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 Clair-coulant. Cleere-gliding, cleere-streaming, running cleere.

Clairement. Cleerely, brightly; euidently, plainly.

Clairet: m. ette: f. Somewhat cleere, bright, or shining.  Eau clairette. A water (made of Aquauite, Cinnamon, Sugar, and old red Rose water) soueraigne against all the diseases of the wombe.  Vin clairet. Claret wine; (is commonly made of white and red grapes mingled, or growing, together.)

Clairins: m. A certaine Order of Cordeliers, or Gray Friers.

Clairon: m. A Clarion; a kind of small, strait-mouthed, and shrill-sounding Trumpet, vsed (commonly) as a Treble vnto the ordinarie one.   À pain, & oignon trompette, ne clairon: Prov. Hard fare, poore dyet, course Acates require neither State in the seruing, nor Musicke in the eating; or, the sound of forraine Trumpets is but seldome heard in a poore, and barren State.

Claironner. To sound a Clarion; also, to squeake, squeale; speake shrilly, smally, or with an effeminate voice.

Clamable: com. Claimeable, challengeable.

Clamant: m. A claimer, a challenger; one that makes title vnto land, &c; also, a Creditor, that seizes his debtors goods vpon an Execution.

Clamant: m. ante: f. Calling, crying out; also, claiming, or challenging.

Clame: f. A fine leuied, in some places, vpon those that deferre the payment of their debts; also, the fine payed vnto Iustice, or a Lord hauing iurisdiction, for the seisure of beasts found Damage fesant; also, as Clain. Clamé: m. ée: f. Claimed, challenged, demaunded; called, or cried out; spoken aloud, or with a high voice.

Clamer. To call, crie, speake aloud, or out; also, to claime; to make a claime to, or lay in a claime for; to challenge, demaund, pretend a title vnto; also, to arrest, or seize, his debtors goods.  Clamer en garend, ou en garieur. To demaund a thing by way of possession, or of propertie; or, to complaine, in Court, of the wrongs which haue beene done him those wayes.  Clamer à Iustice. To exhibit a claime, or demaund; or, to preferre a Bill of Complaint vnto a Court.  Clamer son subiect de serve condition qui se veut advouër d'autre seigneur; c'est, le poursuivire. Il le clama fils de putain. He called, or cleaped, him whoreson.  Se clamer en Cour suzeraine de Cour inferieure. To addresse himselfe, for the more expedition, vnto a superior Court, though he were summoned by an inferiour.

Clameur: f. A clamour, crie, outcrie, exclamation, shout, roaring; also, a claime vnto, a challenge, or demaund of, a publicke suit for, a thing.  Clameur d'Haro. Looke Haro. Clameur pour le Seigneur Iusticier. The fine that is due vnto him vpon the seisure of beasts found Damage fesant within his Iurisdiction.  Forte clameur. Looke Fort. Clamme: f. A Pilgrims Cloke, Pelt, or Gabardine.

Clamporte. as Cloporte. Clanche: f. The latch of a dore.

Clandestin: m. ine: f. Clandestine, close, priuie, secret, hidden.

Clandestinement. Priuily, secretly, closely, vnder hand, in huggar muggar.

Clangueur: f. A skreaking, shrillnesse, or shrill noise; a skriking, ringing, loud resounding. Clangueux: m. euse: f. Shrill, skriking, skreaking, loudly squeaking, ringing, resounding.

Clanponniere. as Clapponniere. Clapier: m. A Clapper of Conies; a heape of stones, &c, whereinto they retire themselues; or (as our clapper) a Court walled about, and full of neasts of boords, or stone, for tame Conies; also, a Rabbets neast: (In old time Baudie houses were also tearmed, Clapiers.)  Clapiers d'vlcere. The Sinus, bosomes, or angles of an Vlcer; the many crosse, or ouerthwart holes wherein it putrifies as it goes.

Clapoir: m. A botch in the Groyne, or yard; a Winchester Goose.

Clapoire: f. The same.

Claponnice. as Clapponniere. Claponnier: m. The same.

Clappetter. To clap on with the hand.

Clapponniere: f. The huckle, pastle, or pasterne, bone of a beast.

Claque-dent: m. A lazie rogue, idle luske, slouthfull idlesbie; one that will rather starue with cold, and hunger, then worke to get heat, or meat.

Claquer. To clacke, to clap, to clatter; to crash; to crack; to creake.  Claquer les dents. To gnash the teeth; or, to chatter, or didder, like an Ape, thats afraid of blowes.

Claquet. The name of an Apple whereof excellent Cyder is made.

Claquet de moulin. The Clapper, or clacke, of a Mill-*hopper.

Claquetant: m. ante: f. Clacking, clapping, clattering; chattering; crashing; cracking, creaking.

Claquetement: m. A clattering, clacking, crashing, chattering, creaking, clapping.

Claqueter. as Claquer. Claquetis: m. A clattering, clacking, clapping; a crasshing; a cracking; a creaking; a chattering.

Claquette: f. A Lazers Clicket, or Clapper.

Claré: m. as Eau Clairette. Claret. Vin claret. Claret wine.

Clarifié: m. ée: f. Clarified, cleered, fined, purified.

Clarifier. To clarifie; cleere, fine, purifie.

Clariné. vache clarinée d'Azur. A Cow with Azur bels hanging about her necke; our Blasonners say no more but, the bels Azur.

Clarté: f. Cleerenesse, light, brightnesse, lustre, transparancie.

Clas: m. as Glas; a knell, or wofull noyse. Classe. A ranke, order, or distribution of people according to their seuerall degrees; In Schooles (wherein this word is most vsed) a forme, or Lecture restrained vnto a certaine companie of Schollers, or Auditors; and hence;  Escolier babillard prez le feu, & badin hors la classe: Pro. Classique: com. Classicall; formall, orderlie, in due, or fit ranke; also, approued, authenticall; chiefe, principall.

Clavaire: m. A kind of Receiuer, or Officer that lookes to the receit, of the Kings demesne.

Claval. Cautre Claval. See Cautre. Clavaller. To settle, or strengthen, the yong shoots, or slips of a vine against the furie of strong winds.

Clavandier: m. A porter, or key-bearer; one to whom keyes are committed to be kept; also, the chaine whereon women vse to weare their keyes.

Clavandiere: f. A she porter, key-keeper, or key-bearer.