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Clo"vered (?), a. Covered with growing clover.

Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

Clowe"-gi*lof`re (?), n. [See 3d Clove, and Gillyflower.] Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Clown (kloun), n. [Cf. Icel. klunni a clumsy, boorish fellow, North Fries. kl÷nne clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log, block, and E. clump, n.] 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.

The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle o'the sere. Shak.

Clown, v. i. To act as a clown; -- with it. [Obs.]

Beshrew me, he clowns it properly indeed. B. Jonson.

Clown"age (?), n. Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Clown"er*y (-&etilde;r*&ybreve;), n. Clownishness. L'Estrange.

Clown"ish, a. Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior.

-- Clown"ish*ly, adv.

Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored.

Clown"ish*ness, n. The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.

Cloy (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser.

He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson.

5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.

Cloy"less, a. That does not cloy. Shak.

Cloy"ment (?), n. Satiety. [Obs.] Shak.