\Clepe\ (kl[=e]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleped}
(kl[=e]p"[e^]d) or (kl[=e]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleping}. Cf.
{Ycleped}.] [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry,
call.]
To call, or name. [Obs.]
      That other son was cleped Cambalo.       --Chaucer.

\Clepe\, v. i.
To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.]
      Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping
      for vengeance of this treachery.         --Mir. for
                                               Mag.