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clyre, clyer, clier Sc.
[Clier corresponds to MDu. cliere, Du. klier gland, glandular swelling, scrofula, = EFris. klîre, klîr: ulterior history obscure.]
A glandular swelling; usually in pl. as name of a disease of cattle: see quots.
1794Agric. Surv. Dumfries 357 (Jam.) A putrid distemper in the throat..called the Clyers..It seems to be the same with what in other places is called the murrain or gargle. 1808Jamieson s.v. He has nae clyres in his heart, he is an honest upright man. 1837Lockhart Scott vii. an. 1793 A cow..which the court..had pronounced to have what is called the cliers, a disease analogous to glanders in a horse.
Hence clyred ppl. a., ‘having tumours in the flesh’ (Jam.).
1697Cleland Poems 66 (Jam.) And did not cease to cave and paut, While clyred back was prickt and gald. |