_Rum-clank_, c. a large Silver-tankard. _Tip me a rum Clank a Booz_, c. give me a double Tankard of Drink. _Clap_, a Venereal Taint. _Clapperclaw’d_, beat soundly, or paid off in earnest. _Clapperdogeon_, c. a Begger-born and Bred. _Clark_, or _Clerk_, Scholar or Book-learned. _Clerk-ship_, or _Clergy_, Scholarship or Book-learning, though of late the one be more restrained to a Clergyman, and the other appropriate to a Clergyman’s Skill or Qualifications; because it may be heretofore, none but the Clergy were learned, or so much as taught to Read. Hence the _Benefit of Clergy_, (or Reading) _&c._ _legit ut Clericus_, in the Law, for him that cou’d Read his Neck-verse, like a Clerk or Scholar, when so few perhaps were Scholars or Clerks, that every one that could but only Read, passed for no less: We say still, the greatest Clarks (or Scholars) are not the Wisest Men: And the Scots much to the same Effect. An Ounce of Mother-Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy, or Book-learning. _Claw’d off_, lustily lasht, also swingingly Poxt. _Clear_, c. very Drunk. _The Cull is clear, let’s Bite him._ c. The Fellow is Damn’d Drunk, let’s Sharp him. _Cleave_, has two contrary Senses under one Sound; for _to cleave_, (Verb Neuter) is to cling close or stick fast, and _to cleave_, (verb Active) is to part or divide; as to cleave asunder, when _Cleft_ and _Cloven_. _Clench_, a pun or quible; also to nick a Business by timing it. _Cleymes_, c. Sores without Pain raised on Beggers Bodies by their own Artifice and cunning, (to move charity) by bruising Crows-foot, Speerwort, and Salt together, and clapping them on the Place, which frets the Skin, then with a Linnen rag, which sticks close to it; they tear off the Skin, and strew on it a little Powder’d Arsnick, which makes it look angrily or ill favoredly, as if it were a real Sore. _Click_, c. to Snatch. _I have Clickt the Nab from the Cull_, c. I whipt the Hat from the Man’s Head. _Click the rum Topping_, c. Snatch that Woman’s fine Commode. _Clicker_, the Shoemaker’s Journey-man, or Servant, that Cutts out all the Work, and stands at or walks before the Door, and saies, what d’ye’ lack Sir, what d’ye buy Madam. _Clicket_, Copulation of Foxes, and sometimes, used waggishly for that of Men and Women. _Clinker_, c. a crafty Fellow. _Clinkers_, c. the Irons Felons wear in Goals. _Clip_, to hug or embrace. _To clip and cling_, of a close hug or fast embrace. _To Clip the Coin_, to diminish or Impair it. _To clip the King’s English_, not to Speak Plain, when one’s Drunk. _Clod-hopper_, c. a Plough-man. _Clodpate_, a heavy, dull Fellow. _Close_, reserv’d, silent, not talkative, or open. _Close-confident_, a trusty Bosom-friend. _Close-fisted_, covetous, stingy, pinching. _Clotts_, or thick dropps of Bloud clottered or in clots. _Cloud_, c. Tobacco. _Will ye raise a Cloud_, c. shall we Smoke a Pipe?