[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. Co., 185. The ‘clite’ grows with great rapidity, and climbs up into the hedge.
