_Wallace._

A. S. _clipp-an_, _clypp-ian_, to embrace.

~Clips~, ~Clippys~, _s. pl._

1. Grappling-irons, used in a sea-fight.

_Wallace._

2. An instrument for lifting a pot by its ears, S.; or for carrying a barrel.

_Ramsay._

3. Hooks for catching hold of fish, S. B.

_Statist. Acc._

CLIPPIE, _s._ A talkative woman, S. Gl. Sibb.

From Teut. _kleps_, dicax, or the E. v. _clip_.

CLIPPS, CLIPPES, _s._ An eclipse.

_Bannatyne Poems._

~Clips~, _pres. v._ Suffers an eclipse.

_Complaynt S._

CLYRE, _s._

1. "A _clyre_ in meat," a gland, S.

Teut. _kliere_, id.

2. "To leave no _klyres_ in one's breast," to go to the bottom of any quarrel or grudge, S.

~Clyred~, _adj._ Having tumours in the flesh.

_Cleland._

CLISH-CLASH, _s._ Idle discourse, bandied backwards and forwards, S.

apparently a reduplication of _clash_, q. v.

CLISH-MA-CLAVER, _s._ Idle discourse, silly talk, S.; a low word.

_Ramsay._

c.l.i.tTER-CLATTER, _s._ Idle talk, bandied backwards and forwards, S.

V. ~Clatter~, _s._ and _v._

_Cleland._

CLIVACE, _s._ A hook for catching the bucket in which coals are drawn up from the pit, Loth.

CLOCE.

V. ~Close~.

CLOCHARET, _s._ The Stonechatter, S. Motacilla rubicola, Linn.

_Statist. Acc._

Gael. _cloichran_, id. from _cloich_, a stone, and perhaps _rann_, a song.

_To_ CLOCHER, _v. n._ To cough; especially as indicating the sound emitted, when there is much phlegm in the throat, S.

Gael. _clochar_, wheezing in the throat, Shaw.

_To_ CLOCK, CLOK, _v. n._

1. To cluck, to call chickens together.

_Douglas._

A. S. _clocc-an_, Teut. _klock-en_, glocire.

2. To hatch, to sit on eggs, S.

_Kelly._

CLOCK-BEE, _s._ A species of beetle, _fleeing golach_, synon.

CLOD, _s._ A flat kind of loaf, made of coa.r.s.e wheaten flour, and sometimes of the flour of pease, S.