Cloven-footed, or Cloven-hoofed, a. Having the foot divided into two parts.
Clover, s. A species of trefoil.
Clout, s. Anciently the mark of white cloth at which archers shot; an iron plate to an axletree.
Cloy, v. To satiate, to sate, to surfeit.
Club, s. A heavy stick; the name of one of the suits of cards; the shot or dividend of a reckoning; an assembly of good fellows.
Cluster, s. A bunch, a number of things of the same kind growing or joined together; a number of animals gathered together.
Clutch, s. The gripe, grasp, seizure; the paws, the talons.
Clyster, s. An injection into the anus.
Clysters of broth, gravy, or gruel, will afford a very considerable quantity of nourishment: a small proportion of opium, as twenty drops of laudanum, may be given in each, to assist in retaining it within the bowels. Astringent clysters, as starch, rice-water, alumine whey, infusion of red roses, or of oak-bark, are useful in violent loosenesses. Purging clysters may be made of veal or mutton broth, with a portion of salt or moist sugar added: the effect may be still further quickened by adding castor oil or Epsom salts.
Clysters are very easily administered to dogs, and no apparatus is so convenient for the purpose as the patent syringe of Reid: a good domestic apparatus is found in the common pipe and bladder also. The liquid used should be warm, but not hot; the quantity from three ounces, to six or eight, according to the size of the dog, &c.: the pipe should be greased previously to its introduction, and the tail held down a minute or two after its removal.