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▪ I. cloyne
obs. form of clown.
▪ II. † cloyne, cloine, v. Obs.
[Origin uncertain.
Phonetically, cloyne answers exactly to OF. cluigner, clugner var. of cligner ‘to bring together the upper and lower eyelids so as to leave a very small interval between them,’ often to ‘wink’, as the expression of secret understanding, cunning, or hypocrisy, as in ‘clignement d'œil, œil d'hypocrite’ (Paré, 16th c., in Littré). From this to our sense 1 appears to be an easy transition. (Cf. the history of connive.)]
1. intr. To act deceitfully or fraudulently, to cheat, deceive. Hence cloyning vbl. n.
1538Bale Thre Lawes 440 With holye oyle and watter, I can so cloyne and clatter. ― Sel. Wks. (1849) 170 With the cloynings of your conjurers, and the conveyances of your Sorcerers. Ibid. 391 To have their faults opened, and their cloning colours condemned. 1569T. Stocker Diod. Sic. ii. xxii. 68/2 He..mistrusted his crafty cloyning.
2. intr. ? To have a secret understanding, to conspire.
1556Abp. Parker Psalter xciii. 266 They cloyne in one: in companies, agaynst this just man's lyfe.
3. trans. To take cunningly, furtively, or fraudulently; to grab.
1549J. Olde Erasm. Par., Ephes. Prol. civ, To instigate men, in pretense of the ghospell, to scrape and cloyne in to their handes as muche possession as they can. 1555Fardle Facions i. v. 57 And not geue hym selfe to couetous cloinyng, and hourdyng of tresure. 1558Phaër æneid vi. R j, My goodly spouse this while my wepons al [a]way she cloinde, From al my house, and from my head my trusty sword purloind. 1566J. Studley Seneca's Medea A iij, To cloyne away the forren golde with greedy snatching hand.
Hence cloyner, a cheat, deceiver.
c1550Bale K. Johan (1838) 69 Amonge craftye cloyners there hath not bene a gretter. 1552― Apol. 39 Thys croked cloyner, cloughteth me in a patche of the lattre parte. |