Clarin’da, a merry, good-humored, high-spirited lady, in love with Charles Frankly.  The madcap Ranger is her cousin.—­Dr. Hoadly, The Suspicious Husband (1747).

Clarinda of Robert Burns, was Mrs. Maclehose, who was alive in 1833.

CLARION, the son and heir of Muscarol.  He was the fairest and most prosperous of all the race of flies.  Aragnol, the son of Arachne (the spider), entertained a deep and secret hatred of the young prince, and set himself to destroy him; so, weaving a most curious net, Clarion was soon caught, and Aragnol gave him his death-wound by piercing him under the left wing.—­Spenser Muiopotmos or The Butterfly’s Fate (1590).

CLARIS’SA, wife of Gripe the scrivener.  A lazy, lackadaisical, fine city lady, who thinks “a woman must be of mechanic mold who is either troubled or pleased with anything her husband can do” (act i. 3).  She has “wit and beauty, with a fool to her husband,” but though “fool,” a hard, grasping, mean old hunks.

Claris’sa, sister of Beverley, plighted to George Bellmont.—­A.  Murphy, All in the Wrong, (1761).

CLARISSA HARLOWE. (See HARLOWE.)

CLARK (The Rev T.)., the pseudonym of John Gall, the novelist (1779 1839).

CLARKE (The Rev. C. C.), one of the many pseudonyms of Sir Richard Phillips, author of The Hundred Wonders of the World (1818), Readings in Natural Philosophy.

CLARSIE, the mountain maid who, going out at dawn to “try her fortune,” discovers the “Harnt” that walks Chilhowee.—­Charles Egbert Craddock (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the Tennessee Mountains (1884).

CLA’THO, the last wife of Fingal and mother of Fillan, Fingal’s youngest son.

CLAUDE (The English), Richard Wilson (1714-1782).

CLAU’DINE (2 syl.), wife of the porter of the hotel Harancour, and old nurse of Julio “the deaf and dumb” count.  She recognizes the lad, who had been rescued by De l’Epee from the streets of Paris, and brought up by him under the name of Theodore.  Ultimately, the guardian Darlemont confesses that he had sent him adrift under the hope of getting rid of him; but being proved to be the count, he is restored to his rank and property.—­Th.  Holcroft, The Deaf and Dumb (1785).

CLAUDIO (Lord) of Florence, a friend of Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, and engaged to Hero (daughter of Leonato, governor of Messina)—­Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing (1600).

Claudio, condemned to die for betraying his mistress Juliet, tries to buy his life at the sacrifice of his sister Isabella’s honor, shamefully pursued by Angelo, the Duke’s deputy.—­Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.