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3 'tfelf between the temple of Veda and'tlie Pons Senatorius. 
There were as many principal fewers as there were hills. 
Pliny concludes their firmnefs and ftrength from their 
Handing for fo many ages the (hocks of earthquakes, the 
fhll of houfes, and the vaft loads and weights moved over 
them. 
CLOACI'NA, a goddefs at Rome, who prefided over 
the Cloaca;. Some luppofe her to be Venus. Hence (he 
has been ftyled the godde(9 ofjakes and common fewers. 
CLOAK,/, \lach , Saxon.] The outer garment, with 
which the relt are covered.—All arguments will be as lit¬ 
tle able to prevail, as the wind did with the traveller to 
part with his cloak-, which he held only the falter. Locke . 
Nimbly he rofe, and call his garment down ; 
That inftant in his cloak I wrapt me round. Pope. 
A concealment; a cover.—Net uflng your liberty for a 
cloak of malicioufnefs. Peter. 
To CLOAK, <v. a. To cover with a cioak 3 to hide j to 
conceal: 
Mod heavenly fair, in deed and view, 
She by creation was, till (lie did fall; 
Thenceforth (lie fought for helps to cloak her crimes withal. 
Spenfer. 
CLOAK'BAG, / A portmanteau; a bag in which 
clothes are carried,—Why doit thou converfe with that 
trunk of humours, that Huffed cloakhag of guts ? Shakef. 
CLOCK,/. [ clocc , WeKli, from clock, a bell, Welfh and 
Annoric; cloche, Fr.] The inilrument which, by a feries 
of mechanical movements, tells the hour by a ltroke upon 
a bell.—If a man be in ficknels or pain, the time will (eem 
longer without a clock or hour-glafs than with it. Bacon .— 
It is an ufual expreflion to fay. What is it of the clock, 
for What hour is it ? Or ten o’clock, for the tenth hour. The 
dock of a Jtocking', is the flowers or inverted work about 
the ankle.—His llockings with filver clocks were ravifhed 
from him. Swift .—For all the modern improvements in 
the conftrudtion of clocks, watches, time-keepers, 
See. fee the article Horology, Clocks and watches, 
dial-plates, and cafes, are not to be exported without the 
movement. Stat. 9 & 10 W. III. c. 2S. Makers (hall en¬ 
grave their names on clocks and watches. Stat. 9 & 10 
W. III. c.28. Penalties on workmen, See. embezzeling ma¬ 
terials of clocks and watches-. Stat. 27 Geo. II. c. 7. 
CLOCK'MAKER,/. An artificer whofe profeflion is 
to make clocks.—This inequality has been diligently ob- 
lerved by feveral of our ingenious clockmakers, and equa¬ 
tions been made and ufed by them. Derham. 
CLOCK 7 WORK,/ Movements by weights or fprings, 
like thofe of a clock: 
So if unprejudic’d you fcan 
The goings of this clockwork, man ; 
You rind a hundred movements made 
By fine devices in his head : 
But ’tis the ftomach’s folid ltroke, 
That tells this being what’s o’clock. Prior. 
CLOD,/[club, Sax. a little hillock ; klotte, Dutch.] A 
lump of earth or clay ; luch a body of earth as cleaves or 
hangs together.—*The earth that calteth up from the 
plough a great clod, is not fo good as that which cafteth 
up a (mailer clod. Bacon .—-A turf; the ground. Any¬ 
thing concreted together in a chaffer.—Fifhermen who 
make holes in tire ice to dip up fi(h with their nets, light 
on (wallows congealed in clods of a (limy fubftance ; and, 
carrying them home to their ffoves, the warmth reftoreth 
them to life and flight. Carew .—A lump, a mals of metal: 
One at the forge 
Labouring, two maffy clods of iron and brafs 
Had melted. Milton. 
Any thing vile, bafe, and earthy; as the body of man, 
/■compared to his foul.—How the purer fpirit is united to 
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this clod, is a knot too hard for-our degraded' Intellects ttn 
untie. Glanville.' 
And ye high heavens, the temple of the gods,, 
In which a thouiand torches, flaming bright," 
Do burn, that to us, wretched earthl/ clods, 
In dreadful darkriels lend defined light. Spenfer ■, 
A dull, grofs, ftupid fellow ; a dolt: 
The vulgar! a-fcarce animated clod. 
Ne’er pleas’d with aught above ’em. Dryden. 
To CLOD, nj.n. To gather into concretions; to coagu?’ 
late : for this we fometimes ufe clot: 
Let us go find the body, and from the dream, 
With lavers pure, and.cleaniing herbs, wa(h off 
The clodded gore. Milton . 
To CLOD, <v. a. To pelt with clods. 
CLOD'A'GH, a river of Ireland, which runs into Lough 
Erne: eight miles fouth of Ennilkillen. 
Cl ODA'WA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kalifli: twenty-four miles eaft-Couth-eaft of Gnefna. 
CLOD'DY, adj. Confiding of earth or clods; ’earthy; 
muddy ; miry ; mean ; grofs ; bafe : 
The glorious fun, 
Turning with fplendour of his precious eye 
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. Shakefpeare , 
Full of clods unbroken.—Thefe lands they fow always- 
under furrow about Michaelmas, and leave it as cloddy as- 
they can. Mortimer. 
CLO'DEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and eleftorate of Saxony : four miles louth-fouth~ 
wed of Jefien. 
CLODIA lex, de Cypro, was enabled by the tribune- 
Clodius, in the year of Rome 607, to reduce Cyprus into 
a Roman province, and expofe Ptolemy king of Egypt to 
fale in his regal ornaments. It impowered Cato to go 
with the praetorian power and fee the auction of the king’s 
goods, and commiflioned him to return the money to 
Rome. Another, de Magiftratibus, 695, by Clodius the 
tribune. It forbad the cenlors to put a ltigma or mark 
of infamy upon any perfon who had not been actually 
accufed and condemned by both the cenfors. Another, 
de Religione, by the fame, 696, to deprive the pried of Cy- 
bele, a native of Pefcinum, of his office, and confer the 
priedhood upon Brotigonus, a Gallogrecian. Another, 
de Provinciis, 695, which nominated the provinces of 
Syria, Babylon', and Perfia, to the conful Gabinus, and 
Achaia, Theffaly, Macedon, and Greece, to his colleague 
Bifo, with proconfular power. It impowered them to de¬ 
fray the expences of their march from the public treafury. 
Another, 695, which required the fame didribution of 
corn among the people gratis, as had been given them be¬ 
fore at fix affes and a triens the bufhel. Another, 695, by 
the fame, de Judiciis. It called to an account fuch as 
had executed a Roman citizen without a judgment of 
the people and all the formalities of a trial. Another, 
by the fame, to pay no attention to the appearances of 
the heavens while any affair was before the people. Ano¬ 
ther, to make the power of the tribunes free in making 
and propoling laws. Another, to re-eflabli(li the com¬ 
panies of artifis which had been inllituted by Numa, but 
lince his time abolifhed. 
CLO'DIUS (Publius), a Roman defeended of an iliuf- 
trious family. He made himfelf famous for his licen- 
tioufnefs, avarice, and ambition. He committed inceffi 
with his three riders ; and introduced himfelf in womens 
clothes into the houfe of Julius Caffar, whilft Pompeia, 
Csefar’s wife, of whom he was enamoured, was celebra¬ 
ting the myfteries of Ceres, where no man was permitted 1 
to appear. He was accufed for this violation of human 
and divine laws; but he luborned his judges,- and, by 
that means, fereened himfelf from juilice. He defeended 
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