cleft grafting (kleftgrafting)

See graft ing, 1. cleg1 (kleg), v. i.; pret. and pp. clegged , ppr. clegging. [Cf. clag1 , clog , clay .] To cling; ad- here. [Prov. Eng.] cleg2 (kleg), n. [Sc. and North. E. also gleg ; kleggi = Norw. klegg =Dan. klæge , a horse- fly, prob. from root of clog , clag1 , clay , etc., as that which 'sticks'; cf. cleg1 .] A name of various insects which are troublesome to horses and cattle from their blood-sucking habits, as the great horsefly or breeze, Tabanus bovinus , Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 34. also called the gadfly; the Chrysops cæcutiens Gootes cleen [goat's-claws), or rootes Of lilie brente, or galbane all this bote is. To save her from the seize Of vulture Death, and those relentle cleis . B. Jonson, Underwoods, cii. cleed, v. t. See clead . cleeding, n. See cleading . cleek, v . and n. See cleik .