v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belepered ] To infect with leprosy. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cleped i>or p. pr. & vb. n. Cleping. Cf. Ycleped. ] [ AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call. ] To call, or name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That other son was cleped Cambalo. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make appeal; to cry out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high
Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A kind of small black perch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lepre leprosy, F. lèpre, L. leprae, lepra, fr. Gr. le`pra, fr. lepro`s scaly, fr. le`pos scale, le`pein to peel. ] A person affected with leprosy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected or tainted with leprosy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To affect with leprosy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous. “The leperous distillment.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. mille-pieds. ] (Zool.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [ Written also millipede and milliped. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Russ. sliepets'. ] (Zool.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ AS. geclipod, p. p. of clipian, cleopian, cliopian, to call. See Clepe, and also the Note under Y-. ] Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings. [ Spelt also yclept. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is full fair to ben yclept madame. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

But come, thou goddess fair and free.
In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those charming little missives ycleped valentines. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]