Clown

n. [Contracted from Lat. colonus, husbandman, farmer, from colere, to till. See COLONE.] 1. One who works upon the soil; a husbandman; a rustic. She killed the courteous clown by whom she lived. Stirling. The clown, the child of nature, without guile, Blest with an infant's ignorance of all But his own simple pleasures. Cowper.

2. One who has the manners of a rustic; a man of coarse manners; an ill-bred man. Sidney. Dryden.
3. The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, &c.

The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickled o' the sere. Shak.