Part 2029

<h1>Clownish</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clown"ish</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.</def> "<i>Clownish</i> hands." <i>Spenser.</i> "<b>Clownish</b> mimic." <i>Prior.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Clown"ish*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

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

<h1>Clownishness</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Clown"ish*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.</def>

<blockquote>That plainness which the alamode people call <b>clownishness</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cloy</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cloy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cloyed</er> <tt>(kloid)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cloying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>cloer</ets> to nail up, F. <ets>clouer</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>clo</ets> nail, F. <ets>clou</ets>, fr. L. <ets>clavus</ets> nail. Cf. 3d <er>Clove</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The duke's purpose was to have <b>cloyed</b> the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. <i>Speed.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.</def>

<blockquote>[Who can] <b>cloy</b> the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He sometimes <b>cloys</b> his readers instead of satisfying. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To penetrate or pierce; to wound.</def>

<blockquote>Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly <b>cloyed</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He never shod horse but he <b>cloyed</b> him. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To spike, as a cannon.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To stroke with a claw.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Cloyless</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cloy"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That does not cloy.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Cloyment</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Cloy"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Satiety.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Club</h1> <Xpage=269>

<hw>Club</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[CF. Icel. <ets>klubba</ets>, <ets>klumba</ets>, club, <ets>klumbuf<?/ir</ets> a clubfoot, SW. <ets>klubba</ets> club, Dan. <ets>klump</ets> lump, <ets>klub</ets> a club, G. <ets>klumpen</ets> clump, <ets>kolben</ets> club, and E. <ets>clump</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.</def>