An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

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 clitellarum, hleck-r, an iron chain.

Cleiky, adj. Ready to take the advantage, inclined to circumvent, 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.
Bellenden.
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.