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A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

A circlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil. Spenser.

To proclaim. [Obs.] Spenser.

To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. I see thou dost but clatter. Spenser.

oit; skillful; dexterous; artful. [Obs.] Through his fine handling and his cleanly play. Spenser.

Clemency. [Obs.] Spenser.

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself. Untwisting his deceitful clew. Spenser.

A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.

as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or conceal. Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. Spenser.

hidden. "He yet kept himself close because of Saul." 1 Chron. xii. 1 "Her close intent." Spenser.

did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.

is garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak.

imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch (Naut.) See under Hitch. -- Clove hook (Naut.), an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

nd species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zoöl.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clove…

r resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv.

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. They laid down the club. L'Estrange. We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club. Pepys. Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy. Addison. -Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant,…

ds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.