clite
(klaɪt)
[A parallel form to clete, clote. Cf. also OE. clite, expl. by Cockayne Leechdoms, as ‘colts'-foot’.]
† 1. The burdock. ? Obs.
1597 Gerarde Herball, Supp. Table, Clite is Lappa. |
2. The Cleavers or Goose-grass.
1847–79 Halliwell, Clite (goosegrass), in use in Oxfordshire. 1879 Jefferies Wild Life in S. County 185 The clite grows with great rapidity, and climbs up into the hedge. |