CLARION, the son and heir of Muscarol. He was the fairest and most prosperous of all the race of flies. Aragnol, the son of Arachnê (the spider), entertained a deep and secret hatred of the young prince, and set himself to destroy him; so, weaving a most curious net, Clarion was soon caught, and Aragnol gave him his death-wound by piercing him under the left wing.--Spenser _Muiopotmos or The Butterfly's Fate_ (1590). CLARIS'SA, wife of Gripe the scrivener. A lazy, lackadaisical, fine city lady, who thinks "a woman must be of mechanic mold who is either troubled or pleased with anything her husband can do" (act i. 3). She has "wit and beauty, with a fool to her husband," but though "fool," a hard, grasping, mean old hunks. _Claris'sa_, sister of Beverley, plighted to George Bellmont.--A. Murphy, _All in the Wrong_, (1761). CLARISSA HARLOWE. (See HARLOWE.) CLARK _(The Rev T.)_., the pseudonym of John Gall, the novelist (1779 1839). CLARKE _(The Rev. C. C.)_, one of the many pseudonyms of Sir Richard Phillips, author of _The Hundred Wonders of the World_ (1818), _Readings in Natural Philosophy_. CLARSIE, the mountain maid who, going out at dawn to "try her fortune," discovers the "Harnt" that walks Chilhowee.--Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree), _In the Tennessee Mountains_ (1884). CLA'THO, the last wife of Fingal and mother of Fillan, Fingal's youngest son. CLAUDE _(The English_), Richard Wilson (1714-1782). CLAU'DINE (2 _syl_.), wife of the porter of the hotel Harancour, and old nurse of Julio "the deaf and dumb" count. She recognizes the lad, who had been rescued by De l'Epée from the streets of Paris, and brought up by him under the name of Theodore. Ultimately, the guardian Darlemont confesses that he had sent him adrift under the hope of getting rid of him; but being proved to be the count, he is restored to his rank and property.--Th. Holcroft, _The Deaf and Dumb_ (1785). CLAUDIO _(Lord)_ of Florence, a friend of Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, and engaged to Hero (daughter of Leonato, governor of Messina)--Shakespeare, _Much Ado about Nothing_ (1600). _Claudio_, condemned to die for betraying his mistress Juliet, tries to buy his life at the sacrifice of his sister Isabella's honor, shamefully pursued by Angelo, the Duke's deputy.--Shakespeare, _Measure for Measure_.