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armies in 175?, by which 33,000 Hanoverians laid down 
their arms, and were dilperfed. Nineteen miles fouth of 
Stade, and twenty-four north-north-eatt or Bremen. 
CLO'SURE,/: -The aft of (hutting up.—Tlie chink was 
carefully doled up ; upon which closure ther e appeared not 
any change. Boyle. —That by which anything is clofed or 
fiiut.—I admire your fending your lalf to me quite open, 
wifhout a feat, wafer, or any clofure whatever, Pope. —The 
parts incloling ; inclofure : 
O thou bloody prifon ! 
Within the guilty clofure of thy walls 
Richard the Second here w'as hack’d to death. Shake/. 
Conclufion ; end. Notinufe i 
We’ll hand in hand all headlong cad us down, 
And make a mutual clcfiire of our houfe. Sbakefpeare. 
CLOT,/, [probably, at firft, the fame with dod, but 
now always applied to different ul’es; or rather klotte, 
Dutch, a mafs.] Concretion ; coagulation; grume: The 
white of an egg, with fpirit of wine, doth bake the egg 
into d ts, as if it began to poach. Bacon. —The opening 
itfelf was ftopt with a dot of grumous blood. Wifeman. 
To CLOT, <v 71. [from the noun; or from Hotter on, 
Dutch.] To form clots, or clods ; to hang together: 
Huge unwieldy bones, lading remains 
Of that gigantic race ; which, as he breaks 
The dotted glebe, the plowman haply finds. Philips. 
To concrete; to coagulate; to gather into concretions : 
as, clotted milk, clotted blood. To become grofs : 
Here mangled limbs, here brains and gore. 
Lie dotted. Philips. 
CLO'TEN, a village of Swifierland, in the canton of 
Zurich, large and populous, in which a great number of 
antiquities have been dilcovered : fix miles north-north- 
eail of Zurich. 
CLOTH, f. plural cloths or clothes. [cloB, Saxon.] 
Any thing woven for drefs or covering, whether of ani¬ 
mal or vegetable fublfance.—A collly doth of gold. Dray¬ 
ton —The piece of linen fpread upon a table : 
Nor let like Naevius, every error pafs ; 
ft die mully wine, foul doth , or greaiy glafs. Pope. 
Thecanvafs on which piftures are delineated: 
Who fears a fentence, or an old man’s faw, 
Shall by a painted doth be kept in awe. Sbakefpeare. 
Any texture put to a particular ufe.—The king hood up 
under his doth of date, took the fword. from the proteftor, 
and dubbed the Lord Mayor of London knight. Hay - 
•ward. —Drefs ; raiment: 
I'll ne’er diftrud my God for cloth and bread, 
While lilies flourifli and the raven's fed. Quarles. 
Cloth, taken abfolutely, commonly means a texture of 
wool. In the plural, drefs; habit; garment; vedure; 
vedments; including whatever covering is worn on the 
body. In this fenfe written clothes , pronounced clo's. — 
Strength grows more from the warmth of exercifes than 
of cloaths. ’Temple. —The covering of a bed ; 
Gazing on her midnight foes, 
She turn’d each way her frighted head, 
Then funk it deep beneath the clothes. Prior. 
The manufafture of woollen cloths conditutes the prin- 
,cipai llaple commodity of the kingdom, employs multi¬ 
tudes of the poor, and forms an inexhaudible fource of 
commerce between this and other nations. Woollen 
cloths are of divers qualities, divided principally into 
fine and coarfe. The goodnefs of cloth, according to 
fome, confifts in the following particulars : 1. That the 
wool beof a good qu liity, and well dreiled. 2. It (hould 
be equally ipun, carefully obferving that the thread of 
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the warp be finer and better twifted than that of the 
woof. 3. The cloth (hould be well wrought, and beaten 
on the loom, fo as to be every where equally com pail. 
4. The wool mud not be finer at one end of the piece 
than in the red. 5. The lids fhould be fudiciently drong, 
of the fame length with the duff, and mud ccnfilt of good 
wool, hair, or odrich feathers ; or, what is dill better, of 
Danifh dog’s hair. 6. The cloth (hould be free from 
knots and other imperfeftions. 7. It mull be well fcour¬ 
ed with fuller’s earth, well fulled with the bed white foap, 
and afterwards wa(hed in clear water. 8. The hair or 
nap (hould be well drawn out with the teazle, without 
being too much opened. 9. 'It mud be (horn dole with¬ 
out making it thread-bare. 10. It mud be well dried. 
11. It mud not be t?nter-dretched to force it to its juft 
dimenfions. 12. It (hould be preffed cold, not hot-pref- 
fed, the latter being very injurious to woollen cloth. 
The bell wool for the manufacturing of cloths are 
thofe of England and Spain, duly mixed. To ule thefe 
wools to the belt advantage, they (hould be fcoured, by 
putting them into a liquor fomewhat more than luke¬ 
warm, compoled of three parts water and one of urine. 
After the wool has continued long enough in the liquor 
to foak,.and difibive the greafe, it is to be drained and 
well wa(hed in running v,'ater. When it feels dry, and 
has no (inell but the natural one of the (heep, it is laid to 
be duly fcoured. After this, it is hung to dry in the 
fhade ; the heat of the fun making it hai (h and inflexible : 
w'hen dry, it is beat with rods upon hurdles of wood, or 
on cords, to cleanfe it from dull an I the grofier filth ; the 
more it is thus beat and clean fed, the Softer it becomes, 
and the better for fpinning. After beating, it rault be 
well picked, to free it from the reft of the filth that had 
efcaped the rods. It is now in a proper condition to be 
oiled, and carded on large iron cards placed flopewife. 
Olive oil is efteemed the belt for this purpofe : one fifth 
of which (hould be u(ed for the wool intended for the 
woof, and a ninth for that dtfigned for the warp. After 
the wool has been well oiled, it is given to the ipinners, 
who firll card it on the knee with lfnall fine cards, and 
then fpin it on the wheel, obferving to make the thread 
of the warp finaller by one third than that of the woof, 
and much compafter twilled. 
The thread, thus fpun, is reeled, and made into fkeins. 
That deligned for the woof is wound on little tubes, pieces 
of paper, or rulhes, fo difpoled as that they may be eafily 
put in the eye of the (buttle. That for the warp is wound 
on a kind of large w.ooden bobbins, to diipofe it for warp¬ 
ing. Wtien warped, it is ltiffened with lize ; the bell of 
which is that made of Ihreds of parchment; and when 
dry, is given to the weavers, who mount it on the loom. 
The warp thus mounted,.the weavers, who are two to 
each loom, one on each fide, tread alternately on the tred- 
dle, firll on the right Step, and then on the left, which 
raifes and lowers the threads 1 of the warp equally ; be¬ 
tween which they throw tranverfely the (buttle from the 
one to the othbr : and every time that the (buttle is thus 
thrown, and a thread of the woof inferred within the 
warp, they ftrike it conjunftly with the fame frame, 
wherein is fattened the comb or reed, between whole 
teeth the threads of the warp are palled, repeating the 
llroke as often as is necelfary. ft'he weavers having con¬ 
tinued their work till the whole vvarp is filled with the 
woof, the cloth is finiftied: it is then taken off the loom 
by unrolling it from the beam whereon it had been rol¬ 
led in proportion as it was woven ; and now given to be 
cleanfed of the knots, ends of threads, ftraws, and other 
filth ; which is done with iron nippers. 
In this condition it is canied to the fullery, to be 
fcoured with urine, or a kind of potter’s clay, well lteep- 
ed in water, put along with the cloth in the trough where¬ 
in it is fulled.' ft'he cloth, being again cleared from the 
earth or urine, is returned to the former hands to have 
the lfcfter filth, 1'mall ends, &c. taken oft’as before: then 
it is returned to the fuller to be beat and fulled with hot 
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