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5. (Parliamentary Practice) A method of putting an end to debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cl˘ture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Clot (?), n. [OE. clot, clodde, clod; akin to D. kloot ball, G. kloss clod, dumpling, klotz block, Dan. klods, Sw. klot bowl, globe, klots block; cf. AS. clāte bur. Cf. Clod, n., Clutter to clot.] A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison.

Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

&fist; Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter.

Clot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clotting.] To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.

Clot, v. t. To form into a slimy mass.

Clot"bur` (?), n. [Cf. Clote.] 1. The burdock. [Prov. Engl.] Prior.

2. Same as Cocklebur.

Clote (?), n. [AS. cl&?;te: cf. G. klette.] The common burdock; the clotbur. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Cloth (?; 115), n.; pl. Cloths (#; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (klōthz or klōz). [OE. clath cloth, AS. clā■ cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klŠ­i, Dan. klŠde, cloth, Sw. klńde, G. kleid garment, dress.] 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.

I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles.

3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.

Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth? Macaulay.

The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. I. Taylor.

Body cloth. See under Body. -- Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold. -- Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

Clothe (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clothed (&?;) or Clad (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clothing.] [OE. clathen, clothen, clethen, AS. clā­ian, clŠ­an. See Cloth.] 1. To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. Shak.

2. To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.

Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Prov. xxiii. 21.

The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. Goldsmith.

3. Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.

Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. Watts.

His sides are clothed with waving wood. J. Dyer.

Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. Milton.

Clothe (?), v. i. To wear clothes. [Poetic]

Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

Clothes (? or ?; 277), n. pl. [From Cloth.] 1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort.