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eight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool, about seven pounds. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak.

To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

frontier border. [Obs.] From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24.

To strike [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

s serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak.

eat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.

Pert; saucy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ouncil room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.

A small bag or pouch. [Obs.] Halliwell.

hou have laughed, had I come coffined home Shak. Devotion is not coffined in a cell. John Hall (1646).

A cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant. [Obs.] Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent. Shak.

tive sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

An embrace; dalliance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

To set or place; to set; to station. To marshal and collocate in order his battalions. E. Hall.

or Colloq.] Pray go in; and, sister, salve the matter, Collogue with her again, and all shall be well. Greene. He had been colloguing with my wife. Thackeray.

A money changer. [Obs.] In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

ersons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.