cloutert

[ Cloudy and confused notions. Watts , Improvement of Mind. 4. Having the appearance of gloom; indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenne , or ill nature; not open or cheerful. When cloudy looks are cleared. Spenser , Sonnets, xl. 5. Marked with spots or areas of dark or various hues, or by clouding or a blending of light and shade or of colors.-6. Wanting in luster, brightne , transparency, or clearne ; dimmed: as, a cloudy diamond. Before the wine grows cloudy . Swift , Advice to Servants, Directions to the Butler. Cloudy swelling, a degenerative change of cell-substance, sometimes seen in muscular and glandular ti ue. It is marked by swelling and a cloudy granular appearance. The granules di olve in acetic acid or in alkalis. It is often followed by fatty degeneration. Also called pa renchymatous degeneration or inflammation , granular de generation, and albuminous infiltration . =Syn. 1. Murky, hazy, lowering, dim, dismal. cloué (klö-a), a. [F., pp. of clouer, fix or stud with nails, clou, a nail: see cloves, and cf. clout3.] In her., studded with nails. See trellis. clough1 (kluf or klou), n. [= Sc. cleugh, cleuch, w ) for orig. f (>v), as reversely f for gh in the mod. pron., and in dwarf, duff for dough, etc.) E. (Amer.) clove, a ravine: see clove3 ), Into a grisly clough Thai and that maiden yode. bit. 4 And whan she of this bille hath taken hede, She rente it al to cloutes atte laste. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 709. 4. In archery: (a) The mark fixed in the center of the butts at which archers are shooting. [The mark is said to have been originally a piece of white cloth, though Nares supposes that it may have been a small nail (French clouet. See clout3 ).] Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout . Shak., L. L. L., iv. 1. Kings are clouts that every man shoots at, Our crown the pin that you sands seek to cleave. Marlowe , Tamburlaine the Great, I., ii. 4. ( b ) A small white target placed near the ground. Encyc. Brit. (c) An arrow that has hit the target. Within 30 years they [the Royal Archers at Edinburgh) shot at a square mark of canvas on a frame, and called the Clout; and an arrow striking the target is still called a clout. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. ciii. 5. An iron plate fastened upon an axletree to keep it from wearing. clout1 (klout), v. t. [ME. clouten, clutien, join clumsily. And when the i were pa ed thourgh the i ouertoke a carl, that hadde bought a payre of stronge shone, and also stronge lether to clowte hem with. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 33. Many sentences of one meaning clouted up together. Paul, yea, and Peter too, had more skill an old tent. ... Ascham. in clouting Latimer. IMG:content-0645.jpg:[blocks in formation] A noisy impudent beggar... showed a leg clouted up. Tatler , No. 68. 3. To rub with an old piece of cloth, felt, or the like. Sir Tristrem , ii. 59. clout2 (klout), n. [ clowte , a blow; origin unknown.] A blow with the hand; a cuff. [Now colloq. or vulgar.] Als lange as we haue herde-men bene, And kepis this catell in this clog he , So selcouth a sight was neuere non sene. York Plays , p. 120. IMG:content-0646.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0647.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0648.jpg:[blocks in formation] W. Crookes , Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 84. 6. A large ve el of coarse earthenware. - Floating clough, a barge with scrapers attached, which, driven by the tide or current, rakes up the silt and sand over which it pa es, that it may be removed by the current. clough2, n. See cloff. clough-arch (kluf'ärch), n. Same as paddle hole.