CLOD HOPPER. A country farmer, or ploughman. CLOD PATE. A dull, heavy booby. CLOD POLE. The same. CLOSE. As close as God's curse to a whore's a-se: close as shirt and shitten a-se. CLOSE-FISTED. Covetous or stingy. CLOSH. A general name given by the mobility to Dutch seamen, being a corruption of CLAUS, the abbreviation of Nicholas, a name very common among the men of that nation. CLOTH MARKET. He is just come from the cloth market, i.e. from between the sheets, he is just risen from bed. CLOUD. Tobacco. Under a cloud; in adversity. CLOVEN, CLEAVE, or CLEFT. A term used for a woman who passes for a maid, but is not one. CLOVEN FOOT. To spy the cloven foot in any business; to discover some roguery or something bad in it: a saying that alludes to a piece of vulgar superstition, which is, that, let the Devil transform himself into what shape he will, he cannot hide his cloven foot TO CHUCK. To shew a propensity for a man. The mors chucks; the wench wants to be doing. CLOUT. A blow. I'll give you a clout on your jolly nob; I'll give you a blow on your head. It also means a handkerchief. CANT. Any pocket handkerchief except a silk one. CLOUTED SHOON. Shoes tipped with iron. CLOUTING LAY. Picking pockets of handkerchiefs. CLOVER. To be, or live, in clover; to live luxuriously. Clover is the most desirable food for cattle. CLOWES. Rogues. CLOY. To steal. To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. To cloy the lour; to steal money. CANT. CLOVES. Thieves, robbers, &c. CLUB. A meeting or association, where each man is to spend an equal and stated sum, called his club. CLUB LAW. Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament. CLUMP. A lump. Clumpish; lumpish, stupid. CLUNCH. An awkward clownish fellow. TO CLUTCH THE FIST. To clench or shut the hand. Clutch fisted; covetous, stingy. See CLOSE-FISTED. CLUTCHES. Hands, gripe, power. CLUTTER. A stir, noise, or racket: what a confounded clutter here is! CLY. Money; also a pocket. He has filed the cly; he has picked a pocket. CANT. CLY THE JERK: To be whipped. CANT. CLYSTER PIPE. A nick name for an apothecary. COACH WHEEL. A half crown piece is a fore coach wheel, and a crown piece a hind coach wheel; the fore wheels of a coach being less than the hind ones. TO COAX. To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of stockings; to pull down the part soiled into the shoes, so as to give a dirty pair of stockings the appearance of clean ones. Coaxing is also used, instead of darning, to hide the holes about the ancles. COB. A Spanish dollar.