CLIFTON (_Harry_), lieutenant of H.M. ship _Tiger_. A daring, dashing, care-for-nobody young English sailor, delighting in adventure, and loving a good scrape. He and his companion Mat Mizen take the side of El Hyder, and help to re-establish the Chereddin, Prince of Delhi, who had been dethroned by Hamlet Abdulerim.--Barrymore, _El Hyder, Chief of the Ghaut Mountains_. CLIM OF THE CLOUGH. (See CLYM). CLINK (_Jem_), the turnkey at Newgate.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II). CLINKER (_Humphry_), a poor work-house lad, put out by the parish as apprentice to a blacksmith, and afterwards employed as an ostler's assistant and extra postilion. Being dismissed from the stables, he enters the service of Mr. Bramble, a fretful, grumpy, but kind-hearted and generous old gentleman, greatly troubled with gout. Here he falls in love with Winifred Jenkins, Miss Tabitha Brambles's maid, and turns out to be a natural son of Mr. Bramble.--T. Smollett, _The Expedition of Humphry Clinker_ (1771.) CLIP'PURSE (_Lawyer_), the lawyer employed by Sir Everard Waverley to make his will.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). CLIQUOT (_Klee'ko_), a nickname given by _Punch_ to Frederick William IV. of Prussia, from his love of champagne of the "Cliquot brand" (1795, 1840-1861). CLITANDRE, a wealthy bourgeois, in love with Henriette, "the thorough woman," by whom he is beloved with fervent affection. Her elder sister, Armande (2 _syl_.), also loves him, but her love is of the platonic hue, and Clitandre prefers in a wife the warmth of woman's love to the marble of philosophic ideality.--Molière, _Les Femmes Savantes_ (1672). CLOACI'NA, the presiding personification of city sewers. (Latin, _cloaca_, "a sewer.") ...Cloacina, goddess of the tide, Whose sable streams beneath the city glide. Gay, _Trivia_, ii. (1712). CLOD'DIPOLE (3 _syl_.), "the wisest lout of all the neighboring plain." Appointed to decide the contention between Cuddy and Lobbin Clout. From Cloddipole we learn to read the skies, To know when hail will fall, or winds arise; He taught us erst the heifer's tail to view, When struck aloft that showers would straight ensue. He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretell the gathering rain; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Gay, _Pastoral_, i. (1714). (Cloddipole is the "Palaemon" of Virgil's _Ecl._ iii.). CLO'DIO _(Count)_, governor. A dishonorable pursuer of Zeno'cia, the chaste troth-plight wife of Arnoldo.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Custom of the Country_ (1647).