2. A latch key. [Eng.] Chaucer.

Click"y (?), a. Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

||Cli*das"tes (?), n. [NL., prob. from Gr. klei`s key.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

Cli"en*cy (?), n. State of being a client.

Cli"ent (?), n. [L. cliens, -emtis, for cluens, one who hears (in relation to his protector), a client, fr. L. cluere to be named or called; akin to Gr. &?; to hear, Skr. šry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See Loud.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

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