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from ten to twelve in breadth ; the air is healthy, but the 
foil is unequal. On the eminences are fields, woods, and 
foretts, which extend three or four leagues in length, 
bordered by towms and villages: on the borders of the 
Rhine, which runs through the country, are fine paltures, 
which feed a great number of cattle and horfes. The in¬ 
habitants chiefly cultivate corn, tobacco, and legumes. 
Game is plentiful, and the rivers fupply abundance of 
iifh, efpecially lalmon, pike, and carp. There are manu- 
faftures of fdk, cloth, linen, and pipes: it contains twen¬ 
ty-four towns. Roman catholics, Calvinilts, Lutherans, 
Menuonites, and Jews, are all allowed a freedom of wor- 
fhip.. The revenues of Cleves and Mark amount to a 
million of crowns. The king of Prufiia, as duke of 
Cleves, pays towards the charges of the empire 1208 
florins, and to the Imperial chamber 676 crowns. The 
principal towns are Cleves,. Calcar, Wefel, Duifburg, 
Xanten, Rees, and Emmerich : the rivers are, the Rhine, 
the Meufe, the Ruhr, the Emfer, the Lippe, and the Mel. 
CLEW, f [clype, Sax. klouwen , Dutch.] Thread 
wound upon a bottom; a ball of thread : 
While, guided by fome clew of heav’nly thread, 
The perplex’d labyrinth we backward tread. Rofcotnmon. 
A guide ; a direffion : becaufe men direft themfelves by 
a clew of thread in a labyrinth.—This alphabet mult be 
your own clew to guide you. Holder. 
Is there no way, no thought, no beam of light ? 
No clew) to guide me thro’ this gloomy maze, 
To clear my honour, yet preferve my faith ? Smith. 
C.lew of the fail of a fhip, is the lower corner of it, which 
reaches down to that earing where the tackles and fheets 
are fattened. Harris. 
To CLEW, v. a. To clew the fails, is to raife them, 
in order to be furled ; which is done by a rope fattened to 
the clew of a fail, called the clew-garnet. Harris. 
CLEW BAY, or Newport Bay, a large bay on the 
weft coalt of Ireland, twelve miles from eaft to welt, and 
feven from north to fouth, with a great number of linall 
iflands. Lat 53. +9. N. Ion. 9. 40. W. Greenwich. 
CLIBA'DIUM, f. [zAitoaiJ'ior, the name of a plant ill 
Diolcorides ] In botany, a genus of the clafs monoecia, 
order pentandria, natural order of compofitre oppofiti- 
folias. The generic characters are-—Calyx : common 
imbricate; fcaies ovate, acute. Corolla: compound; co- 
rollules tubular, funnel form; border five-cleft: corol- 
lulesof the dilk many, pedicelled, hermaphrodite—of the 
ray three or four, leffile, female. Stamina: in the her¬ 
maphrodites ; filaments five, capillary, very fhort; an- 
therae oblong, approximating. Pittillum: in the herma¬ 
phrodites, germ very iinail, fuperibr; Ityle filiform 5 
ftigma Ample ; in the females, germ roundilh, inferior - T 
ityle filiform ; ftigma two-parted. Perianthium : com¬ 
mon none. Calyx ventricofe, coloured. Proper, to the 
hermaphrodites none; to the females, a roundilh, fuccu- 
ient, uinbilicate drupe. Seed : one, cordate, comprefl'ed. 
—Effential CharaBer. Male. Common, calyx imbricate ; 
corolla of the dilk five-cleft. Female. Common, calyx: 
the fame ; corolla of the ray female, three or four ; feed 
an umbilicate drupe. 
There is but one fpecies, viz. Clibadium Surinamenfe, 
or Surinam clibadium : leaves oppofite, petioled, ovate, 
acuminate, acutely crenate, fcabrous; peduncles oppo¬ 
fite. Common, calyx violet-coloured when ripe: corolla 
white ; drupe green, with a yellow vil'cid juice. Native 
of Surinam. 
CLPCHY LA GARENNE, a town of France, in the 
department of Paris : one league north-north-weft of 
Paris. 
To CLICK, v. n. \_dihen, Dutch ; cliqueter, French ; 
or perhaps the diminutive of clack.] To make a Iharp, 
fmall, fucceflive noile; 
Voi. IV, No. 228. 
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The folemn death-watch click'd the hour Ihe died ; 
And thrilling crickets in the chimney cried. Gay. 
CLICK'ER,yi a low word for the fervant of a falefman, 
who Hands at the door to invite cuftomers. 
CLICK'ET, f. the knocker of a door. Skinner. 
CLIE, a lake in Upper Canada, about thirty-eight miles 
long, and thirty broad ; its waters communicate with 
thofe of Lake Huron. 
CLFENT,/. [cliens, Latin.] One who applies loan 
advocate for counfel and defence.—There is due from 
the judge to the advocate fome commendation, where 
caufes are well handled ; for that upholds in the client the 
reputation of his counfel. Bacon. —It may be perhaps 
fometimes ufed for a dependant in a more general fenfe, 
as it was ufed among the Romans: 
I do think they are your friends and clients, 
And fearful to difturb you. Ben Jonfon. 
A client among the Romans was a citizen who put him- 
felf under the protection of fome great man, who in re- 
fpeCt of that relation was called patron. This patron 
aflilted his client with his protection, interett, and goods j 
and the client gave his vote for his patron, when lie fought 
any office for himfelf or his friends. Clients owed re- 
fpeCt to their patrons, as thefe owed them their protec¬ 
tion. The right of patronage was appointed by Romu¬ 
lus, to unite the rich and poor together, in fuch a man¬ 
ner as that one might live without contempt, and the 
other without envy; but the condition of a client, in 
courfe of time, Became a fpecies of flavery. 
CLI'ENTED, particip. adj. Supplied with clients.— 
This due occafion of difeouragement, the worft condi¬ 
tioned and leaft cliented pettivoguers do yet, under the 
lweet bait of revenge, convert to a more plentiful profe- 
cution of aClions. Carew. 
CLIENTE'LE, f. [ clientcla , Lat.] The condition or 
office of a client. A word fcarcely ufed : 
There’s Varus holds good quarters with him ; 
And, under the pretext of clientele. 
Will be admitted. Ben Jonfon. 
CLFENTSHIP,y. The condition of a client.—Patron¬ 
age and clientffip among the R mans always defeended : 
the plebeian houfes had recourfe to the partrician line 
which had formerly protected them .Dryden. 
CLIFF, f. [clivus, Lat. clip, chop, Sax.] Afteeprock; 
a rock, according to Skinner, broken and craggy; [rapes, j 
—The Leucadians did ufe to precipitate a man from a 
high cliff into the fea. Bacon. 
Mountaineers,, that from Severus came, 
And from the craggy cliffs of Tetrica. Dryden. 
CLIFF REGIS,a fmall town in Northamptonfhire, com¬ 
monly called Cliff, fituated between Oundle and Stam¬ 
ford, about fix miles from each, on a crofts road, nearly 
furrounded w'ith woods, and eighty-one miles from Lon¬ 
don. The weekly market is on Tuefdays; and there is 
one annual fair on the 29th of OCtober, being St Luke’s 
day. The trade of the town, which is principally in the 
hard-wood turnery, is not very confiderable, being on the 
decline; however, it affords employment to many poor 
people. 
CLIFTORD (George), third earl of Cumberland, of 
that noble ancient family, was very eminent for his fkill 
in navigation. He was born in 1558, and educated at 
Peterhoufe, Cambridge, where he had for his tutor the 
celebrated John Whitgift, afterwards archbifhop of Can¬ 
terbury. In this place he applied himfelf chiefly to the 
ftudy of the mathematics, to which his genius led him ; 
whereby he became qualified for the feveral great expedi¬ 
tions he afterwards undertook. The firft time he had 
any public employment was in 1586, when he was one of 
the peers who lat in judgment upon Mary queen of Siots. 
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