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Clog"gi*ness (?), n. The state
of being clogged.

Clog"ging, n. Anything which
clogs. Dr. H. More.

Clog"gy (?), a. Clogging, or
having power to clog.

||Cloi`son*né (?), a. [F.,
partitioned, fr. cloison a partition.] Inlaid between
partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the
different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire
secured to the ground; as distinguished from
champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved
or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells
Williams.

Clois"ter (?), n. [OF.
cloistre, F. cloître, L. claustrum,
pl. claustra, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. claudere,
clausum, to close. See Close, v.
t., and cf. Claustral.]

1. An inclosed place. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

2. A covered passage or ambulatory on one
side of a court; (pl.) the series of such
passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a
monastery or a college.

But let my due feet never fail

To walk the studious cloister's pale.


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