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_Wallace._
A. S. _clipp-an_, _clypp-ian_, to embrace.
~Clips~, ~Clippys~, _s. pl._
1. Grappling-irons, used in a sea-fight.
_Wallace._
2. An instrument for lifting a pot by its ears, S.; or for carrying a barrel.
_Ramsay._
3. Hooks for catching hold of fish, S. B.
_Statist. Acc._
CLIPPIE, _s._ A talkative woman, S. Gl. Sibb.
From Teut. _kleps_, dicax, or the E. v. _clip_.
CLIPPS, CLIPPES, _s._ An eclipse.
_Bannatyne Poems._
~Clips~, _pres. v._ Suffers an eclipse.
_Complaynt S._
CLYRE, _s._
1. "A _clyre_ in meat," a gland, S.
Teut. _kliere_, id.
2. "To leave no _klyres_ in one's breast," to go to the bottom of any quarrel or grudge, S.
~Clyred~, _adj._ Having tumours in the flesh.
_Cleland._
CLISH-CLASH, _s._ Idle discourse, bandied backwards and forwards, S.
apparently a reduplication of _clash_, q. v.
CLISH-MA-CLAVER, _s._ Idle discourse, silly talk, S.; a low word.
_Ramsay._
c.l.i.tTER-CLATTER, _s._ Idle talk, bandied backwards and forwards, S.
V. ~Clatter~, _s._ and _v._
_Cleland._
CLIVACE, _s._ A hook for catching the bucket in which coals are drawn up from the pit, Loth.
CLOCE.
V. ~Close~.
CLOCHARET, _s._ The Stonechatter, S. Motacilla rubicola, Linn.
_Statist. Acc._
Gael. _cloichran_, id. from _cloich_, a stone, and perhaps _rann_, a song.
_To_ CLOCHER, _v. n._ To cough; especially as indicating the sound emitted, when there is much phlegm in the throat, S.
Gael. _clochar_, wheezing in the throat, Shaw.
_To_ CLOCK, CLOK, _v. n._
1. To cluck, to call chickens together.
_Douglas._
A. S. _clocc-an_, Teut. _klock-en_, glocire.
2. To hatch, to sit on eggs, S.
_Kelly._
CLOCK-BEE, _s._ A species of beetle, _fleeing golach_, synon.
CLOD, _s._ A flat kind of loaf, made of coa.r.s.e wheaten flour, and sometimes of the flour of pease, S.
