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.(tick to; to hold fall upon.—The fontanel in his neck 
was defcried by the dinging of his hair to the platter, 
Wifeman. 
When they united and together dung. 
When undifting'uilh’d in one heap they hung. Blackmore. 
See in the circle next Eliza plac’d. 
Two babes of love clofe dinging to her wailt. Pops. 
To adhere as followers or friends : 
Mod popular conful he is grown, methinks : 
How the rout ding to him ! Ben Jonfon. 
To CLING, <«. a. To dry up; to confume; to wade ; 
to pine away. [Eeclugen tpeop, a withered tree.] 
If thou fpeak’ft falfe, 
Upon the next tree (halt thou hang alive. 
Till famine ding thee. Shakefpeare. 
CLING, a town and caftle of Germany, in the circle of 
Bavaria ; four miles eaft-north-eaft of Waflerberg. 
CLIN'GEN, or Klingen, a town of Germany, in the 
circle, of Upper Saxony, and county of Schwartzburgh ; 
iixteen miles north of Erfurt. 
CLIN'GY, adj. Apt to cling; adhefive. 
CLI'NIC, or Clinical, adj. [from jsAuw, to lie down.] 
Thofethat keep their beds ; thole that are fick, paft hopes 
of recovery. A clinical ledture is a difcourfe upon a dif- 
eafe, made by the bed of the patient. A clinical conmert, 
one that is converted on his death-bed. This word occurs 
often in the works of Taylor. 
CLIN'ICUS,/ [*a mxo(, <&r.] a phyfician, or nurfe, who 
attends bed-ridden patients 5 alfo a bearer who carries the 
dead to the grave. L. 
To CLINK, <v. a [perhaps foftened from clank, or cor¬ 
rupted from click.'] To (trike fo a» to make a fmall lharp 
noife. Five years ! a long leale for the clinking of pew'ter. 
i hakefpeare. 
To CLINK, v. n. To utter a fmall, (harp, interrupted 
noife: 
Underneath th’ umbrella’s oily (lied, 
Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread. Gay. 
CLINK,/ A (harp fucceflive noife; a knocking.—I 
heard the clink and fall *of fwords. Shakefpeare. —It (eems 
in Spenfer to have Come unufual fenfe, perhaps the knocker 
of a door: * 
Tho’ creeping clofe, behind the wicket's dink, 
Privily he peep’d out thro’ a chink. Spenfer. 
CLINO, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
•of Theflaly ; twenty two miles well of Zeiton. 
CLINO, a town of Germany, in the bilhopric of Trent; 
iwenty-two miles weft-north-weft of Trent. 
CLINO'IDES,/.[from kAu»j, abed; and ei^o;, alikenefs.] 
The lmall precedes which form the fella turcica, fo named 
from their (uppofed relemblance to a couch.SeeAN atomy. 
CLINOVO, or Kliuno, a town of Turkilh Dalmatia, 
generally ufed as a place of rendezvous in a time of war, 
and a depot of arms and provifions; thirty miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Spalatro. 
CLINOPO'DIUM,/. [from *Au»,and orchov, dimin. of 
wov5, pes ledi , bed’s-foot; the flowers growing in whorls, 
one aSove another, like the old-falhioned turned feet of 
beds.] In botany, a genus of the clafs clidynamia, order 
gymnofpermia, natural order verucillatse; labiatae Juflieu. 
The generic charadters are—Calyx: involucre, many bri¬ 
dled ; length of the perianthium,placed beneath the whorl; 
perianthium one-leafed, cylindric, very (lightly incurved, 
with a two-lipped mouth 1 upper lip wider, tnlid, acute* 
refledted ; lower lip divided, llender, infledted. Corolla ; 
one-petalled, ringent; tubefliort, gradually widened into 
the throat; upper lip eredt, concave, obtufe, emarginate; 
lower lip trifid, obtufe; middle fegment wider, emarginate B 
Stamina : filaments four, under the upper lip, of which two 
are (horter than the others ; anther;® roundifh. PHtillum ; 
germ four-parted : ftyle filiform, the fame fituation and 
length with the ftamens ; lligmafimple, acute, compreflT- 
ed. Pericarpium : none ; calyx contradted round the neck, 
gibbous round the body, containing the feeds. Seeds : 
four ovate.— EJfential Character. Involucre many briltled, 
under the whorl. 
Species. 1. Clinopodium vulgare, or wild bafil ; audits 
varieties, i. the humile, or dwarf wild, or field-bafil; ii. the 
Carolianum, or Carolina field-bafil; iii. th edEgyptiacum, or 
Egyptian field-bafil: heads roundifh, bifpid ; bradtes brift- 
ly. Root perennial, fibrous, fending up feveral itiff iquare 
(talks a foot and half high, from which come out a few 
lateral branches towards the top; the flowers come out 
in round whorls ; one of thefe terminates the llaik, and 
there is generally another which furrounds the (talk at 
the joint immediately below it; the whorl grows very 
clofe, and each peduncle fu(tains feveral flowers, which 
are ufually purple, but fometimes white; they appear in 
June. The whole plant is hairy; (terns reddifli. It is 
fond of a calcareous foil. The fineli is (lightly aromatic, 
and not unpleafant. 
1. Stems not more than half the height of the common 
fort, and dividing into many long fide branches ; leaves 
fmaller and rougher ; whorls produced half the length of 
the branches, whereas the common fort has rarely more 
than two ; the bradtes are alfo much longer. This flowers 
in June and July, and has a perennial root. 
ii. Root perennial 5 (terns ftraight, hairy, almoft round; 
joints four or five inches afunder, with two oblong leaves 
at each, hairy on their under fide, on (hort footftalks; at 
the bottom of thele a (lender branch comes out on each 
fide, half an inch long, having two or four fmall leaves 
(haped like the others ; the flowers are produced in fmall 
whorls, (landing thinly; they are white, and the bradtes 
are longer than the calyxes. It flowers in Auguft. Both 
thefe were fent to Mr. Miller from Carolina by Dr. Dale. 
iii. Root perennial; Items afoot and half high ; leaves 
oval, with many tranfyerfe deep furrows, dark green, op- 
pofite, five or fix inches afunder. There are commonly 
two or four fide branches from the main Item, produced 
towards the bottom ; and the whorls ot flowers are produced 
at every joint towards the upper part of the item, which are 
pretty large and hairy ; the flowers are fomewhat larger 
than thole of the common fort, of a deeper colour, and 
ftretch a little more out of the calyx ; but the greatelt dif¬ 
ference between them is, that in this the leaves and whorls 
are placed at a greater diltance ; nor do the plants continue 
fo long. It is a native of Egypt; flowers in June, a fort¬ 
night or three weeks before the common field-bafil, and. 
the feeds ripen in September. 
2. Clinopodium incanum, or hoary clinopodium : leaves 
tomentofe underneath ; whorls flattened ; bradtes lanceo¬ 
late. Root perennial; items about two feet high, putting 
out a few (hort fide branches towards the upper part; leaves 
oblong, oval, the fize of thofe of water mint, oppolite, 
feflile, foft to the touch, with a (trong odour between that 
of marjoram and Halil; the upper furface pale green, the 
under hoary and woolly; the edges (lightly indented} 
whorls flat, fmooth, generally three ; the upper fmaller 
and terminating, the lowelt larger than the middle one; 
flowers pale purple, the ftamens Handing out beyond the 
corolla; the bradtes large, lanceolate,indented. Native of 
North America, where, in fome parts, it is called fnake- 
niueed, being looked upon as a remedy for the bite ot the 
rattle-fnake. In England it flowers in July. 
3. Clinopodium rugofum, or wrinkled clinopodium : 
leaves wrinkled ; heads axillary, peduncled, flatted, ra¬ 
diated. Root perennial; (terns clofely covered with 
brownifti hairs, and between two and three feet high; 
leaves very unequal in fize, ferrate, rough on their upper 
fide, hairy on the under. It flowers in September, but 
never ripens its feeds here. Native of Carolina, whence 
