claw (3 the fuller phrase was ‘to claw a person's ears, senses, humour,’ &c.)
1.
to seize,
grip
Ham. V. i. 78
“age . . . Hath claw'd
me in his clutch.”
2.
to scratch gently or
soothingly
2H4 II. iv. 282
“his poll clawed like a
parrot.”
3.
to flatter, cajole
Ado I. iii. 19
“and claw no man in his
humour”
; cf. LLL. IV. ii. 66.
