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Thus clanfhips were formed; and, in a generation or 
two, that confanguinity, which was at firlt in a great 
meafure imaginary, was believed to be real. An artificial 
union was converted into a natural one; men willingly 
followed a leader, whom they regarded both as the lupe- 
tior of their lands and the chief of their blood; and ferved 
him not only with the fidelity of vaffals, but the affeCtion 
of friends. In the other feudal kingdoms, we may ob- 
ferve fuch unions as we have del'cribed, imperfectly form¬ 
ed ; but, in Scotland, whether they were the production 
of chance, or the effeCt of policy, or ftrengthened by their 
’preferving their genealogies both genuine and fabulous, 
olanthips were univerfal. Such a confederacy might be 
overcome; it could not be broken; and no change of 
manners or government has been able, in fome parts of 
the kingdom, to dilfolve affociations which are founded 
upon prejudices fo natural to the human mind. How 
formidable were nobles at the head of followers, who, 
counting that caufejultand honourable which their chief 
approved, were ever ready to take the field at his com¬ 
mand, and to facrifice their lives in defence of his perfon 
or of his fame ! Again!! fuch men a king contended with 
great difadvantage; and that cold fervice, which money 
purchafes, or authority extorts, was not an equal match 
for their ardour and zeal.” 
CLAN'CULAR, adj. [ clancularius, l.zt.'] Clandeftine; 
fecret; private; concealed; obfcure ; hidden.—Let us 
withdraw all fupplies from our lulls, and not by any fe¬ 
cret referved affeCtion give them clancular aids to main¬ 
tain their rebellion. Decay of Piety. 
CLANDESTFNA, f. in botany. See Lathr/ea. 
CL ANDES'TINE, adj. [clandejiinus, Lat.] Secret; hid¬ 
den ; private: in an ill fenfe : 
Tho’ nitrous tempefls, and clandejline death, 
Fill’d the deep caves and numerous vaults beneath. 
Blackmore. 
CLANDESTINELY, ad<v. Secretly; privately; in pri¬ 
vate ; in fecret.-—There have been two printed papers 
dandejiinely fpread about, whereof no man is able to trace 
the original. Swift. 
CLANG,/. [ clangor , Lat.] A {harp fhrill noife : 
What clangs were heard in German Ikies afar, 
Of arms and armies ru!hing to the war : Dryden, 
Guns, and trumpets clang, and folemn found 
Of drums, o’ercame their groans.. Philips. 
To CLANG, m. n. [clango , Lat.] To clatter; to make a 
loud fhrill noife: 
Have I not in a pitched battle heard 
Loud ’larums, neighing deeds, and trumpets clang ? 
Shakefpeare, 
To CLANG, <v, a. To Itrike together with a noife; 
The fierce Curetes trod tumultuous 
Their myltic dance, and clang'd their founding arms; 
Induftrious with the warlike din to quell 
Thy infant cries. Prior. 
CL AN'GOUR,/ [ clangor, Lat.] A loud fhrill found s. 
With joy they view the waving enfigns fly, 
And hear the trumpets clangour pierce the Iky. Dryden. 
CLAN GOUS, adj. Making a clang.—We do not ob- 
ferve the cranes, and birds of long necks, have any muli- 
tsal, but lnrfli and clangous throats. Brown. 
CLANK,/. A loud, fhrill, {harp noife, made by the 
collifion of hard and fonorous bodies.—They were join¬ 
ed by the melodious clank of marrow-bone and cleaver. 
■Spedlator. 
To CLAP, aj. a. [clappan, Sax. klappen, Dut.] To firike 
together with a quick motion, 1b as to make a noife by 
the collifion.—Men {hall clap their hands at him, and 
dial! hifs him. out of his place, fob. —Have you never leen 
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a citizen, in a cold morning, clapping his fidcs, and walk¬ 
ing before his !hop? Dryden. 
In flow’ry wreathes the royal virgin drefl 
His bending horns, and kindly clapt his bread:. Addi/on. 
To add one thing to another, implying the idea of fome- 
thing bally, unexpected, or fudden.—Smooth temptation.-, 
like the fun, make a maiden lay by her veil and robe; which 
perfecution, like the northern wind, made her hold fait, 
and clap clofe about her, Taylor. —It would be as abfurd 
as to fay, he clapped fpurs to his horfe at St. James’s, and 
gallopped away to the Hague. Addifon. 
His fhield thrown by, to mitigate the finart, 
He clapp'd his hand upon the wounded part. Dryden. 
Let all her ways be unconfin’d, 
And clap your padlock on her mind. Prior. 
To do any thing with a fudden hafly motion, or unex¬ 
pectedly.—We will take our remedy at law, and clap an 
aCtion upon you for old debts. Arbuthnot. 
Have you obferv’d a fitting hare, 
Lift’ning, and fearful of the llorm 
Of horns and hounds, clap back her ear ? Prior. 
To celebrate or praife by clapping the hands ; to applaud. 
—I have often heard the ftationer wifliing for thofe hands 
to take off his melancholy bargain, which clapped its per¬ 
formance on the ftage. Dryden. —To infeCt with a vene¬ 
real poifon : 
Let men and manners ev’ry difh adapt; 
Who’d force his pepper where his guefts are dapt ? King „ 
To dap up. To complete fuddenly, without much pre¬ 
caution.—Was ever match dapt up fo fuddenly. Shake- 
fpeare. —A peace may be dapped up with that fuddennefs, 
that the forces, which are now in motion, may unexpect¬ 
edly fall upon his Ikirts. Howel. —To clap up. To im- 
prifon with little formality or delay.—Being prefented to 
the emperor for his admirable beauty, he was known, and 
the prince clapt him up as his inveigler. Sandys. 
To CLAP, <v. n. To move nimbly with a noife ; 
A whirlwind rofe, that with a violent blaft 
Shook all the doom : the doors around me clapt. Dryden, 
To enter with alacrity and brifknefs upon any thing; 
Come, a fong.- 
•—Shall we clap into ’t roundly, without faying we are 
hoarfe ? Shakefpeare . 
To ftrike the hands together in applaufe: 
All the belt men are ours ; for ’tis ill hap 
If they hold, when their ladies bid ’em clap. Shakefpeare . 
CLAP,/ A loud noife made by fudden collifion.—> 
Give the door fuch a clap as you go out, as will (hake the 
whole room, and make every thing rattle in it. Swift.— 
A fudden or unexpected aft or motion.—It is monftrous 
to me, that the fouth-fea fhould pay half their debts at 
one clap. Swift. —An explofion of thunder..—There fhall 
be horrible claps of thunder, and fiafhes of lightning, 
voices and earthquakes. Hakewiil. —An aCt of applaufe. 
—The aCtors, in the midft of an innocent old play, are 
often liar tied in the midft of unexpected claps or liiffes. 
Addifon. —A fudden or unexpected misfortune. Obfolete.— 
A vulgar phrafe for a venereal infection, [from clapoir, 
Fr.]—Time, that at laft matures a clap to pox. Pope _ _ 
[With falconers.] The nether part of the beak of a hawk. 
CLAP-BOARD,/ A board cut in order to make cafks 
or veffels; which fhall contain three feet and two inches 
at leaft in length • and, for every fix ton of beer exported, 
the fame cafk, or as good, or 200 of clap-boards is to be 
imported. 
CLAP-NET. See Bird-Catching, vol. iii. p. 50. 
CLAP'UAM, a village of England, in the county of 
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