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 133 Church-town. (Pronounced ch'town.) A hamlet, a village, or a town near the church; even a city, thus, **Lunnun ch'town." Cider-pound. Cider-press. CiveS. A species of very small leek, growing in tufts, used like chives for flavouring broth. Clabby. Wet and sticky. See Cabby. Clack. Much noise, a great deal of talking. ^' Hould your clack, do." See Clap. Clacker. A woman's tongue, a rattle, a pump valve. "The clacker of a mill," i.e., the noise and rattle of it. " Your tongue goes like the clacker of a mill." See Clap. Clain, or Clain-Oflf. Very well, perfectly, quite. "A ait et clain-awf," i.e., he ait the whole of it. "A ded that clain-awf," i.e., he did that perfectly. ♦•Let's hew his limbs 'till they be clean consumed." Shakspere in Titus Andronicus, Clam. A tree, or plank used as a bridge across a stream. Polwhele. The star fish Asterias glacialis. c. Clammed. Out of health. Polwhele. Half-starved, as, "Better dam than go to the Union." Brewer, Clamdere is Celtic Cornish for to faint away, to swoon. Clap. Prating. ^^ Hould yer clap." It is a Celtic Cornish word. Clappin.- Throbbing, as in pain. See Loppin. Church-hay. The churchyard, or close.