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Surrey, with numerous country /eats, inhabited by rich 
citizens : three miles fouth of London. 
CLAP'PER,/. One who claps with his hands; an ap- 
plauder. '/'lie tongue of a bell.—He hath a heart as found 
as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper ; for what his heart 
thinks his tongue fpeaks. Sbakefpeare —-I faw a young 
lady fall down the other day, and file much refembled 
an overturned bell without a clapper, Addifon.—Clapper 
of-a mill. A piece of wood fhaking the hopper. 
To CLAPTERCLAW, <z/. a. To tonguebeat; to fcold : 
They’ve always been at daggers-drawing, 
And one another clapperclawing. Hudibras. 
CLA'R A, [Lat. clear, bright. ] A proper name of women. 
CLA'RA (La), a town of the ifland of Cuba : eighteen 
miles north-weft of Spirito Santo. 
CLA'RA, or Mel, an ifland in the Indian fea, near 
the coaft'of Siam, twenty-five miles long, and four wide. 
Lat. n. 4. N. Ion. 97. 50. E. Greenwich. 
CLARA'TUMBA, a town of Poland, with a cele¬ 
brated abbey, in the palatinate of Cracovia : four miles 
eaft of Cracow. 
CLARE, a /mail town in the county of Suffolk, fitu- 
ated'on the river Stour, fourteen miles from St. Edmundf- 
bury, and fifty-fix from London. Here are the ruins of 
a calile and an old monaftery. It has a fine large church, 
and a manufacture of feys ; the civil and fpiritual courts 
are held at it; and it gives title of marquis to his grace 
the duke of Newcaftle of the Pelham family, as it did to 
that of Holies before. The market-day is on Fridays, 
and the fairs on Eafter-Tuefday and May 26. 
CLARE, a county of Ireland, bounded on the north 
by the county of Galway, on the eaft by Tipperary, on 
the fouth by Limerick and Kerry, and on the weft by the 
fea. It contains feventy-nine parifhes, about 17,400 houfes, 
and 96,000 fouls: fome parts of the county are moun¬ 
tainous, which, however, feed a great number of cattle 
and flieep ; while the more level grounds are very fertile, 
and yield good crops of corn and hay. Ennis is the ca¬ 
pital. The principal river is the Shannon. Four mem¬ 
bers are returned to the parliament, viz. two for the 
county, and two for the town of Ennis. 
CLARE, a river of Ireland, which runs into the Cor¬ 
rib : four miles north of Galway. 
CLARE, an illand of Ireland, near the fouth-weft coaft, 
of Cork, about three miles long, and one wide. Lat. 51. 
21. N. Ion. 9.23. W. Greenwich. 
CLARE, an ifland of Ireland, near the coaft of Mayo, 
about four miles long, and one and a half wide. Lat. 53. 
49. N. Ion. 9.49. W. Greenwich. 
CLARE, a town of the American States, on St. Mary’s 
bay, in Annapolis county, Nova Scotia. 
CLARE-OBSCURE,/ [from clarus, bright, and obfeu- 
rtis, Lat.] Light and /hade in painting : 
As mafters in the clare-objcure 
With various light your eye allure ; 
A flaming yellow here they fpread. 
Draw off in blue, or charge in red; 
Yet from thefe colours, oddly mix’d. 
Your fight upon the whole is fix’d. Prior. 
CLA'REMONT, a town of the American States, in 
Che/hire county, New Hamp/hire, on the eaft fide of Con- 
nefticut river, in Vermont, and on the north fide of Sugar 
river; twenty-four miles fouth of Dartmouth college, and 
121 fouth-weft by weft of Portfmouth. It was incorpo¬ 
rated in 1764, and contains 1435 inhabitants. 
CLA'REMONT, a county of the American States, in 
Camden diftrift, South Carolina, contains 2479 white in¬ 
habitants. Statefburg is the county town. 
CLA'RENCE. See Chiarenza. 
CLARENCIEU'X, the fiecond king at arms in the 
herald’s office; fo called from the duke of Clarence, to 
whom he firft belonged ; for Lionel, third fon of Edward 
III. having, by his wife, the honour of Clare, in the 
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county of Thomond, was afterwards declared duke of 
Clarence; which dukedom afterwards efeheating to Ed¬ 
ward IV. he made this earl a king at arms. His office is 
to marfhal and difpofe of the funerals of all the lower no¬ 
bility, a$ baronets, knights, efquires, on the louth fide 
of the Trent; whence he is fometimes called fiirroj, or 
fetab-roy, in contradiftinriion to norroy. 
CLA'RENDON (conftitutions of), certain conftitu- 
tions made in the reign of Henry II. A. D. 1164, in apar- 
liament held at Clarendon ; whereby the king checked the 
power of the pope and his clergy, and narrowed the ex¬ 
emption they claimed from fecular juriftliftion. 
CLA'RENDON (earl of). See Hyde. 
CLA'RENDON. See Cape Fear River. 
CLA'RENDON, a county of the American States, and 
the fouthernmoft in Camden diftrift, South Carolina, about 
thirty miles long, and thirty broad. 
CLA'RENDON, a town of the American States, near 
the center of Rutland county, Vermont, watered by Ot¬ 
ter creek and its tributary ftreams; fifteen miles eaft of 
Fairhaven, and forty-four north-eaft of Bennington. It 
contains 1478 inhabitants. On the fouth-eaft fide of a 
mountain in the wefterly part of Clarendon, or in the 
edge of Tinmouth, is a curious cave, the mouth of which 
is not more than two feet and a half in diameter. In its 
defeent, the paflage makes an angle with the horizon of 
thirty-five or forty degrees ; but continues of nearly the 
fame diameter through its whole length, which is thirty- 
one fee't and a half. At that diftance from the mouth, it 
opens into a fpacious room twenty feet long, twelve and 
a half wide, and eighteen or twenty feet high. Every 
part of the floor, fides, and roof, of this room, appears to 
be a folid rock, but very rough and uneven. The water 
is continually percolating through the top, and has formed 
ftalaftites of various forms ; many of which are conical, 
and fome have the appearance of mafiive columns. From 
this room there is a communication by a narrow paflage 
to others equally curious. 
CLAREN'NA, in ancient geography, a town of Vin- 
delicia, at the confluence of the Lycus and Danube. Now 
Rain, on the fouth fide of the Danube, at the confluence 
of the Lech. 
CLA'RET,/ [ clairet , Fr. from clareo, Lat. to be clear .1 
French wine, of a clear pale red colour : 
The claret fmootb, red as the lips we prefs 
In fparkling fancy, while we drain the bowl. Thotnfon. 
CLA'RET, a town of France, in the department of the 
Herault, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Montpellier : five leagues north of Montpellier. 
CLA'RET, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Alps, and chief place of a canton, in the diftri6t of 
Sifteron : eleven miles north of Sifteron. 
CLA'R I CORD,/I from clarus and chorda, Lat.] A rau- 
fical inftrument in form of a fpinette, but more ancient. 
It has forty-nine or fifty keys, and feventy-ftrings. 
CLARIFICA'TION, f. The aft of making any thing 
clear from impurities.—Liquors are, many of them, at the 
firft, thick and troubled; as mufte, and wort: to know 
the means of accelerating clarification, we mull know the 
caufes of clarification. Bacon. 
To CLA'RIFY, <v. a. \_clarfier, Fr.] To purify or clear 
any liquor; to feparate from feculencies or impurities.—» 
The apothecaries clarify their fyrups by whites of eggs, 
beaten with the juices which they would clarify ; which 
whites of eggs gather all the dregs and grofler parts of the 
juice to them; and after, the lyrup being fet on the fire., 
the whites of eggs themfelves harden, and are taken forth,. 
Bacon .—To brighten; to illuminate. 'Ibisfenfe is rare.— 
The Chriftian religion is the only means that God has 
fanftified, to let fallen man upon his legs again, to 
rify his reafon, and to reftify his will. South . 
To CLA'RIFY, <v.- n. To clear up; to grow bright,—* 
Whofoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, 
his wits and undetlianding do clarify and break up in the 
dilcourling; 
