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of Galway, the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan ofTuam, found¬ 
ed about the end of the fixth century, and united to Kil- 
macdaugh in the year 16025 the cathedral and parifh 
church are the fame : thirty-fix miles eaif of Galway. 
CLO'NICUS, f. [from xAc vice, to agitate.] An epileptic 
cr corrvulfive fpafm. Any unnaturally tumultuous mo¬ 
tion of a part. 
CLONMETL, a town of Ireland, in the county of Tip¬ 
perary, on the Suir: eleven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Ca- 
fhel, and twenty-two well-north-weft of Waterford. It 
has a fpacious bridge of twenty a rches over the Suir ; the 
market-houfe is ftrong and well-built, and there is a char- 
ter-fchool for forty children. This town is very ancient, 
being built before the invafion of the Danes ; it was for¬ 
merly defended by a fquare wall. Oliver Cromwell, who 
found more refinance from this place than any other of 
his ccnquefts in Ireland, demolifhed the caftles and for¬ 
tifications, of which now only .the ruins remain : it has a 
Gothic church in good repair. 
CLONME'SS, afmall ifland on the north-weft coaft of 
Ireland, in Sheep Haven 5 twenty-five miles north-weft 
of Londonderry. 
CLONO'DES, f [from y.Xovcu, to agitate.] An epithet 
for that vehement fort of pulfe which is dilturbed and un¬ 
equal in the fame llroke. 
CLO'NOY, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Kerry: 
eighteen miles fouth of Killarney. 
To CLOOM, v. a.. [corrupted from cleatn, claemian, Sax. 
which is Hill ufed in fome provinces.] To clofe or fhut 
with glutinous or vilcous matter.—Rear the hive enough 
to let them in, and doom up the fkirts, all but the door. 
Mortimer. 
CLO'PINEL (John de Meun), a celebrated French 
poet, born at Mean in 12S0, and called Clopinel, becaufe 
of his limping gait. He was a fignal favourite at the court 
of Philip the Fair, and acquired a great (hare of fame by 
his Continuation of the Romance of the Rofe, which was 
left unfinifhed by William de Loris, its original author; 
the belt edition of which is that of the abbe Lenglet, 
1735, 3 vols. nrr.o. He is befides the tranflator of Boe¬ 
thius’s Confolations, into French, 1+94., fol. and the au¬ 
thor of fome other works, which are now but little known. 
He is fuppoled to have died about the year 1364. 
CLOP'PENBOURG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Weltphalia, and bifhopric of Munfter, the principal 
place of a bailiwick: fixty-four miles north-north-eaft of 
Munfter. Lnt. 52. 53. N. Ion. 25. 20. E. Ferro. 
To CLOSE, <v. a. \_dofa, Annoric; kluys, Dutch ; dos, 
Fr. claufus, Lat.] To fhut, to lay together: 
Sleep inftantly fell on me, call’d 
By nature as in aid, and clos'd mine eyes. Milton . 
To conclude; to end ; tofinifti: 
Edward and Henry, now the boaft of fame; 
And virtuous Alfred, a more facred name ; 
Al ter a life of generous toils endur’d, 
Clos'd their long glories with a figh, to find 
Th’ unwilling gratitude of bafe mankind. Pope. 
To inclo/e; to confine ; to repofite : 
Every one 
According to the gift which bounteous nature 
Hath in him clos'd. Shakefpearet ■ 
To join ; to unite fradhires ; to confolidate fiffures.— 
There being no winter yet to clofe up and unite its parts, 
and reltore the earth to its former compadtnefs. Burnet. — 
As foon as any public rupture happens, it is immediately 
clofed up by moderation and good offices. Addifon. 
To CLOSE, yv. n. To coalefce; to join its own parts 
together.—They, and all that appertained to them, went 
down alive into the pit, and the earth clofed upon them. 
Numbers xs i. 33. — To clofe upon. To agree upon ; to join 
in.-—Tlie jealouly of fuch a defign in us would induce 
France and Holland to clofe upon fome meafures between 
them to our difad vantage. Temple. — To clofe with. To clofe 
in with. To come to an agreement with ; to comply with ; 
to unite with.—Intire cowardice makes thee wrong this 
virtuous gentlewoman, to clofe with us. Sbakefpeare.—Pci&e 
is fo unfociable a vice, that there is no clofmg with it. Col¬ 
lier —Thefe governors bent all their thoughts and appli¬ 
cations to clofe in with the people, now the ftronger party. 
S-zuift. —To grapple with in wreftling. 
CLOSE, f. Any thing (hut; without outlet.—The ad¬ 
mirable effects of this diftillation in clofe, which is like 
the wombs and matrices of living creatures. Bacon .—A 
fmall field enclofed.—Certain hedgers, dividing a clofe, 
chanced upon a-great cheft. Carezv. —The manner of 
(hutting ; in this and the following fenleitis pronounced 
as cloze : 
The doors of plank were ; their clofe exquifite, 
Kept with a double key. Chapman*. 
The time of (hutting up : 
In the clofe of night, 
Philomel begins her heavenly Jay. Dryden. 
A grapple in wreftling.—The king went of purpofe into 
the North, laying an open fide into Perkin to make him 
come to the clofe, and fo to trip up his heels, having made 
lure in Kent beforehand. Bacon. —Paule; ceflation ; reft; 
The air, fuch pleafure loth to lofe, 
With thoufand echoes Hill prolongs each heav’nly clofe. 
Milton. 
At ev’ry clofe (he made, th’ attending throng 
Replied, and bore the burden of the long. Dryden. 
A conclufion, or end : 
Speedy death, 
The clofe of all my mifcries and the halm. Milton. 
CLOSE, adj. Shut faft, fo as to 1 eave no part open ; as, 
a clofe box, a clofe houle.—We fuppofe this bag to be tied 
clofe about, towards the window. Wilkins .—Having no vent, 
without inlet; lecret; private; not to be leen through r 
Nor could liis afls too clofe a vizard wear, 
. To ’(cape their eyes whom guilt had taught to fear. Dryden. 
Confined; ftagnant; without ventilation.—If the rooms 
be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors; the one 
makedi the air clofe, and not frefh ; and the other maketh 
it exceeding unequal. Bacon. —CompaCt; (olid ; denfe ; 
without interftices, or vacuities.—The inward fubllanCe 
of the earth is of itfelf an uniform mafs, clofe and coin- 
pad. Burnet —Vifcous ; glutinous ; not volatile.—This 
oil, which nourifhes the lamp, is fuppofed of fo clofe and 
tenacious a fubftance, that it may (lowly evaporate. Wil- 
hins. —Concife; brief; com prefled ; without exuberance 
or digrefikm.—You lay your thoughts fo clofe together, 
that, were they clofer, they would be crowded, and even 
a due connection wouldL>e wanting. Dryden. 
Read thefe inftrudHve leaves, in which confpire 
Frefnoy’s clofe art and Dryden’s native fire. Pope. 
Joined without any intervening diftancecr fpace, whether 
of time or place.—Plant the fpring crocuiies clofe to a 
wall. Mortimer. 
Where’er my name I find, 
Some dire misfortune follows clofe behind. Pope . 
Approaching nearly ; joined one to another : 
Now fit we clofe about this taper here. 
And cali in queltion our necefljties. Shakefpeare. 
Narrow; as, a clofe alley; admitting fmall diftance.—. 
Short crooked fwords in clofer fight they wear. Dryden .—- 
Umiilcovered ; without any token by which one may be 
found.— Clofe obferve him for the fake of mockery. Clofe, 
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