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CLAR

Volume 3 · 89 words · 1778 Edition

or CLAER, in metallurgy, bone-ashes perfectly calcined, and finely powdered, kept purposely for covering the insides of COPPELS.

CLARAMONT: powder, a kind of earth, called terra de Baira, from the place where it is found: it is famous at Venice, for its efficacy in stopping hemorrhages of all kinds, and in curing malignant fevers.

PRECEPT OF CLARE CONSTAT, in Scots law, the warrant of a superior for entering and infesting the heir of his former vassal, without the interposition of an inquest. See Law, Part III. n° clxxx. 28.