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

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.

Nuns of St Clare, were founded at Assisi in Italy, about the 1212. These nuns observed the rule of St Francis, and wore habits of the same colour with those of the Franciscan friars: and hence were called Monarisses; and their house, without Aldgate, the Minories, where they were settled when first brought over into England, about the year 1293. They had only three houses besides this.