An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language - Electric Scotland

CLO [458] CLO
CLOSE-HEAD, s. The entry of a blind alley, S.
"As for the greatness of your parts, Bartley, the
folk in the close-head maun ken mair about them than
I do, if they mak sic a report about them." Heart M.
Loth. i. 111.
* CLOSE, adv. Constantly, always, by a
slight
transition from the use of the term
in E. ; as, "Do you ay get a present when
you gang to see your auntie 1" "Aye, close;"
Roxb.
CLOSE BED, a kind of wooden bed, still
much used in the houses of the peasantry, S.
V. BOX-BED.
"The dose bed is a frame of wood, 6 feet high, 6 feet
long, and 4 feet broad. In an house of 15 feet in
width, two of them set lengthwise across the house,
the one touching the front, the other the back walls,
an entry or passage, of three feet in width, is left betwixt
the beds. To form an idea of a close-bed, we
may suppose it like a square-formed upright curtainbed,
where the place of curtains is supplied by a
roof, ends, and back of wooden deal, the front opening
and shutting with wooden doors, either hinged
or sliding sidewise in grooves. The bottom, raised
about 18 inches from the floor, is sparred." Penneeuik's
Tweedd. Ed. 1815, N. p. 821.
CLOSEEVIE, CLOZEEVIE,
s. "The haill
closeevie," the whole collection, Clydes.
Corr. perhaps from some Fr. phrase, Closier, doseau,
an enclosure. The last syllable may be vie, life ; q.
all
that are alive in the enclosure.
CLOSER, s. The act of shutting up; E.
closure.
"
All materis now ar to tak ane peaceable closer."
Acts Cha. I., Ed. 1814, V. 334.
CLOSERIS, CLOUSOURIS, s.pl. Inclosures.
Quhrine and plene
About thare clousouris brayis with mony ane rare.
Doug. Virgil, 14. 50.
Lat. daustra,
CLOSERRIS, s. pi. Perhaps, clasps, or
hooks and eyes.
"
Item, ane gown of blak taffatie, brodderit with sil-
ver, lynit with martrik sabill, garnist with xviii closser-
ris, braid in the breist, quhyt ennamelit, and sex buttonis
in ilk sleif, thrie nuikit, quhyt ennamelit." Inventories,
A. 1542, p. 80.
As these doserrris are said to be enamelled, perhaps
they were something like clasps, or hooks and eyes, q.
keepers ; O. Fr. dosier, L. B. closar-ius, custos ; Du
Cange.
CLOSET,
s. 1. A sewer.
" He drew mony dosettis, condittis, and sinkis frathe
hight of the toun to the low partis thairof, to purge
the samin of all corrupcioun and filth." Bellend. X.
lav., p. 70.
All these words are used for explaining cloacis, Lat. ;
0. Fr. clusau, caverne.
2. A night-chair, Aberd. Reg.
CLOSTER, s. A cloister, S.
"And at the day and dait of thir presentis pertanis
to quhatsumevir abbay, convent, doster quhatsumeuir,"
&c. Acts Ja. VI., 1587, Ed. 1814, p. 431.
Fr. dostier, id.
To CLOTCH, v. a. and n. As Clatch, q .v.
Aberd.
CLOTCH, s. 1. " A worn out cart shaking
to pieces, or any other machine almost useless
;" S. B. Gl. Surv. Nairn.
2. "A person with a broken constitution;"
ibid.
This is evidently the same with Clatch, q. v.
3. A bungler, Aberd.
CLOUTS, s. pi. Claws.
Thare Capitane, this ilk strang Aventyne,
Walkis on fute, his body wymplit in
Ane felloun bustuous and grete lyoun skyn,
Terribil and rouch with lockerand tatty haris,
The quhite tuskis, the hede, and clouys thare is.
Doug. Virgil, 232. 3.
Su.-G. klaa, pron. klo, a claw.
To CLOUK, v. a. To cluck as a hen, Clydes.
V. CLOCK, CLOK, v.
CLOUP, s. A quick bend in a stick, Dumfr.
the head
CLOUPIE, s. A walking-staff, having
bent in a semicircular form, ibid. ; synon.
Crummie- staff.
C. B. dopa, a club, or knob, dwpa, a club at the end
of a stick ; Teut. kluppel, stipes,
fustis, baculus, clava.
CLOUPIT, part. adj. Having the head bent in
a semicircular form ; applied to a walking-
staff, ibid.
To CLOUR, CLOWK,
tumour, S.
v. a. 1. To cause a
Blyth to win aff sae wi' hale banes,
Tho" mony had clowr'd pows.
Ramsay's Poems,
Ramsay also uses undour'd:
i. 260. V. WORRY-COW.
Be thv crown av undour'd in quarrel.
Ibid., ii. 340.
2. To produce a dimple, S.
Besides your targe, in battle keen,
Bat little danger tholes,
While mine wi' mony a thudd is clowr'd,
An' thirl'd sair wi' holes.
Poems in the Buchan Dialect, p. 12.
Perhaps transposed from Su.-G. kullra, decidere cum
impetu. Kula signifies a bump.
CLOUR, s. 1. A bump, a tumour, in conse-
quence of a stroke or fall, S.
Saint Petir hat her with a club, quhill a grete clour
Eais in her heid, becaus the wif yeid wrang.
Pink. S. P. Repr., ii. 142.
All his head was full of clowrs,
Truth did so handle him.
Truth's Travels, Pennecuik's Poems, 1715, p. 94.
2. A dint, or cavity, proceeding from a similar
cause. For the term denotes the inequality
of a surface, whether it be concave or convex.
3. A stroke, Border.
" 'I hope, Sir, you are not hurt dangerously.' 'My
head can stand a gay clour nae thanks to them,
though.' " ii. Guy Mannering, 29.