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To CLOUT, v. a. To patch ; to mend coarfely: 
I thought he dept, and put 
My clouted brogues from off' my feet, whole rudenefs 
Anfwered my fteps too loud. Sbakefpeare. 
To cover with a cloth : 
Milk fome unhappy ewe, - 
Whofe clouted leg her hurt doth lhew. Spencer. 
To join awkwardly or coarfely together.—Many fentences 
of one meaning clouted up together. Afcham. 
“ Money is welcome in a dirty Clout.” The Latins 
fay Lucri bonus ejl odor ex re qualibet ; The fmell of gain 
is agreeable whence foever it proceeds. The French fay, 
to the fame purpofe, Vargent ejt toujours bon, de quelque 
maniere qu'il <vieniie ; Money is welcome whatever way it 
comes. Vefpafian, the Roman emperor,- gave this anlwer 
to thofe who fouifd fauit with his laying, a duty upon 
cloacas, or common-fewers. The fame emperor, repri¬ 
manding his foil for making the fame complaint, held a 
piece of money to his noftrils, and afked him if he per¬ 
ceived any ill fmell in if, and upon his anfwering no, re¬ 
plied, Atque e lotio ejl. 
CLOUT'ED, part. adj. Congealed; coagulated: cor¬ 
ruptly ufed for clotted: 
I’ve feen her (kim the clouted cream, 
And prefs from i'pongy curds the milky dream. Gay. 
Studded with nails: 
The dull fwain 
Treads on it daily with his clouted flioon, Milton . 
CLOUTER'LY, adj. [probably by corruption from 
louterlyf Clumfy ; awkward : as, a clouterly fellow.—The 
tingle wheel plough is a very clouterly fort. Mortimer. 
CLOWADOK', a river of South Wales, which runs 
into the Ython, at Llanbadern, in Radnorlhire. 
CLOW'EY, a lake of North America. Lat. 6 z. 20. N. 
Ion. 106. 15. W. Greenwich. 
CLOWN, / [imagined by Skinner and Junius to be con¬ 
trasted from colonus. It feems rather a Saxon word, cor¬ 
rupted from lown ; loen, Dut. A word nearly of the fame 
import.] A ruftic ; a country fellow ; a churl: 
The clowns, a boilt’rous, rude, ungovern’d, crew, 
With furious hafte to the loud fummons flew. Dryden. 
A coarfe ill-bred man.—In youth a coxcomb, and in age a 
clown. Sped!at or. 
CLOWN’s ALL-HEAL,/, in botany. See Stachys. 
CLOWN'AGE,/ Clownifh behaviour.—Pride and fluff 
clownage mixed to make up greatnefs. Ben Jonfon. 
CLOWN'ERY, f. Ill-breeding ; churliflmefs ; rude¬ 
nefs ; brutality.—The fool’s conceit had both clownery 
and ill-nature. L'EJlrange. 
CLOWNTSH, adj. Confiding of ruftics or clowns : 
Young Silvia beats her bread, and cries aloud 
For fuccour from the clownif) neighbourhood. Dryden. 
Coarfe ; rough ; rugged : 
But with his clownijb hands their tender wings 
He bruflieth oft. Spenfer. 
Uncivil; ill bred ; ill-mannered : 
What if we eflay’d to {leal 
The clownif fool out of your father’s court ? Sbakefpeare. 
Clumfy; ungainly : 
With a grave look, in this odd equipage, 
The clownif mimic traverfes the flage. Prior. 
CLOWN'ISHLY, ad-v. Coarfely ; rudely ; brutally. 
CLOWN'ISHNESS, /. Rufticity ; coarfenefs ; unpo- 
liflied rudenefs.—If the boy fliould not make legs very 
gracefully, a dancing mafler will cure that defedt, and 
wipe off that plainnefs which the a-la-mode people call 
clownif nefs. Locke. —Incivility; brutality. 
To CLOY, <v. a. \_enclouer, Fr.] To nail up ; to flop up. 
To fatiate ; to fate ; to fill beyond defire 5 to furfeit ; to 
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fill to loathing. Intemperance in eating and drinking, 
inflead of delighting and fatisfying nature, doth but load 
and cloy it. Tillotfn. 
Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite 
By bare imagination of a feafl ? Sbakefpeare. 
It feems to have, in the following paffage, another fenfes 
perhaps to firike the beak together : 
His royal bird 
Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak. Sbakefpeare. 
To nail up guns, bv ftriking a fpike into the touch-hole. 
In farriery, to prick a horfe in (hoeing. Afh. 
CLOYE, or Clois, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridt of Chateaudun, containing about iooo in¬ 
habitants : five miles fouth-wefl of Chateaudun. 
CLOY'LESS, adj. That of which too much cannot be 
had; that which cannot caufe fatiety : 
Epicurean cooks 
Sharpen with cloylefs fauce his appetite. Sbakefpeare. 
CLOY'MENT, / Satiety; repletion beyond appetite; 
Alas 1 their love may be called appetite : 
No motion of the liver, but the palate, 
That fuffers furfeit, cloy meat, and revolt. Sbakefpeare . 
CLOYNE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, 
the fee of a biihop, luffratran of Cafnel: fifteen miles eaffc 
of Cork. 
CLU'ALE, a town of United America, in the ftate of 
Georgia : fifteen miles fouth of Oakfufkee. 
CLUACI'NA, a name of Venus, whofe ftatue was 
eredled in that place where peace was made between the 
Romans and Sabines after the rape of the virgins. 
CLUB,/, [from clwppa, Welfh ; kluppel, Dutch.] A 
heavy flick; a ftaff intended for offence.—As he pulled 
off his helmet, a butcher flew him with the ftroke of a 
club. Hayward. —The name of one of the fuits of cards ; 
The clubs black tyrant firft her vidlim died, 
Spite of his haughty mien and barb’rous pride. Pope. 
[From cleopan, to divide. Skinner.\ The (hare or divi¬ 
dend of a reckoning, paid by the company in juft pro¬ 
portions.—A fuddling couple fold ale : their humour 
was to drink drunk, upon their own liquor: they laid 
down their club, and this they called forcing a trade. 
L' Ef range .— An affembly of good fellows, meeting under 
certain conditions.—What right has any man to meet 
in fadlious clubs to vilify the government? Dryden. — 
Concurrence ; contribution ; joint charge ; 
He’s bound to vouch them for his own, 
Tho’ got b’ implicite generation, 
And general club of all the nation. Hudibras. 
To CLUB, v. n. To contribute to a common expence 
in fettled proportions. To join to one effedl; to contri¬ 
bute feparate powers to one end : 
Till groffer atoms, tumbling in the ftream 
Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream. Dryden, 
Let fugar, wine, and cream together club, 
To make that gentle viand, fyllabub. King. 
To CLUB, at. a. To pay to a common reckoning : 
Plums and diredlors, Shylock and his wife. 
Will club their tellers now to take your life. Pope. 
CLUB-HEADED, adj. Having a thick head.—Small 
club-headed anterinae. Derham. 
CLUB-LAW', / Regulation by force; the law' of 
arms.—The enemies of our happy eftablifhment feems to 
have recourfe to the laudable method of club-law, when 
they find all other means for enforcing the abfurdity of 
their opinions to be ineffeftual. Addifon. 
CLUB-MOSS,/. in botany. See Lycopodium. 
CLUB-ROOM, f. The room in which a club or com¬ 
pany alfembles—Thefe ladies refolved to give the pic¬ 
tures of their deceafed hufbands to the club-room. Addifon, 
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