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8&#93; with grease, fullers' earth, pure pot-ash, or other absorbents, will produce the desired effect. Spots of ink, or other stains, may be taken out by the acid of sorrel, or the oxalic acid (essential salt of lemons), and the colour restored by alkalies, or by a solution of tin. It frequently happens, however, that spots are owing to different unknown causes, which render it necessary to recur to compositions possessing various powers. For this purpose, Chaptal recommends white soap to be dissolved in alcohol: in this solution are to be mixed the yolks of four or five eggs, to which should be gradually added, some spirit of turpentine and fullers' earth, in such proportions as to give the whole mixture, when stirred, a due consistence for being formed into balls. The spots, after being wetted, are to be rubbed with these balls; when the cloth also should be well washed, and cleansed. Thus, every kind of spots (those of ink, or other solutions of iron excepted) may be effectually removed.

In February, 1796, a patent was granted to Mr. , of Strines-hall, Derbyshire, calico-printer, for his invention of certain substances to be used in cleaning, or bleaching, printed, stained, or dyed woollen, and other cloths. The principal ingredient employed by the patentee appears to be, the common grains which remain after brewing, and which are put into a close vessel, in order to become sour. This is usually effected in six days in hot, and in about eight days, in cold weather. As soon as the grains have acquired the necessary degree, of acidity, three or four bushels of them are directed to be put into a common-sized calico-printer's copper pan, nearly full of water. Into this mixture the stained cloths are repeatedly immersed, and turned over a winch or reel placed across the pan. The operation is continued from five to fifteen minutes, during which the mixture is directed to boil gently; the pieces are then taken out, and washed immediately, either in hot or cold water, and treated in the same manner as goods that are cleared with bran. When twelve or sixteen pieces have been thus cleaned, an additional bushel of sour grains is to be added, and the pan filled up with water: when it boils, the operation may be repeated with other cloths, as before.—See .

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CLOUD-BERRY, or , the Rubus chamæmorus, L. an indigenous species of the raspberry-bush, which grows in peat-bogs, and on the sides of mountains: it is found chiefly in the counties of York, Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancaster, and Caernarvon.

This plant seldom exceeds one foot in height, produces white blossoms in the month of May or June, and afterwards red berries. These are not unpleasant to the taste, and are frequently brought to the table with the dessert, in the Highlands of Scotland, as well as in the more northern parts of Europe, where they are reputed to be an excellent antiscorbutic. CLOVE, a term used in weighing wool, consisting of 7lbs. In Essex, 8lbs. of cheese or butter make a clove.

CLOVE-PINK, or , the Dianthus caryophyllus, L.