Closterium Luntt- 
la, magnified. Two 
individuals conju- 
gating. (From Le 
Maout and De- 
caisne's "Traite 
general de Bota- 
nique.") 
closh 
kayles, or at least exceedingly like it: cloiah was played 
with pins, which were thrown at with :\ howl instead of a 
truncheon, and probably differed only in name from the 
nine-pins of the present time. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 365. 
closh-calest, pi- Ninepins. Coles, 1717. 
closli-llOOk (klosh'huk), n. A whalers' imple- 
ment for lifting blubber to be skinned. De 
Cohtngc. 
closing-machine (klo'zmg-ma-shen''), 1. A 
machine for sewing heavy cloth or leather. It 
uses two threads, and makes a lock-stitch alike 
on both sides. 2. In ro]>c->ii<ikin</, the machine 
by which the strands made by a standing-ma- 
chine are 'laid' or twisted into rope. 
Closterium (klos-te'ri-um), n. [NL.] A large 
genus of desmids in which the cell constitut- 
ing the plant is entire, tapering toward each 
end, and Innately or arcuately 
curved. Nltsche, 1817. 
closure (klo'gur), n. [< OF. 
i-liianre (Roquefort), afterward 
irreg. extended (under influ- 
ence of L. daiistrum, that which 
closes: see cloister) to closture 
(Cotgrave). > mod. F. cldture, 
closure ; < L. clausura, a closing, 
< claudere, pp. dausus, close: 
see clausure and close 1 , and cf. 
close 1 *, closer 2 .] 1. The act of 
shutting, or the state of being 
closed ; a closing or shutting up. 
look up : he does, and shows 
Death in his broken eyes, which Caisar's 
hands 
Shall do the honour of eternal closure. 
Chapman, Caesar and Pompey, iv. 1. 
The first warning which the community had of his 
change of attitude was the conspicuous and even defiant 
closure of his shop. Howells, Modern Instance, vi. 
2f. That by which anything is closed or shut ; 
a means of closing. Johnson. 
I admire your sending your last to me quite open, with- 
out a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever. Pope, To Swift. 
St. Inclosure; also, that which incloses, bounds, 
covers, or shuts in. 
Yf it be full of stonys, 
For closure of the feld better stuff noon is. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 150. 
Within the guilty closure of thy walls. 
Shak., Rich. III., Hi. 3. 
The bodie withe the closures wayed 900 waight. 
Quoted in If. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 121. 
4. Conclusion; end. 
The poor remainder of Andronici 
Will hand in hand all headlong cast us down, . . . 
And make a mutual closure of our house. 
Shak., Tit. And., v. 3. 
5. In lef/islrttion, the closing or stoppage of a 
debate : in the British House of Commons, the 
cutting oft of debate so as to prevent further 
discussion or motions by the minority and cause 
a direct vote to be taken on the question before 
the House : often used in the French form cld- 
tut'c. By the rules of 1887 any member, after obtaining 
the consent of the chair, may move that "the question be 
now put," and if this motion is carried, at least 200 voting 
in the affirmative, or if not that number, at least 100 in the 
affirmative and less than 40 in the negative, the Speaker 
ends the debate and puts the question. In the House of 
Representatives and other legislative bodies in the United 
States the same object is effected by moving the previous 
question. See question. 
closure (klo'zur), v. t. ; pret. and pp. closured, 
ppr. closuring. [< closure, .] In England, to 
end by closure. See closure, n., 5. [Colloq.] 
Several hours later the Government closured the dis- 
cussion on the Navy vote. 
Daily News (London), March 24, 1887. 
Clos Vougeot (klo vo-zho'). The most cele- 
brated of the red wines of Burgundy, grown in 
the commune of Vougeot, in the department of 
Cote-d'Or. The inclosure (elm) forms one of the largest 
vineyards in the world, containing over 100 acres. The 
wine produced is variously classified according to quality. 
Clot 1 (klot), re. [Also dial, clat (see daft) ; early 
mod. E. also clott; < ME. clot, clotte (also later 
clotlde, > E. clod 1 , q. v.), < AS. clott (very rare), 
a round mass, = OD. klot, klotte (cf. D. klos, a 
bowl, block) = MHG. kloz, G. klotz, a block, 
lump, = Dan. klods = Sw. Mots, a block, lump, 
stump, stub. Prob. akin to cleatf, q. v. The 
forms and senses of clot seem to have been con- 
fused in various languages with those of dote 1 
= clot 2 (clot-bur), clout 1 , and cloud 1 , cloud 2 : see 
these words.] 1. A clod. [Obsolete or rare.] 
Than euery man had a mall 
Syche as the! betyn cloth/s withall. 
Hunting of the Harege (Weber, Metr. Rom., III.), 1. 91. 
The ground also would now be broken up for a fallow, 
... to the end that the sun might thoroughly parch and 
concoct the clots. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xviii. 26. 
1056 
Every heart, when sifted well, 
Is a clot of warmer dust. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
2f. A hill. 
Salit lohan hem sy [saw] al in a knot, 
On the hyl of Syon that semly </'. 
Alliterative Poem* (ed. Morris), i. 788. 
3f. A dull, stupid man ; a clodpoll. 
The crafty impositions 
Of subtile clerks, feats of fine understanding, 
To abuse clot* and clows with. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, i. 1. 
4. A concrete or coagulated mass of soft or 
fluid matter : as, a clot of blood or of cream. 
The white of an egg, with spirit of wine, doth bake the 
egg into clotn, as if it began to poch. Bacon. 
As the clot is composed of corpuscles and fibrin . . . 
after coagulation, the actual proportions of the clot and 
serum are about equal. Flint, Human Physiology. 
5. A clump. [Rare.] 
Clots of sea-pink blooming on their [rocks'] sides instead 
of heather. R. L. Stevenson, The Merry Men. 
clot 1 (klot), v. ; pret. and pp. clotted, ppr. clotting. 
[< clot 1 , n. Cf. freq. clatter = clutter 1 .] I. in- 
trans. To coagulate, as soft or fluid matter, into 
a thick inspissated mass; become concrete: 
as, milk or blood clots. 
II. trans. If. To form into clots. 
[He] breaketh it in furrows, and sometime ridgeth it up 
again ; and at another time harroweth it and clotteth it. 
Latimer, Sermon of the Plough. 
2. To cause to coagulate ; make or form into 
clots. 
The clotted blood within my hose, 
That from my wounded body flows. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, i. 3. 
3. To cover with clots ; mat together by clots, 
as of blood. 
The light and lustrous curls . . . clotted into points. 
Tennyson, Passing of Arthur. 
Clotted cream, cream produced in the form of clots on 
the surface of new milk when it is warmed, and served as 
a table delicacy. Also clouted cream. 
clot 2 (klot), n. A dialectal variant of dote 1 . 
Compare clot-bur. 
clot-burt, clote-burt (klot'-, klot'ber), n. [< 
dot 2 , dote 1 , + bur 1 .} 1. A name of the bur- 
dock, Arctium Lappa. 2. A name of species 
of Xanthium. 
Also called dit-bur. 
cloteH (klot), n. [Also E. dial, dot, dut; < ME. 
dote, cloote, < AS. elate, burdock, akin to elite 
(glossed tussilago, colt's-foot), ME. "elite, clete, 
burdock, mod. E. elite, cleat: see elite 1 , cleat 1 .} 
1. The burdock: same as clot-bur, 1. 
Cloote and breere shal stye on the aiitcrs of hem. 
WycHf, Hos. x. 8. 
2. The yellow water-lily, Nuphar lutea. 
This is the dote, bearing a yellow flower ; 
And this, black horehonnd. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, ii. 2. 
clote 2 !, " An obsolete form of cleat 2 . 
clote-burt, . See clot-bur. 
clote-leaft, . [ME. clote-lefe.] The leaf of the 
burdock. Chaucer. 
clotert, . t. A Middle English form of clotter, 
clutter 1 . 
cloth (kldth), . and a. [Formerly also cloath 
(pi. clothes, cloaths, cloathes) ; < ME. cloth, earlier 
clath (pi. clothes, clothis,tai<l by contraction close 
(cf. Sc. does) : see clothes), < AS. clath = OFries. 
Math, Mad, Fries, klaed = LG. D. kited = MHG. 
kleit, G. kteid, a dress, garment, = Icel. Mcethi 
= Sw. kldde = Dan. kkede, cloth; origin uncer- 
tain. See clothes. Hence clothe, clad."] I. n. 
PL cloths (kloTHz), in a particular sense clothes 
(see clothes). 1. A fabric or texture of wool or 
hair, or of cotton, flax, hemp, or other vegeta- 
ble filaments, formed by weaving or intertex- 
ture of threads, and used for garments or other 
covering, and for various other purposes ; spe- 
cifically, in the trade, a fabric of wool, in con- 
tradistinction to one made of other material. 
Cloth that cometh fro the weuyng is 1101131 comly to were, 
Tyl it is fulled vnder fote, or in fullyng stokkes, 
Wasshen wel with water, and with taseles cracched, 
Ytouked, and ytented, and vnder taillonres haude. 
Piers Plowman (B), xv. 444. 
2. A piece of cloth used for a particular pur- 
pose, generally as a covering, or as the canvas 
for a painting: as, a table-ctof/i; an Max-cloth; 
to spread the cloth (that is, the table-cloth). 
In that same Clothe so y-wrapped, the Aungeles beren 
hire Body to the Mount Synay, and there the! buryed hire 
with it. Mandeville, Travels, p. 60. 
3f. Dress ; raiment ; clothing ; clothes. See 
clothes. 
Thi cloth ( " raiment," A. V.] bi which thou were hilid 
[covered] failide not for eldnesse. Wyclif, Deut. vlii. 4. 
I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles. 
cloth 
4. The customary garb of a trade or profes- 
sion ; a livery ; specifically, the professional 
dress of a clergyman. 
That the worthy men of the seid cloth graunt no yefte 
of the comyns good, but of hur owne, wtout the advise 
of the xlviij. comyners. English Gilds (E. E. 'I'. S.), p. 386. 
Hence 5. The clerical office or profession; 
with the definite article (the cloth), the clergy 
collectively ; clergymen as a class. 
The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering 
and for giving the best possible effect to ... every axiom. 
Is. Taylor. 
Strong appeals were made to the priesthood. Would 
they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their 
cloth ? Moxaulay. 
6f. Texture; quality. [Rare.] 
I also did buy some apples and pork, by the same token 
the butcher commended it as the best in England for 
cloath and colour. Pepyn, Diary, III. 1. 
Albert cloth, a material the two sides of which are of 
different colors, each side finished, so that no lining is re- 
quired: used chiefly for overcoats. American cloth, a 
name given in Great Britain to a cotton cloth prepared 
with a glazed or varnished surface to imitate morocco 
leather : known in the United States as enameled cloth. 
Board Of Green Cloth, a court held by the lord steward 
and subordinate officers in the English royal court (so 
called from the color of the cloth on the table), having 
jurisdiction of the peace of the verge that is, within the 
precincts of the palace of the royal residence to about 200 
yards beyond the outer gate and without whose warrant 
a servant of the palace cannot be arrested for debt. Book- 
binders' Cloth, a Ktifliy sized and glazed variety of cotton 
cloth, usually colored, and often decorativt-ly embossed, 
much used for the case-binding of books. Broad cloth. 
See broadcloth. Camel's-hair Cloth. See camel. 
Cashgar cloth. Same as putto. Chenille cloth. See 
chenille. Cloth applique, a kind of embroidery in which 
pieces of cloth of different colors are cut into patterns and 
sewed upon a cloth foundation, the edges being worked ' 
with silk, gold thread, etc. Cloth Of acca. Same as acca. 
Cloth of Arras. See arrant Cloth of baudekin. 
See baudekin. Cloth of Bruges, a general term for silks 
and satins brocaded and wrought with gold, used in the 
later middle ages in England for ecclesiastical vestments. 
The pomegranate pattern (which see, under ponte<rratiate) 
was perhaps first introduced in the Bruges stuffs, and was 
copied all over Europe; later, Bruges produced velvets 
equal to those of Venice or Genoa. Cloth Of estate or 
state, a rich cloth arranged above and behind a throne or 
chair of state, so as to form a canopy or baldachin, and also 
a background against which the throne and its occupant 
may be seen to advantage. Cloth Of gold, cloth of which 
gold thread or fine gold wire forms either the pattern alone 
or both that and the ground. It is often richly brocaded 
with flowers, etc. Japanese brocades often contain a great 
deal of gold in the form of gilded paper in very narrow 
strips, the effect of which is extremely brilliant, since the 
gilded surface has its full metallic luster. 
He sente to alle Londes, in manere as thei wereu Mar- 
chauntes of precyous Stones, of Clothes of Gold and of 
othere thinges. Mandeville, Travels, p. 138. 
She did lie 
In her pavilion (cloth of gold, of tissue). 
Shak., A. and C.. ii. 2. 
Cloth Of lake*, a kind of flne linen, mentioned by Chau- 
cer as used for undergarments. Cloth of pall. See 
palli. Cloth Of silver, a cloth woven wholly or in part 
of silver thread, often richly brocaded with patterns of 
flowers, etc. Such cloth woven with both gold and silver 
thread was also commonly known as cloth of silver. Com- 
pare cloth of gold. Cloth of state. Same as cloth of estate. 
Cloth Of Tarst. See tarterine. Cloth Of tissue*, a 
rich stuff used in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 
replacing the baudekin of an earlier epoch. It was appa- 
rently a cloth of gold in which the metallic luster was kept 
as high as possible, as it is contrasted with "cloth of gold " 
as being more brilliant. 
John Tice attained [in 1573] to the perfection of making 
all sorts of tufted taffaties, cloth of twsues. 
A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 24. 
Composition cloth. See composition. -^Empress cloth, 
See empress. Enameled Cloth. See American cloth, 
above. Houseling-cloth. See houseling. Long cloth, 
a peculiar kind of fine cotton cloth, made milled or plain. 
E. H. Knight. Milled cloth. See milled. Narrow 
cloths, in woulent, fabrics from 27 to 29 inches wide, all 
cloths exceeding the latter width being termed broadcloth. 
Fainted Cloth, canvas or other similar material painted 
in partial imitation of tapestry, and used by those for 
whom tapestry was too expensive, especially during the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 
Mayster Thomas More, in hys youth, devysed in hys 
father's house in London a goodly hangyng of fyne painted 
clothe, with nyne pageauntes, and verses over every of 
those pageauntes. 
W. Rastell (?), Sir T. More's English Works. 
Slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 
Paper cloth, a fabric of cloth faced with paper. Wire 
Cloth, a texture of wire intermediate between wire gauze 
and wire netting, used for meat-safes, strainers, etc. 
II. a. Made or consisting of cloth, specifi- 
cally of woolen cloth : as, a cloth coat or cap ; 
cloth coverings. Cloth embroidery, a kind of em- 
broidery in which pieces of cloth of different colors are 
sewed together edge to edge, producing an elaborate patch- 
work. The surface is usually embroidered with floss silk. 
clotht (kloth), v. t. [< cloth, n. Cf. clothe.'] To 
make into cloth. 
It were the greatest madnesse in the world for vs to 
vent out wooll not clothed. Hahluyfx Voyages, II. 164. 
