clown (kloun)

i. [ B. Jonson , Every Man out of his Humour, v. 2. clown a get (klou'nāj), n. [ clown + -age .] The manners of a clown. And he to serve me thus! ingratitude Beyond the coarsene yet of any clownage . B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 4. Rural clownage or urbanity. Ford , Fame's Memorial. clownery (klou'ner-i), n. [ Honesty is but a defect of wit; Respect but mere rusticity and clownery . IMG:content-0653.png:[blocks in formation] Ford, Perkin Warbeck, i. 2. 2. Clownish buffoonery, as in a pantomime. The trivial and the bombastic, the drivelling, squinting, sprawling clowneries of nature, with her worn out stage properties and rag-fair emblazonments. Sterling , quoted in Whipple's Lit. and Life, p. 113. clown-heal (kloun'hēl), n . A common labiate plant, Stachys palustris : first so called by the herbalist Gerard because a countryman who had cut himself to the bone with a scythe was said to have healed the wound with this plant. Also called clown's allheal and clown's woundwort. clownish (klou'nish), a. [ A cloud of cumbrous gnattes doe him molest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft. IMG:content-0654.png:[blocks in formation] clownishly (klou'nish-li), adv. In a clownish manner; coarsely; rudely.