CLE [449] CLE 1 radically the same. From the form of the A.-S. word, Nor his bra targe, on which is seen it seems to have been common to the Celtic and The ycr.l, the sin, the lift, the Can well agree wi' his cair Gothic ; and probably dough had originally aamc cleuck, That cleikit was for thift. sense with Ir. rloiclte, of, or belonging to, a rock or Poems in the Buchan 12. stone. V. CLOWK. Dialect, p. This term is transferred Satchels, when giving the origin of the title Sue- to the hands from their i-li or hold of E. of niih, supplies us with a proof of clench and heuclt being griping laying objects. clutch, which neither Skinner nor Johnson is synon. : gives any etymon, evidently from the same Junius derives clutches Ami for the buck thou stoutly brought origin. from to shake ; but without reason. To us up that steep heugh, Belg. klut-en, any Thy designation ever shall Shaw gives Gael, glaic as signifying clutch. Somner Be John Scot in [ot\Buckscleugh. views the E. word as formed from A.-S. gecliht, "col- History Jfame of Scot, p. 37. lectus, gathered tegether : hand gecliht, manus collecta vel contracta," in modern language, a clinched fat. CLEUCII, adj. 1. Clever, dextrous, light- But perhaps cleuk is rather a dimin. from Su.-G. klo, fingered. One is said to have cleuch hands, Teut. klaawe, a claw or talon. Were there such a word as Teut. as from or to be "cleuch of the fingers," who lifts klugue, unguis, (mentioned GL the resemblance would be so that do not Kilian, Lyndsay, ) greater. any thing cleverly bystanders But it is kluyve, edit. 1632, kluyue, 1777. The Sw. observe it. This denotes term properly that word for a claw or clutch is clo, pi. dor. Claucht, seem to have the same as kind of dexterity which thieves and pick- clfik, cleuck, general origin ; all these terms B. apparently allude to the action of the pockets possess, S. claws of an animal. 2. and severe in inclined That even the term now confined to S. was anciently Niggardly dealing ; A. from a curious in to take the S. B. used, Bor., appears passage advantage, Somner, vo. Fangen. Su.-G. klok, while it signifies prudent, is also applied "A poet of our own, "he says, "in the Northern those to who use magical arts. On this word Ihre dialect, of Machiavelli, thus : remarks : Solent scientiae nomina ab imperitis vel Machil is hanged astutiae vel magiae idea denigrari. Isl. klok-r, callidus, Ami brened is his buks. vafer Germ, id. Isl. Machil is ; klug, ; klokakapr, calliditas ; Thogh hanged, with this Gael, Yet lie is not : corresponds cluiceorj, fraud, deceit ; wrangeil Shaw. The Dil has 'im fanged In his kruked kluks. CLEUCK, CLUIK, CLUKE, CLOCK, *. 1. A claw or talon. To CLEUCK, CLEUK, v. a. 1. Properly, to or to scratch the as the Jouis seize, with claws ; as, Lyke egyl strayer straucht, Wythin his bowand clukis had vpcaucht "The cat'll cleuck an' dinna take Ane ye, ye care," young cignet Aberd. Doug. Virgil, 297. 24. With that the Gled the peice claucht in his duke. 2. To to hold of. seized Lyndsay's Warkis, 1592, p. 223. grip, lay Cleuckit, The bissart bissy but rebuik, with violence, Aberd. V. the s. Scho was so cleverus of her cluik, The Cartings had so cleuked, His he micht not Maggy [lugs] langer brake, Before young Jack was rightly hooked, Scho held thame at ane hint. They made her twice as little bouked. Dunbar, Bannatyne Poems, p. 21, st. 11. Forbes'i Dominie Depos'd, p. 37. 2. in Often used pi. as synon. with T&.clutches, S. " CLEUE AND LAW. 'They are mine, Claw-poll,' said he again to me. the when he saw So the foul thief and I tugg d, rugg'd and riv'd at one Gilmyn Fynys The castell be cleue ami another, and at last I got you out o his cloaks." Scots tynt, Into, He set his mycht for to defend Presb. Eloq., p. 127. The tour ; but thai with out him, send It should have been and rave at ane "tuggit, ruggit, in sa anither." Arowys gret quantite, That anoyit tharoff wes he. It has occurred to that the verses me, quoted from Barbour, x. 471. MS. Somner, under this word, as referring to Machiavelli, In modern edit, it is dive ; in edit. 1620 : are most probably misapplied. "They are written," " The castell both hie and law. he says, by a poet of our own, in the northerne dia- tynt, i.e. both the and lower of lect. I can scarcely think that Machiavelli's writings higher parts it, except- the lour were so generally known in England, by the year 1659, ing or dongeoun. According to this version, is the that any poet could with propriety introduce them in cleue same with Germ, kleve, A.-S. clif, clivus. the vulgar language of a northern county. It is more [This is altogether a mistake. Cleue is a misreading = the likely that Machil is a corr. of the name of the cele- for dene wholly, entirely ; and phrase dene ami brated Sir Michael Scott of whose name law, which occurs also in 1. 124 of the same book, Balwearie, " " was well known as a celebrated necromancer, not in S. means wholly and to the bottom. V. Prof. Skeat's but note on this line in his edit, of for the only, through all the north contrie. The pronunci- Barbour Early ation the Text by vulgar is still q. MUchel, not very distant Eng. Soc., Extra Series.] from that of Machil. CLEVKKIS, s. pi. Cloaks, mantles. 3. Used figuratively for the hand. Hence, " That Henrj Chene sail pay to Johne Jamesone cair-cleuck, the left-hand; cleuks, the hands, twa mennis govnnis & twa wemenis govnis price iiij S. B. cltvkKis merkis xs. ; to Johne Robertsone twa price She her cloak gies a bightsom bow, xiij s. iiij d." Act. Dom. Cone. A. 1492, p. 282. Up fly the knots of yellow hue. This is nearly the vulgar pronunciation of some Morison's Poems, p. 11. counties. OLE [450] CLY talons. To CLEVER, v. n. To climb, to scramble. CLE WIS, s. pi Claws, Out of quiet hirnes the rout vpstertis For sothe it is, that, on her tolter quhele Of thay birdis, with bir and mony ane bray, Every wight eleventh in his stage. And in thare crukit clems grippis the prey. Kiny's Quair, i. 9. V. TOLTEB, adj. JJoug. VinjU, 75. 30. V. CLEUCH. A quliele, on qnhich cleveriny I sye s. wooden A multitude of folk before myu eye. CLIBBER, CLUBBEK, A saddle, Ibid., v. 8. a packsaddle, Caithn., Orkn. " To or claver. Tlie endeavour of a child to clever, "They carry their victuals in straw creels called climb North." Gl. Grose. up anything. cctssies, fixed over straws/fete on the horses backs with sursuni Teut. klaver-en, klever-en, reptare nnguibus a clubber and straw ropes." P. Wick, Statist. Ace., x. Isl. fixis, consceudere felium more. Sw. kllfw-a ; 23. also manibus et arrepere ; from to klifr-a, pedibus per rupes Isl. klif, Su.-G. kief, id., clitella ; klyfw-a, Kilian inclined to deriva the Teut. latere klif-la. appears cleave, quia bifidae ab utroque equi dependent ; or Hire and G. Andr. word from klauiv, a nail claw ; Ihre. from Isl. a in a trarnes in clivo klif, steep path rock, The very term occurs in Isl. klifberi, clitellae. seems saxoso difficilis, G. Andr., p. 147. Lat. dimis sarcinis ferendis animal Kllfbaer, par ; klifbaert dyr, the same. not this v. out the radically May point sarcinarium ; Haldorson. origin of E. clever, dextrous ? G. Andr. seems to derive Isl. klifr-a, very naturally CLICHEN, CLEIGHIN, (gutt.), s. Something, id. a a ascent ; Trames in clivo from klif, path, steep Teviotd. saxoso difficilis. Hinc klifra, manibus et pedibus per comparatively speaking, very light, niti to be Teut. Su.-G. kli, rupes arrepere, ; Lex., p. 147. This seems merely kleye, klije, as all furfur, palea, bran, chaff, aspirated ; among there is not a more common emblem of what is CLEVERUS, adj. Clever. V. CLEUCK. nations light than chaff. CLEVIS, Dunbar, Maitland Poems, p. 12, CLICK-CLACK, *. Uninterrupted loqua- should undoubtedly be clevir, i.e. clover. v. click and city, S., from the two E. clack, To CLEW, "To cleave, to fasten." both expressive of- a sharp successive noise, verberare Wytli myis lie wes swa wmbesete. or Teut. klick-en, crepitare, klack-en, He na way get sawfte, myclit resono ictu. Lig-lag, synon. q. v. Na witli stawys, na with stanys, seem to have had a Thau thai wald dew a-pon hys banys. The nations of Gothic origin pre- Wyntovm, vi. 14. 111. dilection for words of this formation. Not a few occur in E. as allied to this ; i.e. with mice. tittle-tattle, nearly hurlyburly, helter-skelter, miah-mash, huggermugger, Teut. klev-en, id. fiddle/addle, higgledy-piggledy. * words of the same kind are found in S., as CLEW, s. A ball of thread. Winding the Many cmMe-mushle, eeksie-peeksie, jike-facks, hudge-mudge, blue one of the absurd and unhallowed clue, mixtie-maxtie, niff-naffs, nig-nyes, ivhiltie-whaltie. rites used at Hallowmas, in order to obtain Many similar reduplications occur in Su.-G., as from one into one's future matrimonial S. dingl-dangl, used to denote things wavering insight lot, to E. mish- side to another ; misk-mask, corresponding thro' the the nearest used to deceive others hwkk- She yard taks, mash ; fick-fack, tricks ; to the kiln she An' goes then, wliask, murmur, clandestine consultation; snkk-snak, An' darklins for the banks, grapit trifles, toys.