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baffled the efforts of a number of men; and Claudia, after 
addrefling her prayers to the goddefs, untied her girdle, 
and with it eafily dragged after her the ftiip to fliore, and 
by this aftion was honourably acquitted. Val. Maximus. 
CLAUDIA'NUS, a celebrated poet in the age of Hono- 
rius and Arcadius, who feems to poffefs all the majefty of 
Virgil, without being a Have to the corrupted ftyle which 
prevailed in his age. Scaliger obferves, that he has fup- 
plied the poverty of his matter, by the purity of his lan¬ 
guage, the happinefs of his exprefiions, and the melody of 
his numbers. As he was the favourite of Stilicho, he re¬ 
tired when his patron was difgraced, and palled the reft 
of his life in retirement, and learned eafe. His poems on 
Rufinus and Eutropius, feem to be the beft of his cora- 
pofitions. The beft editions of his works are, that of Bur- 
man, 2 vols. qto. Amft. 1760 ; and that of Gefner, 2 vols. 
8vo. Lipf. 1758. 
To CLAU'DICATE, v. n. [claudico, Lat.] To halt j to 
limp. 
CLAUDICA'TION, /. [from claudicatio, Lat. to halt.] 
The a£t or habit of halting or limping, as when one leg is 
Ihorter than the other. 
CLAU'DIUS, a Roman emperor. See Rome. 
CLAVE, [the preterite of cleave.'] See Cleave. 
CLA'VELLATED, adj. [clavellatus , low Lat.] Made 
with burnt tartar: a chemical term.—Air, tranl'mitted 
through clavellated allies into an exhaulted receiver, loles 
weight as it paffes through them. Arbuthnot. 
CLA'VER,/. [lapejt pyjre, Sax.] A trefoil grafs. This 
is now univerlally written clover, though not lo properly. 
Clover. 
CLA'VES IN'SULiE, a term ufed in the Ille of Man ; 
where all weighty and ambiguous caufes are referred to 
a jury of twelve, who are called claves inf ala, the keys of 
the iliand. 
CLAVICHORD, and CLAVICITHE'RIUM,/ Two 
mufical inftruments ufed in the 16th century. They were 
of the nature of the fpinet, but of an oblong figure. 
CLAVICLE, /. [clavicula, Lat.] The collar bone.— 
Some quadrupeds can bring their fore feet unto their 
mouths; as moll that have clavicles, or collar bones. Brown. 
CLAVICYMBAL'LUM,/ An antique mufical inftru- 
ment with thirty firings. Modern writers' apply the name 
to our harpficliord. 
CLAVIE'RE (Pierre), celebrated among the French 
revolutionifts as the inventor of aflignats. He was a na¬ 
tive of Geneva, from whence he was driven into exile on 
the prevalence of the party he pppofed. He attained great 
celebrity by his knowledge of the finances and refources 
of France ; and was conftantly confulted by Mirabeau, 
who was indebted to him for much of his reputation. 
Being a leading member of the jacobin club, he was in¬ 
troduced to Louis XVI. and was made minilter of France, 
a promotion which he afterwards l'everely expiated. Pur- 
fued by the anarchills, he was thrown into tliofe dun¬ 
geons where Robefpierre crowded his victims ; and, hav¬ 
ing received a copy of the accufations againlt him, which 
he faw were to be fupported by his deadlieft foes, he put 
an end to his life with a dagger, in September 1793. 
CLAVI'JO, a village of Spain, in Old Callile; remark¬ 
able for a victory obtained by king Ramira over the Moors: 
two leagues from Logronno. 
CLA'VIUS (Chriltopher), an eminent mathematician, 
born at Bamberg in Germany, in 1537, and became a je- 
fuit. They lent him to Rome, where he was confidered 
as the Euclid of his age; and pope Gregory XIII. em¬ 
ployed him, with other learned men, in the correftipn of 
the calendar. Clavius acquitted himfelf well,and defended 
the new calendar againft Jofeph Scaliger, who had attacked 
it with his ufual malignity. The works of Clavius, of 
which the principal are his Arithmetic, and Commenta¬ 
ries upon Euclid, have been printed in five volumes, fol. 
He died at Rome in 1612. 
CLA'VO, a town of the ifland of Corfica: eight miles 
«aft-fouth-eaft of Ajaccio. 
C L A 
CLAUS, a town of Germany, in the county ©f Bre- 
gentz : one mile north-north-eaft of Bregentz. 
CLAUSE,/ [ claufula , Lat.] A fentence ; 11 Angle part 
of a difcourfe ; a fubdivilion of a larger fentence; lo much 
of a fentence as is to be conftrued together.—-God may 
be glorified by obedience, and obeyed by performance of 
his will, although no fpecial claufe or fentence of fcrip- 
ture be in every luch a£lion fet before mens’ eyes to war¬ 
rant it. Hooker. —An article, or particular ftipulation.— 
When, after his death, they were fent both to Jews and 
Gentiles, we find not this claufe in their commiflion. South. 
CLAUSE ROLLS, in law, contain all fuch matters of 
record as were committed to clofe writs: thefe rolls are 
preferved in the Tower. 
CLAU'SEN, a town of Germany, in the Tyrolefe : fix 
miles fouth-weft of Brixen. This town was taken by the 
French republican army, in the fpring of 1797, after an 
obfiinate battle with the Auftrians, in which they loft 
500 priloners. 
CLAU'SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and ele&orate of Treves; where a battle 
was fought in the year 1735 : five miles fouth of Wittick. 
CLAU'SENBURG. See Colosvar. 
CLAUS'THAL, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Grubenhagen, con¬ 
taining Soo lioufes: there are two churches, an houfe of 
orphans, a public fchool, a fmall garrifon, and a mint for 
coining money; near it are filver mines: fifteen miles 
fouth of Goflar. 
CLAUS'TRAL, adj. [from claujlrum, Lat.] Relating- 1 
to a cloifter, or religious houfe.— Claujtral priors are fuch 
as prtfide over monalleries, next to the abbot or chief go¬ 
vernor in fuch religious lioufes. Ayliffe. 
CLAUS'TRUM, [from claudo, to lhut.] Any aperture 
which has a power of contrafling itfelf, or of doling its 
orifice by any means; as the pafiage to the throat. 
CLAU'SUM FREGIT. See the article Capias, yol. iii. 
p. 763. 
CLAU'SURE,/ [claufura, Lat.] Confinement; the a£l 
of flmtting; the llate of being fliut.—In l'ome monalleries 
the feverity of the claufure is hard to be borne. Geddes. 
CLAUSZ, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria : feventeen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Steyr. 
CLAUSZ / NITZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and circle of Erzgebirg: fourteen miles 
fouth-fouth-eall of Freyberg. 
CLAUTK'MUS, [from y.Xaiu, to weep.] Weeping, the 
/bedding of tears, a concomitant of feveral dileafes. 
CLA'VUS,/ An ornament upon the robes of the Ro¬ 
man fenators and knights, which was more or lefs broad 
according to the dignity of the perfon ; hence the diftinc- 
tion of tunica angufii-clavia and lati-clavia. 
CLA'VUS, [from claudo, to fliut.] A furgical inftru- 
ment, made to clofe the ulcerated aperture in the palate. 
A corn, or any protuberant induration which refembles 
the head of a nail. An hyfteric affedlion of the head, 
which has the fenfation of a nail having been driven into 
the fcull. 
CLAW,/, [clapan, Sax.] The foot of a beaft or bird, 
armed with fliarp nails; or the pincers or holders of a 
fliell-fifli: 
I faw her range abroad to feek her food, 
T’ embrue her teeth and claws with lukewarm blood. 
Spenfer . 
Sometimes a hand, fpoken of in contempt. 
To CLAW, v. a. [clapan, Sax.] To tear with nails or 
claws.—Look, if the wither’d elder hath not his poll claw'd 
like a parrot. Shakefpeare. —To pull, as with the nails.— 
I am afrajd we ftiall not eafily claw off that name. South.—* 
To tear or fcratch in general: 
They for their own opinions Hand faft, 
Only to have them claw'd and canvafs’d. Hudibras. 
To fcratch or tickle.—-I mull laugh when I am merry, 
and 
