a. Obs. [Derivation uncertain: some think it related to next word.] ? Eager, sharp, keen.
c. 1275. Duty of Christians, in O. E. Misc. (1872), 144. We schulde abute cristes lay beon yeornfulle and clybbe.
c. 1290. Lives Saints (1887), 307. He was noþing clib to heom for-to a-sailli heom with wouȝ, Non more þane þe port-hound þat neiȝ men geth I-nouȝ … A teie doggue is clib I-novȝ, wane man comez In is siȝte … he is clibbest op-on heom þat arriet him with ston.
