The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• CLades, dis, a discomfyture in battaile, a distruction of men.
• Clam, priuilye, vnwares. Clam me profectus est, vnwaares to me, he wente his waye.
• Clamo, aui, are, to crye, to calle.
• Clamor, oris, a crye, a clamour, a noyse.
• Clamosus, a, um, clamorous or ful of noyse.
• Clandulum, secretely.
• Clandestino, priuily, or secretly.
• Clandestinus, a, um, priuie, or secrete.
• Clango, xi, gere, to sowne a trumpette.
• Clangor, oris, the sowne of a trumpet. som∣tyme the crie that geese or other lyke byr∣des do make.
• Clanius, a citie of Champayne, nere to the citie Acerras.
• Clarco, ui, ere, to appere, to be wel knowē, and to be clere.
• Clare, clerely, apparantly.
• Clarifico, eci, cere, to make clere or apparāt
• Clarigatio, a clerynge, a subsydie or taske graunted by a commune consent.
• Clarigo, aui, are, to aske clerely.
• Claritas, tatis, clerenes, sometyme nobyli∣tie, or honourablenes.
• Claro, aui, are, to make noble or honorable.
• Claros, a citie in Grece.
• Clarus, a riuer, whiche rounneth from the high mountaynes of Alpes, into the ryuer callyd Danubium.
• Clarus, ra, ū, clere, noble, honorable, famous
• Classiarius, diligent.
• Classicus, an officer, which with a trūpette or tabore called people togither. sometime a man beinge in reputation.
• Classicum, a people or noyse of trumpettes, or belles to calle menue togither, or to goo to battaile.
• Classicus, ca, um, pertaynynge to nauyes.
• Classis, a nauie of shyppes. sometyme it is taken for one shyppe. somtyme companyes or sortes of people, ordered in a citie alter the value of their substaunce. Also Classes be degrees or formes in scholes: as prima classis, the fyrste degree or fourme. &c.
• Clatro, aui, are, to shutte a wyndowe, speci∣ally a lattyse wyndowe.
• Clatrum et clatrus, a lattyse wyndowe, or any thynge made lyke a lattyse.
• Claua, a clubbe.
• Clauarius, an offycer appoynted to deale the emperours gyfte of money or coine a∣monge the souldiours.
• Clauator, he that vseth a clubbe.
• Clauatus, sette with nayles.
• Claudeo, to halte. somtyme to erre.
• Claudianus, the name of a poete.
• Clauditas, haltynge, lamenesse.
• Claudius, the name of an emperor of Rome
• Claudo, si, dere, to shytte. somtyme to com∣passe: also to put of: also to halte.
• Claudus, a, um, lame.
• Clauicula, a lyttell kay or clubbe.
• Clauicularius, he that beareth the kayes.
• Clauiculus, the tendrelle of a vyne.
• ...Clauiger, idem quod clauicularius.
• Clauis, a kaye.
• Claustrarius, a maker of kayes and lockes.
• Claustrinus, a keper of the cloyster, or of any other place, wherin any lyuyng thyng is inclosed.
• Claustrum, a cloister, or other place, where any lyuynge thinge is inclosed.
• Clausula, a lyttell sentence, or a parte of a sentence.
• Clausura, a shuttynge in.
• Clauus, a nayle. Also the sterne of a shippe. Also a corne on a mans toe or fingar. More¦ouer, Claui be lyttell swellynges of harde fleshe in the corner of mens eien. Also puf∣fes growing in the stemmis of great trees. Also in harneys, that whiche is callyd the ryuer. Moreouer Clauus is a garment pir∣led or powdred with spangles, lyke nayles heedes. wherfore the propre garmente of a Senatour was callyd Iatus clauus.
• Clazomenae, a citie of Iome, whiche Pa∣ralus buylded.
• Clazomenia, an ylande, whiche is called Marathusa.
• Cleantes, the name of a philosopher, whi∣che succeded Zeno in his schole.
• Clearch{us}, the name of a philosopher. there was a noble capytayne of the same name,

• of whom Xenophon wryteth in the expedi∣tion of Cyrus the lesse.
• Clemens, tis, mercyfull.
• Clemencia, mercy.
• Clementer, mercyfully.
• Cleobulus, the name of oone of the seuen wyse men of Grece.
• Cleodamas, the name of a geometrician in the tyme of Plato.
• Cleombrotus, the sonne of Pausanias, capi∣tayne of the Lacedemons.
• Cleopatra, the name of a lady quene of E∣gypte.
• Clepo, psi, pere, to stele.
• Clepsydra, a dyall, which dyuided the hou∣res by the rounnynge of a certayne mea∣sure of water. It was also the name of a fountayne in Athenes.
• Cleronoma, herytage.
• Cleronomos, an heyre.
• Clerus, chosen by lotte. Also a worme, whi¦che distroyeth and corrupteth hony cōbes.
• Clibanarius, he that fyghtethe in iustynge harnayse.
• Clibanus, an ouē, or the mouth of a furneis.
• Cliens, tis, a clyent or seruant reteyned.
• Clientela, the nombre of clyentes or of ser∣uantes retayned, also their offyce or dutie.
• Clientularium, an yerely fee, for counsayle, or assystence.
• Clima, tis, is a porcion of the worlde be∣twene south and north, wherin is variacy∣on of tyme in the lengthe of the daye, the space of halfe an houre, whiche is set oute in the tables and chartes of Cosmography
• Climacterius, ca, cū, signifyeth the degrees of mans lyfe by seuen yeres, in the whyche he is in daunger of death or mysfortune.
• Climactericum tempus, the sayde daunge∣rouse tyme.
• ...Climacterum, idem.
• Climax, a ladder, and the fygure callydde gradation.
• Clinicus, a phisition, that healeth with me∣dicines. Also he that is so syck, that he can not aryse out of his bedde.
• Clinopodion, an herbe.
• Clinopale, wrastlynge in the bedde.
• Clio, the name of one of the mu••••s.
• Clisis, declynation.
• Clitellae, a packesaddell. Also the name of a place in Rome.
• Clitellarii, packehorses of mules, that doo serue for caryage.
• Clitomaclius, the name of a phylosopher.
• Clitorius, a fountayne in Grece.
• Clitumnus, a ryuer in Italy.
• Cloaca, a synke, whereby water passethe, or gutter.
• Cloris, a mayden or nymphe, whiche was maryed to Zephyrus, vnto whome was as∣sygned for her dower, to haue reuie ouer flowers.
• Clotho, one of the fatall ladyes, hauynge power ouer mannes lyfe, in dyssoluynge thereof.
• Cludo, si, dere, to shytte.
• Cluo, ui, ere, to contende or fyght.
• Clumae, the huske of barley.
• Clunaculum, a bowchers choppyng knife.
• Clupea, a cyte of Affrike, next to Cartage.
• Clunes, the buttockes or haunehes.
• Clymene, the moder of Promothe{us}, daugh¦ter of Oceanus.
• Clypeus, a shielde or targate of fotemen,
• Clismus, a pourgation or washynge.
• Clytemnestra, the wyfe of Agamemnon.
• Clyster, eris, and Clysterium, a glyster.

Notes

• Salustius.