in the sea-language, a kind of slight caulking used at sea, in a prospect of foul weather, about the posts: it confines in driving a little oakum into their seams, to prevent the water coming in at them.

CLINIC, a term applied by the ancient church-historians to those who received baptism on their deathbed.

CLINIC Medicine, was particularly used for the method of visiting and treating sick persons in bed, for the more exact discovery of all the symptoms of their distemper.