C'est le son des cloches. This is a matter that may be varied, or turned at pleasure. A conseil de fol cloche de bois: Prov. Call fooles to counsell by a woodden bell.
Cloche-man. Mouton cl. A Bell-weather.
Clochement: m. A halting.
Cloche-pied. à cloche-pied. Haulting, limping, lamely.
Clocher: m. A Bell-founder. Clocher d'eglise. as Clochier. Clocher. To hault, or limpe; to be lame, or goe lamely, of a leg; also (in some places) to ring, or toll a Bell; to make a bell sound, or strike. Clocher devant les boiteux. To applie himselfe vnto the (faultie) humors of others, with a purpose to indeere, or deceiue them; also, to speake Latine before Clarkes; or (more generally) to shew cunning, vse tricks, dissemble, or play the knaue any way, in presence of those that are as skilfull as himselfe; (In all which sences we also vse the same Prouerbiall phrase;) to hault before a criple. Clocher des deux costez. To hault with, or on both sides; inconstantly to doubt, or be vncertain, whose part he shall take, what side he shall follow; or, to follow now the one, then the other side, without holding touch with, or doing good vnto, either. Ie sçay bien de quel pied il cloche. I know his disease or defects well enough.
Clocherie: f. A ringing, or peale of Bells.
Clochetier: m. A Bell-founder.
Clochette: f. A little Bell; also, Withiewind, &c, as Campanette. Clochier: m. A Steeple; also, a Parish, Borough, or village; and sometimes (in a large sence) a Bishopricke, or Diocesse.
Cloisier. as Cloisonneur. Cloisin: f. A closure, or inclosure.
Cloison: f. Any thing that incloseth, as a hedge, pale, or rayles; and (most properly) a mud wall.
Cloisonneux: m. A maker of mud wals, or inclosures.
Cloisonneux: m. euse: f. Full of, or belonging to, mud wals, hedges, or inclosures.
Cloistral: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, an Abbey, or Cloister.
Cloistre: m. A Cloister; a round walke or inclosure (couered ouer head, and) enuironed with pillars; also, an Abbey, Priorie, Religious house; also, as Colostre. Clomassoles: f. The defence which a horse makes with his nether lip, or gummes, against his Bitt.
Clonisse: f. The little, sharpe, and muddie cockle, tearmed, a Palour.
Cloper. as Clocher. Clopiner. To limpe, or hault. (v. m.) Cloporte: m. A Woodlouse, Cheslop, Kitchin-bole.
Cloquer. as Clocher. To limpe, hault, goe lamely. Se mocque qui cloque: Prov. He mocks that worst may; some ieast at other mens defects, and yet are most defectiue.
Clorre. To close; inclose, hedge in, shut vp; also, to finish, accomplish, perfect, make an end of; also, to stop, to barre; to preuent.
Clorre comptes. To passe, conclude, or finish Accompts.
Clorre le pas. Qui clost le pas. That concludes, or giues a full resolution of, or end to, the controuersie; (said most properly of one, that leaping furthest, both ends the sport, and wins what he leapt for.)
Clorre le pas à. To interclude, barre, stop, set a
blocke in the way of. En vain plante qui ne clost: Prov. In vaine hee plants that hedges not.
Clos: m. A Close, or Field inclosed. Clos bruneau. The tayle, arse, nock-androe.
Clos: m. close: f. Closed, inclosed; hedged in, shut vp; also, barred, stopped; forestalled, preuented; also, finished, fulfilled, perfected, accomplished. Clos, & muni de toutes parts. Armed at all points; furnished to all purposes; prepared against all attempts. Estat clos. son estat est clos. The offices, or places of his house are all bestowed. Ville close. A Citie, or walled Towne. À clos yeux. Blindfould, hoodwinkt.
Closcuau: m. The Nestling, or Nest-cockle; the last-hatched bird in a neast.
Closerie: f. An Inclosure, or thing inclosed.
Closier: m. A hedger; an incloser.
Closporte. as Cloporte. Closser. To clocke like a henne. Closser les grains. Many stalkes, or eares to shoot vp, or come from one graine of seed.
Clostier. as Claustier. Closture: f. An inclosure; an inclosement of, or inclosing with, hedges, pales, &c; also, a conclusion, closing, finishing, or shutting vp; as, of speech, of accompts, &c.
Clot: m. Iouër au clot. To play at Harry-racket, or Hide and find.
Clou: m. A Nayle; also, a corne (in a foot, or toe;) and hence, the Pinne (in the bottome of a Haukes foot.) Clou à bandes. A streake nayle. Clou de caravelle. A great nayle, at least a foot long; vsed in ships. Clou à crochet. A Tentar hooke. Clou d'estoupè. A speake, or sheathing nayle; vsed in ships. Clou de girofle. A Cloue. Clou à hape. A clowte Nayle. Clou de manguiere. A scupper nayle; vsed in shipping. Clou à soufflet. A tacke-nayle; or the small nayle wherewith bellowes are made vp, or mended. Ie n'en donneroye pas vn clou à soufflet. I would not giue a pinne, a chip, a rush, for it. À cloux de diamant. Most fast, most sure, not to be stirred, impossible to be loosed. Compter les cloux. See Compter. Riuer ses cloux à. Ie luy ay bien rivé ses cloux. I haue giuen him his full payment; or, I haue fitted him with an vnanswerable replie; I haue puzled, or setled him with a sound answer. Vn clou sert à pousser l'autre: Pro. One nayle serues to driue out another; one friend imployed to supplant the other.
Cloüage: m. A nayling.
Clouclouquer. To clocke; as a henne, that hath (or would haue) chickens.
Clouë: f. A blocke.
Cloüé: m. ée: f. Nayled; fastened, ioyned, set on with nayles. Raye cloüée. The rocke Ray, or buckled Ray.
Clouëment: m. A nayling.
Clouër. To nayle; to fasten, ioyne, or set on, with nayles.
Clouër à cloux de diamant. See Clou.
Clouestre: m. A Cloyster in an Abbey, &c; or, as Cloistre.
