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•—When the cafe required diffimulation, if they ufed it, 
the former opinion Ipread abroad, of their good faith and 
clearnefs of dealing, made them almolt invincible. Bacon. 
Freedom from imputation.—I require a clearnefs. Shake/. 
CLEARSIGHTED, adj. Perfpicuous; difcerning; ju¬ 
dicious : 
Clearfigbted reafon wifdom’s judgment leads ; 
And fenfe, her vaflal, in her footlleps treads. Denham. 
To CLEAR-STARCH, v. a. To ftiffen with (larch.— 
He took his prefent lodging at the manfiqn-houfe of a tay- 
lor’s widow, who waffles, and can clear/arch his bands. 
Addifon. 
CLEAT, f. [fea term,'] a piece of wood fattened on 
the yard-arm of a (hip, to keep the ropes from Hiding off 
the yard ; alfo pieces of wood to fallen any ropes with, or 
fallen any thing to. 
To CLEAVE, v. n. pret. I clave, [cleopan, Sax. kleven, 
Dutch.] To adhere; to Hick ; to hold to.—When the 
dull groweth into hardnefs, and the clouds cleave fail 
together. Job. 
The thin chameleon, fed with air, receives 
The colour of the thing to which he cleaves. Dryden. 
To unite aptly ; to lit: 
New honours come upon him, 
Like our llrange garments, cleave not to their mould, 
But with the aid of ufe. Shakefpcare. 
To unite in concord and intereft; to adhere.—The 
apoilles did conform the Chriltians according to the pat¬ 
tern of the Jews, and made them cleave the better. Hooker. 
—The men of Judah clave unto their king. Samuel .— 
To be concomitant to ; to be united with.—We can¬ 
not imagine, that, in breeding or begetting faith, his 
grace doth cleave to the one, and forfake the other. Hooker. 
To CLEAVE, v. a. prefer. I clove, I clave, I cleft ; 
part. palT. cloven, or cleft, [cleopan, Sax. kloven, Dutch.] 
To divide with violence; to lplit; to part forcibly into 
pieces.—The fountains of it are faid to have been cloven, 
or burft open. Burnet. 
Or had the fun 
Elefled to the earth a nearer feat. 
His beams had cleft the hill, the valley dry’d. Blachnore. 
Not half fo fwift the trembling doves can fly, 
When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid (ky. Pope. 
To divide : to part naturally.—And every bqgll that part- 
eth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. Deu¬ 
teronomy- 
To CLEAVE, v. n. To put afunder.—The ground clave 
afunder that was under them. Numbers. 
.He cut the cleaving Iky, 
And in a moment vanilh’d from her eye. Pope. 
To differ diviiion.— It cleaves with a glofly polite fubllance, 
not plane, but with lome little unevennefs. Neivton. 
CLEA'VER, f. a butcher’s inllrument to cut animals 
into joints.—You gentlemen keep a parcel of roaring bul¬ 
lies about me day and night, with huzzas and hunting- 
horns, and ringing the changes on butchers cleavers. 
Arbuthnot. 
CLEA'VERS,/. in botany. See Galium Aparin e. 
CLEBUCZ', a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Dalmatia: eleven miles fouth-fouth-eall of 
Moltar. 
CLE'BURG, or Kle'burg; a town of Germany, in 
the circle of the Upper Rhine, in the duchy of Deux 
Ponts, with a caftle. It gives name to a branch of the 
palatine family: twenty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft 
Deux Ponts. 
CLE'BURY, a fmall town in Shropfhire, diftant from 
London 132 miles, 13 from Bridgenorth, eight from 
Bewdley, and eight from Tenbury. The market is on 
7. 
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Wednefdays; fairs April si, Trinity Monday, and Oc¬ 
tober 27. Clebury is fituated near Clee-hill, on the north 
fide of the .Temd. Here is a free-fchool founded by Sir 
Lacon William Child, who left 3500I. for fupporting it, 
and a confiderable falary to the mailer, who is obliged to 
in ft ruff all fuch youths of the town as chufe to attend. 
It is called North-Clebury and Clebury-Mortimer, to dif- 
tinguilh it from Clebury on the borders of Worcefter- 
Ihire. It had a callle, built in 1160. 
CLECHE, f. a kind of crofs, charged with another crofs 
of the fame figure, but of the colour of the field. See 
Heraldry. 
CLE'CY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Calvados, and.chief place of a canton, in the dillribl of 
Falaife ; containing about 1700 inhabitants : three lea¬ 
gues and a half welt Falaife. 
CLEDA'GH, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Ufic, in Monmouthlhire. 
CLEDA'GH, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Neath, five miles north of Neath, in Glamorganlhire. 
CLEDA'GH, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Neath, at Neath, in Glamorganlhire. 
CLEDA'GH, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Muthvey, two miles eall of Langadok, in Caermar- 
thenlhire. 
CLEDA'GH, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Clethy, in Pembrokelhire, 
CLEDAGNVA'GH, a river of England, which runs 
into the Ulk, above a mile well Abergavenny. 
CLE'DEN, a town of France, in the department of 
Finilterre, and chief place of a canton, in the dilti i6l of 
Pontcroix: two leagues well of Pontcroix. 
CLE'DEN, a town of France, in the department of 
Finifterre, and chief place of a canton, in the diltridl of 
Carhaix: five miles Youth-well of Carhaix. 
CLE'DER, a town of France, in the department of Fi- 
nifte'rre, and chief place of a canton, in the diffridl of Lef- 
neven : one league and a half well of St. Pol-de-Leon. 
CLEDGE,yT among miners, the llratum of fuller’s earth. 
CLEDHE-WEN, a river of Wales, which runs into the 
Dung-ledy, in Pembrokelhire. 
CLEEN'ISH, an ifland of Ireland, in Lake Erne, three 
miles from Ennilkillen. 
CLEES (Les), or Les Esclees, a town of Swifler- 
land, in the canton of Berne, lituated on the Orbe; on 
the road to France. It had a callle, which was demolilhed 
by the Swifs in 1475 : eight miles fouth-weft of Yverdun. 
CLEES, f. The two parts of the foot of beafts which 
are cloven footed. Skinner. It is a provincial word, and 
probably corrupted from clavus. 
CLEF, f \_clef, Fr. a key.] A mark orjetter on any 
line at the beginning of a piece of mufic, which explains 
and gives name to all the-,re ft of the notes ; hence it is 
called the clef, or key, becaufe hereby we know the names 
of all the other lines and fpaces. See the article Music. 
CLEF'MONT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diffrift of Bourmont: feventeen miles fouth of Bourmont. 
CLEFS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dil- 
trift of Bauge : two leagues north of Bauge. 
CLEFT, part, pajf. Divided ; parted afunder ; 
I never did on cleft Parnaflus dream, 
Nor tafte the facred Heliconian llream. _ Dryden. 
CLEFT, f. a fpace made by the feparation of parts ; a 
crack: a crevice.—The cafcades feem to break through 
the clefts and cracks of rocks. Addifon.—-In farriery, clefts 
appear on the bought of the patterns, and are caufed by a 
fharp and malignant humour, which frets the (kin ; and it 
is accompanied with pain, and a noilome ltench. For 
the cure, See Farriery. 
To CLEFT'GRAFT, v. a. To engraft by cleaving the 
Hock of a tree, and inferting a branch.—Filberts may be 
cleftgrafted on the common nut. Mortimer. 
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