CLEGG (Holdfast), a Puritan mill-wright.—­Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

CLEISH’BOTHAM (Jededi’ah), schoolmaster and parish clerk of Gandercleuch, who employed his assistant teacher to arrange and edit the tales told by the landlord of the Wallace Inn of the same parish.  These tales the editor disposed in three series, called by the general title of The Tales of My Landlord (q.v.). (See introduction to The Black Dwarf.) Of course the real author is Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).

Mrs. Dorothea Cleishbotham, wife of the schoolmaster, a perfect Xantippe, and a “sworn sister of the Eumen’ides.”

CLE’LIA OR CLOE’LIA, a Roman maiden, one of the hostages given to Por’sena.  She made her escape from the Etruscan camp by swimming across the Tiber.  Being sent back by the Romans, Porsena not only set her at liberty for her gallant deed, but allowed her to take with her a part of the hostages.  Mdlle.  Scuderi has a novel on the subject, entitled Clelie, Histoire Romaine.

  Our statues—­not those that men desire—­
  Sleek odalisques [Turkish slaves] ... but
  The Carian Artemisia ... [See Artemisia.]
  Clelia, Cornelia ... and the Roman brows
  Of Agrippina.

  Tennyson, The Princess, ii.

Cle’lia, a vain, frivolous female butterfly, with a smattering of everything.  In youth she was a coquette; and when youth was passed, tried sundry means to earn a living, but without success.—­Crabbe, Borough (1810).

CLELIE (2 syl.), the heroine of a novel so called by Mdlle.  Scuderi.  (See CLELIA.)

CLEMENT, one of the attendants of Sir Reginald Front de Boeuf (a follower of Prince John).—­Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

Clem’ent (Justice), a man quite able to discern between fun and crime.  Although he had the weakness “of justices’ justice.” he had not the weakness of ignorant vulgarity.

Knowell.  They say he will commit a man for taking the wall of his horse.

Wellbred.  Ay, or for wearing his cloak on one shoulder, or serving God.  Anything, indeed, if it comes in the way of his humor.—­B.  Jonson, Every Man in His Humor, iii. 2 (1598).

CLEMENTI’NA (The Lady), an amiable, delicate, beautiful, accomplished, but unfortunate woman, deeply in love with Sir Charles Grandison.  Sir Charles married Harriet Byron.—­S.  Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).

Cle’ofas (Don), the hero of a novel by Lesage, entitled Le Diable Boiteux (The Devil on Two Sticks).  A fiery young Spaniard, proud, high-spirited and revengeful; noted for gallantry but not without generous sentiment.  Asmode’us (4 syl.) shows him what is going on in private families by unroofing the houses (1707).

CLEOM’BROTUS or Ambracio’ta of Ambrac’ia, (in Epirus).  Having read Plato’s book on the soul’s immortality and happiness in another life, he was so ravished with the description that he leaped into the sea that he might die and enjoy Plato’s elysium.