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To CLOUD, <v. n. To grow cloudy ; to grow dark with 
clouds. 
“ After clouds, fair weather.” The Latins fay, Pojl 
nubila Phoebus ; or. Non fi ?nal'e nunc, & ollm fic erit 5 or, 
Flebile principium metier fbriuna fequatur. We fay, like- 
wife, Cloudy mornings may turn to clear evenings- And fo 
the Germans; Auf eineh trueben morgenfulgct ein heiterer 
abend. The French (ay as we ; Apr is la pluye.le beau terns. 
CLOUD-BERRY,/, in botany. See Rubus. 
CLOUD'CAPT, adj. Topped with clouds; touching 
the clouds : 
The cloudcapt towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The folemn temples, the great globe itfelf, 
Yea, all which it inherits, (hall diffolve. Shakefpeare. 
CLOUD'COMPELLING, adj. [a word formed in imi¬ 
tation of vetpeXviyefiBTr,;, ill underfood.'] A11 epithet of Ju¬ 
piter, by whom clouds were luppofed to be collected: 
Health to both kings, attended with a roar 
Of cannons, echo'd from tb’ affrighted fhore; 
With loud refemblance of his thunder, prove 
Bacchus the feed of doudcongpelling Jove. Waller. ■ 
CLOUD'ILY, adv. With clouds; darkly. 1 Obfcurely ; 
not perfpicuoufiy.—Some had rather have good difcipline 
delivered plainly, by way of precepts, than cloudily en¬ 
wrapped in allegories. Spenfer. 
CLOUD'INESS, / The (late of being covered with 
clouds; darknefs : 
You have fuch a February face, 
So full of frolt, of Itorm, and cloudinefs. Shakefpeare. 
Want of brightnefs.—I fiw r a cloudy Hungarian diamond 
made clearer by lying in a cold liquor; wherein, he af¬ 
firmed, that upon keeping it longer, the ftone would lofe 
more of its cloudinefs. Boyle. 
CLOUD'LESS, adj. Without clouds; clear; uncloud¬ 
ed; bright; luminous; lightfome; pure; undarkened.— 
How many fuch there mult be in the vaft extent of (pace, 
a naked eye in a cloudlefs night may give us fome faint 
glimpfe. Cbeyne. 
CLOU'DY, adj. Covered with clouds; obfcured with 
clouds ; confiding of clouds.—As Moles entered into the 
tabernacle, the cloudy pillar defcended, and Hood at the 
door. Exodus.— Dark ; obfcure; not intelligible.—If you 
content yourfelf frequently with words inltead of ideas, 
or with cloudy and confufed notions of things, how im¬ 
penetrable will that darknefs be ! Watts. —Gloomy of 
look ; not open, not cheerful: 
Witnefs my fon, r.ow in the (hade of death, 
Whole bright outfliining beams thy cloudy wrath 
Hath in eternal darknefs folded up. Shakefpeare. 
Marked with (pots or veins. Not bright, wanting luftre. 
CLOVE, pret. of cleave. See to Cleave. 
Gyon’s angry blade fo fierce did play 
On th’ other’s helmet, which as Titan (hone, 
That quite it clove his plumed cieft in tway. Fairy Sjueen. 
CLOVE, f [clou, Fr. a nail, from the fimilitude of a 
clove to a nail.] A valuable fpice, the fruit or feed of the 
clove-tree. The pungency of cloves refides in their refin, 
or rather in a "combination of refin with effential oil, for 
the fpirituous ex trail is very pungent; but, if the oil and 
the refin contained in this extratt be (eparated from each 
other by diftillation, the oil will be very mild ; and any 
pungency which it does retain proceeds from fome fmall 
portion of adhering refin, and the remaining refin will be 
.inftpid. No plant, nor part of any plant, contains fo large 
a portion of effential oil as cloves do. From fixteen ounces, 
Neumann obtained by dii'rillation two ounces and two 
drams; and Hoffman obtained from the fame quantity 
an ounce and a half. The oil is (pecifically heavier than 
water. For the natural hiftory of the plant, fee its gene'’- 
jic name, Caryophyllus, vol. iii. p. 861. 
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CLOVE, f. The two-and-thiuieth part of a weigh of 
cheefe, i e. eight pounds Suit. 9 H. VI. c. 8. 
CLOVE,/, in botany. See Caryophyllus. 
CLOVE-PINK,/, in botany. See Diamthus. 
CLO'VEN, part pret. See to Cleave. 
Now heap’d high 
The cloven oaks and lofty pines do lie. Waller, 
A chap-fallen beaver, loofely hanging by 
The cloven helm, and arch of victory. Dryden. 
CLO'VEN-FOOTED, or Cloven-hoofed, adj. Flav- 
ing the foot divided into two parts; not a round hoof; 
bifulcous.—There are the bifulcous or cloven-hoofed as 
camels and beavers. Brown. —The cloven-footed fiend is 
banifhed from us. Dryden. 
CLO'VER, oi-Clover-grass,/ [moreproperlyr//2‘iw; 
claepeyi, Sax.] A fpecies of trefoil. See Trifolium. — 
Clover improves land, by the great quantity of cattle it 
maintains. Mortimer. 
Nature (hall provide 
Green grafs and fatt’ning clover for their fare. Dryden. 
To live in clover, is to live luxurioufly ; clover being ex¬ 
tremely delicious and fattening to catti'e.—Well, Laureat, 
was the night in cltver fpent f Ogle. 
CLO / VERED, adj. Covered with clover.—Flocks thick- 
nibbling thro’ the clover'd vale. Thomfon. 
CLOUGH,/, [dough, Sax ] The cleft of a hill; a 
cliff. In compofition, a hilly place. 
CLOUGH,/ in commerce. An allowanceoftwo pounds 
in every hundred weight for the turn of the fcale that the 
commodity may hold out weight when fold by retail. 
CLO'VIO (Giorgio Giulio), hiftory and portrait painter, 
born in Sciavonia in 1498. Having in the early part of 
his youth applied to literature, his genius prompted him 
to purfue the art of painting for a profeffion: and at 
eighteen years of age he went to Rome, where he fpent 
three years to perfect his hand in drawing, and devoted 
himfelf entirely to painting in •miniature. His know¬ 
ledge of colouring was eftabliftied by the inllruflions of 
Julio Romano, and his tafte of compofition and defiga 
was founded on the obfervations he made on the works 
of Michael Angelo Buonaroti. By thofe abidances he 
proceeded to fuch a degree of excellence in portrait as 
well as in hiftory, that in the former he was accounted 
equal to Titian, and in the latter not inferior to Buona¬ 
roti. He died in 1578. His works are valuable, and are 
at this day numbered among the curiofities of Rome. 
Vafari, who had feen the performances of Clovio with 
aftonifhment, enumerates many of his portraits and his¬ 
torical compofitions, and feems to lie almoft at a lofs for 
language fufficiently exprefiive of their merit. He men¬ 
tions two or three pieces on which the artift had bellowed 
the labour of nine years : but the principal picture re- 
prefented Nimrod building the tower of Babel; which 
was fo exquifitely finilhed, and fo perfeft in all its parts, 
that it feemed inconceivable how the eye or the pencil 
could execute it. 
CLOVIS I. founder of the French monarchy. He was 
the firft conqueror of the feveral provinces of Gaul, pof- 
feffed before his time by the Romans, Germans, and Goths. 
Thefe he united to the then fcanty dominions of France^ 
removed the feat of government from Soiffons to Paris, 
and made it the capital of his new kingdom. See the 
article F rance. 
CLOUT, / [clut, Sax.] A cloth for any mean ufe : 
His garment nought but many ragged clouts. 
With thorns together pinn’d, and patched was. Spenfer . 
A patch on a (hoe or coat. Anciently, the mark of white 
cloth at which archers lhot.—He drew a good bow; lie 
(hot a line (hoot; he would have clapt in the clout at 
twelve lcore. Sbakefpzare, —An iron plate to keep an axle- 
tree from wearing. * 
