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<hw>Closh</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[CF. F. <ets>clocher</ets> to limp, halt.]</ety> <def>A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.</def>

<i>Crabb.</i>

<h1>Closh</h1> <Xpage=268>

<hw>Closh</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[CF. D. <ets>klossen</ets> to play at bowls.]</ety> <def>The game of ninepins.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Closure</h1> <Xpage=268>

<hw>Clo"sure</hw> <tt>(?, 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of. closure, L. <ets>clausura</ets>, fr. <ets>clauedere</ets> to shut. See <er>Close</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of shutting; a closing; <as>as, the <ex>closure</ex> of a chink</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.</def>

<blockquote>Without a seal, wafer, or any <b>closure</b> whatever. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.</def>

<blockquote>O thou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty <b>closure</b> of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A conclusion; an end.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Parliamentary Practice)</fld> <def>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 <i>the previous question</i>. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word <i>cl\'93ture</i> was originally applied to this proceeding.</def>

<h1>Clot</h1> <Xpage=268>

<hw>Clot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>clot</ets>, <ets>clodde</ets>, clod; akin to D. <ets>kloot</ets> ball, G. <ets>kloss</ets> clod, dumpling, <ets>klotz</ets> block, Dan. <ets>klods</ets>, Sw. <ets>klot</ets> bowl, globe, <ets>klots</ets> block; cf. AS. <ets>cl\'bete</ets> bur. Cf. <er>Clod</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, <er>Clutter</er> to clot.]</ety> <def>A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.</def> "<i>Clots</i> of pory gore."

<i>Addison.</i>

<blockquote>Doth bake the egg into <b>clots</b> as if it began to poach. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

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

<h1>Clot</h1> <Xpage=268>

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

<h1>Clot</h1> <Xpage=268>

<hw>Clot</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To form into a slimy mass.</def>

<h1>Clotbur</h1> <Xpage=268>

<hw>Clot"bur`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Clote</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The burdock.</def> <mark>[Prov. Engl.]</mark>

<i>Prior.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Same as <er>Cocklebur</er>.</def>

<h1>Clote</h1> <Xpage=268>