Part 1996

<blockquote>All persons were styled <b>clerks</b> that served in the church of Christ. <i>Ayliffe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Every one that could read . . . being accounted a <i>clerk</i>."

<i>Blackstone.</i>

<blockquote>He was no great <b>clerk</b>, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>Hook.</i>

<blockquote>And like unlettered <b>clerk</b> still cry "Amen". <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; <as>as, the <ex>clerk</ex> of a court; a town <ex>clerk</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>The <b>clerk</b> of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. <i>Strype.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; In some cases, <i>clerk</i> is synonymous with <i>secretary</i>. A clerk is always an officer subordinate to a higher officer, board, corporation, or person; whereas a secretary may be either a subordinate or the head of an office or department.</note>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An assistant in a shop or store.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Clerk-ale</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clerk"-ale`</hw> <tt>(? in Eng. <?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<i>T. Warton.</i>

<h1>Clerkless</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clerk"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Unlearned.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>E. Waterhouse.</i>

<h1>Clerklike</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clerk"like`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Scholarlike.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Clerkliness</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clerk"li*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Scholarship.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Clerkly</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clerk"ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to a clerk.</def>

<i>Cranmer.</i>

<h1>Clerkly</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clerk"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a scholarly manner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>