Dan. _klaeg_, id. taba.n.u.s.
CLEIK, _adj._ Lively, agile, fleet, Loth.
V. ~Cleuch~, _adj._
_To_ CLEIK, CLEK, CLEEK, _v. a._ To catch as by a hook, S.
_Ramsay._
2. To lay hold of, after the manner of a hook, S.
3. To seize, in whatever way, whether by force, or by fraud, S.
_Lyndsay._
4. _To cleik up_, obliquely used, to raise, applied to a song.
_Peblis to the Play._
Isl. _hleik-ia_, to bind with chains.
~Cleik~, ~Clek~, _s._
1. An iron hook.
_Acts Ja. I._
2. A hold of any object, S.
3. The arm, metaph. used.
_A. Nicol._
Isl. _klakr_, ansa c.l.i.tellarum, _hleck-r_, an iron chain.
~Cleiky~, _adj._ Ready to take the advantage, inclined to circ.u.mvent, S.
~Cleiks~, _s. pl._ A cramp in the legs, to which horses are subject.
_Montgomerie._
CLEYNG, Perhaps, a dark substance.
_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._
_To_ CLEK, CLEKE, _v. a._
1. To hatch, to produce young by incubation, S.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
2. To bear, to bring forth, S.
_Douglas._
3. To hatch, as applied to the mind, S.
_Ramsay._
4. To feign.
_Maitland Poems._
Su. G. _klaeck-a_, Isl. _klek-ia_, excludere pullos.
~Cleckin~, _s._
1. A brood of chickens, S.
2. Metaph. a family of children, S.
CLEKET, _s._ The tricker of an engine.
_Barbour._
E. _clicket_, the knocker of a door, Fr. _cliquet_, id.
_To_ CLEM, _v. a._
1. To stop a hole by compressing, S.
2. To stop a hole by means of lime, clay, &c.; also to _clem up_, S.
A. S. _cleam-ian_, id.
_To_ CLEP, CLEPE, _v. a._ To call, to name.
_Wallace._
A. S. _cleop-an_, _clyp-ian_, vocare.
~Clep~, _s._ A more solemn form of citation, used especially in criminal cases.