will terminate in Death.
Churl, an Ill-natur'd Fellow; a selfish, sordid Clown. To put a Churl upon a Gentleman, to Drink Ale or any Mault-Liquor immediately after Wine.
CI
Ciento, an old Game at Cards.
Citt, for Citizen.
Civil List, all the Officers and Servants in the King's Family.
CL
Clack, a Woman's Tongue.
Clammed, Starved, or Famished.
Clan, Family, Tribe, Faction, Party in Scotland chiefly, but now anywhere else.
Clank, c. a Silver-tankard. Clanker, a swinging Lie,
Clank-napper, c. a Silver-tankard Stealer.
See Bubber, Rum-clank, c. a large Silver-tankard. Tip me a rum Clank a Booz, c. give me a double Tankard of Drink,
Clap, a Venereal Taint.
Clapperclaw'd, beat soundly, or paid off in earnest.
Clapperdogeon, c. a Begger-born and Bred.
Clark, or Clerk, Scholar or Book-learned.
Clerk-ship, or Clergy, Scholarship or Book-learning, though of late the one be more restrained to a Clergyman, and the other appropriate to a Clergyman's Skill or Qualifications; because it may be heretofore, none but the Clergy were learned, or so much as taught to Read. Hence the Benefit of Clergy, (or Reading) &c. legit ut Clericus, in the Law, for him that cou'd Read his Neck-verse, like a Clerk or Scholar, when so few perhaps were Scholars or Clerks, that every one tha could but only Read,pas-
