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bum-cleg, clag, claigg, cleg, clegg, clegsie, gled, gleg, klegg, klek, kleks, kleksi, kleksie,
cleg [klɛg, glɛg, glɛd]
also I.Sh. clegsie
n. A gadfly of the genus Oestridae or horse-fly of the genus Tabanidae. A missile.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
bum-cleg: SW. A horse-fly of the genus Tabanidae.
affcled, afkled, cladscore, clad-score, claed, claethe, claid, claidin, claithe, claithed, claithin, claithing, clead, cleadin, cleadit, cleath, cleathe, cleathen, cleathin, cleathing, cled, cled, cleddin, cledin, cledscore, cleed, cleedin, cleethe, cleethin, cleething, cleid, cleidin, cleidit, cleithe, cleithed, cleyd, clid, clied, kled,
cleid [klid, kled, klɛd]
also cleithe [kliːð, kleːð]
v. To dress, put clothes on. Of a tailor: to make a suit of clothes. To cover, fill, throng. Of a measure: rather full, heaped.
pt. cled [klɛd, kled, klid], cleidit [ˈklidɪt, ˈkledɪt, ˈklɛdɪt], cleithed
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
affcled: I.Sh. To undress.
cleidin [ˈklidɪn, ˈkledɪn, ˈklɛdɪn]: Clothing, clothes. Cloth. The mouldboard of a plough.
cledscore: When selling sheep: a group of twenty-one, where one is added to every twenty as a discount.
claister, claistered, cleester, cleestered, cleister, cleistered, clester, clestered, clooster, cloostered, clyster, clystered, klaister, klaistered, kleester, kleestered, kleister, kleistered, klister, klistered, klyster, klystered,
cleister [ˈklistər, klestər, MN. kləistər]
n. A thick viscid mass. A person bedaubed with mire.
v. To smear with any sticky substance, to bedaub, plaster with mud, tar etc.
pt. pp. cleistert, cleistered adj. Smeared with any sticky substance.
clem, clemm, climm, klem,
clem [klɛm, klɪm]
v. To stop a hole by means of lime or clay etc.
clam, clem, klam,
clem [klɛm, klɪm]
adj. col. Mean, low. Imperfect, badly done.
clench, clinch,
clench [klɛnʃ]
v. To clench, clinch, settle.
clep, klep, klepp,
clep [klɛp]
n. A clip, a device for seizing or grasping.
clep, clepsie, clepsy, klep, klepp, kleppo,
clep [I.Ork. klɛp]
n. A lump of any soft substance. A thick oat-bannock.
dim. clepsie
claisp, clesp, sclesp, sklesp,
clesp [klɛsp, klesp]
also with prothetic s sclesp
n. A clasp.
claiss, classeefie, classifie, cless, clessed, clesses, clessifee, clessit, clessreum, clessroom, clessruim, clesst, kless,
cless [klɛs]
n. A class, a lesson.
pl. clesses
v. To class.
pt. pp. clesst
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
clessifee [ˈklɛsəfiː]: To classify.
clessroom: A classroom.

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