Volume I Part 77 (1/2)

CLEVE'LAND _(Barbara Villiers, d.u.c.h.ess of)_, one of the mistresses of Charles II., introduced by Sir W. Scott in _Peveril of the Peak_.

_Cleve'land_ (Captain Clement), alias Vaughan [_Vawn_], ”the pirate,”

son of Norna of the Fitful Head. He is in love with Minna Troil (daughter of Magnus Troil, the udaller of Zetland).--Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III).

CLEVER, the man-servant of Hero Sutton, ”the city maiden.” When Hero a.s.sumed the guise of a quaker, Clever called himself Obadiah, and pretended to be a rigid quaker also. His constant exclamation was ”Umph! ”--S. Knowles, _Woman's Wit, etc_. (1838).

Clifford _(Sir Thomas_), betrothed to Julia (daughter of Master Walter ”the hunchback”). He is wise, honest, truthful, and well-favored, kind, valiant, and prudent.--S. Knowles, _The Hunchback_ (1831).

_Clifford, (Mr.)_, the heir of Sir William Charlton in right of his mother, and in love with Lady Emily Gayville. The scrivener Alscrip had fraudulently got possession of the deeds of the Charlton estates, which he had given to his daughter called ”the heiress,” and which amounted to 2000 a year; but Rightly, the lawyer, discovered the fraud, and ”the heiress” was compelled to relinquish this part of her fortune. Clifford then proposed to Lady Emily, and was accepted.--General Burgoyne, _The Heiress_. (1781).

_Clifford (Paul)_, a highwayman, reformed by the power of love.--Lord Lytton, _Paul Clifford_ (1830).

_Clifford (Rosamond)_, usually called ”The Fair Rosamond,” the favorite mistress of Henry II.; daughter of Walter Lord Clifford. She is introduced by Tennyson in his tragedy _Becket_. Miss Terry acted the part. Dryden says:

_Jane_ Clifford was her name, as books aver, ”Fair Rosamond” was but her _nom de guerre.

Epilogue to Henry II_.

_Clifford (Henry Lord_), a general in the English army.--Sir W. Scott, _Castle Dangerous_ (time, Henry I.).

CLIFTON (_Harry_), lieutenant of H.M. s.h.i.+p _Tiger_. A daring, das.h.i.+ng, care-for-n.o.body young English sailor, delighting in adventure, and loving a good sc.r.a.pe. 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 a.s.sistant 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).

c.l.i.tANDRE, 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 c.l.i.tandre prefers in a wife the warmth of woman's love to the marble of philosophic ideality.--Moliere, _Les Femmes Savantes_ (1672).

CLOACI'NA, the presiding personification of city sewers. (Latin, _cloaca_, ”a sewer.”)

...Cloacina, G.o.ddess 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 p.r.i.c.king 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.).