clairaudience (klaradiens)

[After clair voyance (q. v.); E. clear ), clear, + audience, hearing: see clear and audi ence.] 1. The supposed power of hearing in a mesmeric trance sounds which are not audible to the ear in the natural waking state.-2. An exercise of this power. The hallucinations, or clairvoyances, or clairaudiences, or presentiments, that our "intelligence and veracity can muster. N. A. Rev. , CXLI. 256. IMG:content-0511.png:[blocks in formation] Has clad a score i' their last claith . Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook. 2. pl. Clothes. See clothes, claes. claity (kla'ti), a. [E. dial. Cf. clarty.] Dirty. Grose. [Prov. Eng.] clakel (klāk), v.; pret. and pp. claked, ppr. clab ing. A dialectal (Scotch) form of clack. clake2 (klāk), v. t.; pret. and pp. claked, ppr. claking. [E. dial. Cf. clatch1.] To scratch. Grose. [Prov. Eng.]