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whenever they are introduced among us, will be propa¬ 
gated in the fame manner, and require the fame treat¬ 
ment. 
CLFFT,/ the fame with Cliff. Now di fifed. 
Down he tumbled, like an aged tree, 
High growing'on the top of rocky clift. Spenfer. 
CLI'FTON, a diftinguiflied village, or rather new town, 
in the county of Gloucester, only one mile welt of Briftol, 
and including the place called Bristol hot wells ; 
tor particulars of both of which fee the article Bristol, 
vol. iii. p.413. 
CLIHA'POTIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Voibynia ; feventy-two miles eaft of Lucko. 
CLFMACTER,/ [from >:>.; i y.t5j^,topro'ceedgradually.] 
The progrelfion of the life of man. It is ulually divided 
into periods of feven years. 
CLIMACTERIC, or Climacterical, adj. Con¬ 
taining a certain number of years, at the end of which 
fome great change is fuppofed to befal the body in re¬ 
flect to health, life, or fortune.—Certain obfervabie years 
are fuppofed to be attended with fome confiderable change 
in the body; as the feventh year; the twenty-firft, made 
up of three times feven; the forty-ninth, made up of feven. 
times feven ; the fixty-third, being nine times feven ; and 
the eighty-firft, wliich is nine times nine: which two laft 
are called the grand climaSierics. The numbers feven and 
nine, multiplied into themlelves do make up fixty-three, 
commonly efteemed thy great dimail eric al of our lives. 
Brown. 
CLIMATE, /. [ clima, Lat. dimat, Fr. of Gr. a 
region.] A fpace upon the furface of the earth, meafured 
from the equator to the polar circles; in each of which 
Ipaces the longelt day is half an hour longer than in that 
nearer to the equator. From the polar circles to the 
poles, climates are meafured by the increale of a month. 
For the projection of the climates, lee the article Geo¬ 
graphy. In the common and popular fer.fe, a region, 
or tract of land, differing from another by the tempera¬ 
ture of the air.—This talent of moving the paffions can¬ 
not be of any great ufe in the northern climates. Swift. 
Betwixt th’ extremes, two happier climates hold 
The temper that partakes of hot and cold. Dry den. 
To CLIMATE, v. n. To inhabit. A word only in 
Shakefpeare: 
The bleffed gods 
Purge all infection from our air, wbillt you 
Do climate here. Shakefpeare. 
GLI'MATURE,/. The fame with Climate. Not in ufe. 
Such harbingers preceding ftill the fates, 
Have heav’n and earth together demcnftrated 
Unto our climatures and countrymen. Shakefpeare. 
CLI'MAX, f. [from F.Ai/zafw, to proceed.] Gradation; 
afcent: a figure in rhetoric, by which the fentence riles 
gradually ; as Cicero fays to Catiline, Thou do’lt no¬ 
thing, moved: nothing, thinkeft nothing ; but I hear it, 
I fee it, and perfectly underftand it.—Choice between one 
excellency and another is difficult; and yet the conclu- 
fion, by a due climax , is evermore the beft. Dryden. 
Some radiant Richmond every age has grac’d. 
Still rifing in a climax, till the laft, 
Surpaffing all, is not to be furpaft. Granville. 
To CLIMB, v. n. pret. clomb or climbed-, part. clnmb 
or climbed. It is pronounced like clime, [climan, Sax. 
klimmen, Dutch.] To afcend up to any place; to mount 
by means of fome hold or footing. It implies labour and 
difficulty, and fucceffive efforts.—Jonathan climbed up 
upon his hands and upon his feet. 1 Samuel. 
You tempt the fury of my three attendants, 
Lean famine, quartering fteel, and climbing fire. Sbakef. 
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Thou fun ! of this great world both eye and foul 
Acknowledge him thy greater: found his praife 
In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'f, 
And when high noon haft gain’d, and when thou fail’d:. 
Milton. 
To CLIMB, v. a. To afcend ; to mount; 
In arms purfue 
Paths of renown, and climb afcents of fame. Prior. 
CLIMB'ER, f- One that mounts or fcales anyplace, or 
thing ; a mounter ; a rifer : 
Lowlinefs is -young ambition’s ladder, 
Whereto the climber upwards turns his face. Shakefpeare. 
A plant that creeps upon ether fupports.—Ivy, brJ— 
ony, honey-fuckies, and other climbers, mult be dug up. 
Mortimer. 
To CLIMB'ER, <v. a. To mount with effort; to climb s 
In fealing the youngeft to pluck off his becke, 
Beware how ye climber for breaking your neck. Tuffer «, 
CLIMB'ER,/ in botany. See Clematis. 
CLIME, f. Climate; region; trafit of earth.—Health to 
vigorous bodies, or fruitful feafons in temperate climes, 
are common and familiar bleffings. Atterbury. 
Of beauty fing, her ffiining progrefs view, 
From clime to clitne the dazzling light purfue. Granville. 
To CLINCH, v. a. [clymga, Sax. to knock, Junius.; 
clingo, in Feftus, to encompafs, Minjhcw .] To hold in the 
hand with the fingers bent over it: 
Simois rowls the bodies and the ffiields 
Of heroes, whole difmember’d hands yet bear 
The dart aloft, and clinch the pointed fpear. Dryclen „ 
To contract or double the fingers.—Their talleft trees are 
about leven feet high, the tops whereof I could but juft 
reach with my lift clinched. Swift. —To bend the point of 
a nail in the other fide. To confirm ; to fix: as, to clinch 
an argument. 
CLINCH, f. A word ufed in a double meaning; a 
pun; an ambiguity; a duplicity of meaning, with an 
identity of expreflion. How it obtains this meaning is 
difficult to find. A nail caught on the other fide, and 
doubled, is a nail clinched : a word taken in a different, 
meaning, and doubled in fenfe, is likewife a clinch. 
Here one poor word a hundred clinches makes. Pope. 
That part of the cable which is faftened to the ring of the 
anchor. 
CLINCH, a mountain of North America, which di¬ 
vides the waters of Holfton and Clinch rivers, in the ftate 
of Tennefiee. In this mountain, Burke’s Garden, and 
Morris’s Nob, might be confidered as curiofities. 
CLINCH, or P£LES0N,a navigable branch of the Ten- 
neflee river, in North America, equal in length to Hol¬ 
fton river, its chief branch, but lefs in width. It rifes in 
Virginia, and after it enters into the ftate of TennefteCj 
it receives Powel’s and Poplar’s creek, and Emery’s river. 
The courfe of the Clinch is fouth-weft. Its mouth, 1 5® 
yards wide, lies five miles below Knoxville, and iixty 
above the mouth of the Hiwafiee. It is boatable for up 
wards of 200 miles; and Powel’s river, nearly as large as_ 
the main river, is navigable for boats 100 miles. 
CLIN'CHAMPS, a town o’f France, in the department 
of the Calvados : five miles fouth of Caen. 
CLINCH'ER,/ A cramp; aholdfaft; a piece of iron 
beat down to fallen planks : 
The wimbles for the work Calypfo found ; 
With thofe he pierc’d ’em, and with clinchers bound. Pope■ 
To CLING, v. n. pret. I clung ; part. I have clung -, 
[k/ynger, Daniffi.] To hang upon by twining round ; t© 
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