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Chambers, Ephraim, 1680 (ca.)-1740 / Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences : containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify'd thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine : the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial : the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial : with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c : among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks, &c : the whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning
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Clausum - Coining, pp. 233-252
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CL .(Z CL 9 oni rm r, -Derogatory Claufe, Penal C(lanfe, Codicillary the Ctofs Cleche, and call it by the Name Vgide, Xvi ed. ?folutary Clatife. See each of thefe in its Place, The thing that denominates it Clechi, is its Spreading from TORY, PENAL, S-è'C. the Centre towards the Extremities, which are very wides SUM Fregit, an Affion of Trefpafs 5 thus calld, and end in an Angle in the middle; as in the Figure ad- the Writ demands the Perfon fummon'd to anfwer joining. clanftum fregit, why he committed fuch a Trefpafs. The Word is French, fuppos'd to be fbrm'd of Clef, Key; PASS. the Ends of the Crofs being thought to bear fome refem- US, in Antiquity, a Band or Fillet of Purple, more blance to the Bowls of the antient Keys. )ad, according to the Dignity of the Perfon i us'd CLEDONISM, CLEDON ISMUS, a kind of Divination eantient Romans: whence the Difference of the in ufe among the Antients. See DIVINATION. tgujliclavia, and Laticlavia. See LATICLAVUS, SC. The Word is form'd from the Greek xv.nJ'ov which figni- 'rnament, according to fome, was call'd Clavus, fies two things, Rumor, a Report, and Avis, a Bird: In being fet with little round Plates of Gold, or the firft Senfe, Cledonifin is a kind of Divination drawn from e the Heads of Nails. Cantelius maintains, that Words occafionally utter'd. Cicero obferves, that the Ty7 confided of a kind of Purple Flowers, fewed upon thagoreans made Obfervation not only of the Words of the Gods, but of thofe6 of Men. and accordingly believ'd the r, in Medicine, a Name Phyficians give to a pronouncing of certain Words, v. g, the Word Incendium, at Pain in the Head, commonly fituate a little above a Meal, very unhappy. viz. on the Sinus Frontalis; and fuppos'd to re- Thus, inilead of Prifon, they us'd the Word Domiciliium 3 boring of the Head thro' with an Augre; whence and to avoid Erinnies faid Eumnenides. e. In forue 'tis only in one, and in others in both. In the fecond Senfe, Cledonifim fhou!d feem a Divination aerally allow'd to be a Species of an Ague, or an drawn from Birds; the fame with Ornithomantia. See O&- ig Fever; its Periods of coming or going, being NITHOMANCY. lular or flated. In fome 'tis Quotidian, in others CLEF, CLIFF, or Key, in Mufick, a Mark at the Be- See FEVER. ginning of the Lines of a Song, which {hews the Tone, or ire confifis in giving an Emetic a little before the Key in which the Piece is to begin. Or, it is a Letter frer, confirming it with a proper Quantity of the mark'd on any Line, which explains and gives the Name to Vc. as in intermitting Fevers: tho Bleeding and all the reff. See KEY. ics fometimes efFe& a Cure without other Affiltants. Antiently, every Line had a Letter mark'd for a Clef i like to this on the top of the Head, Sometimes now a Letter on one Line fuffices . fince by this all the reft flerical Perions; which by Dr. Sydenham is term'd are known; reckoning up or down in the Order of the ;(ericns. See HYSTERIC. Letters. I is al~o us'd in Medicine, for a Callus form'd on the 'Tis call'd the Clef, or Key, becaufe hereby we know pularly call'd a Corn. See CALLUS. the Names of all the other Lines and Spaces; and confe- rife from a too great Compreflion of the Ctsti ; quently the Quantity of every Degree, or Interval. this means hardens, and forms it felf into a Knot. But becaufe every Note in the Octave is call'd a Key, is by firil foftening 'em, as with Emplaft. deRanis tho in another Senfe, this Letter mark'd, is call'd in a parti- :1urio, or Mynficlit. Galban. Crecat. with Sal Am- cular manner the Sign'd Clef; becaufe being written on any and then plucking 'em up. A piece of raw Beef, Line, it not only figns and marks that one, but explains all i mwanner of a Plaifier, and frequently fhifted, is the refd. lifsipate 'em in a little time. By CLEF, therefore, for diftin'tion-fake, we mean that , in Natural Hiflory, a foft vifcous Earth, found in Letter fign'd on a Line, which explains the refi; and by Key aces, and us'd for various Purpofes, of feveral Kinds the principal Note of a Song, in which the Melody clofes- rties. See EARTH, SOIL, EC. There are three of thefe Sign'd Clefs, c, f, g. The Clef qetr, in the Philofophical Yrranfaflions, gives us a of the higheff Part in a Song, call'd Treble, or Alt, is g fet 2.2. feveral Clays found in the feveral Counties of on the fecond Line counting upwards. The Clef ofthe Bafs, five whereof he calls pure, i. e. fuch as are foft, or the lowedt Part, isf on the fourth Line upwards: For all t:r, to the Teeth, with little or no Grittinefs in the other mean Parts, the Clef is c, Sometimes on one, fome- l. Fullers Earth, which he diflinguiflies by its times on another Line. Indeed, foune that are really mean t yellowish, brown, and white. See FULLERS Earth. Parts, are Sometimes fet with the g Clef. See BASS, gC. es. See BoLE. It mufl, however, be obferv'd, that the ordinary Signa- 4yellow Clay. 4. Co'hot Clay. 5. Dark blue tures of Clefs bear little refemblance to thofe Letters. Mr. Marle. Malcolm thinks it would be well if we us'd the Letters ecn impure; whereof eight are harfh and dufly themselves. Kepler takes a world of Pains, to fhew as, I, Creta, or milk-white Clay. 2. Potters that the common Signatures are only Corruptions of the Let- w Clay. 3. Bble Potters Clay. 4. .Blae Clay, ters they represent. See their Figure among the other CHA- s found the Aifroites. 5. Yellow Claw. 6. Fine RACTERS of MAujrck. 7. Soft chalky blne Clay. 8. Soft chalky red Clay. The Clefs are always taken Fifths to one another: That are flony when dry, viz. r. A red flony Clay. 2. A is, the Clef f is lowell, c a Fifth above it, and g a Fifth Clay. A. A white flony Clay. above c. are mix'd with Sand, or Pebbles, viz. I. a yellow When the Place of the Clcf is chang'd, which is not fre- A red fandy Clay. 3. A fecond Species of the quent in the mean Clef, 'tis with Defign to make the Syflem ad. comprehend as many Notes of the Song as poffible, and fo three are mix'd with flat or thin Sand, glittering to have the fewer Notes above or below it. If then there a: viz. i. Crouch white Clay. z. Grey or bluilh be many Lines above the Clef, and few below it, this Pur- Oipe Cay. I. A red Clay. pofe is anfwer'd by placing the Clef in the firli or fecond ES, in Fortification, are Wattles made with Stakes, Line: If there be many Notes below the Clef, 'tis plac'd with Oziers, Fic. to cover Lodgments. See FAs- higher in the Syfiem. In effeA, according to the Relation of the other Notes to the Clef Note, the particular Syftem ING of Land. See MANURE. is taken differently in the Scale; the Clef Line making one R, in Building, is fometimes us'd among the Work- in all the Variety. See SCALE. he infide Work of a Houfe, Fec. See HOUSE, Wc. But fill, in whatever Line of the particular Syflem any RING of Liquors. See CLARIFICATION. Clef is found, it mull be underflood to belong to the fame of alt Liquors, particularly Beer, there are various the general Syfleem, and to be the fame individual Note or of clearivng; the bell is by calling into it fix'd Ni- Sound in the Scale. add the Quinteffence of Malt and Wine; whites By this conflant Relation of Clefs, we learn how to com- nade into Balls with a little Flower and Izing-glafs: pare the feveral particular Syffems of the feveral Parts ; and Quinteflence of Barley have the fame Effe&. It know how they communicate in the Scale, i. a. which Lines ngly clear'd and firengthen'd, by adding to it, du- are Unifon, and which not: for 'tis not to be fuppos'd that time of its Fermentation, fome ardent Spirit. See each Part has certain Bounds, within which another muft IQUOR. BEERP.Pa c never I--- 0-m -_r, u --rl -T-hlF In a I hlw '~"' ~"*.-.OUUICU X4L'U[O Ut tiiC I reoie, v. g. 11naU Utz Iuw-s CLECHE', or CLECHE'E, -in He- than fome of the mean Parts, or even of the Bafs. To put raldry, is ufually underflood of an Ordi- together therefore in one Sytlem all the Parts of a Compo- nary open to the Light, or pierc'd thro' fition written feparately, the Notes of each Part mull be with another inner one of the fame Fi- plac'd at the fame Diflances above and below the proper gure; e.g.. when a Crofs appears as if Clef, as they fRand in the feparate Syllem; and becaufe all charg'd with another Crofs of the fame the Notes that are confonant, (or heard together) mudt Colour with the Field; or as if the ftand perpendicularly over each other, that the Notes be- Field appeared thro' the Apertures longing to each Part may be difinaly known, they may be thereof, made with fuch Diflerences as lhall not confound or alter But Colombierc. and fome other Wri- their Significatinns with refrclc to Time, but only fhew that have this piercing to be only a CircumAfance of they belong to this or that Part. Thus hall we't e how havethi piecin I f - ar. Tu' i IIPpp
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