. cleave^, q. v. Cf. dove*.] A hoof. 
doom (kl8m), v. t. [A dial. var. of doom, v.] To 
close with glutinous matter. Mortimer. [Local.] 
cloop (klup), n. [Imitative.] The sound made 
when a cork is pulled out of the neck of a bot- 
tle. [Bare.] 
The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle. Thackeray. 
cloot (kl8t), n. [8c., also written clute, a clo- 
ven hoof, the half of a cloven hoof; perhaps, 
through a form "cluft (see cleft 1 ), from root of 
cleave*, split : see cleave*, and cf. cloof. ] A di- 
vided hoof ; a cloven hoof. 
The harrying thieves I not a elmit left of the hail hinel ! 
Scott, Monastery, iii. 
Cloot-and- cloot, hoof-and-hoof that is, every hoof. 
Clootie (klo'ti), n. [8c., also written Clutie, < 
cloot, clute, a cloven hoof: see cloot.] The devil ; 
literally, he of the cloven hoofs. 
Oh Thou ! whatever title suit thee, 
Auld Hornle, Satan, Nick, or Clootit. 
Burns, Address to the De'il. 
clort (kldrt), . Same as dart. 
clorty (kldr'ti), a. Same as clarty. 
close* (kloz), v. ; pret. and pp. closed, ppr. clos- 
ing. Y< ME. closen, a modification (through 
the influence of adj. clos, close) of earlier clusen 
(so also in, comp. bi-clusen, often bi-dosen), 
also later sometimes clesen, close, shut in, < AS. 
'clysan (in verbal n. clysung, a closing, an in- 
closure, and comp. beclysan, close in, shut up), 
< L. clusus, clausus, pp. of cludere, claudere (al- 
ways -clusus, -cludere in comp. ), shut, close, shut 
in (> OF. and F. clore (pp. clos, > ME. adj. clos, 
close: see closed, a.) = Pr. claure, clure = Sp. 
Pg. -cluir (in comp.) = It. chiudere, close, etc.), 
orig. prob. "gdaudere = OFries. sluta = OS. 
'sluta (cf. sttttil. a key) = LG. gluten = D. 
sluiten (> slot, a lock, > E. sloft, q. v.) = OHG. 
sliozan, MHG. sliezen, G. schliessen = Dan. sluttc 
= Sw. Hlnta, shut; Gr. n'Mitm (/ *oidaFl) ap- 
pears to be a shorter form of the same root. 
Hence ult. (from L. claudere) E. close 1 , close^, 
closet, clause, cloister, conclude, exclude, include, 
occlude, preclude, seclude, etc., conclusion, etc., 
sluice, Claris, clef, etc.] I. trans. 1. To inclose; 
shut in ; surround ; comprise. 
The lewes herynge those wordes set hande on loseph 
and closed hym in a house where was no wyndowe. 
Joseph of AriiiMthie (E. E. T. 3.), p. 28. 
The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. 
The sun sets on my fortune, red and bloody, 
And everlasting night lieglns to close me. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, iv. a. 
When I clung to all the present for the promise that it 
'-/">'</. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
2. To make close ; bring together the parts of, 
especially so as to form a complete incloeure, 
or to prevent ingress or egress ; shut ; bring to- 
