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i Ke feeds were Tent to Mr. Miller by Dr. Dale. It was 
cultivated in the Eltham garden; and, before that, in the 
roy.akgarden at Hampton Court, in 1690. 
4. Clinopodium capitatum : leaves flat, fmooth,..heads 
axillary, peduncled. Jacquin makes this a diflimfl genus, 
under the name of. Plypt is, from the inverted (vtP.ico) form 
of the corolla ; the whole plant is inodorous. Native of Ja¬ 
maica, Barbadoes, and St. Domingo ; cultivated in the 
Eltham garden in 1732. 
5. Clinopodium Afiaticum, or Chinefe clinopodium : 
leaves oblong, nerved, wrinkled, tomentol'e underneath, 
fpike whorled, terminating ; Hem fuffruticofe; two feet 
and an half high, eredt, quadrangular, four furrowed, 
Ample, villofe ; leaves ovate-oblong, obtufe, flightly fer¬ 
rate, many nerved ; flowers violet coloured, in interrupt¬ 
ed whorls, forming an oblong fpike, with fnarp hirfute 
involucres. Native of Cochin China. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants may be propa¬ 
gated by feeds, and all'o by parting their roots; .the latter 
is generally praftifed in England, becaufe the foreign forts 
do not perfedt their feeds here. The belt time to tranf- 
plant and part their roots is in autumn, that they may 
take root before winter. If thefe are planted in a dry 
foil, they are (except the third fort) hardy enough to 
thrive in the open air in England, and require no other 
care but to keep them clean from weeds, and every other 
year they may be tranfplanted and parted. The third 
fort mull be planted in pots, and in winter Iheltered under 
a frame, where the plants may enjoy the free air in mild 
weather ; but fcreened from froll, otherwife they will not 
live in this country. See Anthospermum, Bartsia, 
Cleonia, Cometes, Monarda, Nepeta, Phlomis, 
Sat.ureia, Thymus, and 2iziphora. 
CLI'NQUANT, adj. [French.] Drelfed in embroidery, 
in fpangles, falfe glitter, tinlel finery ; 
To-day the French, 
All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods 
Shone down the Englilh. Sbakefpcare. 
CL'INTON, the molt northern county of United Ame¬ 
rica, in the Hate of New York, bounded north by Cana¬ 
da; eail by the deepell waters of Lake Champlain, which 
line feparates it fromVermont;, and fouth by the county of 
Walhington. By the cenl’psof 1791, it contained i6i4.inha- 
bitants. It is divided into five townlhips, viz. Plattlburg, 
the capital, Crown Point, Willlborough, Champlain, and 
Peru. The length from north to fouth is about ninety-fix 
miles ; and the breadth from eafl to well, including the 
line upon the lake, is thirty-fix miles. The number of 
fouls, in 1796, was ellimated to be 6,000. A great pro¬ 
portion of the lands are of an excellent quality, and pro¬ 
duce abundance of the various kinds of grain cultivated 
in other parts of the llate. The people manufacture earthen 
ware, pot and pearl alhes, in large quantities, which they 
export to New York, or Quebec. Their wool is excellent; 
their beef and pork fecond to none ; and the price of ltall- 
fed beef in Montreal, fixty miles from Plattlburg, is fuch 
as to encourage thefarmers todrive their cattle to that mar¬ 
ket.Their forelts fupply them with fugar and molafles; and 
the foil is well adapted to the culture of hemp. The land- 
carriage from any part of the country, in tranfporting 
their produce to New York, does not exceed eighteen 
miles. The carrying-place at Ticonderago is one mile 
and a half; and from Fort George,, at the fouth end of 
the lake of that name, to Fort Edward, is but fourteen 
miles. From this country to Quebec are annually lent 
large rafts; the rapids of St. Johns’s and Chamblee being 
the only interruptions in the navigation, and thole not lo 
great, but that, at fome feafons, batteaux, with fixty 
bulhe's of fait, can afcend them. Salt is fold here at half 
a dollar a bulhel. Saranac, Sable, and Boquet rivers, water 
Clinton-county. The firll is remarkable for the quantity 
of lalmon it produces. 
CL'INTON, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Dutchefs-county, New York, above Poughkeepfie, It is 
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large and thriving, and contains 4607.inhabitants,. 656 ;of" 
whom are eledlors. 
CLIO, in pagan mythology., the firll of the mufes, daugh¬ 
ter of Jupiter and MnetVtolyne ; Die prelided over hiflory ; 
file is reprefented crowned with laurels, holding in one 
hand a trumpet,.and.a-book in the other; fiomelimes Ihe 
holds a pledlrum, or quill, with a lute. Her name figni- 
fies honour and reputation,. y.Mo<;, gloria-, and it was her 
office faithfully, to. record the adtions of brave and illuT- 
trious heroes; Ihehad Hyacinth a by PietiuG, ion ofMagnes. 
CLl'O, in zoology, a genus belonging to the order of 
vermes mollulca. Its characters are thefe: the'body is 
vaginated, and adapted for fwimming ; oblong, with two 
membranaceous arms or wings ; it has like wife five, ter. - 
tacula, tw r o of which are in the mouth. A native of the 
main fea, an inch and a half long; it gives a numbing, 
or freezing fenfation to the touch ;. is pellucid, and of an 
azure colour, when in the water, decorated with crimlon 
at each extremity; it alfociates with the fpecies medufa ; 
the head is fomewhat narrow, globular, and divided into 
two cheeks by a longitudinal ridge or furrow', the termi¬ 
nal point of the mouth furnilhed with a lip on each fide, 
armed in front with two bright fliining teeth ; the inte¬ 
rior aperture protected by four, fmaller and crooked ; the 
two ten tacula, which are (ituated in the mouth, are of a 
fofter fubfiance; the thorax generally globofe, with fub- 
membranaceous wings, the throat yellow. There are fix. 
varieties of the clio now known. 
To CLIP, ns.a. [clippan. Sax.] To embrace by throw¬ 
ing the arms round ; to hug; to enfold in the arms.—= 
The male reileth on the back of the female, clipping and em¬ 
bracing her with his legs about the neck and body. Ray,. 
He that before fliunn’d her, to fliun fuch arms, 
Now runs and takes her in his clipping arms. Sidney . 
Here I clip 
The anvil of my fword, and do conteld 
Hotly and nobly with thy love. Sb’akefpeare. 
To cut with Iheers. \klipper, Danifh ; Hippin, Dutch i 
apparently from the fame radical fenfe,.fince Hieers cut by 
inclofing and embracing.]—Your flieers come too late to 
clip the bird’s wings, that already is flown away. Sidney , 
Then let him, that my love Ihall blame,. 
Or clip love’s wings, or quench love’s flame. Suckling. 
Sometimes with off. —We Ihould then have as much 
feeling upon the clipping off a hair, as the cutting of at 
nerve. Bentley. —It is particularly ufed ofthofe who dimi- 
nifhcoin,by paring the edges.—This defignof new coin¬ 
age, is juft of the nature of clipping. Locke. —To curtail ; 
to cut fhbrt.—Mrs.Mayore/s clipped the king’s Eng! \fn.Addi- 
fon. —Even in London, they clip theirw'ords after one man¬ 
ner about the court, another in the city, and a third in 
the fuburbs. Snvift. —To confine ; to hold to contain : 
Where is he living, dipt in with the fea. 
Who calls me pupil f Sbakefpcare . 
To CLIP, ns. n. A phrafe in falconry. 
Some falcon Hoops at what her eye defign’d, 
And with her eagernefs the quarry mils’d, 
Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind. Dryden, 
CLI'PPER, f. One that debafes coin by cutting.—No 
coins pleafed lome medalills more than thofe,which had 
palled through the hands of an old Roman, clipper. AJdif 
CLI'PPING, f. The part cut, or clipped oil’.—-Beings 
purely material, without fenfe or thought, as the clippings 
of our beards, and parings of our nails. Locke. 
CLIS'SA, a fortrefs of Dalmatia, taken from the Turks 
by the Venetians in 1684: ten miles north of Spalatro. 
CLIS'SON, a town of France, and principal place of a. 
diflridl, in the department of the Lower Loire,on the Sevre c. 
five leagues fouth-eall of Nantes, and fix fouth of Ancenis, 
Lat. 47. 5. N. Ion. 16. 23.E. Ferro. 
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