Vin des Clercs. Looke Vin. Clerc iusques aux dents. Well red in a porridge-pot, an excellent Clarke in a Cookes shop. Iamais danseur ne fut bon clerc: Prov. See Danseur. Il en parle comme vn clerc d'armes. Hee speakes thereof ignorantly, simply, without proofe, or skill; onely by hearesay. On croit d'un fol bien souvent, qu'il soit Clerc pour ses vestemens: Prov. Handsome, or decent apparrell makes fooles oft passe for wise men. Tout ce que le Clerc laboure folle femme deuore: Pro. All that the scholler gaines his wench consumes.
Clerceliere: f. A kind of course ribbon wherwith countrey wenches gird themselues; also, a string, or chayne, wherewith women hang their keyes to their girdles.
Cleré. A kind of red Hypocras.
Clerement. Cleerely, brightly; apparantly, euidently.
Cleres-voyes: f. Lattices, or secret holes to spie out at; crosse-barred windows (of wood or yron) through which one may see, and not be seene.
Clergé: m. The Clergie. Clergez. The Officers of Iustice (who either are, or should be learned) were called so in former times.
Clergeau: m. A pettie Clarke, vnder Clarke, or young Clarke.
Clergeon: m. as Clergeau; or, a Singing man, or Quirester, in a Queere.
Clergesse: f. A learned woman. Plume clergesse. A learned penne.
Clergie: f. Learning, skill, science, Clarkeship. Il a des muids de clergie en la teste. (So were they wont, in old time, to say of, a great learned man;) Hee hath a bushell of learning in his head. Mieux uaut plein poing de bonne vie qu'avoir plein muy de clergie: Prov. Better a little honestie then a great deale of learning.
Clerical. privilege clerical. The priuiledge of the Clergie, of his Clergie, or of a Clarke. Looke Clericature. Clericalement. Clarkely, Priest-like, Scholler-like.
Clericature: f. Clarkeship; or, the being a Clarke, or Priest, or in Orders. Privilege de Clericature. The priuiledge of the Clergie; which is, to be tried before the Ordinarie, and not before any temporall Iudge. Alleguer sa clericature. To alledge his Orders, and claime the priuiledge of his Clergie; or, to appeale from a Ciuile, or lay Iudge vnto his Ordinarie.
Clerté: f. as Clarté. Clesché. as Clissé. Clicquettes: f. Clickets; or flat bones, wherewith a prettie ratling noise is made. See Cliquette. Clide: f. A woodden Engine of warre (now out of vse) which holding by a counterpoise, hurld out, when it was loosed, a great number of stones.
Clie. as Claye; a hurdle, or yate, in a hedge.
Client: m. A Clyent, or Suitor; a Noblemans Retainer, or Follower, the scope of whose attendance, or dutie is, to be protected.
Clientelle: f. Protection, countenance, defence, tuition, safegard; also, number, or store of clients.
Clifoire: f. A Plaisterers Tray, or Bosse.
Cligné. Winked, or twinckled as with the eyes.
Clignement des yeux: m. A winking, or twinckling with the eyes.
Clignemusset. The childish play called Hodman blind,
Harrie-racket, or, are you all hid.
Cligner les yeux. To winke, or twinckle with the eyes.
Clignetter. To twinckle, to winke often, and thicke.
Clignottement: m. An often winking, or twinckling, with the eyes.
Clignotter. as Clignetter. Climactere: com. Climatericall; whence; L'an climactere. The Climatericall yeare; euerie seuenth, or ninth, or the 63 yeare of a mans life; all very dangerous, but the last, most.
Climacterie de 63 ans. The Climatericall, or dangerous, yeare of 63, at which age diuers worthie men haue died.
Climat: m. A Clyme, or Clymate; a diuision in the Skie, or Portion of the world, betweene South and North.
Climatere. l'an climatere. See Climactere. Climée: f. Cadmia, Brasse-oare.
Clin d'oeil: m. The twinckling of an eye.
Clincaille. Chinkes, money, coyne. (v. m.) Cline-mucette: f. The game called Hodman-blind; Harrie-racket; or, are you all hid.
Clinique: com. One that is bedred; or so sicke that he cannot rise.
Clinquaille. as Clincaille. Clinquallerie: f. A chinking, clinking, ringing of much money; or of many pannes and skellets together; also, coyne, or (as we say) chinkes.
Clinquant: m. Thinne plate-lace of Gold, or Siluer.
Clinquet. as Cliquet; also, a certaine tricke in wrestling.
Cliquaille. as Clincaille. Cliquefoire. A Squirt.
Cliquer. To clacke, clap, clatter, clicke it.
Cliquet: m. The ring, knocker, or hammer of a dore; also, a Lazers clicket, or clapper; also, a certaine Engine to catch fish withall.
Cliqueter. as Cliquer; or as Cloquer. Cliquetis: m. as Cliquettement. Cliquette: f. A clicket, or clapper; such as Lazers carrie about with them; also, a childs rattle, or clacke. Cliquettes. as Castagnettes. Cliquettement: m. A clicketting, clattering, clapping, clacking; chattering.
Clisse: f. A little wreath of wicker, to set vnder a dish on the Table; also, a wattle, or hurdle of willow, or ozier twigs. Treillis de clisse. A Lattice, or Grate of wicker.
Clissé: m. ée: f. Made of wicker; plaited, or watled with ozier, or willow twigs.
Clistere. See Clystere. Clitie. Or de Clitie. A Marigold.
Clitoris: m. A womans Priuities.
Cliver. To bow, leane, or hang outward, as the Cliffe, or steepe side of a hill; (an old word.)
Cloaque: f. A common Sinke, or Sewer in a towne.
Cloche: f. A Bell, or Clocke; to ring, or strike; also, the vpper part of a Lymbecke, wherein the vapours are gathered, and resolued into water; also, a little Bell-resembling vessell, wherein Peares are ordinarily stewed, or sodden.
Cloches de S. Laurens. Great blisters rising in the face, through heat.
Herbe aux cloches. Withywind, Bindweed, Hedge-*bels.
Mettre la cloche au chat. To set people together by the eares.
