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▪ I. clour, n. Sc. and north. dial.|klʊə(r)|
Also 8 clowr, 9 cloor.
[Cf. ON. klór a scratch (deriv. of kló claw); in Shetland cloor in same sense; but the meaning of the general northern word makes its identity with this doubtful.]
1. A swelling or bump (on the head) caused by a heavy blow which does not break the skin.
1508Dunbar Ballad Kynd Kittok 32 Sanct Petir hat hir with a club, quhill a gret clour [rime-wds. sour, pour] Rais in hir heid. 1715Pennecuik Poems, Truth's Trav. 94 (Jam.) All his head was full of clowrs. [1866T. Edmondston Gloss. Shetland (Philol. Soc.), Cloor, a scratch, as that made by a pin or by the claws of cat.] 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss., Clour, or Cloor..a lump raised by a blow.
2. A heavy blow or knock such as would raise a bump (on the head).
1785Burns Ep. W. Simpson Postscr. vii, Frae less to mair it gaed to sticks; Frae words an' aiths to clours an' nicks. 1815Scott Guy M. xxiii, My head can stand a gay clour.
b. transf. A dint or bash made in anything.
1808Jamieson, Clour, a dint caused by a blow. 1821Blackw. Mag. X. 6 Her great adventure..but for her open⁓hearted innocency, would have left both cloors and dunkles in her character. Mod. Sc. Your hat's got a clour.
▪ II. clour, v. Sc. and north. dial.|klʊə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To raise a lump on (the head) with a heavy blow or knock, to knock on the head; to bash, dint (metal, etc.). Hence cloured ppl. a.
1715Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. ii. ii, Blyth to win aff sae wi' hale banes Tho' mony had clowr'd pows. 1785Poems Buchan Dialect 12 (Jam.) While mine [targe] wi' many a thudd is clowr'd. 1816Scott Old Mort. xiv, Twa or three chields wad needs fight..and they got their crouns weel cloured. 1874Sunday Mag. 823 They..strike their heads against one of his eternal laws and get them well cloured. 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘Clour his crown’, said of a good-humoured threat of a knock on the head.
▪ III. clour, cloury
var. of clowre, claurie a. |