Clifford (Sir Thomas), betrothed to Julia (daughter of Master Walter “the hunchback").  He is wise, honest, truthful, and well-favored, kind, valiant, and prudent.—­S.  Knowles, The Hunchback (1831).

Clifford, (Mr.), the heir of Sir William Charlton in right of his mother, and in love with Lady Emily Gayville.  The scrivener Alscrip had fraudulently got possession of the deeds of the Charlton estates, which he had given to his daughter called “the heiress,” and which amounted to L2000 a year; but Rightly, the lawyer, discovered the fraud, and “the heiress” was compelled to relinquish this part of her fortune.  Clifford then proposed to Lady Emily, and was accepted.—­General Burgoyne, The Heiress. (1781).

Clifford (Paul), a highwayman, reformed by the power of love.—­Lord Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830).

Clifford (Rosamond), usually called “The Fair Rosamond,” the favorite mistress of Henry II.; daughter of Walter Lord Clifford.  She is introduced by Tennyson in his tragedy Becket.  Miss Terry acted the part.  Dryden says: 

  Jane Clifford was her name, as books aver,
  “Fair Rosamond” was but her nom de guerre.

Epilogue to Henry II_.

Clifford (Henry Lord), a general in the English army.—­Sir W. Scott, Castle Dangerous (time, Henry I.).

CLIFTON (Harry), lieutenant of H.M. ship Tiger.  A daring, dashing, care-for-nobody young English sailor, delighting in adventure, and loving a good scrape.  He and his companion Mat Mizen take the side of El Hyder, and help to re-establish the Chereddin, Prince of Delhi, who had been dethroned by Hamlet Abdulerim.—­Barrymore, El Hyder, Chief of the Ghaut Mountains.

CLIM OF THE CLOUGH. (See CLYM).

CLINK (Jem), the turnkey at Newgate.—­Sir W. Scott, Peveril of the
Peak (time, Charles II).

CLINKER (Humphry), a poor work-house lad, put out by the parish as apprentice to a blacksmith, and afterwards employed as an ostler’s assistant and extra postilion.  Being dismissed from the stables, he enters the service of Mr. Bramble, a fretful, grumpy, but kind-hearted and generous old gentleman, greatly troubled with gout.  Here he falls in love with Winifred Jenkins, Miss Tabitha Brambles’s maid, and turns out to be a natural son of Mr. Bramble.—­T.  Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771.)

CLIP’PURSE (Lawyer), the lawyer employed by Sir Everard Waverley to make his will.—­Sir W. Scott, Waverley (time, George II.).

CLIQUOT (Klee’ko), a nickname given by Punch to Frederick William IV. of Prussia, from his love of champagne of the “Cliquot brand” (1795, 1840-1861).

CLITANDRE, a wealthy bourgeois, in love with Henriette, “the thorough woman,” by whom he is beloved with fervent affection.  Her elder sister, Armande (2 syl.), also loves him, but her love is of the platonic hue, and Clitandre prefers in a wife the warmth of woman’s love to the marble of philosophic ideality.—­Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes (1672).