Clavarins. An Order of blacke Friers, which weare two great paper keyes vpon their habits.
Claudication: f. A limping, halting, lamenesse.
Claudition: f. as Claudication. Claveau: m. The Scab among Sheepe; also, the Haunse, or Lintell of a doore; also, a claspe, hooke, or buckle.
Clavelade: f. A Thornebacke. ¶Langued. Clavelé: m. ée: f. Scabbed, or infected with the scab, as a sheepe; also, nayled, or fastened with nayles; also, rooted surely in. Herbe clavelée. Paunsie, hearbe Trinitie, Hearts-ease. Raye clavelée. The Rocke Ray; or, as Raye bouclée. Seeke Raye. Clavelée: f. The scab among sheepe; also, the scabbinesse of a horses legs.
Claveler. To nayle, or fasten with nayles; to settle, or set, fast in.
Clavellé: m. ée: f. as Clavelé. Claveller. See Claveler. Clavessins: m. Claricords, or Claricols.
Clavet: m. as Clavelée. (In the first sence.)
Clavette: f. The Cannell bone, or Craw-bone; also, a Spring-pinne; the little peece of yron wherwith tradesmen keepe in the yron pinnes of their shop-windowes; also, the Capsquire, or Fore-locke of the carriage of a Canon; or (more properly, that which fastens it) the fore-locke key. Clavette du pied. The heele, or hinder bone of the foot.
Claveure: f. A key-hole; or all that part of a locke wherein the key turnes, or playes; also, a chinke, or cranny. Plus rouillé que la claveure d'un vieil charnier. More rustie then the key-hole of an old poudering tub. Le visage leur reluisoit comme la claveure d'un charnier. Their faces glistened (with grease) like the locke, or key-hole, of a poudering tub.
Clavicules: f. The kannell bones, channell bones, necke-bones, craw-bones; extending (on each side one) from the bottome of the throat vnto the top of the shoulder.
Clavier: m. A key-chaine; or chaine for keyes, or chaine whereat keyes are hanged. Clavier d'une espinette, &c. The keyes of, or, a set of keyes for, a paire of Virginals.
Claviere: f. A key-keeper, or key-carrier; a woman that hath charge of all the keyes in a house.
Clavin: m. A little graple, or hooke like a claw.
Claune. as Mare; a Poole, or Pond of standing water. Clause: f. A Clause, Period, conclusiue sentence, or conclusion.
Claustier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a Cloyster; liuing in a Monasterie, or Cloyster.
Claustral. as Claustier. Prieur claustral. The Prior, or Head of a Frierie; an ordinarie Prior.
Clausule: f. A little clause; end, conclusion.
Claye: f. A hurdle, or lattice of (Ozier) twig, &c; also, a (watled) gate, or yate, in a hedge.
Clayer. To wattle with rods, or with reeds, &c; to compasse, hedge or close in, make or shut vp, with watlings, hurdles, lattices, &c.
Cléé: m. éée: f. Watled, latticed, hurdled; incompassed, hedged or closed in, made or shut vp, with watlings, hurdles, lattices, &c.
Clef: f. A Key; also, a brace to hold beames together; also, a knot, or scutcheon in the middest of a vault, whereat (in Tymber-worke) the ends of the posts doe meet; and (in Masonrie) the course of Stone-worke ends; also, a Cliff in Musicke; also, the middle wedge of a boot-last. Les clefs. as Clavicules. Clef d'arbaleste. The Gaffle of a Crosse-bow. La Clef d'une fontaine. The head of a Fountaine, or Conduit. La clef de la main. The wrist. La clef d'une porte. The Pendall, or key-stone of a gate; the stone which hangs downe somewhat below it fellowes iust in the middle of the Arch. Clef surpenduë. The Scutcheon; the peece of wood, or stone that knits vp an Arch, or Vault, and hangs downe in the verie middle thereof; the key of an Arch deepelie carued. Le jeu des clefs. A kind of Shuffle-boord play with keyes, a kniues-point being the marke. Donner la clef des champs à. To dismisse, discharge, let goe, set at libertie, send out. Mettre les clefs sur la fosse. A widow to refuse, and waiue, the goods, or her part in the goods, left by her indebted husband, by laying her keyes on his graue as soone as it is couered, and renouncing her said part, in the presence of a Notarie publicke. Prendre la clef des champs. To get out, giue it selfe roome, take libertie, slip, by a priuat way, away.
Cleigner. as Cligner. To twinckle, or winke often.
Clematide. as Clematite. Clematite: f. A third kind of the hearbe Hartwort, or Birtwort, called, climing Birthwort.
Clemence: f. Clemencie, mildnesse, meekenesse, mercifulnesse, benignitie, pitie, fauor.
Clement. Clement; gentle, mild, gracious, benigne, humane; meeke, mercifull, pitifull, easily-pardoning, soone-forgiuing.
Clepsydre: f. A Gardeners watering pot; also, an houre-glasse, or vessell which measureth houres by the running of water, or sand thereout; also, an Astronomicall instrument wherewith the measure of Starres is taken.
Clepsydrie: f. A proportionable, iust, or limitted running, or distilling, as of water out of a Clepsydre, or of sand in an houre-glasse.
Cler: m. clere: f. Cleere, bright, lightsome, transparent, pure-coloured; shining; also, perspicuous, plaine, apparant, euident, easie to be discerned. Laict cler. Whey. Toile clere. Lawne. Cler semé. Rare, thin-set, growing not thicke, whereof there are, or grow, but verie few.
Clerc: m. A Clarke; a scholler, or learned person; hence; also, a Churchman (who should be learned;) also, a Clarke in an Office; a Lawyers Clarke; and generally, any Penneman.
Clercs de la Chambre. The Kings principal, or domesticall, Secretaries; (tearmed so in old time.)
Clerc des fiefs. The Kings, or any other lords, Atturney is called so; because he keepes a Register of the homages their vassals are to do, and of the duties they are to pay.
Clerc solut. A lay, or secular Churchman (Qui n'a qu'une simple tonsure, & n'est lié a l'esglise) as a Deacon, Prebend, Canon, &c.
Clerc tonsuré. A Priest, a Shaueling; one thats fully entred into Orders.
Pas de Clerc. A foolish tricke, impertinent act, fond part; any childish, or ignorant proceeding in matters of the world.
