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word: Charm₃
definition:
Charm

Charm
v. i.
1.
To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.

The voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Ps. lviii. 5.

2.
To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

3.
To make a musical sound.
[Obs.]
Milton.


word: charmed
definition:
charmed

charmed
adj.
1.
same as captivated.

Syn. -- captivated.

2.
filled with wonder and delight.

Syn. -- beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced.


word: Charmel
definition:
Charmel

Char"mel
(?)
n.
[Heb.]
A fruitful field.

Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest.
Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).


word: Charmer
definition:
Charmer

Charm"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the power of enchantment; a magician.
Deut. xviii. 11.

2.
One who delights and attracts the affections.


word: Charming
definition:
Charming

Charm"ing
a.
Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.

How charming is divine philosophy.
Milton.


word: Charnel
definition:
Charnel

Char"nel
(?)
a.
[F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See Carnal.]
Containing the bodies of the dead.
Charnel
Milton.

Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.


word: Charnel₂
definition:
Charnel

Char"nel
n.
A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ.
Byron.


word: Charon
definition:
Charon

Cha"ron
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;.]
(Cless. Myth.)
The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
Shak.


word: Charpie
definition:
Charpie

Char"pie
(?)
n.
[F., properly fem. p. p. of OF. charpir, carpir, to pluck, fr. L. carpere. Cf. Carpet.]
(Med.)
Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.


word: Charqui
definition:
Charqui

Char"qui
(?)
n.
[Sp. A term used in South America, Central America, and the Western United States.]
Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun.
Darwin.


word: Charras
definition:
Charras

Char"ras
(?)
n.
The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus.
Balfour.


word: Chart
definition:
Chart

Chart
(chärt; kärt Obs.)
n.
[A doublet of card: cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf. Charter.]
1.
A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

2.
A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

3.
A written deed; a charter.

Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular. -- Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots. -- Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection. -- Plane chart, a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.


word: Chart₂
definition:
Chart

Chart
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Charted.]
To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.


word: Charta
definition:
Charta

Char"ta
(kär"tȧ)
n.
[L., leaf of paper. See Chart.]
(Law)
(a)
Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
(b)
A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.


word: Chartaceous
definition:
Chartaceous

Char*ta"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. chartaceus. See Charta.]
Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.


word: Charte
definition:
Charte

Charte
(?)
n.
[F. See Chart.]
The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.


word: Charter
definition:
Charter

Char"ter
(?)
n.
[OF. chartre, F. chartre, charte, fr. L. chartula a little paper, dim. of charta. See Chart, Card.]
1.
A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
[Archaic]

2.
An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.

The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the “Great Charter,” either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom.
Hume.

3.
An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

4.
A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me.
Shak.

5.
(Com.)
The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.

Charter land (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland. -- Charter member, one of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the first proceedings under it. -- Charter party [F. chartre partie, or charte partie, a divided charter; from the practice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his. -- People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838.


word: Charter₂
definition:
Charter

Char"ter
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chartered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chartering.]
1.
To establish by charter.

2.
To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n.


word: Chartered
definition:
Chartered

Char"tered
(?)
a.
1.
Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.

The sufficiency of chartered rights.
Palfrey.

The air, a chartered libertine.
Shak.

2.
Hired or let by charter, as a ship.


word: Charterhouse
definition:
Charterhouse

Char"ter*house`
(?)
n.
A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.


word: Chartism
definition:
Chartism

Chart"ism
(?)
n.
[F. charte charter. Cf. Charte, Chart.]
The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.


word: Chartless
definition:
Chartless

Chart"less
a.
1.
Without a chart; having no guide.

2.
Not mapped; uncharted; vague.
Barlow.


word: Chartography
definition:
Chartography

Chartographic

Chartographer

Char*tog"ra*pher (?), n., Char`to*graph"ic (_;), a., Char*tog"ra*phy (_;), n., etc.
Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.


word: Chartomancy
definition:
Chartomancy

Char"to*man`cy
(?)
n.
[L. charta paper + -mancy. Cf. Cartomancy.]
Divination by written paper or by cards.


word: Chartometer
definition:
Chartometer

Char*tom"e*ter
(châr*t&obreve_;m"e̝*tẽr)
n.
[Chart + -meter.]
An instrument for measuring charts or maps.


word: Chartreuse
definition:
Chartreuse

Char`treuse"
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

2.
An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.


word: Charwoman
definition:
Charwoman

Char"wom`an
(châr"wŏm`an)
n.
pl. Charwomen (châr"wĭm`ĕn).
[See Char a chore.]
A woman hired for odd work or for single days.


word: Chary
definition:
Chary

Char"y
(châr"&ybreve_; or chā"r&ybreve_;; 277)
a.
[AS. cearig careful, fr. cearu care. See Care.]
1.
Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, or reckless; as, the latest internet IPO's were shunned by investors made chary by the poor performance of the first wave of companies that went public.

His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame.
Jeffrey.

2.
Saving; frugal; sparing; not spendthrift; -- often used with of; as, chary of his praise.

3.
Fastidious; picky; choosy.


word: Charybdis
definition:
Charybdis

Cha*ryb"dis
(?)
n.
[L., Gr. cha`rybdis.]
A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.


word: Chase
definition:
Chase

Chase
(chās)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chased (chāst); p. pr. & vb. n. Chasing.]
[OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.]
1.
To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

We are those which chased you from the field.
Shak.

Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and place.
Cowper.

2.
To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.

Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place.
Knolles.

3.
To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.

Chasing each other merrily.
Tennyson.


word: Chase₃
definition:
Chase

Chase
n.
[Cf. F. chasse, fr. chasser. See Chase, v.]
1.
Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.
chase
Dryden.

You see this chase is hotly followed.
Shak.

2.
That which is pursued or hunted.

Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
Shak.

3.
An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private property, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.
[Eng.]

4.
(Court Tennis)
A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.

Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued. -- Chase port (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired. -- Stern chase (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued. -- cut to the chase (Film), a term used in action movies meaning, to shift the scene to the most exciting part, where someone is being chased.  It is used metaphorically to mean “get to the main point”.


word: Chase₄
definition:
Chase

Chase
n.
[F. cháse, fr. L. capsa box, case. See Case a box.]
(Print.)
1.
A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

2.
(Mil.)
The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

3.
A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

4.
(Shipbuilding)
A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.


word: Chase₅
definition:
Chase

Chase
v. t.
[A contraction of enchase.]
1.
To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.

2.
To cut, so as to make a screw thread.


word: chased
definition:
chased

chased
(chāst)
n.
a person who is being chased; as, better to be the chaser than the chased.

Syn. -- pursued.


word: Chaser
definition:
Chaser

Chas"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

2.
(Naut.)
Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.


word: Chaser₂
definition:
Chaser

Chas"er
n.
1.
One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.

2.
(Mech.)
A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.


word: Chasing
definition:
Chasing

Chas"ing
(?)
n.
The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.


word: Chasm
definition:
Chasm

Chasm
(kăz'm)
n.
[L. chasma, Gr. cha`sma, fr. chai`nein to gape, to open wide. See Chaos.]
1.
A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill.
Coleridge.

2.
A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.
Addison.


word: Chasmy
definition:
Chasmy

Chas"my
(kăz"m&ybreve_;)
a.
Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.
Carlyle.

They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed.
Wordsworth.


word: Chasse
definition:
Chasse

Chas`sé"
(shȧs`sa̝")
n.
[F., fr. chassé, p. p. of chasser to chase.]
1.
A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.

2.
A gliding step in dancing in which one foot is kept in front of the other while moving.


word: Chasse₂
definition:
Chasse

Chas`sé"
v. i.
(Dancing)
To make the movement called chassé; as, all chassé; chassé to the right or left.


word: Chasse₃
definition:
Chasse

Chasse
(shȧs)
n.
[See Chasse-café]
A small potion of spirituous liquor taken to remove the taste of coffee, tobacco, or the like; -- originally chasse-café, lit., “coffee chaser.”


word: Chasse-cafe
definition:
Chasse-cafe

Chasse`-ca`fé"
(shȧs` kȧ`fa̝")
n.
[F., fr. chasser to chase + café coffee.]
See Chasse, n., above.


word: Chasse-maree
definition:
Chasse-maree

Chasse`-ma`rée"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. chasser to chase + marée tide.]
(Naut.)
A French coasting lugger.


word: Chasselas
definition:
Chasselas

Chas"se*las
(?)
n.
[F., from the village of Chasselas.]
A white grape, esteemed for the table.


word: Chassepot
definition:
Chassepot

Chasse`pot"
(?)
n.
[From the French inventor, A. A. Chassepot.]
(Mil.)
A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.


word: Chasseur
definition:
Chasseur

Chas`seur"
(?)
n.
[F., a huntsman. See Chase to pursue.]
1.
(Mil.)
One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

2.
An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

The great chasseur who had announced her arrival.
W. Irving.


word: Chassis
definition:
Chassis

Chas"sis
(?)
n.
[F. châssis.]
(Mil.)
1.
A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

2.
The under part of an automobile or other motor vehicle, consisting of the frame (on which the body is mounted) with the wheels and machinery.


word: Chaste
definition:
Chaste

Chaste
(chāst)
a.
[F. chaste, from L. castus pure, chaste; cf. Gr. kaqaro`s pure, Skr. çudh to purify.]

1.
Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
chaste
Shak.

Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced.
Milton.

2.
Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

3.
Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.

That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer.
Macaulay.

4.
Unmarried.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Chaste tree. Same as Agnus castus.


word: Chasten
definition:
Chasten

Chas"ten
(chā"s'n)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chastened (-s'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Chastening.]
[OE. chastien, OF. Chastier, F. Ch_;tier, fr. L. castigare to punish, chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and cf. Castigate, Chastise.]
1.
To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
Heb. xii. 6.

2.
To purify from errors or faults; to refine.

They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions.
Layard.


word: Chastened
definition:
Chastened

Chas"tened
(?)
a.
Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
Sir. W. Scott.

Of such a finished chastened purity.
Tennyson.


word: Chasteness
definition:
Chasteness

Chaste"ness
(?)
n.
1.
Chastity; purity.

2.
(Literature & Art)
Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.


word: Chastise
definition:
Chastise

Chas*tise"
(chăs*tīz"; chăs"tīz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chastised (chăs*tīzd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Chastising.]
[OE. chastisen; chastien + ending -isen + modern -ise, -ize, L. -izare, Gr. -i`zein. See Chasten.]
1.
To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

How fine my master is! I am afraid
He will chastise me.
Shak.

I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised.
Boyle.

2.
To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

The gay, social sense, by decency chastised.
Thomson.
3.
To criticize (a person) strongly and directly in order to correct behavior.

Syn. -- castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct, dress down.


word: chastised
definition:
chastised

chastised
adj.
having bad behavior criticised and punished; as, the chastised child sat humbly in the corner.

Syn. -- corrected, disciplined.


word: Chastisement
definition:
Chastisement

Chas"tise*ment
(?)
n.
[From Chastise.]
The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars,
On equal terms to give him chastesement!
Shak.

I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more.
Job xxxiv. 31.


word: Chastiser
definition:
Chastiser

Chas*tis"er
(?)
n.
One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
Jer. Taylor.

The chastiser of the rich.
Burke.


word: Chastity
definition:
Chastity

Chas"ti*ty
(?)
n.
[F. chasteté, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.]
1.
The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.

She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity.
T. Carew.

2.
Moral purity.

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sicerely so
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
Milton.

3.
The unmarried life; celibacy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

4.
(Literature & Art)
Chasteness.


word: chastize
definition:
chastize

chas*tize"
v. t.
same as chastise; -- a variant spelling; as, She chastized him for his insensitive remarks.

Syn. -- chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct.


word: Chasuble
definition:
Chasuble

Chas"u*ble
(?)
n.
[F. chasuble, LL. casubula, cassibula, casula, a hooded garment, covering the person like a little house; cf. It. casupola, casipola, cottage, dim of L. casa cottage.]
(Eccl.)
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
[Written also chasible, and chesible.]


word: Chat
definition:
Chat

Chat
(chăt)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chatted; p. pr. & vb. n. Chatting.]
[From Chatter. √22.]
To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
Shak.

To chat a while on their adventures.
Dryden.


word: Chat₃
definition:
Chat

Chat
n.
1.
Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat,
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.
Pope.

2.
(Zool.)
A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America.  The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria viridis), and the long-tailed chat (Icteria longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush.


word: Chat₄
definition:
Chat

Chat
n.
1.
A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

2.
pl.
(Mining)
Small stones with ore.

Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.]


word: Chateau
definition:
Chateau

Cha`teau"
(?)
n.
pl. Chateux (#).
[F. château a castle. See Castle.]
1.
A castle or a fortress in France.

2.
A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

&hand_; The distinctive, French term for a fortified castle of the middle ages is château-fort.


word: Chateaubriand
definition:
Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand
n.
a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes.

&VerbarChateau en Espagne (_;) [F.], a castle in Spain, that is, a castle in the air, Spain being the region of romance.


word: Chateau-Thierry
definition:
Chateau-Thierry

Chateau-Thierry
n.
a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.

Syn. -- battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Marne River.


word: Chatelaine
definition:
Chatelaine

Chat"e*laine
(?)
n.
[F. châtelaine the wife of a castellan, the mistress of a chateau, a chatelaine chain.]
An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.


word: Chati
definition:
Chati

Cha`ti"
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chat cat.]
(Zool.)
A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).


word: Chatoyant
definition:
Chatoyant

Cha*toy"ant
(?)
a.
[F., p. pr. of chatoyer to be chatoyant, fr. chat cat.]
(Min.)
Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.


word: Chatoyant₂
definition:
Chatoyant

Cha*toy"ant
n.
(Min.)
A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.


word: Chatoyment
definition:
Chatoyment

Cha*toy"ment
(?)
n.
[F. chatoiement. See Chatoyant.]
Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
Cleaceland.


word: Chattel
definition:
Chattel

Chat"tel
(?)
n.
[OF. chatel; another form of catel. See Cattle.]
(Law)
Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

&hand_; Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc.

Chattel mortgage (Law), a mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.


word: Chattelism
definition:
Chattelism

Chat"tel*ism
(?)
n.
The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.


word: Chatter
definition:
Chatter

Chat"ter
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chattered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chattering.]
[Of imitative origin. Cf. Chat, v. i. Chitter.]
1.
To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters.
Wordsworth.

2.
To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.

To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue.
Shak.

3.
To make a noise by rapid collisions.

With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
Dryden.


word: Chatter₂
definition:
Chatter

Chat"ter
v. t.
To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.

Begin his witless note apace to chatter.
Spenser.


word: Chatter₃
definition:
Chatter

Chat"ter
n.
1.
Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

Your words are but idle and empty chatter.
Longfellow.

2.
Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.


word: Chatterer
definition:
Chatterer

Chat"ter*er
(?)
n.
1.
A prater; an idle talker.

2.
(Zool.)
A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note.  The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.


word: Chattering
definition:
Chattering

Chat"ter*ing
(?)
n.
The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.


word: Chatter mark
definition:
Chatter mark

Chat"ter mark`
(a)
(Mach.)
One of the fine undulations or ripples which are formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters.
(b)
(Geol.)
A short crack on a rock surface planed smooth by a glacier.


word: Chatwood
definition:
Chatwood

Chat"wood`
(?)
n.
[Chat a little stick + wood.]
Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
Johnson.


word: Chaud-medley
definition:
Chaud-medley

Chaud"-med`ley
(?)
n.
[F. chaude mêlée; chaud hot + mêler (Formerly sometimes spelt medler) to mingle.]
(Law)
The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.
Burrill.


word: Chauffer
definition:
Chauffer

Chauf"fer
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chauffoir a kind of stone, fr. chauffer to heat. See Chafe.]
(Chem.)
A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.


word: Chauffeur
definition:
Chauffeur

Chauf`feur"
(?)
n.
[F., lit., stoker.]
1.
pl.
(F. Hist.)
Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

2.
One who manages the running of an automobile or limousine; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.


word: Chaunter
definition:
Chaunter

Chaunt"er
(?)
n.
1.
A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
[Slang, Eng.]

2.
A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
[Colloq.]

He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now.
Dickens.

3.
The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.


word: Chausses
definition:
Chausses

Chausses
(?)
n. pl.
[F.]
The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.


word: Chautauqua
definition:
Chautauqua

Chau*tau"qua
(?)
a meeting, usually held in the summer outdoors or under a temporary tent, providing public lectures combined with entertainment such as concerts and plays.  It originated in the village of Chautauqua, N. Y., in 1874, and was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Also, a meeting similar to this.


word: Chautauqua system
definition:
Chautauqua system

Chau*tau"qua sys"tem
(?)
The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.


word: Chauvinism
definition:
Chauvinism

Chau"vin*ism
(?)
n.
[F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).]
1.
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

2.
exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause; -- as, male chauvinism, i.e. belief in the superiority of males.

&hand_; To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness.
Prof. H. Tuttle.


word: chauvinistic
definition:
chauvinistic

chauvinistic
adj.
fanatically patriotic.

Syn. -- flag-waving(prenominal), jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultrapatriotic.


word: Chaw
definition:
Chaw

Chaw
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chawing.]
[See Chew.]
1.
To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped,
Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood.
Surrey.

2.
To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Dryden.

A word formerly in good use, but now regarded as vulgar.


word: Chaw₂
definition:
Chaw

Chaw
n.
[See Chaw, v. t.]
1.
As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
[Law]

2.
[Cf. Jaw.]
The jaw.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Chaw bacon, a rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. (Law) -- Chaw tooth, a grinder. (Law)


word: Chawdron
definition:
Chawdron

Chaw"dron
(?)
n.
[OF. chaudun, caudun, caldun; cf. G. kaldaunen guts, bowels, LL. calduna intestine, W. coluddyn gut, dim. of coludd bowels.]
Entrails.
[Obs.]
[Written also chaudron, chauldron.]
Shak.


word: Chay root
definition:
Chay root

Chay" root`
(?)
[Tamil shāya.]
The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff.
[Written also choy root.]


word: Chayote
definition:
Chayote

Cha"yo"te
(?)
1.
a tropical West Indian vine (Sechium edule) of the gourd family, which bears small white flowers and produces an edible fruit.

2.
the edible fruit of the chayote{1} vine, having a pear shape with a furrowed skin, and usually green or white.  It is also called choyote, christophene, mirliton, and vegetable pear


word: Chazy epoch
definition:
Chazy epoch

Cha*zy" ep"och
(?)
(Geol.)
An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.


word: Cheap
definition:
Cheap

Cheap
(chēp)
n.
[AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
[Obs.]

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
Shak.


word: Cheap₂
definition:
Cheap

Cheap
a.
[Abbrev. fr. “good cheap”: a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
1.
Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap.
Locke.

2.
Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
Dryden.

Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]


word: Cheapen
definition:
Cheapen

Cheap"en
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cheapened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening.]
[OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ceápian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaup&omacrn to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain.]
1.
To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
[Obsoles.]

Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
Swift.

2.
[Cf. Cheap, a.]
To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Pope.

My proffered love has cheapened me.
Dryden.


word: Cheap-john
definition:
Cheap-john

Cheap-jack

{ Cheap"-jack` (?), Cheap"-john` (?), }
n.
A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.

Syn. -- huckster, hawker, tout.


word: Cheat
definition:
Cheat

Cheat
(?)
n.
[rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See Escheat.]
1.
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat.
Dryden.

2.
One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.

Airy wonders, which cheats interpret.
Johnson

3.
(Bot.)
A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

4.
(Law)
The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.

&hand_; When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law.  Wharton.


word: Cheat₂
definition:
Cheat

Cheat
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheating.]
[See Cheat, n., Escheat.]
1.
To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.

I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
Shak.

2.
To beguile.
Sir W. Scott.

To cheat winter of its dreariness.
W. Irving.


word: Cheat₄
definition:
Cheat

Cheat
n.
[Perh. from OF. cheté goods, chattels.]
Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
[Obs.]
Drayton.

Their purest cheat,
Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.
Chapman.


word: Chebacco
definition:
Chebacco

Che*bac"co
(?)
n.
[From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built.]
(Naut.)
A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
Bartlett.


word: Chebec₂
definition:
Chebec

Che*bec"
(?)
n.
[Named from its note.]
(Zool.)
A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.


word: Chechoslovak
definition:
Chechoslovak

Chechoslovak
n.
a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia; a Czechoslovakian.

Syn. -- Czechoslovakian, Czech.


word: Check
definition:
Check

Check
(chĕk)
n.
[OE. chek, OF. eschec, F. échec, a stop, hindrance, orig. check in the game of chess, pl. échecs chess, through Ar., fr. Pers. shāh king. See Shah, and cf. Checkmate, Chess, Checker.]
1.
(Chess)
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

2.
A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.

Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity.
Addison.

No check, no stay, this streamlet fears.
Wordsworth.

3.
Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

Useful check upon the administration of government.
Washington.

A man whom no check could abash.
Macaulay.

4.
A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

5.
A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

6.
A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

7.
(Falconry)
The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

8.
Small chick or crack.

Bank check, a written order on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer. -- Check book, a book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler, or other conduit, to prevent the return of the feed water or other fluid. -- To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] Dryden.


word: Check₂
definition:
Check

Check
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Checked (chĕkt); p. pr. & vb. n. checking.]
1.
(Chess)
To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.

2.
To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
Hence,
(Ice Hockey)
To obstruct the motion of an opposing player by contacting him with one's body.

So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
Burke.

3.
To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy.
Hence,
To compare with an original or with some standard, to insure correctness; as, to check an account; to check with a supervisor about procedures.

4.
To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

The good king, his master, will check him for it.
Shak.

5.
(Naut.)
To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

6.
To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

7.
To leave (something) in the temporary custody of another; as, to check baggage; to check one's firearms at the door; to check one's coat at the cloakroom.

8.
To accept (something) for temporary custody from another; as, to check a customer's baggage;  to check a customer's coat.

9.
To make a checkered pattern upon.


word: Check₃
definition:
Check

Check
(chĕk)
v. i.
To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.

The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
Locke.

2.
To clash or interfere.
[R.]
Bacon.

3.
To act as a curb or restraint.

It [his presence] checks too strong upon me.
Dryden.

4.
To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

5.
(Falconry)
To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

And like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye.
Shak.


word: checkage
definition:
checkage

check"age
(chĕk"a̝j)
n.
1.
The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

2.
The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.


word: checked
definition:
checked

checked
(chĕkt)
adj.
1.
Held back from some action especially by force.

Syn. -- curbed.

2.
having a pattern of alternating dark and light squares in rows and columns.

Syn. -- checkered.


word: Checker₂
definition:
Checker

Check"er
(chĕk"ẽr)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Checkered (chĕk"ẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Checkering.]
[From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. échiquier. See Check, n., and cf. 3d Checker.]
1.
To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

2.
To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.

Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
Addison.


word: Checker₃
definition:
Checker

Check"er
n.
[OF. eschequier. See Checker, v. t.]
1.
A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

2.
A pattern in checks; a single check.

3.
Checkerwork.

&hand_; This word is also written chequer.


word: Checkerberry
definition:
Checkerberry

Check"er*ber`ry
(chĕk"ẽr*bĕr`r&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Checkerberries (#).
(Bot.)
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens).  Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).


word: checkerbloom
definition:
checkerbloom

checkerbloom
n.
a perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of West North America (Sidalcea malviflora) that is also cultivated.

Syn. -- wild hollyhock, Sidalcea malviflora.


word: Checkerboard
definition:
Checkerboard

Check"er*board
(chĕk"ẽr*b&omacrrd`)
n.
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.


word: Checkered
definition:
Checkered

Check"ered
(chĕk"ẽrd)
a.
1.
Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

Dancing in the checkered shade.
Milton.

2.
Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.; as, a character with a checkered past

This checkered narrative.
Macaulay.


word: Checkers
definition:
Checkers

Check"ers
(chĕk"ẽrz)
n. pl.
[See Checher, v.]
A game, called also draughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally.  The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.


word: Checkerwork
definition:
Checkerwork

Check"er*work`
(chĕk"ẽr*wûrk`)
n.
1.
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

2.
Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.

How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.
De Foe.


word: check in
definition:
check in

check` in"
(chĕk`ĭn")
v. i.
To register as a guest at a hotel, inn, motel. etc.   Converse of check out.


word: check-in
definition:
check-in

check"-in
(chĕk"ĭn)
n.
The act of registering as a guest at a hotel, inn, motel. etc; the act of checking in.  Used also attributively, as the check-in counter at a hotel.


word: Checkmate
definition:
Checkmate

Check"mate
(chĕk"māt)
n.
[F. échec et mat, fr. Per. shāh māt checkmate, lit., the king is dead, fr. Ar. māta he died, is dead.  The king, when made prisoner, or checkmated, is assumed to be dead, and the game is finished.  See Chess.]
1.
The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.

2.
A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.


word: Checkmate₂
definition:
Checkmate

Check"mate
(-māt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Checkmated; p. pr. & vb. n. Checkmating.]
1.
(Chess)
To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

2.
To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

To checkmate and control my just demands.
Ford.


word: check out
definition:
check out

check` out"
v. i.
1.
To vacate a room at a hotel, notel, etc.  Converse of check in.

2.
To die.
[Colloq.]


word: check out₂
definition:
check out

check" out
v. t.
1.
To inspect or examine.
[Colloq.]

2.
To make a record of having borrowed (something) for temporary use; as, to check out a book at the library; to check out equipment from a depository.

3.
To bring (items to be purchased) to a checkout counter (as at a supermarket or other retail store) where the prices may be totaled and the bill may be paid.


word: checkout
definition:
checkout

checkout
n.
1.
the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.

Syn. -- checkout time.

2.
A counter in a supermarket or other retail store where one pays for one's purchases.

Syn. -- checkout counter.


word: checkout counter
definition:
checkout counter

checkout counter
n.
A counter in a supermarket where one pays for one's purchases.

Syn. -- checkout.


word: checkout time
definition:
checkout time

checkout time
n.
1.
the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.

Syn. -- checkout.


word: checkout counter₂
definition:
checkout counter

checkout counter
n.
a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases.

Syn. -- checkout.


word: checkpoint
definition:
checkpoint

checkpoint
n.
a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance.


word: Checkrein
definition:
Checkrein

Check"rein`
(?)
n.
1.
A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

2.
A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.


word: Checkstring
definition:
Checkstring

Check"string`
(?)
n.
A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.


word: Checkwork
definition:
Checkwork

Check"work
(?)
n.
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.


word: Checky
definition:
Checky

Check"y
(chĕk"&ybreve_;)
a.
(Her.)
Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
[Written also checquy, chequy.]


word: Cheek
definition:
Cheek

Cheek
(chēk)
n.
[OE. cheke, cheoke, AS. ceàce, ceòce; cf. Goth. kukjan to kiss, D. kaak cheek; perh. akin to E. chew, jaw.]
1.
The side of the face below the eye.

2.
The cheek bone.
[Obs.]
Caucer.

3.
pl.
(Mech.)
Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

4.
pl.
The branches of a bridle bit.
Knight.

5.
(Founding)
A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

6.
Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
[Slang]

Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. -- Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone. -- Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. -- Cheek pouch (Zool.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food. -- Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block. -- Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest. -- Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth. -- Butment cheek. See under Butment.


word: cheekbone
definition:
cheekbone

cheekbone
n.
the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.

Syn. -- zygomatic bone, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum.


word: Cheep₂
definition:
Cheep

Cheep
v. t.
To give expression to in a chirping tone.

Cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
Tennyson.


word: Cheer
definition:
Cheer

Cheer
(chēr)
n.
[OE. chere face, welcome, cheer, OF. chiere, F. chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. ka`ra head; akin to Skr. çiras, L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. cranium.]
1.
The face; the countenance or its expression.
[Obs.]
cheer
Wyclif.

2.
Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.

Be of good cheer.
Matt. ix. 2.

The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer.
Holland.

3.
Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.

I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.
Shak.

1.
That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

5.
A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.

Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street.
Tennyson.

What cheer? How do you fare? What is there that is cheering?


word: Cheer₂
definition:
Cheer

Cheer
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cheered (chērd); p. pr. & vb. n. cheering.]
1.
To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.
Cowpe.

2.
To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered.
Dryden.

3.
To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase.

To cheer ship, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging.


word: Cheer₃
definition:
Cheer

Cheer
v. i.
1.
To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.

At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up.
A. Philips.

2.
To be in any state or temper of mind.
[Obs.]

How cheer'st thou, Jessica?
Shak.

3.
To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.

And even the ranks of Tusculum
Could scare forbear to cheer.
Macaulay.


word: Cheerer
definition:
Cheerer

Cheer"er
(chēr"ẽr)
n.
One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.
cheerer
Wotton.
cheerer
Thomson.


word: Cheerful
definition:
Cheerful

Cheer"ful
(chēr"f&usdot_;l; 277)
a.
Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

To entertain a cheerful disposition.
Shak.

The cheerful birds of sundry kind
Do chant sweet music.
Spenser.

A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.
Macaulay.

This general applause and cheerful shout.
Shak.


word: Cheerishness
definition:
Cheerishness

Cheer"ish*ness
n.
Cheerfulness.
[Obs.]

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness.
Milton.


word: Cheerless
definition:
Cheerless

Cheer"less
a.
Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
Spenser.


word: Cheery
definition:
Cheery

Cheer"y
(?)
a.
Displaying evident cheerfulness; cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person; a cheery hello.

Syn. -- pleasant, sunny.

His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly.
Hawthorne.


word: Cheese
definition:
Cheese

Cheese
(chēz)
n.
[OE. chese, AS. cēse, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.]
1.
The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

2.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

3.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
[Colloq.]

4.
A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
De Quincey. Thackeray.

Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zool.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zool.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. -- Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.


word: Cheese cloth
definition:
Cheese cloth

cheesecloth

cheese"cloth`, Cheese" cloth`
(chēz" kl&obreve_;th`; 115)
A thin, loosely-woven cotton cloth of a gauze texture, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.


word: cheeseflower
definition:
cheeseflower

cheeseflower
n.
an erect or decumbent Old World perennial (Malva sylvestris) with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.

Syn. -- tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, Malva sylvestris.


word: Cheeseparing
definition:
Cheeseparing

Cheese"par`ing
(?)
n.
A thin portion of the rind of a cheese.
a. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.


word: Cheesy
definition:
Cheesy

Chees"y
(?)
a.
Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.


word: Cheetah
definition:
Cheetah

Chee"tah
(?)
n.
[Hind. chītā.]
(Zool.)
A species of leopard (Cynælurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is Cynælurus laneus.  It runs very fast in short spurts while hunting.
[Written also chetah.]


word: cheewink
definition:
cheewink

cheewink
n.
(Zool.)
the common rufous-sided towhee of eastern North America, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.

Syn. -- chewink, rufous-sided towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.


word: Chef
definition:
Chef

Chef
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
A chief or head person.

2.
The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

3.
(Her.)
Same as Chief.


word: Chef-d'oeuvre
definition:
Chef-d'oeuvre

Chef`-d'œuvre"
(?)
n.
pl. Chefs-d'œuvre (#).
[F.]
A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.


word: Cheiloplasty
definition:
Cheiloplasty

Chei"lo*plas`ty
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a lip + -plasty.]
(Surg.)
The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.


word: cheiropter
definition:
cheiropter

chei*rop"ter
(ki̝*r&obreve_;p"tẽr)
n.
(Zool.)
One of the Chiroptera; -- an older spelling of chiropter.


word: Cheiroptera
definition:
Cheiroptera

Chei*rop"te*ra
(ki̝*r&obreve_;p"te̝*rȧ)
prop. n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing.]
(Zool.)
An earlier spelling for Chiroptera, an order of Mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying.  See Chiroptera and Bat.
[archaic]


word: Cheiropterous
definition:
Cheiropterous

Chei*rop"ter*ous
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
chiropterous; belonging to the Chiroptera, or Bat family.


word: Cheiropterygium
definition:
Cheiropterygium

Chei*rop`te*ryg"i*um
(?)
n.
pl. Cheiropterygia (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + pte`ryx, pte`rygos wing, fin.]
(Anat.)
The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.


word: Cheirosophy
definition:
Cheirosophy

Chei*ros"o*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + _; knowledge.]
The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.


word: Cheirotherium
definition:
Cheirotherium

Chei`ro*the"ri*um
(?)
prop. n.
[NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + qhri`on beast.]
(Poleon.)
A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.


word: Chela
definition:
Chela

Che"la
(?)
n.
pl. Chelæ (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. chhlh` claw.]
(Zool.)
The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.


word: Chela₂
definition:
Chela

Che"la
(?)
n.
[Hind. chēla, orig., slave, fr. Skr. cē&tsdot_;a, cē&tsdot_;aka, slave, servant.]
In India, a dependent person occupying a position between that of a servant or slave and a disciple; hence, a disciple or novice.
Che"la*ship, n.


word: chelate
definition:
chelate

che"late
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
a compound formed by combination of a metal ion in solution with a compound containing heteroatoms (such as oxygen or nitrogen), in which at least two heteroatoms are bound to the metal.  The bonds may be covalent or non-covalent.  Chelates in some cases have very low dissociation constants, and organic compounds (chelating agents) which form such chelates are therefore used to reduce the concentration of free metal ions in solution.


word: chelated
definition:
chelated

chelated
adj.
combined with a chelator so as to form a chelate; -- of metal ions.

Syn. -- chelate.


word: chelating agent
definition:
chelating agent

che"lat*ing a`gent
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
a compound which forms a chelate with a metal ion.
Commonly used chelating agents in laboratory use are EDTA and sodium citrate.  Citrate is used as an additive to blood collected in blood banks, to chelate the calcium ions and retard clotting.


word: chelation
definition:
chelation

chelation
n.
the process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate;
(Med.)
the treatment of lead or mercury poisoning by adding a chelating agent to the blood.

2.
the process of forming a ring by forming one or more hydrogen bonds.


word: Chelerythrine
definition:
Chelerythrine

Chel`e*ryth"rine
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; celandine + 'eryqro`s red.]
(Chem.)
An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.


word: Chelicera
definition:
Chelicera

Che*lic"e*ra
(ke̝*lĭs"e̝*rȧ)
n.
pl. Cheliceræ (-rē).
[NL., fr. Gr. chhlh` claw + ke`ras horn.]
(Zool.)
One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.


word: Chelidon
definition:
Chelidon

Chel"i*don
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. chelidw`n.]
(Anat.)
The hollow at the flexure of the arm.


word: Chelidonic
definition:
Chelidonic

Chel`i*don"ic
(?)
a.
[See Celandine.]
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.

Chelidonic acid, a weak acid extracted from the celandine (Chelidonium majus), as a white crystalline substance.


word: Chelidonium
definition:
Chelidonium

Chelidonium
n.
a genu having only one species; the greater celandine.

Syn. -- genus Chelidonium.


word: Chelidonius
definition:
Chelidonius

Chel`i*do"ni*us
(?)
n.
[L. (sc. lapillus.)]
A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.


word: Cheliferous
definition:
Cheliferous

Che*lif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Gr. chhlh` claw + -ferous.]
(Zool.)
Having cheliform claws, like a crab.


word: Cheliform
definition:
Cheliform

Chel"i*form
(?)
a.
[Gr. chhlh` claw + -form.]
(Zool.)
Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.


word: Chelone
definition:
Chelone

Che*lo"ne
(?)
n.
[Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise. So named from shape of the upper lip of the corolla.]
(Bot.)
A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceæ, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.


word: Chelonethida
definition:
Chelonethida

Chelonethida
n.
an order comprising the false scorpions.

Syn. -- order Chelonethida, Pseudoscorpionida, order Pseudoscorpionida, Pseudoscorpiones, order Pseudoscorpiones.


word: Chelonia
definition:
Chelonia

Che*lo"ni*a
(ke̝*l&omacr"nĭ*ȧ)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. chelw`nh a tortoise.]
(Zool.)
An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.


word: Chelonian
definition:
Chelonian

Che*lo"ni*an
(?)
a.
(Zool.)
Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.
n. One of the Chelonia.


word: Cheloniidae
definition:
Cheloniidae

Cheloniidae
n.
a natural family including the green turtles; hawksbills.

Syn. -- family Cheloniidae, Chelonidae, family Chelonidae.


word: Chelura
definition:
Chelura

Che*lu"ra
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. chhlh` claw + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.


word: Chelydridae
definition:
Chelydridae

Chelydridae
n.
a natural family comprising the snapping turtles.

Syn. -- family Chelydridae.


word: Chemic
definition:
Chemic

Chem"ic
(?)
n.
[See Chenistry.]
1.
A chemist; an alchemist.
[Obs.]

2.
(Bleaching)
A solution of chloride of lime.


word: Chemical
definition:
Chemical

Chem"ic*al
(?)
a.
Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.

Chemical attraction or Chemical affinity. See under Attraction.


word: Chemigraphy
definition:
Chemigraphy

Che*mig"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Chemical + -graphy.]
Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography.
Chem`i*graph"ic (#), a.


word: Chemiloon
definition:
Chemiloon

Chem`i*loon"
(?)
n.
A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
[U. S.]


word: Chemise
definition:
Chemise

Che*mise"
(?)
n.
[F., shirt, fr. LL. camisa, camisia, shirt, thin dress; cf. G. hemd, or OIr. caimmse sort of garment. Cf. Camis.]
1.
A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

2.
A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.


word: Chemisette
definition:
Chemisette

Chem`i*sette"
(?)
n.
[F., dim. of chemise.]
An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.


word: Chemism
definition:
Chemism

Chem"ism
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chimisme. See Chemistry.]
The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attraction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.


word: chemosorptive
definition:
chemosorptive

chemisorptive

chemisorptive chemosorptive
adj.
having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces.


word: Chemist
definition:
Chemist

Chem"ist
n.
[Shortened from alchemist; cf. F. chimiste.]
A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.


word: Chemistry
definition:
Chemistry

Chem"is*try
(kĕm"ĭs*tr&ybreve_;; 277)
n.
[From Chemist. See Alchemy.]
1.
That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

&hand_; Historically, chemistry is an outgrowth of alchemy (or alchemistry), with which it was anciently identified.

2.
An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.

3.
A treatise on chemistry.

&hand_; This word and its derivatives were formerly written with y, and sometimes with i, instead of e, in the first syllable, chymistry, chymist, chymical, etc., or chimistry, chimist, chimical, etc.; and the pronunciation was conformed to the orthography.

Inorganic chemistry, that which treats of inorganic or mineral substances. -- Organic chemistry, that which treats of the substances which form the structure of organized beings and their products, whether animal or vegetable; -- called also chemistry of the carbon compounds.  There is no fundamental difference between organic and inorganic chemistry. -- Physiological chemistry, the chemistry of the organs and tissues of the body, and of the various physiological processes incident to life. -- Practical chemistry, or Applied chemistry, that which treats of the modes of manufacturing the products of chemistry that are useful in the arts, of their applications to economical purposes, and of the conditions essential to their best use. -- Pure chemistry, the consideration of the facts and theories of chemistry in their purely scientific relations, without necessary reference to their practical applications or mere utility.


word: chemist's
definition:
chemist's

chemist's
n.
a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold; a drugstore.
[British]

Syn. -- drugstore, apothecary's shop, chemist's shop, dispensary, pharmacy.


word: Chemitype
definition:
Chemitype

Chem"i*type
(?)
n.
[Chemical + -type.]
(Engraving)
One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.


word: Chemolysis
definition:
Chemolysis

Che*mol"y*sis
(?)
n.
[Chemical + Gr. _; a loosing.]
A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
Thudichum.


word: Chemosis
definition:
Chemosis

Che*mo"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a swelling of the cornea resembling a cockleshell, fr. _; a gaping, hence a cockleshell.]
(Med.)
Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea.
Che*mot"ic (#), a.


word: Chemosmosis
definition:
Chemosmosis

Chem`os*mo"sis
(?)
n.
[Chemical + osmosis.]
Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.


word: chemosorption
definition:
chemosorption

chemosorption
n.
adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces; as, chemosorption of gaseous nitrogen on iron catalysts.

Syn. -- chemisorption.


word: Chemosynthesis
definition:
Chemosynthesis

Chem`o*syn"the*sis
(?)
n.
[Chemical + synthesis.]
(Plant Physiol.)
Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid.
Chem`o*syn*thet"ic (#), a.


word: Chemiotaxis
definition:
Chemiotaxis

Chemotaxis

{Chem`o*tax"is (?), n. Formerly also Chem`i*o*tax"is}
[Chemical + Gr. _; arrangement, fr. _; to arrange.]
(Biol.)
The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoospores of algæ, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis).
Chem`o*tac"tic (#), a. -- Chem`o*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.


word: chemotherapeutical
definition:
chemotherapeutical

chemotherapeutic

chemotherapeutic chemotherapeutical
adj.
of or pertaining to chemotherapy; using chemotherapy; having properties beneficial for chemotherapy.


word: chemotherapy
definition:
chemotherapy

chemotherapy
n.
the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness); -- also used especially in reference to the use of chemicals to treat cancer.


word: Chemung period
definition:
Chemung period

Che*mung" pe"ri*od
(?)
(Geol.)
A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.


word: chenfish
definition:
chenfish

chenfish
n.
small silvery marine food fish (Genyonemus lineatus) found off California.

Syn. -- white croaker, kingfish, Genyonemus lineatus.


word: Chenille
definition:
Chenille

Che*nille"
(she̝*nēl")
n.
[F., prop., a caterpillar.]
Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.


word: Chenomorphae
definition:
Chenomorphae

Che`no*mor"phæ
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., from Gr. _; the wild goose + morfh` form.]
(Zool.)
An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.


word: Chenopodiales
definition:
Chenopodiales

Chenopodiales
n.
an order which corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae.

Syn. -- Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, order Chenopodiales.


word: Chenopodium
definition:
Chenopodium

Chenopodium
n.
a genus of plants comprising the goosefoots and including the pigweed.

Syn. -- genus Chenopodium.


word: Cherimoyer
definition:
Cherimoyer

Cher`i*moy"er
(?)
n.
[F. chérimolier.]
(Bot.)
1.
A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.

2.
Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.


word: Cherish
definition:
Cherish

Cher"ish
(chĕr"ĭsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cherished (chĕr"ĭsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Cherising.]
[F. chérir, fr. cher dear, fr. L. carus. See Caress, Finish.]
1.
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.

We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children.
1 Thess. ii. 7.

2.
To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.

To cherish virtue and humanity.
Burke.


word: Cherisher
definition:
Cherisher

Cher"ish*er
(chĕr"ĭsh*ẽr)
n.
One who cherishes.

The cherisher of my flesh and blood.
Shak.


word: Cherishment
definition:
Cherishment

Cher"ish*ment
(?)
n.
Encouragement; comfort.
[Obs.]

Rich bounty and dear cherishment.
Spenser.


word: Cherogril
definition:
Cherogril

Cher"o*gril
(?)
n.
[L. choerogryllus, Gr. _;; _; a young swine + _; a pig.]
(Zool.)
See Cony.


word: Cherokees
definition:
Cherokees

Cher`o*kees"
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Cherokee
(Ethnol.)
An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.


word: Cheroot
definition:
Cheroot

Che*root"
(che̝*rōt"; 277)
n.
[Tamil shuru&tsdot_;&tsdot_;u, prop., a roll.]
A kind of cigar, originally brought from Manila, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.


word: Cherry
definition:
Cherry

Cher"ry
(chĕr"r&ybreve_;)
n.
[OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. keraso`s, perh. fr. ke`ras horn, from the hardness of the wood.]
1.
(Bot.)
A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;
(a)
The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France).
(b)
The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; Prunus avium and Prunus Padus, European trees (bird cherry).

2.
The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.

3.
The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.

4.
A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.

Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes. -- Cherry bird (Zool.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. -- Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar. -- Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergreen shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. -- Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum (Capsicum cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherry stone. -- Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry sucker (Zool.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. -- Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries. -- Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi.


word: Cherry₂
definition:
Cherry

Cher"ry
(chĕr"r&ybreve_;)
a.
Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.


word: cherrystone
definition:
cherrystone

cherrystone
n.
1.
small quahog larger than a littleneck.

Syn. -- cherrystone clam.

2.
a half-grown quahog.

Syn. -- cherrystone clam.


word: Chersonese
definition:
Chersonese

Cher"so*nese
(kẽr"so̝*nēs)
n.
[Gr. cherso`nhsos; che`rsos land + nh`sos island.]
A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.


word: Chert
definition:
Chert

Chert
(chẽrt)
n.
[Ir. ceart stone, perh. akin to E. crag.]
(Min.)
An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.


word: Cherub
definition:
Cherub

Cher"ub
(?)
n.
pl. Cherubs (#); but the Hebrew plural Cherubim (#) is also used.
[Heb. kerūb.]
1.
A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.

I knew that they were the cherubim.
Ezek. x. 20.

He rode upon a cherub and did fly.
Ps. xviii. 10.

2.
A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.
Ez. xxv. 18.

3.
One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

4.
A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.


word: Cherubical
definition:
Cherubical

Cherubic

{ Che*ru"bic (?), Che*ru"bic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic.
cherubic
Milton.


word: Cherubim
definition:
Cherubim

Cher"u*bim
(?)
n.
The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.

&hand_; Cherubims, in the King James version of the bible, is an incorrect form, made by adding the English plural termination to the Hebrew plural cherubim instead of to the singular cherub.


word: Cherup
definition:
Cherup

Cher"up
(?)
v. i.
[Prob. fr. chirp.]
To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.
Drayton.


word: Cherup₂
definition:
Cherup

Cher"up
v. t.
To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.

He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed.
Cowper.


word: Cherup₃
definition:
Cherup

Cher"up
n.
A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.


word: Chervil
definition:
Chervil

Cher"vil
(?)
n.
[AS. cerfille, fr. L. caerefolium, chaerephyllum, Gr. _;; _; to rejoice + _; leaf.]
(Bot.)
A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.


word: Chess
definition:
Chess

Chess
(chĕs)
n.
[OE. ches, F. échecs, prop. pl. of échec check. See 1st Check.]
A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.


word: Chess₂
definition:
Chess

Chess
n.
(Bot.)
A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
[U. S.]

&hand_; Other species of brome grass are called upright chess, soft chess, etc.


word: Chessboard
definition:
Chessboard

Chess"board`
(?)
n.
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

&hand_; The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.


word: Chesses
definition:
Chesses

Chess"es
(?)
n. pl.
[Cf. F. chassis a framework of carpenty.]
(Mil.)
The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
Wilhelm.

&hand_;A singular, chess, is sometimes used. “Each chess consists of three planks.” Farrow.


word: Chesstree
definition:
Chesstree

Chess"tree`
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chassis a framework of carpentry.]
(Naut.)
A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.


word: Chessy copper
definition:
Chessy copper

Ches`sy" cop"per
(?)
(Min.)
The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.


word: Chest
definition:
Chest

Chest
(chĕst)
n.
[OE. chest, chist, AS. cest, cist, cyst, L. cista, fr. Gr. ki`sth. Cf. Cist, Cistern.]
1.
A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

Heaps of money crowded in the chest.
Dryden.

2.
A coffin.
[Obs.]

He is now dead and mailed in his cheste.
Chaucer.

3.
The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

4.
(Com.)
A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

5.
(Mech.)
A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.

Bomb chest, See under Bomb. -- Chest of drawers, a case or movable frame containing drawers.


word: Chest₂
definition:
Chest

Chest
(chĕst)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chested.]
1.
To deposit in a chest; to hoard.

2.
To place in a coffin.
[Obs.]

He dieth and is chested.
Gen. 1. 26 (heading).


word: chesterfield
definition:
chesterfield

chesterfield
n.
1.
a davenport with upright armrests.

2.
a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar.


word: Chesterlite
definition:
Chesterlite

Ches"ter*lite
(?)
n.
[See -lite.]
A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.


word: Chesteyn
definition:
Chesteyn

Ches"teyn
(?)
n.
The chestnut tree.
[Obs.]

Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn.
Chaucer.


word: Chest founder
definition:
Chest founder

Chest" foun`der
(?)
(Far.)
A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.


word: Chestnut
definition:
Chestnut

Chest"nut
(?)
n.
[For chesten-nut; OE. chestein, chesten, chastein, chestnut, fr. AS. cisten in cistenbeám chestnut tree, influenced by OF. chastaigne, F. châtaigne, both the AS. and the F. words coming from L. castanea a chestnut, Gr. _;, fr. _; a city of Pontus, where chestnut trees grew in abundance, and whence they were introduced into Europe. Cf. Castanets.]
1.
(Bot.)
The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

2.
The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

3.
A bright brown color, like that of the nut.

4.
The horse chestnut (often so used in England).

5.
One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

6.
An old joke or story.
[Slang]

Chestnut tree, a tree that bears chestnuts.


word: Chestnut₂
definition:
Chestnut

Chest"nut
a.
Of or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.


word: chesty
definition:
chesty

chesty
adj.
1.
marked by a large or well-developed chest.

Syn. -- big-chested.

2.
having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; as, chesty as a peacock.

Syn. -- arrogant, self-important.


word: Chetvert
definition:
Chetvert

Chet"vert
(?)
n.
[Russ. chetverte one fourth.]
A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.
[Russia]


word: Cheval
definition:
Cheval

Che*val"
(?)
n.
pl. Chevaux (#).
[F. See Cavalcade.]
A horse; hence, a support or frame.

Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full length figure.


word: Cheval-de-frise
definition:
Cheval-de-frise

Che*val"-de-frise"
(?)
n.
pl. Chevaux-de-frise
[F.; cheval horse + Frise Friesland, where it was first used.]
(Mil.)
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.

Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise.
W. Irving.


word: Chevalier
definition:
Chevalier

Che`va*lier"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. LL. caballarius. See Cavaller.]
1.
A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
chevaliers
Shak.

2.
A member of certain orders of knighthood.

&VerbarChevalier d'industrie (_;) [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called “The Pretender.” -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.


word: Cheve
definition:
Cheve

Cheve
(chēv)
v. i.
[OF. chevir. See Chievance.]
To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise.
[Prov. or Obs.]
Holland.


word: Chevelure
definition:
Chevelure

Cheve*lure"
(?)
n.
[F., head of hair.]
A hairlike envelope.

The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star.
Sir. W. Hershel.


word: Cheven
definition:
Cheven

Chev"en
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chevanne. Cf. Chavender.]
(Zool.)
A river fish; the chub.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Cheveril
definition:
Cheveril

Chev"er*il
(?)
n.
[OF. chevrel, F. chevreau, kid, dim. of chevre goat, fr. L. capra. See Caper, v. i.]
Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.
[Obs.]

Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad.
Shak.


word: Cheveril₂
definition:
Cheveril

Chev"er*il
a.
Made of cheveril; pliant.
[Obs.]

A cheveril conscience and a searching wit.
Drayton.


word: Chevet
definition:
Chevet

Che*vet"
(?)
n.
[F., head of the bed, dim. fr. chef head. See Chief.]
(Arch.)
The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.


word: Cheviot
definition:
Cheviot

Chev"i*ot
(?)
n.
1.
A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

2.
A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.


word: Chevisance
definition:
Chevisance

Chev"i*sance
(?)
n.
[Of. chevisance, chevissance, fr. chevircome to an end, perform, fr. chef head, end, from L. caput head. See Chieve, Chief.]

1.
Achievement; deed; performance.
[Obs.]

Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance.
Spenser.

2.
A bargain; profit; gain.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.

3.
(O. Eng. Law)
(a)
A making of contracts.
(b)
A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
(c)
An unlawful agreement or contract.


word: Chevrette
definition:
Chevrette

Chev*rette"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. chévre goat, fr. L. capra. Cf. Chevron.]
(Mil.)
A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.


word: Chevron
definition:
Chevron

Chev"ron
(shĕv"rŭn)
n.
[F., rafter, chevron, from chévre goat, OF. chevre, fr. L. capra she-goat. See Cheveril.]
1.
(Her.)
One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

2.
(Mil.)
A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.

3.
(Arch.)
A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.


word: Chevroned
definition:
Chevroned

Chev"roned
(?)
p. a.
Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.

[A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace.
B. Jonson.


word: Chevronwise
definition:
Chevronwise

Chev"ron*wise`
(?)
adv.
(Her.)
In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.


word: Chevrotain
definition:
Chevrotain

Chev`ro*tain"
(?)
n.
[F. chevrotin, OF. chevrot little goat, roe, dim. of chevre goat. See Chevron.]
(Zool.)
A small ruminant of the family Tragulidæ a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.


word: Chevy
definition:
Chevy

Chev"y
(?)
v. t.
See Chivy, v. t.
[Slang, Eng.]

One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes.
London Times.


word: Chevy₂
definition:
Chevy

Chev"y
(?)
n.
[Written also chivy, and chivvy.]
[Prob. fr. the ballad of Chevy Chase; cf. Prov. E. chevychase a noise, confusion, pursuit.]
[Eng.]
1.
A cry used in hunting.

2.
A hunt; chase; pursuit.

3.
The game of prisoners' base. See Base, n., 24.


word: chevvy
definition:
chevvy

chevvy
v.
to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to; to chevy; -- same as chivy.

Syn. -- harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, beset, plague, molest, provoke.


word: chew
definition:
chew

chew
(ch&usuml_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chewed (ch&usuml_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Chewing.]
[As ceówan, akin to D. kauwen, G. kauen. Cf. Chaw, Jaw.]
1.
To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

2.
To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.

He chews revenge, abjuring his offense.
Prior.

To chew the cud, to chew the food over again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate.

Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Deut. xxiv. 6.


word: Chew
definition:
Chew

Chew
v. i.
To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.

old politicians chew wisdom past.
Pope.


word: chewing
definition:
chewing

chewing
n.
biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.

Syn. -- chew, mastication.


word: Chewink
definition:
Chewink

Che"wink
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also rufous-sided towhee, towhee, towhee bunting and ground robin.
[Also spelled cheewink.]


word: Cheyennes
definition:
Cheyennes

Chey*ennes"
(?)
n. pl.
sing. cheyenne
(Ethnol.)
A warlike tribe of indians, related to the blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.


word: Chian
definition:
Chian

Chi"an
(?)
a.
[L. chius, fr. Chios the island Chios, Gr. _;.]
Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Ægean Sea.

Chian earth, a dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic. -- Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.


word: Chiaroscurist
definition:
Chiaroscurist

Chi*a`ros*cu"rist
(?)
n.
A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.


word: Chiaro-oscuro
definition:
Chiaro-oscuro

Chiaroscuro

{ &VerbarChia`ro*scu"ro (?), &VerbarChi*a"ro-os*cu"ro (?), }
n.
[It., clear dark.]
(a)
The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
(b)
The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.


word: Chiasma
definition:
Chiasma

Chiasm

{ Chi"asm (kī"ăz'm), &VerbarChi*as"ma (ki̝*ăz"mȧ), }
n.
[NL. chiasma, fr. Gr. chi`asma two lines placed crosswise, fr. _; to mark with a χ.]
(Anat.)
A commissure; an intersection or crossing of two tracts; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.
Chi*as"mal (_;), a.


word: Chiasmus
definition:
Chiasmus

Chi*as"mus
(ki̝*ăz"mŭs)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. chiasmo`s a placing crosswise, fr. chia`zein. See Chiasm.]
(Rhet.)
An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

If e'er to bless thy sons
My voice or hands deny,
These hands let useful skill forsake,
This voice in silence die.
Dwight.


word: Chiastolite
definition:
Chiastolite

Chi*as"to*lite
(ki̝*ăs"to̝*līt)
n.
[Gr. chiasto`s marked with a χ + -lite. See Chiasm. So called from the resemblance of the cross cuts of its crystals to the Greek letter χ.]
(Min.)
A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.


word: Chibouk
definition:
Chibouk

Chibouque

{ &VerbarChi*bouque", Chi*bouk"  }
(?)
n.
[F. chibouque, fr.  Turk.]
A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.


word: Chic
definition:
Chic

Chic
(?)
a.
[F. Cf. Chic, n.]
Original and in good taste or form; stylish; in current fashion, fashionable.
[Colloq.]


word: Chica
definition:
Chica

Chi"ca
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

2.
A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

3.
A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.


word: Chicalote
definition:
Chicalote

Chi`ca*lo"te
(?)
n.
[Sp., prob. of Mex. origin.]
(Bot.)
A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.


word: Chicane
definition:
Chicane

Chi*cane"
(?)
n.
[F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. _; the game of mall, fr Pers chaugān club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible.]
1.
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Prior.

To shuffle from them by chicane.
Burke.

To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience.
Berkeley.

2.
(Card playing)
In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors.


word: Chicane₂
definition:
Chicane

Chi*cane"
v. i.
[Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n.]
To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.
Burke.


word: Chicanery
definition:
Chicanery

Chi*can"er*y
(?)
n.
[F. chicanerie.]
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.

Irritated by perpetual chicanery.
Hallam.


word: Chich
definition:
Chich

Chich
(?)
n.
pl. Chiches (_;).
[F. chiche, pois chiche, a dwarf pea, from L. cicer the chick-pea.]
(Bot.)
The chick-pea.


word: Chichevache
definition:
Chichevache

Chiche"vache`
(?)
n.
[F. chiche lean + vache cow.]
A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.


word: Chichling vetch
definition:
Chichling vetch

Chichling

{ Chich"ling (?), Chich"ling vetch` (?), }
n.
[Chich + -ling.]
(Bot.)
A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.


word: Chick
definition:
Chick

Chick
(chĭk)
v. i.
[OE. chykkyn, chyke, chicken.]
To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Chalmers.


word: Chick₂
definition:
Chick

Chick
n.
1.
A chicken.

2.
A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
Shak.

3.
a young woman; -- often considered offensive.
[slang]


word: Chickabiddy
definition:
Chickabiddy

Chick"a*bid`dy
(?)
n.
A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.


word: Chickadee
definition:
Chickadee

Chick"a*dee`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.


word: Chickaree
definition:
Chickaree

Chick"a*ree`
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus Hudsonius, formerly Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.


word: Chickasaws
definition:
Chickasaws

Chick"a*saws
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Chickasaw
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.


word: Chicken
definition:
Chicken

Chick"en
(?)
n.
[AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, küken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. küchkein. See Cock the animal.]
1.
A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

2.
A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.
chicken
Swift.

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.


word: Chicken-breasted
definition:
Chicken-breasted

Chick"en-breast`ed
(?)
a.
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.


word: Chicken-hearted
definition:
Chicken-hearted

chickenhearted

chickenhearted, Chick"en-heart`ed
(?)
a.
Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened.
Bunyan.


word: Chicken pox
definition:
Chicken pox

Chick"en pox"
(?)
(Med.)
A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.


word: chickenshit
definition:
chickenshit

chickenshit
n.
a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear.
[slang]


word: chickeree
definition:
chickeree

chickeree
n.
the far western U.S. counterpart of the red squirrel.

Syn. -- Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi.


word: chick flick
definition:
chick flick

chick flick
n.
A sentimental motion picture that appeals particularly to women.   See flick, n., movie.
[Colloq.]


word: Chicle gum
definition:
Chicle gum

Chicle

{Chic"le (?), n., Chicle gum}
[Amer. Sp. chicle.]
A gumlike substance obtained from the bully tree (Mimusops globosa) and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla (Sapota zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.


word: Chico
definition:
Chico

Chi"co
(?)
n.
1.
Var. of Chica.

2.
The common greasewood of the western United States (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).

3.
In the Philippines, the  sapodilla or its fruit; also, the marmalade tree or its fruit.


word: Chick-pea
definition:
Chick-pea

Chick"-pea`
(-pē`)
n.
[See Chich.]
1.
(Bot.)
A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.

2.
Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.


word: Chickweed
definition:
Chickweed

Chick"weed`
(-wēd`)
n.
(Bot.)
The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.


word: Chicky
definition:
Chicky

Chick"y
(chĭk"&ybreve_;)
n.
A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.


word: Chicory
definition:
Chicory

Chic"o*ry
(?)
n.
[F. chicorée, earlier also cichorée, L. cichorium, fr. Gr. _;, _;, Cf. Succory.]
1.
(Bot.)
A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.

2.
The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.


word: chicot
definition:
chicot

chicot
n.
a handsome tree of central and eastern North America (Gymnocladus dioica) having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.

Syn. -- Kentucky coffee tree, bonduc, Gymnocladus dioica.


word: Chide
definition:
Chide

Chide
(chīd)
v. t.
[imp. Chid (chĭd), or Chode (chīd Obs.); p. p. Chidden (?), Chid; p. pr. & vb. n. Chiding.]
[AS. cīdan; of unknown origin.]
1.
To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

Upbraided, chid, and rated at.
Shak.

2.
Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.

The sea that chides the banks of England.
Shak.

To chide hither, To chide from, or To chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.


word: Chide₂
definition:
Chide

Chide
v. i.
1.
To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.

Wherefore the people did chide with Moses.
Ex. xvii. 2.

2.
To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

As doth a rock againts the chiding flood.
Shak.


word: Chief
definition:
Chief

Chief
(chēn)
n.
[OE. chief, chef, OF. chief, F. chef, fr. L. caput head, possibly akin to E. head. Cf. Captain, Chapter]
1.
The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.

2.
The principal part; the most valuable portion.

The chief of the things which should be utterly destroyed.
1 Sam. xv. 21

3.
(Her.)
The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.

In chief. (a) At the head; as, a commander in chief. (b) (Eng. Law) From the king, or sovereign; as, tenure in chief, tenure directly from the king.


word: Chief₂
definition:
Chief

Chief
a.
1.
Highest in office or rank; principal; head.
Chief
John. xii. 42.

2.
Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.

3.
Very intimate, near, or close.
[Obs.]

A whisperer separateth chief friends.
Prov. xvi. 28.


word: Chiefage
definition:
Chiefage

Chief"age
(-a̝j)
n.
[OF. chevage, fr. chief head. See Chief.]
A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.
[Written also chevage and chivage.]
[Obs.]


word: Chiefest
definition:
Chiefest

Chief"est
a.
[Superl. of Chief.]
First or foremost; chief; principal.
[Archaic]
chiefest
Shak.

The chiefest among ten thousand.
Canticles v. 10.


word: Chief hare
definition:
Chief hare

Chief" hare`
(?)
(Zool.)
A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

&hand_; It is not a true hare or rabbit, but belongs to the curious family Lagomyidæ.


word: Chief justice
definition:
Chief justice

Chief" jus"tice
(?)
The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.

Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic.


word: Chief-justiceship
definition:
Chief-justiceship

Chief"-jus"tice*ship
n.
The office of chief justice.

Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes.
The Century.


word: Chiefly
definition:
Chiefly

Chief"ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially.

Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook;
But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge.
Milton.

2.
For the most part; mostly.

Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay.
Swift.


word: Chieftain
definition:
Chieftain

Chief"tain
(?)
n.
[OE. cheftayn, chevetayn, OF. chevetain, F. capitaine, LL. capitanus, fr. L. caput head. Cf. Captain, and see chief.]
A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.


word: Chieftainship
definition:
Chieftainship

Chieftaincy

{ Chief"tain*cy (?), Chief"tain*ship, }
n.
The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.


word: Chievance
definition:
Chievance

Chiev"ance
(?)
n.
[OF. chevance property, equiv. To chevisance, fr. chevir to accomplish. See Chevisance.]
An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Chiff-chaff
definition:
Chiff-chaff

Chiff"-chaff
(_;)
n.
[So called from its note.]
(Zool.)
A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.


word: Chiffon
definition:
Chiffon

Chif`fon"
(?)
n.
[F., lit., rag. See Chiffonier.]
1.
Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

2.
A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc.


word: Chiffonier
definition:
Chiffonier

{ Chif`fo*nier" (?), fem. Chif`fo-nière" (?), }
n.
[F. chiffonnier, fem. chiffonnière, fr. chiffon rag, fr. chiffe a rag, flimsy cloth.]
1.
One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

2.
A receptacle for rags or shreds.

3.
A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.
G. Eliot.


word: chigger
definition:
chigger

chigger
n.
1.
a small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans); same as chigoe.
[Also spelled chigre.]

Syn. -- chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans.

2.
a larval mite of the family Trombiculidae that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings, causing intense irritation, and serving to transmit several infectious diseases.

Syn. -- harvest mite, jigger, redbug.


word: chiggerflower
definition:
chiggerflower

chiggerflower
n.
an erect perennial of eastern and southern U. S. (Asclepias tuberosa) having showy orange flowers.

Syn. -- butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa.


word: Chignon
definition:
Chignon

Chi"gnon
(_;)
n.
[F., prop. equiv. to chaînon link, fr. chaîne chain, fr. L. catena Cf. Chain.]
A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.

A curl that had strayed from her chignon.
H. James.


word: Chigre
definition:
Chigre

Chigoe

{ Chig"oe (?), Chig"re (?), }
n.
[Cf. F. chigue, perh. fr. Catalan chic small, Sp. chico; or of Peruvian origin.]
(Zool.)
A species of flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.
[Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

&hand_; The name is sometimes erroneously given to certain mites or ticks having similar habits.


word: Chih fu
definition:
Chih fu

Chih" fu`
(?)
[Chin. chih fu, lit., (He who) knows (the) prefecture.]
An official administering a prefecture of China; a prefect, supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu (which see).


word: Chih hsien
definition:
Chih hsien

Chih" hsien`
(?)
[Chin. chih hsien, lit., (He who) knows (the) district.]
An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.


word: Chih tai
definition:
Chih tai

Chih" tai`
(?)
[Chin. chih to govern + t‘ai an honorary title.]
A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).


word: Chihuahua
definition:
Chihuahua

Chihuahua
n.
An old breed of tiny short-coated dogs with protruding eyes, originating in Mexico, believed to antedate Aztec civilization.


word: Chikara
definition:
Chikara

Chi*ka"ra
(_;)
n.
[Hind.]
(Zool.)
(a)
The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India.
(b)
The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).


word: chilblains
definition:
chilblains

Chilblain

Chil"blain`, chil"blains
(?)
n.
[Chill + Blain.]
A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling of the feet or hands, produced by exposure to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

Syn. -- pernio.


word: Child
definition:
Child

Child
(chīld)
n.
pl. Children (chĭl"drĕn).
[AS. cild, pl. cildru; cf. Goth. kilþei womb, in-kilþ&omacr with child.]
1.
A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

2.
A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

3.
One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

4.
A noble youth. See Childe.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

5.
A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.

When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1. Cor.  xii. 11.

6.
A female infant.
[Obs.]

A boy or a child, I wonder?
Shak.

To be with child, to be pregnant. -- Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.


word: Child₂
definition:
Child

Child
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Childed; p. pr. & vb. n. Childing.]
To give birth; to produce young.

This queen Genissa childing died.
Warner.

It chanced within two days they childed both.
Latimer.


word: Childbearing
definition:
Childbearing

Child"bear`ing
(?)
n.
The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
Milton. Addison.


word: Childbed
definition:
Childbed

Child"bed
(?)
n.
The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.


word: Childcrowing
definition:
Childcrowing

Child"crow`ing
(?)
n.
(Med.)
The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.


word: Childe
definition:
Childe

Childe
(?)
n.
A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.


word: Childermas day
definition:
Childermas day

Chil"dermas day`
(?)
[AS. cildamæsse-dæg; cild child  +dæg day.]
(Eccl.)
A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.


word: Childhood
definition:
Childhood

Child"hood
(chīld"hŏd)
n.
[AS. cildhād; cild child + -hād. See Child, and -hood.]
1.
The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

I have walked before you from my childhood.
1. Sam. xii. 2.

2.
Children, taken collectively.
[R.]

The well-governed childhood of this realm.
Sir. W. Scott.

3.
The commencement; the first period.

The childhood of our joy.
Shak.

Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age.


word: Childing
definition:
Childing

Child"ing
(?)
a.
[See Child, v. i.]
Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Childish
definition:
Childish

Child"ish
(chīld"ĭsh)
a.
1.
Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
Childish
Macaulay.

2.
Puerile; trifling; weak.

Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent.
Addison.

&hand_; Childish, as applied to persons who are grown up, is in a disparaging sense; as, a childish temper.


word: Childishly
definition:
Childishly

Child"ish*ly
adv.
In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.


word: Childishness
definition:
Childishness

Child"ish*ness
n.
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.


word: Childlike
definition:
Childlike

Child"like`
(chīld"līk`)
a.
Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Childlike
Hooker.

&hand_; Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity; childlike modesty.


word: Childly
definition:
Childly

Child"ly
a.
Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.
Gower.


word: Child study
definition:
Child study

Child study
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.


word: Chilean
definition:
Chilean

Chil"e*an
(?)
a.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Chile or its inhabitants; as, Chilean volcanoes.


word: Chili
definition:
Chili

Chil"i
(?)
n.
[Sp. chili, chile.]
A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum
[Written also chilli and chile.]


word: Chiliad
definition:
Chiliad

Chil"i*ad
(?)
n.
[Gr. chilia`s, chiliado`s, fr. chi`lioi a thousand.]
A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.

The world, then in the seventh chiliad, will be assumed up unto God.
Sir. T. More.


word: Chiliagon
definition:
Chiliagon

Chil"i*a*gon
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; chi`lioi a thousand + _; angle.]
A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
Barlow.


word: Chiliahedron
definition:
Chiliahedron

Chil"i*a*hedron
(?)
n.
[Gr. chi`lioi a thousand + _; base, fr. _; to sit.]
A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces
[Spelt also chiliaëdron.]


word: Chiliarch
definition:
Chiliarch

Chilian

{ Chil"i*an (?), Chil"i*arch` (?), }
n.
[Gr. _;, _;; chi`lioi a thousand + _; leader, _; to lead.]
The commander or chief of a thousand men.


word: Chiliasm
definition:
Chiliasm

Chil"i*asm
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fr. _;. See Chiliad.]
1.
The millennium.

2.
The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.


word: Chiliast
definition:
Chiliast

Chil"i*ast
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;. See Chiliasm.]
One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a millenarian.


word: Chill
definition:
Chill

Chill
(chĭl)
n.
[AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness, Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool.]

1.
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
chill
W. Irving.

2.
(Med.)
A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

3.
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

4.
An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Raymond.

5.
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Knight.

Chill and fever, fever and ague.


word: Chill₂
definition:
Chill

Chill
a.
1.
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.
Milton.

2.
Affected by cold.
chill
Shak.

3.
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

4.
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.


word: Chill₃
definition:
Chill

Chill
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chilled (chĭld); p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling.]
1.
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

When winter chilled the day.
Goldsmith.

2.
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.
Rogers.

3.
(Metal.)
To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.


word: Chill₄
definition:
Chill

Chill
v. i.
(Metal.)
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.


word: Chilled
definition:
Chilled

Chilled
(?)
a.
1.
Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

2.
(Paint.)
Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called “blooming.”


word: Chilliness
definition:
Chilliness

Chill"i*ness
(?)
n.
1.
A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.

2.
A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.

3.
Formality; lack of warmth.


word: Chilling
definition:
Chilling

Chill"ing
(?)
a.
Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.


word: Chillness
definition:
Chillness

Chill"ness
n.
Coolness; coldness; a chill.

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn.
Longfellow.


word: Chilly
definition:
Chilly

Chill"y
(?)
a.
Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.


word: Chilognatha
definition:
Chilognatha

Chi*log"na*tha
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; lip + gna`qos Jaw.]
(Zool.)
One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.


word: Chiloma
definition:
Chiloma

Chi*lo"ma
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; lip, fr. _; lip. See -oma.]
(Zool.)
The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.


word: Chilomycterus
definition:
Chilomycterus

Chilomycterus
n.
a genus of fish, consisting of the burrfishes.

Syn. -- genus Chilomycterus.


word: Chilopoda
definition:
Chilopoda

Chi*lop"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; lip + -poda.]
(Zool.)
One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipedes. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.


word: Chilostomata
definition:
Chilostomata

Chilostoma

{ &VerbarChi*los"to*ma (?), Chi*lo*stom"a*ta (?), }
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; + _;, _;, outh.]
(Zool.)
An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.
[Also written Chillostomata.]


word: Chiltern Hundreds
definition:
Chiltern Hundreds

Chiltern Hundreds
(?)
[AS. Chiltern the Chiltern, high hills in Buckinghamshire, perh. Fr. ceald cold + ern, ærn, place.]
A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.


word: Chimaera
definition:
Chimaera

Chi*mæ"ra
(?)
n.
[NL. See Chimera.]
(Zool.)
A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Chimaeriformes of the class Holocephali.  The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

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word: Chimango
definition:
Chimango

Chi*man"go
[Native name]
(Zool.)
A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.


word: Chimb
definition:
Chimb

Chimb
(chīm)
n.
[AS. cim, in cimstān base of a pillar; akin to D. kim, f. Sw. kim., G. kimme f.]
The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.
[Written also chime.]


word: Chime₂
definition:
Chime

Chime
(chīm)
n.
[OE. chimbe, prop., cymbal, OF. cymbe, cymble, in a dialectic form, chymble, F. cymbale, L. cymbalum, fr. Gr. ky`mbalon. See Cymbal.]
1.
The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.

Instruments that made melodius chime.
Milton.

2.
A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.

We have heard the chimes at midnight.
Shak.

3.
Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
Chimes
Cowley.


word: Chime₃
definition:
Chime

Chime
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chiming.]
[See Chime, n.]
1.
To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.

2.
To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.

Everything chimed in with such a humor.
W. irving.

3.
To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
[Colloq.]

4.
To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Cowley


word: Chime₄
definition:
Chime

Chime
(?)
v. i.
1.
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

And chime their sounding hammers.
Dryden.

2.
To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.

Chime his childish verse.
Byron.


word: Chimera
definition:
Chimera

Chime"ra
(?)
n.
pl. Chimeras (#).
[L. chimaera a chimera (in sense 1), Gr. _; a she-goat, a chimera, fr. _; he-goat; cf. Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
1.
(Myth.)
A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
chimeras
Milton.

2.
A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
Burke.


word: Chimere
definition:
Chimere

Chi*mere"
(?)
n.
[OF. chamarre., F. simarre (cf. It. zimarra), fr. Sp. chamarra, zamarra, a coat made of sheepskins, a sheepskin, perh. from Ar. sammūr the Scythian weasel or marten, the sable. Cf. Simarre.]
The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
Hook.


word: Chimerical
definition:
Chimerical

Chi*mer"ic*al
(?)
a.
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.


word: Chiminage
definition:
Chiminage

Chim"i*nage
(?)
n.
[OF. cheminage, fr. chemin way, road.]
(Old Law)
A toll for passage through a forest.
[Obs.]
Cowell.


word: Chimney
definition:
Chimney

Chim"ney
n.
pl. Chimneys (#).
[F. cheminée, LL. caminata, fr. L. caminus furnace, fireplace, Gr. _; furnace, oven.]
1.
A fireplace or hearth.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.

2.
That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.

Hard by a cottage chimney smokes.
Milton.

3.
A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

4.
(Min.)
A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
Raymond.

Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. -- Chimney swallow. (Zool.) (a) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica). -- Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.


word: Chimney-breast
definition:
Chimney-breast

Chim"ney-breast`
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.


word: chimneypiece
definition:
chimneypiece

Chimney-piece

Chim"ney-piece`, chimneypiece
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace; also, the shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; mantlepiece.
[Chiefly Brit.]

Syn. -- mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece.


word: chimneystack
definition:
chimneystack

chimneystack
n.
the part of the chimney that is above the roof; it usually has several flues.


word: chimneysweeper
definition:
chimneysweeper

chimneysweep

chimneysweep, chimneysweeper
n.
someone who cleans soot from chimneys, usually as a profession.

Syn. -- chimneysweeper, sweep.


word: Chimonanthus
definition:
Chimonanthus

Chimonanthus
n.
a small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter sweet.

Syn. -- genus Chimonanthus.


word: Chimpanzee
definition:
Chimpanzee

Chim*pan"zee
(chĭm*păn"ze̝; 277)
n.
[From the native name: cf. F. chimpanzé, chimpansé, chimpanzée.]
(Zool.)
An african ape (Pan troglodytes, formerly Anthropithecus troglodytes, or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. It is the most intelligent of non-human animals, and when full grown, it is from three to four feet high.  A variant called the pygmy chimpanzee, or bonobo, has been recently recognized as a separate species.


word: Chin
definition:
Chin

Chin
(chĭn)
n.
[AS. cin, akin to OS. kin, G kinn, Icel. kinn, cheek, Dan. & Sw. kind, L. gena, Gr. _;; cf. Skr. hanu.  √232.]
1.
The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

2.
(Zool.)
The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.


word: China
definition:
China

Chi"na
(?)
n.
1.
A country in Eastern Asia.

2.
China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.

China aster (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See Aster. -- China bean. See under Bean, 1. -- China clay See Kaolin. -- China grass, Same as Ramie. -- China ink. See India ink. -- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (Dianthus Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. -- China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (Smilax China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum). -- China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. -- China shop, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery. -- Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.


word: chinaberry
definition:
chinaberry

chinaberry
n.
1.
an evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans.

Syn. -- China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria.

2.
a tree of N India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern US as a shade tree.

Syn. -- chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azederach, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach.


word: chinaware
definition:
chinaware

China ware

China ware, chinaware
n.
dishes made of china; porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general.


word: Chinch
definition:
Chinch

Chinch
(?)
n.
[Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex.]
1.
(Zool.)
The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

2.
(Zool.)
A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.


word: Chincherie
definition:
Chincherie

Chinch"er*ie
(?)
n.
Penuriousness.
[Obs.]

By cause of his skarsete and chincherie.
Caucer.


word: Chinchilla
definition:
Chinchilla

Chin*chil"la
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
1.
(Zool.)
A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.

2.
The fur of the chinchilla.

3.
A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.


word: Chinchillidae
definition:
Chinchillidae

Chinchillidae
n.
a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.

Syn. -- family Chinchillidae.


word: chinchillon
definition:
chinchillon

chinchillon
n.
a gregarious burrowing rodent (Lagostomus maximus) larger than the chinchillas.

Syn. -- viscacha, Lagostomus maximus.


word: Chincona
definition:
Chincona

Chinchona

{ Chin*cho"na (?), Chin*co"na (?). }
any of several trees of the genus Cinchona. Same as Cinchona.


word: chinchy
definition:
chinchy

chinch"y
(chĭnch"&ybreve_;)
adj.
[Compar. chinchier (chĭn"chĭ*ẽr); superl. chinchiest (chĭn"chĭ*ĕst).]
[See chinche.]
same as stingy.

Syn. -- cheap, chintzy, stingy, chinche.


word: Chin cough
definition:
Chin cough

Chin" cough"
(?)
[For chink cough; cf. As. cincung long laughter, Scot. kink a violent fit of coughing, akin to MHG. kīchen to pant. Cf. Kinknaust, Cough.]
Whooping cough.


word: Chine
definition:
Chine

Chine
(?)
n.
[Cf. Chink.]
A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
[Prov. Eng.]
chine
J. Ingelow.


word: Chine₂
definition:
Chine

Chine
(?)
n.
[OF. eschine, F. échine, fr. OHG. skina needle, prickle, shin, G. schiene splint, schienbein shin. For the meaning cf. L. spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backbone. Cf. Shin.]
1.
The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
chine
Dryden.

2.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]

3.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.


word: Chine₃
definition:
Chine

Chine
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chined (?).]
1.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

2.
Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..


word: Chined
definition:
Chined

Chined
(?)
a.
1.
Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
Broken in the back.
[Obs.]

He's chined, goodman.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Chinese
definition:
Chinese

Chi"nese"
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.


word: Chinese₂
definition:
Chinese

Chi*nese"
n. sing. & pl.
1.
A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

2.
sing.
The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

&hand_; Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.


word: Chinese Exclusion Act
definition:
Chinese Exclusion Act

Chinese Exclusion Act
Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States.


word: Chinese-red
definition:
Chinese-red

Chinese-red
adj.
of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.

Syn. -- vermilion, vermillion, cinibar.


word: Chink
definition:
Chink

Chink
(chĭ&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[OE. chine, AS. cīne fissure, chink, fr. cīnan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.]
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.

Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
Macaulay.


word: Chink₂
definition:
Chink

Chink
(chĭ&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[From chinaman.]
a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.
[slang]


word: Chink₃
definition:
Chink

Chink
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chinked (chĭ&nsmacr_;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.]
To crack; to open.


word: Chink₄
definition:
Chink

Chink
v. t.
1.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

2.
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.


word: Chink₅
definition:
Chink

Chink
n.
[Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]
1.
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink
Cowper.

2.
Money; cash.
[Cant]
chink
Somerville.


word: Chink₆
definition:
Chink

Chink
v. t.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Pope.


word: Chink₇
definition:
Chink

Chink
v. i.
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Arbuthnot.


word: Chinky
definition:
Chinky

Chink"y
(chĭ&nsmacr_;k"&ybreve_;)
a.
Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Dryden.


word: chino
definition:
chino

chi"no
(chē"n&omacr)
n.
a coarse, tough, twilled cotton fabric used for uniforms or sports clothes.


word: Chinoidine
definition:
Chinoidine

Chi*noid"ine
(?)
n.
[NL. chinium quinine (cf. G. & F. china Peruvian bark) + -oil + -ine.]
(Chem.)
See Quinodine.


word: Chinoline
definition:
Chinoline

Chin"o*line
(?)
n.
[NL. chinium quinine (see Chinoldine) + L. oleum oil + -ine.]
(Chem.)
See Quinoline.


word: Chinoiserie
definition:
Chinoiserie

Chi`noi`se*rie"
(shē`nwȧ`z'*rē")
n.
[F.]
1.
Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.

2.
a style in art reflecting Chinese influence, being elaborately decorated and intricately patterned.


word: Chinook
definition:
Chinook

Chi*nook"
(?)
n.
1.
(Ethnol.)
One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

2.
A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

3.
A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.


word: Chinquapin
definition:
Chinquapin

Chin"qua*pin
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
[Written also chincapin and chinkapin.]

Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.


word: Chinse
definition:
Chinse

Chinse
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Chinsed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chinsing.]
(Naut.)
To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

Chinsing iron, a light calking iron.


word: Chintz
definition:
Chintz

Chintz
(?)
n.
pl. Chintzes (#).
[Hindi chīnt spotted cotton clooth, chīntā spot.]
Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.
Swift.


word: chintzy
definition:
chintzy

chintzy
adj.
1.
resembling chintz or decorated with chintz.

2.
of very poor quality.
[informal]

Syn. -- bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tatty, tinny, chinchy.

3.
stingy; miserly.

Syn. -- cheap.


word: chin-up
definition:
chin-up

chin-up
n.
an arm exercise performed by pulling oneself up on a horizontal bar until the chin is level with or above the bar.


word: chin-wagging
definition:
chin-wagging

chin-wag

chin-wag, chin-wagging
n.
a light informal conversation for social occasions.

Syn. -- chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, causerie.


word: Chiococca
definition:
Chiococca

Chiococca
n.
a genus of shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World.

Syn. -- genus Chiococca.


word: Chionanthus
definition:
Chionanthus

Chionanthus
n.
a genus of deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree.

Syn. -- genus Chionanthus.


word: Chip
definition:
Chip

Chip
(chĭp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chipped (chĭpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chipping.]
[Cf. G. kippen to cut off the edge, to clip, pare. Cf. Chop to cut.]
1.
To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
Shak.

2.
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

3.
To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.

To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]


word: Chip₃
definition:
Chip

Chip
n.
1.
A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

2.
A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

3.
Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

4.
Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

5.
One of the counters used in poker and other games.

6.
(Naut.)
The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.

Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo. -- Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape. -- Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3. -- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton. -- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.


word: chipboard
definition:
chipboard

chipboard
n.
a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin.

Syn. -- hardboard.


word: Chipmunk
definition:
Chipmunk

Chip"munk`
(?)
n.
[Indian name.]
(Zool.)
A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
[Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]


word: Chippendale
definition:
Chippendale

Chip"pen*dale
(?)
a.
Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular.
Chip"pen*dal*ism (#), n.

It must be clearly and unmistakably understood, then, that, whenever painted (that is to say, decorated with painted enrichment) or inlaid furniture is described as Chippendale, no matter where or by whom, it is a million chances to one that the description is incorrect.
R. D. Benn.


word: Chippeways
definition:
Chippeways

Chip"pe*ways
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Chippeway
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.


word: Chipping
definition:
Chipping

Chip"ping
(?)
n.
1.
A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

2.
The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

3.
The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.


word: Chippy₂
definition:
Chippy

Chip"py
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.


word: Chiragrical
definition:
Chiragrical

Chi*rag"ric*al
(?)
a.
Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.
Sir. T. Browne.


word: Chiretta
definition:
Chiretta

Chi*ret"ta
(?)
n.
[Hind. chirāītā.]
A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.


word: Chirk
definition:
Chirk

Chirk
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. Chirp, also Creak.]
1.
To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.
[Obs.]

All full of chirkyng was that sorry place.
Cheucer.

2.
To chirp like a bird.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Chirm
definition:
Chirm

Chirm
(?)
n.
[AS. cirm, cyrm.]
Noise; din; esp.; confused noise, clamor, or hum of many voices, notes of birds, or the like.


word: Chirm₂
definition:
Chirm

Chirm
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. AS. cyrman, cirman, to cry out. √24. Cf. Chirp.]
To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.
[Obs.]
Huloet.


word: Chirognomy
definition:
Chirognomy

Chi*rog"no*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + _; understanding.]
The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.


word: Chirograph
definition:
Chirograph

Chi"ro*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; written with the hand; chei`r hand + gra`fein to write.]
(Old. Law)
(a)
A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.
(b)
The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.
Bouvier.


word: Chirographer
definition:
Chirographer

Chi*rog"ra*pher
(?)
n.
1.
One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

2.
See chirographist, 2.

Chirographer of fines (Old Eng. Law), an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines.


word: Chirographical
definition:
Chirographical

Chirographic

{ Chi`ro*graph"ic (?), Chi`ro*graph"ic*al (?) }
a.
Of or pertaining to chirography.


word: Chirographist
definition:
Chirographist

Chi*rog"ra*phist
(?)
n.
1.
A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.

2.
One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.


word: Chirography
definition:
Chirography

Chi*rog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
1.
The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

2.
The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.


word: Chirogymnast
definition:
Chirogymnast

Chi`ro*gym"nast
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + _;  trainer of athletes, gymnast.]
A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers of a pianist.


word: Chirologist
definition:
Chirologist

Chi*rol"o*gist
(?)
n.
One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.


word: Chirology
definition:
Chirology

Chi*rol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + -logy.]
The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.


word: Chiromancy
definition:
Chiromancy

Chi"ro*mancy
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + -mancy.]
The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.


word: Chiromantical
definition:
Chiromantical

Chiromantic

{ Chi`ro*man"tic (?), Chi`ro*man"tic*al (?) }
a.
Of or pertaining to chiromancy.


word: Chironomy
definition:
Chironomy

Chi*ron"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; chei`r hand + _; to manage.]
The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture
[Obs.]


word: Chiroplast
definition:
Chiroplast

Chi"ro*plast
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; formed by hand; chei`r hand + _; to shape.]
(Mus.)
An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.


word: Chiropodist
definition:
Chiropodist

Chi*rop"o*dist
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + _;; _;, foot.]
One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.


word: chiropractic
definition:
chiropractic

chiropractic
n.
a method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.


word: chiropter
definition:
chiropter

chiropter
n.
[See chiroptera.]
any mammal belonging to the order chiroptera; a bat.

Syn. -- chiropteran; bat.


word: chiroptera
definition:
chiroptera

chi*rop"te*ra
(ki̝*r&obreve_;p"tẽr)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing.]
(Zool.)
an ancient order of mammalia dating to the early Eocene, including the bats. They are nocturnal mouselike mammals having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they form membranous wings that can be used in flying.  They also have anatomical adaptations, including large ears, for echolocation, by which they navigate and in some cases find insects.  The order includes the suborders Megachiroptera (the fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats). See Bat.  Previously spelled cheiroptera.
[archaic]


word: chiropteran₂
definition:
chiropteran

chiropteran
n.
nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.

Syn. -- bat.


word: Chirosophist
definition:
Chirosophist

Chiros"ophist
(?)
n.
[Gr. chei`r hand + _; skillful, wise. See Sophist.]
A fortune teller.


word: Chirp
definition:
Chirp

Chirp
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chirped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chirping.]
[Of imitative orgin. Cf. Chirk, Chipper, Cheep, Chirm, Chirrup.]
To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.


word: Chirping
definition:
Chirping

Chirp"ing
(?)
a.
Cheering; enlivening.

He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes.
Pope.


word: Chirre
definition:
Chirre

Chirre
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. G. girren, AS. corian to murmur, complain. √24.]
To coo, as a pigeon.
[Obs.]


word: Chirrup
definition:
Chirrup

Chir"rup
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chirruped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chirruping.]
[See Chirp.]
To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.


word: Chirurgeon
definition:
Chirurgeon

Chi*rur"geon
(?)
n.
[F. chirurgien, from chirurgie surgery, fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; working or operating with the hand; chei`r hand + _; work. Cf. Surgeon, Work.]
A surgeon.
[Obs.]


word: Chirurgical
definition:
Chirurgical

Chirurgic

{ Chi*rur"gic (?), Chirur"gical (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. chirurgiquerurgical, L. Chirurgicus, Gr. _;. See Chirurgeon, and cf. Surgical.]
Surgical
[Obs.]
Chirurgical
Longfellow.


word: Chisel
definition:
Chisel

Chis"el
(?)
n.
[OF. chisel, F. ciseau, fr. LL. cisellus, prob. for caesellus, fr. L. caesus, p. p. of caedere to cut. Cf. Scissors.]
A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.

Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.


word: Chisel₂
definition:
Chisel

Chis"el
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chiseled (?), or Chiselled (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Chiseling, or Chiselling.]
[Cf. F. ciseler.]
1.
To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

2.
To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
[Slang]


word: chiseller
definition:
chiseller

chiseler

chiseler, chiseller
n.
1.
a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.

Syn. -- swindler, chiseler, gouger, sharper, sharpie, sharpy.


word: Chislev
definition:
Chislev

Chis"lev
(kĭs"lŭf; kĭs"lŭv; kēs*lĕv")
n.
[Heb.]
The third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December; -- same as Kislev.

Syn. -- Kislev.


word: Chisley
definition:
Chisley

Chis"ley
(chĭz"l&ybreve_;)
a.
[AS. ceosel gravel or sand. Cf. Chessom.]
Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil.
Gardner.


word: Chit
definition:
Chit

Chit
(chĭt)
n.
[Cf. AS. cīð shoot, sprig, from the same root as cīnan to yawn. See Chink a cleft.]
1.
The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

2.
A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

A little chit of a woman.
Thackeray.

3.
An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
[Obs.]

4.
A small tool used in cleaving laths.
Knight.


word: Chitty
definition:
Chitty

Chit

{ Chit, Chit"ty (?) }
n.
[Hind. chi&tsdot_;&tsdot_;ī.]
1.
A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.

2.
A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
[India, China, etc.]


word: Chit₂
definition:
Chit

Chit
v. i.
To shoot out; to sprout.

I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth.
Mortimer.


word: Chitchat
definition:
Chitchat

Chit"chat
(?)
n.
[From Chat, by way of reduplication.]
Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.


word: Chitin
definition:
Chitin

Chi"tin
(?)
n.
[See Chiton.]
(Chem.)
A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.


word: chitlins
definition:
chitlins

chitlings

chitlings, chitlins
n.
1.
small intestines of hogs prepared as food.

Syn. -- chitterlings.


word: Chiton
definition:
Chiton

Chi"ton
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a chiton (in sense 1).]
1.
An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

2.
(Zool.)
One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.


word: chittamwood
definition:
chittamwood

chittamwood
n.
1.
a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

Syn. -- cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus.

2.
a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.

Syn. -- false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa.

3.
a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.

Syn. -- American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus.


word: Chitter
definition:
Chitter

Chit"ter
(?)
v. i.
[Cf. Chatter.]
1.
To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
To shiver or chatter with cold.
[Scot.]
Burns.


word: Chitterling
definition:
Chitterling

Chit"ter*ling
(?)
n.
The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.
[Obs.]
Gascoigne.


word: Chitterlings
definition:
Chitterlings

Chit"ter*lings
(?)
n. pl.
[Cf. AS. cwiþ womb, Icel. kvið, Goth. qiþus, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings.]
(Cookery)
The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.


word: Chivachie
definition:
Chivachie

Chiv"a*chie`
(?)
n.
[OF. chevauchie, chevauchée; of the same origin as E. cavalcade.]
A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Chivalrous
definition:
Chivalrous

Chiv"al*rous
(?)
a.
[OF. chevalerus, chevalereus, fr. chevalier. See Chivalry.]
Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.

In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise.
Spenser.


word: Chivalry
definition:
Chivalry

Chiv"al*ry
(?)
n.
[F. chevalerie, fr. chevalier knight, OF., horseman. See Chevalier, and cf. Cavalry.]
1.
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
chivalry
Milton.

By his light
Did all the chivalry of England move,
To do brave acts.
Shak.

2.
The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
Dryden.

3.
The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.

The glory of our Troy this day doth lie
On his fair worth and single chivalry.
Shak.

4.
(Eng. Law)
A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

5.
Exploit.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.

Court of chivalry, a court formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England as judges, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. Blackstone.


word: chivaree
definition:
chivaree

chivaree
n.
a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.

Syn. -- shivaree, charivari, callithump, callathump.


word: Chivarros
definition:
Chivarros

Chivarras

{ &VerbarChi*var"ras (?),  &VerbarChi*var"ros (?), }
n. pl.
[Mex. Sp.]
Leggings.
[Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]


word: chives
definition:
chives

chive

chive, chives
(?)
n.
[F. cive, fr. L. cepa, caepa, onion. Cf. Cives, Cibol.]
(Bot.)
A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion,  having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.
[Written also cive.]

Syn. -- chive, cive, schnittlaugh, Allium schoenoprasum.

2.
the bulbous herb Allium Schoenoprasum used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning.


word: chivvy
definition:
chivvy

chivvy
v.
same as chivy.
[Also spelled chivy, chevy, and chevvy.]

Syn. -- harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.


word: Chivy
definition:
Chivy

Chiv"y
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chivied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chivying.]
[Cf. Chevy.]
To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch; to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to.
[Slang, Eng.]
[Also spelled chivvy, chevy, and chevvy.]
Dickens.

Syn. -- harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.


word: Chlamydate
definition:
Chlamydate

Chlam"y*date
(?)
a.
[L. chlamydatus dressed in a military cloak. See Chlamys.]
(Zool.)
Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.


word: chlamydia
definition:
chlamydia

chlamydia
n.
a coccoid rickettsia which may infect birds and mammals; it causes infections of eyes and lungs and the genitourinary tract.


word: Chlamydiaceae
definition:
Chlamydiaceae

Chlamydiaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of gram-negative bacteria which are parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates.

Syn. -- family Chlamydiaceae.


word: Chlamydomonadaceae
definition:
Chlamydomonadaceae

Chlamydomonadaceae
prop. n.
A natural family of green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome.

Syn. -- family Chlamydomonadaceae.


word: Chlamydomonas
definition:
Chlamydomonas

Chlamydomonas
prop. n.
The type genus of the Chlamydomonadaceae; they are solitary biflagellated plantlike algae common in fresh water and damp soil.  They multiply freely and are often a pest around filtration plants.

Syn. -- genus Chlamydomonas.


word: Chlamyphore
definition:
Chlamyphore

Chlam"y*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; cloak + fe`rein to bear.]
(Zool.)
A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and Chlamyphorus retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.


word: Chlamys
definition:
Chlamys

Chla"mys
(?)
n.
pl. E. Chlamyses (#), L. Chlamydes (#).
[L., from Gr. _;.]
A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.


word: Chloasma
definition:
Chloasma

Chlo*as"ma
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; to be green.]
(Med.)
A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.


word: Chloral
definition:
Chloral

Chlo"ral
(?)
n.
[Chlorine + alcohol.]
1.
(Chem.)
A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.

2.
(Med.)
Chloral hydrate.


word: Chloralamide
definition:
Chloralamide

Chlo"ral*am`ide
(?)
n.
[Chloral + amide.]
(Chem.)
A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.


word: chloral hydrate
definition:
chloral hydrate

chloral hydrate
n.
1.
a chemical substance (CCl3.CH(OH)2) which is a hydrate of trichloroacetaldehyde.  It crystallizes as white monoclinic plates, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically, and is used in medicine as a hypnotic and sedative; -- called also chloral
It may be habit-forming, and is a controlled substance listed in the U. S. Code of Federal Regulations.  It is sometimes used to render a person unconscious for illegal or nefarious purposes, and in this use, a concentrated solution is one of the agents called knockout drops.


word: Chloralism
definition:
Chloralism

Chlo"ral*ism
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.


word: Chloralum
definition:
Chloralum

Chlor`al"um
(?)
n.
[Chlorine + aluminium.]
An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.


word: Chloranil
definition:
Chloranil

Chlor`an"il
(?)
n.
[Chlorine + aniline.]
(Chem.)
A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.


word: Chlorate
definition:
Chlorate

Chlo"rate
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chlorate. See Chlorine.]
(Chem.)
A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.


word: Chlorhydrin
definition:
Chlorhydrin

Chlor`hy"drin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.


word: Chloric
definition:
Chloric

Chlo"ric
(?)
a.
[From Chlorine.]
Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.

Chloric ether (Chem.), ethylene dichloride. See Dutch liquid, under Dutch.


word: Chloridate
definition:
Chloridate

Chlo"ri*date
(?)
v. t.
To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.
R. Hunt.


word: Chloride
definition:
Chloride

Chlo"ride
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).

Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOCl2, used in bleaching and disinfecting; -- called more properly calcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.


word: Chlorinate
definition:
Chlorinate

Chlo"rin*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chlorinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chlorinating.]
(Chem.)
To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.


word: Chlorination
definition:
Chlorination

Chlo`ri*na"tion
(?)
n.
The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.


word: Chlorine
definition:
Chlorine

Chlo"rine
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; pale green, greenish yellow. So named from its color. See Yellow.]
(Chem.)
One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt (Sodium chloride). It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiarities.


word: Chloriodic
definition:
Chloriodic

Chlor`i*od"ic
(?)
a.
Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.


word: Chlorite
definition:
Chlorite

Chlo"rite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; (sc. _;), fr. chlwro`s light green.]
(Min.)
The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

Chlorite slate, a schistose or slaty rock consisting of alumina, iron, and magnesia.


word: Chlorite₂
definition:
Chlorite

Chlo"rite
n.
[Chlorous + -ite.]
(Chem.)
Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.


word: Chloritic
definition:
Chloritic

Chlo*rit"ic
(?)
a.
[From 1st Chlorite.]
Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.


word: Chlormethane
definition:
Chlormethane

Chlor`meth"ane
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.


word: Chloro-
definition:
Chloro-

Chlo"ro-
(?)
(Chem.)
A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.


word: Chlorocruorin
definition:
Chlorocruorin

Chlo`ro*cru"o*rin
(?)
n.
[Gr. chlwro`s light green + E. cruorin.]
(Physiol.)
A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
Ray Lankester.


word: Chlorodyne
definition:
Chlorodyne

Chlo"ro*dyne
(?)
n.
[From chlorine, in imitation of anodyne.]
(Med.)
A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.


word: Chloroform
definition:
Chloroform

Chlo"ro*form
(?)
n.
[Chlorine + formyl, it having been regarded as a trichloride of this radical: cf. F. chloroforme, G. chloroform.]
(Chem.)
A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.


word: Chloroform₂
definition:
Chloroform

Chlo"ro*form
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chloroformed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chloroforming.]
To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.


word: Chloroleucite
definition:
Chloroleucite

Chlo`ro*leu"cite
(?)
n.
[Gr. chlwro`s light green + E. leucite.]
(Bot.)
Same as Chloroplastid.


word: Chlorometer
definition:
Chlorometer

Chlo*rom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chloromètre. See Chlorine, and -meter.]
An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.


word: Chlorometry
definition:
Chlorometry

Chlo*rom"e*try
(?)
n.
The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.


word: Chloropal
definition:
Chloropal

Chlo*ro"pal
(?)
n.
[Gr. chlwro`s light green + E. opal.]
(Min.)
A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.


word: Chloropeptic
definition:
Chloropeptic

Chlo`ro*pep"tic
(?)
a.
[Chlorine + peptic.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.


word: Chlorophane
definition:
Chlorophane

Chlo"ro*phane
(?)
n.
[Gr. chlwro`s light green + _; to show: cf. F. chlorophane.]
1.
(Min.)
A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.

2.
(Physiol.)
The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.


word: Chlorophyll
definition:
Chlorophyll

Chlo"ro*phyll
(?)
n.
[Gr. chlwro`s light green + fy`llon leaf: cf. F. chlorophylle.]
1.
(Bot.)
Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
[Written also chlorophyl.]

2.
any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms.  Chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b are found in higher plants and green algae; chlorophyll c is found in certain types of marine algae.  Chemically, it has a porphyrin ring with a magnesium ion bound to the four central nitrogens, and has a phytyl side chain.  It is essential for photosynthesis in most plants.  Chlorophyll a has formula C55H72N4O5Mg.

Syn. -- chlorophyll.


word: Chloroplast
definition:
Chloroplast

Chlo"ro*plast
(?)
n.
[Pref. chloro- + Gr. _; to mold, form.]
(Biol.)
A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.


word: Chloroplastid
definition:
Chloroplastid

Chlo`ro*plas"tid
(?)
n.
[Gr. chlwro`s light green + E. plastid.]
(Bot.)
A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.


word: Chlorosis
definition:
Chlorosis

Chlo*ro"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. chlwro`s light green: cf. F. chlorose.]
1.
(Med.)
The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

2.
(Bot.)
A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.


word: Chlorous
definition:
Chlorous

Chlo"rous
(?)
a.
[See Chlorine.]
1.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.

2.
(Chem. Physics)
Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.
[Obs.]


word: Chloroxylon
definition:
Chloroxylon

Chloroxylon
n.
a genus of deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka.

Syn. -- genus Chloroxylon.


word: Chlorpicrin
definition:
Chlorpicrin

Chlor`pi"crin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
[Written also chloropikrin.]


word: chlorpromazine
definition:
chlorpromazine

chlorpromazine
n.
a drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer.


word: chlortetracycline
definition:
chlortetracycline

chlortetracycline
n.
a yellow crystalline antibacterial antibiotic used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases. Aureomycin is one common trademark for chlortetracycline.

Syn. -- Aureomycin.


word: Chlorura
definition:
Chlorura

Chlorura
n.
one of the genera of birds which comprise the towhees.

Syn. -- genus Chlorura.


word: choanocyte
definition:
choanocyte

cho"a*no*cyte`
(k&omacr"ȧ*no̝*sīt`; k&omacr*ăn"o̝*sīt`)
n.
[Gr. choa`nh funnel + -cyte.]
any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.

Syn. -- collar cell.


word: Choanoid
definition:
Choanoid

Cho"a*noid
(?)
a.
[Gr. choa`nh funnel + -oid.]
(Anat.)
Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.


word: Chock
definition:
Chock

Chock
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chocked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chocking.]
To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.


word: Chock₃
definition:
Chock

Chock
n.
1.
A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

2.
(Naut.)
A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.


word: Chockablock
definition:
Chockablock

Chock"a*block
(?)
a.
(Naut.)
Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.


word: chockfull
definition:
chockfull

Chock-full

Chock"-full` chock"full`
(?)
pred. a.
Quite full; full to capacity; choke-full; as, chowder chock-full of clams.

Syn. -- chockablock(predicate), chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate), chuck-full(predicate), cram full.


word: Chocolate
definition:
Chocolate

Choc"o*late
(?)
n.
[Sp., fr. the Mexican name of the cacao. Cf. Cacao, Cocoa.]
1.
A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

2.
The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.

Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate. -- Chocolate nut. See Cacao.


word: Choctaws
definition:
Choctaws

Choc"taws
(?)
n. pl.
sing. Choctaw.
(Ethnol.)
A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.


word: Choice
definition:
Choice

Choice
(chois)
n.
[OE. chois, OF. chois, F. choix, fr. choisir to choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to choose, examine, G. kiesen. √46. Cf. Choose.]
1.
Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

2.
The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.
Hooker.

3.
Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice.
Bacon.

4.
A sufficient number to choose among.
Shak.

5.
The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

The common wealth is sick of their own choice.
Shak.

6.
The best part; that which is preferable.

The flower and choice
Of many provinces from bound to bound.
Milton.

To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.


word: Choice₂
definition:
Choice

Choice
a.
[Compar. Choicer (?); superl. Choicest (?).]
1.
Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

My choicest hours of life are lost.
Swift.

2.
Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

3.
Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

Choice word measured phrase.
Wordsworth.


word: Choiceful
definition:
Choiceful

Choice"ful
(?)
a.
Making choices; fickle.
[Obs.]

His choiceful sense with every change doth fit.
Spenser.


word: Choicely
definition:
Choicely

Choice"ly
adv.
1.
With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.
choicely
Shak.

2.
In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.
Choicely
Walton.


word: Choir
definition:
Choir

Choir
(?)
n.
[OE. quer, OF. cuer, F. chœur, fr. L. chorus a choral dance, chorus, choir, fr. Gr. _;, orig. dancing place; prob. akin to _; inclosure, L. hortus garden, and E. yard. See Chorus.]
1.
A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
[Formerly written also quire.]

2.
That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

3.
(Arch.)
The chancel.

Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. -- Choir service, the service of singing performed by the choir. T. Warton.


word: Choke
definition:
Choke

Choke
(ch&omacrk)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Choked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choking.]
[OE. cheken, choken; cf. AS. āceocian to suffocate, Icel. koka to gulp, E. chincough, cough.]
1.
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
Shak.

2.
To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
Addison.

3.
To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.

Oats and darnel choke the rising corn.
Dryden.

4.
To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
choked
Swift.

5.
To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.


word: Choke₂
definition:
Choke

Choke
v. i.
1.
To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

2.
To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.

The words choked in his throat.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Choke₃
definition:
Choke

Choke
n.
1.
A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

2.
(Gun.)
(a)
The tied end of a cartridge.
(b)
A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.


word: Chokeberry
definition:
Chokeberry

Choke"ber`ry
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.


word: Chokebore
definition:
Chokebore

Choke"bore`
(?)
n.
1.
In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 21/2 to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.

2.
A shotgun that is made with such a bore.


word: Chokebore₂
definition:
Chokebore

Choke"bore`
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chokebored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chokeboring.]
To provide with a chokebore.


word: Chokecherry
definition:
Chokecherry

Choke"cher`ry
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.


word: Chokedar
definition:
Chokedar

Cho`ke*dar"
(?)
n.
[Hindi chaukī-dār.]
A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
[India]


word: Choke pear
definition:
Choke pear

Choke" pear`
(?)
1.
A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.

2.
A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
[Low]
S. Richardson.


word: Choker
definition:
Choker

Chok"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, chokes.

2.
A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
[Slang]


word: Choke-strap
definition:
Choke-strap

Choke"-strap`
(?)
n.
(Saddlery)
A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.


word: Choking
definition:
Choking

Chok"ing
(?)
a.
1.
That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

2.
Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.


word: Choking coil
definition:
Choking coil

Choking coil
(Elec.)
A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; -- called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.


word: Chokey
definition:
Chokey

Choky

{ Chok"y Chok"ey }
(?)
a.
1.
Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

2.
Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion.
choky
Aytoun.

The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey.
T. Hughes.


word: Choky
definition:
Choky

Cho"ky
(?)
n.
[From Hind. chauki watching, guard.]
1.
A station, as for collection of customs, for palanquin bearers, police, etc.
[India]

2.
Specif., a prison or lockup; a jail.
[India, or Slang, Eng.]


word: Cholaemia
definition:
Cholaemia

Cho*læ"mi*a
(ko̝*lē"mĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. cholh` bile + a"i^ma blood.]
(Med.)
A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.


word: Cholagogue
definition:
Cholagogue

Chol"a*gogue
(k&obreve_;l"ȧ*g&obreve_;g; 115)
a.
[Gr. cholagwgo`s; cholh` bile + 'agwgo`s leading, 'a`gein to lead: cf. F. cholagogue.]
(Med.)
Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
n. An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.


word: Cholecystis
definition:
Cholecystis

Chol`e*cys"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. cholh` bile + _; bladder.]
(Anat.)
The gall bladder.


word: Cholecystotomy
definition:
Cholecystotomy

Chol`e*cys*tot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Cholecystis + Gr. te`mnein to cut.]
(Surg.)
The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.


word: Choledology
definition:
Choledology

Chol`e*dol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. cholh` bile + -logy. Cf. F. cholédologie.]
(Med.)
A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.
Dunglison.

&hand_; Littré says that the word cholédologie is absolutely barbarous, there being no Greek word _;. A proper form would be cholology.


word: Choleic
definition:
Choleic

Cho*le"ic
(?)
a.
(Physiol. Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.


word: Choler
definition:
Choler

Chol"er
(?)
n.
[OE. coler, F. colère anger, L. cholera a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. _; cholera, fr. _;, cholh`, bile. See Gall, and cf. Cholera.]
1.
The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
[Obs.]

His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow.
I. Warton.

2.
Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.

He is rash and very sudden in choler.
Shak.


word: Cholera
definition:
Cholera

Chol"er*a
(?)
n.
[L., a bilious disease. See Choler.]
(Med.)
One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.

Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice-water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. -- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.


word: Choleric
definition:
Choleric

Chol"er*ic
(?)
a.
[L. cholericus, Gr. _;: cf. F. cholérique.]
1.
Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
Dryden.

2.
Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

3.
Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
Choleric
Sir W. Raleigh.

Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.


word: Cholerine
definition:
Cholerine

Chol"er*ine
(?)
n.
(Med.)
(a)
The precursory symptoms of cholera.
(b)
The first stage of epidemic cholera.
(c)
A mild form of cholera.


word: Cholesteric
definition:
Cholesteric

Cho`les*ter"ic
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. cholestérique.]
Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.
Ure.


word: Cholesterin
definition:
Cholesterin

Cho*les"ter*in
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; bile + _; stiff fat: F. cholestérine. See Stearin.]
(Chem.)
A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.


word: Choliambic
definition:
Choliambic

Choliamb

{ Cho"li*amb (?), Cho`li*am"bic (?), }
n.
[L. choliambus, Gr. _;; _; lame + _; an iambus.]
(Pros.)
A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.


word: Cholinic
definition:
Cholinic

Cholic

{ Chol"ic (?), Cho*lin"ic (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;, from _; bile.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.

Cholic acid (Chem.), a complex organic acid found as a natural constituent of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals.


word: Chomage
definition:
Chomage

Cho`mage"
(?)
n.
[F. chomage.]
1.
Stoppage; cessation (of labor).

2.
A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).


word: Chomp
definition:
Chomp

Chomp
(?)
v. i.
To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
[Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Halliwell.


word: chondrichthian
definition:
chondrichthian

chondrichthian
n.
a fish in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified; a cartilaginous fish.

Syn. -- cartilaginous fish.


word: Chondrichthyes
definition:
Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes
n.
the class of fishes comprising the cartilaginous fishes, which includes the sharks.

Syn. -- class Chondrichthyes.


word: Chondrification
definition:
Chondrification

Chon`dri*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.


word: Chondrify
definition:
Chondrify

Chon"dri*fy
(?)
v. t. & i.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + -fy.]
To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.


word: Chondrigen
definition:
Chondrigen

Chon"dri*gen
(?)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + -gen.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.


word: Chondrigenous
definition:
Chondrigenous

Chon*drig"e*nous
(?)
a.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + -genous.]
(Physiol.)
Affording chondrin.


word: Chondrin
definition:
Chondrin

Chon"drin
(?)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.  See also chondroitin sulfate.


word: Chondrite
definition:
Chondrite

Chon"drite
(?)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.]
(Min.)
A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.


word: Chondritic
definition:
Chondritic

Chon*drit"ic
(?)
a.
(Min.)
Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.


word: Chondritis
definition:
Chondritis

Chon*dri"tis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + -itis.]
(Med.)
An inflammation of cartilage.


word: Chondro-
definition:
Chondro-

Chon"dro-
(?)
[Gr. cho`ndros a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.]
A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.


word: Chondrodite
definition:
Chondrodite

Chon"dro*dite
(?)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.]
(Min.)
A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.


word: Chondroganoidea
definition:
Chondroganoidea

Chon`dro*ga*noi"de*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + NL. ganoidei. See Ganoid.]
(Zool.)
An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.


word: Chondrogen
definition:
Chondrogen

Chon"dro*gen
(?)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + -gen.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
Same as Chondrigen.


word: Chondrogenesis
definition:
Chondrogenesis

Chon`dro*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage + genesis.]
(Physiol.)
The development of cartilage.


word: chondroitin sulfate
definition:
chondroitin sulfate

chon*dro"it*in sul"fate
(k&obreve_;n*dr&omacr"ĭ*tĭn sŭl"fāt)
n.
[Gr. cho`ndros cartilage.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A colorless, amorphous, mucopolysaccharide having N-acetyl chondrosine as the repeating unit with one sulfate group per disaccharide.  Typical preparations have a molecular weight of about 50,000.  Preparations are sold over-the-counter, often referred to as chondroitin, with the putative ability to relieve pain in joints and assist joint cartilage growth or regeneration; such claims are, as of 2001, yet unproven.


word: Chondrology
definition:
Chondrology

Chon*drol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; cartilage + -logy: cf. F. chondrologie.]
(Anat.)
The science which treats of cartilages.
Dunglison.


word: Chondroma
definition:
Chondroma

Chon*dro"ma
(?)
n.
pl. Chondromata (#).
[NL., fr. Gr. _; cartilage + -oma.]
A cartilaginous tumor or growth.


word: Chondrometer
definition:
Chondrometer

Chon*drom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage + -meter.]
A steelyard for weighting grain.


word: Chondropterygian
definition:
Chondropterygian

Chon*drop`ter*yg"i*an
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. chondropterygien.]
Having a cartilaginous skeleton.
n. One of the Chondropterygii.


word: Chondropterygii
definition:
Chondropterygii

Chon*drop`te*ryg"i*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; cartilage + _;, _;, wing, fin.]
(Zool.)
A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter.
[Written also Chondropterygia.]


word: Chondrostei
definition:
Chondrostei

Chon*dros"te*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; cartilage + _; bone.]
(Zool.)
An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.


word: Chondrule
definition:
Chondrule

Chon"drule
(?)
n.
[Dim. from Gr. _; a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.]
(Min.)
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.


word: Choose
definition:
Choose

Choose
(?)
v. t.
[imp. Chose (?); p. p. Chosen (?), Chose (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Choosing.]
[OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ceósan; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kj&omacrsa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. _;, Skr. jush to enjoy. √46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust.]
1.
To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

Choose me for a humble friend.
Pope.

2.
To wish; to desire; to prefer.
[Colloq.]

The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
Goldsmith.

To choose sides. See under Side.


word: Choose₂
definition:
Choose

Choose
v. i.
1.
To make a selection; to decide.

They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion.
Prescott.

2.
To do otherwise.
choose
Pope.

Can not choose but, must necessarily.

Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
Shak.


word: Chooser
definition:
Chooser

Choos"er
(?)
n.
One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.
Burke.


word: choosy
definition:
choosy

choosey

choosey choosy
adj.
difficult to please, especially in details.

Syn. -- particular, fussy.


word: Chop
definition:
Chop

Chop
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chopping.]
[Cf. LG. & D. kappen, Dan. kappe, Sw. kappa. Cf. Chap to crack.]
1.
To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

2.
To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.

Chop off your hand, and it to the king.
Shak.

3.
To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
[Obs.]

Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up.
L'estrange.


word: Chop₂
definition:
Chop

Chop
(?)
v. i.
1.
To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.

2.
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.

Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance.
L'Estrange.

3.
To interrupt; -- with in or out.

This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
Latimer.


word: Chop₃
definition:
Chop

Chop
v. t.
[Cf. D. koopen to buy. See Cheapen, v. t., and cf. Chap, v. i., to buy.]
1.
To barter or truck.

2.
To exchange; substitute one thing for another.

We go on chopping and changing our friends.
L'Estrange.

To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.


word: Chop₄
definition:
Chop

Chop
v. i.
1.
To purchase by way of truck.

2.
(Naut.)
To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

3.
To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.

Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
Bacon.


word: Chop₇
definition:
Chop

Chop
n.
1.
The act of chopping; a stroke.

2.
A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.

3.
A crack or cleft. See Chap.


word: Chop₈
definition:
Chop

Chop
n.
[See Chap.]
1.
A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

2.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.

3.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.


word: Chop₉
definition:
Chop

Chop
n.
[Chin. & Hind. chāp stamp, brand.]

1.
Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

2.
A permit or clearance.

Chop dollar, a silver dollar stamped to attest its purity. -- chop of tea, a number of boxes of the same make and quality of leaf. -- Chowchow chop. See under Chowchow. -- Grand chop, a ship's port clearance. S. W. Williams.


word: Chopboat
definition:
Chopboat

Chop"boat`
(?)
n.
[Chin. chop sort, quality.]
A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.
[China]
S. W. Williams.


word: Chopchurch
definition:
Chopchurch

Chop"church`
(?)
n.
[See Chop to barter.]
(Old Eng. Law)
An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
[Cant]


word: Chopfallen
definition:
Chopfallen

Chop`fall`en
(?)
a.
Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.


word: Chophouse
definition:
Chophouse

Chop"house`
(?)
n.
A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.

The freedom of a chophouse.
W. Irving.


word: Chophouse₂
definition:
Chophouse

Chop"house`
n.
[See Chop quality.]
A customhouse where transit duties are levied.
[China]
S. W. Williams.


word: Chopin
definition:
Chopin

Chop"in
(?)
n.
[F. chopine, fr. G. schoppen.]
A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.


word: Chopine
definition:
Chopine

Cho*pine"
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. chapin, escapin, Sp. chapin, Pg. chapim.]
A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.
[Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.]

Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine.
Shak.


word: Chopping₂
definition:
Chopping

Chop"ping
a.
[See Chop to barter.]
Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.


word: Chopping₃
definition:
Chopping

Chop"ping
n.
Act of cutting by strokes.

Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.


word: Choppy
definition:
Choppy

Chop"py
(?)
a.
[Cf. Chappy.]
1.
Full of cracks.
Choppy
Shak.

2.
[Cf. Chop a change.]
Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.


word: Chops
definition:
Chops

Chops
(ch&obreve_;ps)
n. pl.
[See Chop a jaw.]
1.
The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

2.
The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.


word: chopsticks
definition:
chopsticks

chop"sticks`
(ch&obreve_;p"stĭks`)
n.
chopstick (ch&obreve_;p"stĭk`),
1.
a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in restaurants serving oriental food.


word: Chop sooy
definition:
Chop sooy

Chop suey

{ Chop su"ey or Chop soo"y  }
(?)
[Chin. (Cantonese) shap sui odds and ends, fr. shap for sap to enter the mouth + sui small bits pounded fine.]
A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil.
[U. S.]


word: Choragic
definition:
Choragic

Cho*rag"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;.]
Of or pertaining to a choragus.

Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.


word: Choragus
definition:
Choragus

Cho*ra"gus
(?)
n.
pl. Choragi (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;, _;; _; chorus + _; to lead.]
(Gr. Antiq.)
A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.


word: Choral
definition:
Choral

Cho"ral
(?)
a.
[LL. choralis, fr. L. chorus. See Chorus.]
Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

Choral service, a service of song.


word: chorale
definition:
chorale

Choral

Cho"ral, chorale
n.
(Mus.)
A stately hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation, used mostly in Protestant (especially Lutheran) churches; as, the Lutheran chorals.
[Sometimes written chorale.]


word: Chord
definition:
Chord

Chord
(kôrd)
n.
[L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. chordh`. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is written cord. See Cord.]
1.
The string of a musical instrument.
Milton.

2.
(Mus.)
A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

3.
(Geom.)
A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

4.
(Anat.)
A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

5.
(Engin.)
The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
Waddell.

Accidental, Common, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.


word: Chord₂
definition:
Chord

Chord
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Chording.]
To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
Dryden.

Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
Beecher.


word: Chorda
definition:
Chorda

Chor"da
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. chorda. See Chord.]
(Anat.)
A cord.

&VerbarChorda dorsalis (_;). [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.


word: chordomesoderm
definition:
chordomesoderm

chordamesoderm

chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm
n.
(Embryology)
the area of the mesoderm that forms the notochord.


word: Chordata
definition:
Chordata

Chor*da"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. chorda cord.]
(Zool.)
A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.


word: Chordee
definition:
Chordee

Chor*dee"
(?)
n.
[F. cordé, cordée, p. p. of corder to cord.]
(Med.)
A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.


word: chordophone
definition:
chordophone

chordophone
n.
(Music)
a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers.


word: Chordospartium
definition:
Chordospartium

Chordospartium
n.
a genus containing two species of small New Zealand trees: weeping tree broom; endangered.

Syn. -- genus Chordospartium.


word: Chore
definition:
Chore

Chore
(ch&omacrr)
n.
[The same word as char work done by the day.]
A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
[U. S.]


word: Chorea
definition:
Chorea

Cho*re"a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; dance.]
(Med.)
St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.


word: Choregraphical
definition:
Choregraphical

Choregraphic

{ Cho`re*graph"ic (?), Cho`re*graph"ic*al (?), }
a.
Pertaining to choregraphy.


word: Choregraphy
definition:
Choregraphy

Cho*reg"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; dance + -graphy.]
1.
The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choreography.
Craig.
[Archaic]


word: Choreography
definition:
Choreography

Chor`e*og"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; dance + -graphy.]
1.
The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy.

2.
the art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice.

3.
the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public.
[informal]


word: Chorepiscopus
definition:
Chorepiscopus

Cho`re*pis"co*pus
(?)
n.
pl. Chorepiscopi (#).
[L., fr. Gr. _;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + _; bishop. Cf. Bishop.]
(Eccl.)
A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.


word: Choree₂
definition:
Choree

Choreus

&VerbarCho*re"us (?), Cho*ree" (_;)
n.
[L. choreus, Gr. _;, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorée.]
(Anc. Pros.)
(a)
a trochee.
(b)
A tribrach.


word: Choriambic
definition:
Choriambic

Cho`ri*am"bic
(?)
a.
[L. choriambicus, gr. _;.]
Pertaining to a choriamb.
n. A choriamb.


word: Choriambus
definition:
Choriambus

Cho`ri*am"bus
(?)
n.
pl. L. Choriambi (#), E. Choriambuses (#).
[L. choriambus, Gr. _;; _; a choreus + _; iambus.]
(Anc. Pros.)
A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- &breve &breve -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.


word: Choric
definition:
Choric

Cho"ric
(?)
a.
[L. choricus, Gr. _;.]
Of or pertaining to a chorus.

I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba.
Coleridge.


word: chorioallantois
definition:
chorioallantois

chorioallantois
n.
a very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.

Syn. -- chorioallantoic membrane.


word: Chorion
definition:
Chorion

Cho"ri*on
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
(b)
The true skin, or cutis.

2.
(Bot.)
The outer membrane of seeds of plants.


word: Chorisis
definition:
Chorisis

Cho"ri*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; separation.]
(Bot.)
The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

&hand_; In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. -- In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front of another.


word: Chorister
definition:
Chorister

Chor"is*ter
(?)
n.
[See Chorus.]
1.
One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.
Dryden.

2.
One who leads a choir in church music.
[U. S.]


word: Chorograph
definition:
Chorograph

Cho"ro*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; place + -graph.]
An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.


word: Chorographer
definition:
Chorographer

Cho*rog"ra*pher
(?)
n.
1.
One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.
chorographers
Sir T. Browne.

2.
A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.


word: Chorography
definition:
Chorography

Cho*rog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[L. chorographia, Gr. _;; _; place + _; to describe.]
the mapping or description of a region or district.

The chorography of their provinces.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Choroid
definition:
Choroid

Cho"roid
(?)
a.
[gr. _;; _; chorion + e'i^dos form.]
(Anat.)
resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
n. The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.

Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.


word: Chorology
definition:
Chorology

Cho*rol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; place + -logy.]
(Biol.)
The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.

Its distribution or chorology.
Huxley.


word: Chorometry
definition:
Chorometry

Cho*rom"e*try
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; place + -metry.]
The art of surveying a region or district.


word: Chortle
definition:
Chortle

Chor"tle
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Chortled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chor"tling (_;).]
A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.
[Humorous]
O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay !
He chortled in his joy.
Lewis Carroll.


word: Chorus
definition:
Chorus

Cho"rus
(?)
n.
pl. Choruses (#).
[L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. _;. See Choir.]

1.
(Antiq.)
A band of singers and dancers.

The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.
Dryden.

2.
(Gr. Drama)
A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.

What the lofty, grave tragedians taught
In chorus or iambic.
Milton.

3.
An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
[Obs.]

4.
(Mus.)
A company of singers singing in concert.

5.
(Mus.)
A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

6.
(Mus.)
Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.

7.
The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.


word: Chorus₂
definition:
Chorus

Cho"rus
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chorused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing.]
To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
W. D. Howells.


word: Chose
definition:
Chose

Chose
(?)
n.
pl. Choses (#).
[F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See Cause.]
(Law)
A thing; personal property.

Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. -- Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.


word: Chosen
definition:
Chosen

Cho"sen
(?)
p. p.
of Choose
Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
Judg. xx. 16.


word: Chou
definition:
Chou

Chou
(?)
n.
pl. Choux (#)
[F., fr. L. caulis stalk.]
1.
A cabbage.

2.
A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

3.
A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.


word: Chouan
definition:
Chouan

Chou"an
(?)
n.
[F.]
One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.


word: Chough
definition:
Chough

Chough
(?)
n.
[OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ceó; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. chāha; perh. akin to E. caw. √22. Cf. Caddow.]
(Zool.)
A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.

Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.


word: Chouicha
definition:
Chouicha

Chou"i*cha
(?)
n.
[Native name]
(Zool.)
The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.


word: Chouse
definition:
Chouse

Chouse
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.]
[From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4,000.]
To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
[Colloq.]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.
Landor.


word: Chouse₂
definition:
Chouse

Chouse
n.
1.
One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
Hudibras.

2.
A trick; sham; imposition.
Johnson.

3.
A swindler.
B. Jonson.


word: Chout
definition:
Chout

Chout
(?)
n.
[Mahratta chauth one fourth part.]
An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.
[India]
J. Mill.


word: Chow
definition:
Chow

Chow
(?)
n.
[Chin. chou.]
1.
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.

2.
a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; -- same as chowchow{3}, n..


word: Chowchow
definition:
Chowchow

Chow"chow`
(chou"chou`)
a.
[Chin.]
Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).


word: chow-chow
definition:
chow-chow

chow-chow
(chou"chou`)
n.
1.
chopped pickles in mustard sauce.

Syn. -- chowchow.

2.
a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger.

Syn. -- chowchow.

3.
a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in north China.

Syn. -- chow, chow chow.

Chowchow chop, the last lighter containing the small sundry packages sent off to fill up a ship. S. W. Williams.


word: Chowder
definition:
Chowder

Chow"der
(chou"dẽr)
n.
[F. chaudière a kettle, a pot. Cf. Caldron.]
1.
(Cookery)
A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

2.
A seller of fish.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.


word: Chowry
definition:
Chowry

Chow"ry
(chou"r&ybreve_;)
n.
[Hind. chaunri.]
A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.
Malcom.


word: Chowter
definition:
Chowter

Chow"ter
(chou"tẽr)
v. t.
[Cf. OE. chowre, and Prov. E. chow, to grumble.]
To grumble or mutter like a froward child.
[Obs.]
E. Phillips.


word: Chrematistics
definition:
Chrematistics

Chre`ma*tis"tics
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; 9sc. _;) the art of traffic, fr. _; goods, money, fr. _; to use.]
The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.


word: Chreotechnics
definition:
Chreotechnics

Chre`o*tech"nics
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; useful + _; art.]
The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.
[R.]


word: Chrestomathy
definition:
Chrestomathy

Chres*tom"a*thy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; _; useful + _;, _;, to learn.]
A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.


word: Chrism
definition:
Chrism

Chrism
(?)
n.
[OE. crisme, from AS. crisma; also OE. creme, fr. OF. cresme, like the AS. word fr. LL. chrisma, fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; to anoint; perh. akin to L. friare, fricare, to rub, Skr. gharsh, E. friable, friction. Cf. Chrisom.]
(Gr. & R. C. Church_;s)

1.
Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

2.
The same as Chrisom.


word: Chrismation
definition:
Chrismation

Chris*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. chrismatio.]
The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.

Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Chrisom
definition:
Chrisom

Chris"om
(?)
n.
[See Chrism.]

1.
A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
[Obs.]

2.
A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Christ
definition:
Christ

Christ
(?)
n.
[L. Christus, Gr. _;, fr. _; anointed, fr. chri`ein to anoint. See Chrism.]
The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior.  It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.


word: Christcross
definition:
Christcross

Christ"cross`
(?)
n.
1.
The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.

The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon.
Old Play.   Nares.

2.
The beginning and the ending.
[Obs.]
Quarles.


word: Christcross-row
definition:
Christcross-row

Christ"cross-row`
(?)
The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.

From infant conning of the Christcross-row.
Wordsworth.


word: christella
definition:
christella

christella
n.
any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds.


word: Christen
definition:
Christen

Chris"ten
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Christened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Christening.]
[AS. cristnian to make a Christian, fr. cristen a Christian.]

1.
To baptize and give a Christian name to.

2.
To give a name; to denominate.
Christen
Bp. Burnet.

3.
To Christianize.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.

4.
To use for the first time.
[Colloq.]


word: Christendom
definition:
Christendom

Chris"ten*dom
(?)
n.
[AS. cristend&omacrm; cristen a Christian + -dom.]
1.
The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
[Obs.]
Shak.

2.
The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.
[Obs.]

Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms.
Shak.

3.
That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Muslim lands.

The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.
Milton

A wide and still widening Christendom.
Coleridge.

4.
The whole body of Christians.
Hooker.


word: Christian
definition:
Christian

Chris"tian
(?)
n.
[L. christianus, Gr. _;; cf. AS. cristen. See Christ.]

1.
One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.

The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts xi. 26.

2.
One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

3.
(Eccl.)
(a)
One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.
(b)
One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.

&hand_; In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, krīs"chan.


word: Christian₂
definition:
Christian

Chris"tian
(?)
a.
1.
Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.

3.
Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
Blackstone.

4.
Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.

The graceful tact; the Christian art.
Tennyson.

Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court.  -- Christian Endeavor, Young People's Society of. In various Protestant churches, a society of young people organized in each individual church to do Christian work; also, the whole body of such organizations, which are united in a corporation called the United Society of Christian Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society was founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E. Clark, a Congregational minister. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.


word: Christian Era
definition:
Christian Era

Christian Era
The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This  date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late.


word: Christianism
definition:
Christianism

Chris`tian*ism
(?)
n.
[L. christianismus, Gr. _;: cf. F. christianisme.]
1.
The Christian religion.
[Obs.]
Milton.

2.
The Christian world; Christendom.
[Obs.]
Johnson


word: Christianite
definition:
Christianite

Chris"tian*ite
(?)
n.
[In sense (a) named after Christian Frederic, of Denmark; in sense (b) after Christian VII., of Denmark.]
(Min.)
(a)
Same as Anorthite.
[R.]
(b)
See Phillipsite.


word: Christianity
definition:
Christianity

Chris*tian"i*ty
(?)
n.
[OE. cristiente, OF. cristienté, F. chrétienté, fr. L. christianitas. ]

1.
The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.

2.
Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

3.
The body of Christian believers.
[Obs.]

To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons.
Chaucer.


word: Christianization
definition:
Christianization

Chris`tian*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.


word: Christianize
definition:
Christianize

Chris"tian*ize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Christianized (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Christianizing.]
[Cf. F. christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. _;.]
1.
To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.

2.
To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.

Christianized philosophers.
I. Taylor.


word: Christianize₂
definition:
Christianize

Chris"tian*ize
v. i.
To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.

The pagans began to Christianize.
Latham.


word: Christianlike
definition:
Christianlike

Chris"tian*like`
(?)
a.
Becoming to a Christian.

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion.
Shak.


word: Christianly
definition:
Christianly

Chris"tian*ly
adv.
In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.

Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne.
Sharp.


word: Christian Science
definition:
Christian Science

Christian Science
A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.


word: Christian Scientist
definition:
Christian Scientist

Christian Scientist
A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.


word: Christian Seneca
definition:
Christian Seneca

Christian Seneca
Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.


word: Christian Socialism
definition:
Christian Socialism

Christian Socialism
Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850.
Christian socialist.


word: Christmas
definition:
Christmas

Christ"mas
(?)
n.
[Christ + mass.]
An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.

Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. -- Christmas day. Same as Christmas. -- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.


word: Christmasberry
definition:
Christmasberry

Christmasberry
n.
1.
a spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern U. S. (Lycium carolinianum) having spreading branches with usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries.

Syn. -- Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum.

2.
an ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of US Pacific coast (Photinia arbutifolia) having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia.

Syn. -- toyon, tollon, Christmas berry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia.


word: Christocentric
definition:
Christocentric

Chris"to*cen"tric
(?)
a.
[Christ + centric.]
Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion.
J. W. Chadwick.


word: Christology
definition:
Christology

Chris*tol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Crist + -logy.]
A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.


word: Christophany
definition:
Christophany

Chris*toph"a*ny
(?)
n.
[Christ + Gr. _; to show.]
An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.


word: Christ's-thorn
definition:
Christ's-thorn

Christ's-thorn`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Zizyphus vulgaris.  The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.


word: Chromascope
definition:
Chromascope

Chro"ma*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + -scope.]
An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.


word: Chromatic
definition:
Chromatic

Chro*mat"ic
(?)
a.
[L. chromaticus, Gr. _;, suited for color, fr. _;, _;, color; akin to _; color, _; skin, color of the skin.]
1.
Relating to color, or to colors.

2.
(Mus.)
Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

&hand_; The intermediate tones were formerly written and printed in colors.

Chromatic aberration. (Opt.) See Aberration, 4. -- Chromatic printing, printing from type or blocks covered with inks of various colors. -- Chromatic scale (Mus.), the scale consisting of thirteen tones, including the eight scale tones and the five intermediate tones.


word: chromaticity
definition:
chromaticity

chromaticity
n.
the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.

Syn. -- hue.


word: Chromatics
definition:
Chromatics

Chro*mat"ics
(?)
n.
The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.


word: chromatid
definition:
chromatid

chromatid
n.
(Cell Biol.)
one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis.


word: Chromatin
definition:
Chromatin

Chro"ma*tin
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, color.]
1.
(Biol.)
Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.
[archaic]


word: Chromatin₂
definition:
Chromatin

Chro"ma*tin
(?)
n.
(Biol.)
The deeply staining substance of the nucleus and chromosomes of eukaryotic cells, composed of DNA and basic proteins (such as histones), the DNA of which comprises the predominant physical basis of inheritance.  It was, at the beginning of the 20th century, supposed to be the same substance as was then termed idioplasm or germ plasm.  In most eukaryotic cells, there is also DNA in certain plasmids, such as mitochondria, or (in plant cells) chloroplasts; but with the exception of these cytoplasmic genetic factors, the nuclear DNA of the chromatin is believed to contain all the genetic information required to code for the development of an adult organism.  In the interphase nucleus the chromosomes are dispersed, but during cell division or meiosis they are condensed into the individually recognizable chromosomes.  The set of chromosomes, or a photographic representation of the full set of chromosomes of a cell (often ordered for presentation) is called a karyotype.


word: Chromatism
definition:
Chromatism

Chro"ma*tism
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a coloring.]

1.
(Optics)
The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

2.
(Bot.)
An abnormal coloring of plants.


word: chromatogram
definition:
chromatogram

chro*mat"o*gram
n.
1.
the paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.

2.
the record of the results of a process of chromatography{2}, produced by an instrument which measures some property related to the concentration of substances over the course of a chromatographic process.  The record may be printed, for example, on a piece of paper, showing the concentration of some substance as a function of time or volume; or it may be retained in a computer and displayed on a video display terminal.
The analytical methods for determining which substances have moved to which point on the chromatogram are very varied, and the records of the results of a visualization techique, such as autoradiography, may itself be referred to as a chromatogram


word: chromatographical
definition:
chromatographical

chromatographic

chro*mat`o*graph"ic chro*mat`o*graph"ic*al
adj.
of or pertaining to chromatography.


word: Chromatography
definition:
Chromatography

Chro`ma*tog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, color + -graphy.]
1.
A treatise on colors
[archaic]

2.
(Chem.)
an analytical and preparative technique for separating substances by differences in their selective adsorption to solids, by passing a liquid over the solid, to which the substances to be separated have usually been adsorbed in a preliminary step.  The major variations are column chromatography, in which the substances to be separated are adsorbed to a column with any of a wide variety of adsorbing solids in powdered or granulated form; paper chromatography, in which the solids are applied as a spot at one end of a strip of absorbent paper (such as filter paper), and the liquid is percolated through the paper by capillary action; and thin-layer chromatography (TLC), which is similar to paper chromatography, but the adsorbent material is, instead of paper, a thin layer of finely powdered material, such as cellulose or silica, on a backing of glass or plastic, called a TLC plate.  A modern version of column chromatography is high-performance liquid chromatography, usually referred to as HPLC.


word: Chromatophore
definition:
Chromatophore

Chro"ma*to*phore`
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, color + fe`rein to bear.]
1.
(Zool.)
A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

2.
(Bot.)
One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.


word: Chromatoscope
definition:
Chromatoscope

Chro"ma*to*scope`
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, color + -scope.]
(Astron.)
A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.


word: Chromatrope
definition:
Chromatrope

Chro"ma*trope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + _; turn, rotation, _;  to turn.]
1.
(Physics)
An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

2.
A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.


word: Chromatype
definition:
Chromatype

Chro"ma*type
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + _; type.]

1.
(Photog.)
A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

2.
The process by which such picture is made.


word: Chrome
definition:
Chrome

Chrome
(?)
n.
Same as Chromium.

Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium. -- Chrome green (a) The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining. (b) A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue. -- Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.


word: Chrome₂
definition:
Chrome

Chrome
(kr&omacrm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chromed (kr&omacrmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Chroming.]
[From Chrome, n.]
To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing.


word: chromesthesia
definition:
chromesthesia

chromesthesia
n.
a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations.
[Also spelled chromaesthesia.]


word: Chromic
definition:
Chromic

Chro"mic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.

Chromic acid, an acid, H2CrO4, analogous to sulphuric acid, not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known.


word: Chromid
definition:
Chromid

Chro"mid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a kind of fish.]
(Zool.)
One of the Chromidæ, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.


word: Chromidrosis
definition:
Chromidrosis

Chro`mi*dro"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; color + _; sweat.]
(Med.)
Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.


word: Chromite
definition:
Chromite

Chro"mite
(?)
n.
1.
(Min.)
A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

2.
(Chem.)
A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.
[R.]


word: Chromium
definition:
Chromium

Chro"mi*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; color.]
(Chem.)
A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5.  Symbol Cr.  When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.


word: Chromoblast
definition:
Chromoblast

Chro"mo*blast
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + -blast.]
An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.


word: Chromogen
definition:
Chromogen

Chro"mo*gen
(?)
[Gr. _; color + -gen.]

1.
(Biol.)
Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

2.
(Chem.)
Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.


word: Chromogenic
definition:
Chromogenic

Chro"mo*gen"ic
(?)
a.
(Biol.)
Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.


word: Chromograph
definition:
Chromograph

Chro"mo*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + -graph.]
An apparatus by which a number of copies of {ritten katter, kaps, plons, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.


word: Chromolithograph
definition:
Chromolithograph

Chro`mo*lith"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + E. lithograph.]
A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.


word: Chromolithography
definition:
Chromolithography

Chro"mo*li*thog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.


word: Chromophane
definition:
Chromophane

Chro"mo*phane
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + _; to show.]
(Physiol.)
A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.


word: Chromophore
definition:
Chromophore

Chro"mo*phore
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + fe`rein to bear.]
(Chem.)
Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.


word: Chromophotograph
definition:
Chromophotograph

Chro`mo*pho"to*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + photograph.]
A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors; a color photograph.
Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic (#), a.


word: Chromophotography
definition:
Chromophotography

Chro`mo*pho*tog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + E. photography.]
The art of producing photographs in colors-


word: Chromoplastid
definition:
Chromoplastid

Chro`mo*plas"tid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; + E. plastid.]
(Bot.)
A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.


word: Chromosome
definition:
Chromosome

Chro"mo*some`
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + _; the body.]
(Biol.)
One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.


word: Chromosphere
definition:
Chromosphere

Chro"mo*sphere
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + E. sphere.]
(Astron.)
An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.


word: Chromotype
definition:
Chromotype

Chro"mo*type
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + -type.]
1.
A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

2.
A photographic picture in the natural colors.


word: Chromous
definition:
Chromous

Chro"mous
(?)
a.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.

Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid.


word: Chromule
definition:
Chromule

Chro"mule
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; color + _; matter.]
(Bot.)
A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.


word: Chronic
definition:
Chronic

Chron"ic
(?)
a.
[L. chronicus, Gr. _; concerning time, from _; time: cf. F. chronique.]
1.
Relating to time; according to time.

2.
Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.

Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.


word: Chronical
definition:
Chronical

Chron"ic*al
(?)
a.
Chronic.

Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method.
J. A. Alexander.


word: Chronicle
definition:
Chronicle

Chron"i*cle
(?)
n.
[OE. cronicle, fr. cronique, OF. cronique, F. chronique, L. chronica, fr. Gr. _;, neut. pl. of _;. See Chronic.]
1.
An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

2.
A narrative of events; a history; a record.

3.
pl.
The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.


word: Chronicle₂
definition:
Chronicle

Chron"i*cle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chronicled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chronicling (?).]
To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.
Shak.


word: Chronicler
definition:
Chronicler

Chron"i*cler
(?)
n.
A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian.

Such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Shak.


word: Chronogram
definition:
Chronogram

Chron"o*gram
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; time + _; writing, character: cf. F. chronogramme.]
1.
An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632:
            ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.
- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

2.
The record or inscription made by a chronograph.


word: Chronogrammatical
definition:
Chronogrammatical

Chronogrammatic

{ Chron`o*gram*mat"ic (?), Chron`o*gram*mat"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. chronogrammatique.]
Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.


word: Chronograph
definition:
Chronograph

Chron"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; time + -graph: cf. F. chronographe.]
1.
An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

2.
Same as Chronogram, 1.
[R.]

3.
A chronoscope.


word: Chronography
definition:
Chronography

Chro*nog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;. See Chronograph.]
A description or record of past time; history.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Chronological
definition:
Chronological

Chronologic

{ Chron`o*log"ic (?), Chron`o*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;.]
Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.
Raleigh.
Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Chronologer₂
definition:
Chronologer

Chronologist

{ Chro*nol"o*gist (?), Chro*nol"o*ger (?) }
n.
[Gr. _;.]
A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.

That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.
Locke.

THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December.
John Knox.


word: Chronology
definition:
Chronology

Chro*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
pl. Chronologies (#).
[Gr. _;; _; time + _; discourse: cf. F. chronologie.]
The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.

If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid.
A. Holmes.


word: Chronometer
definition:
Chronometer

Chro*nom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; time + -meter: cf. F. chronomètre.]
1.
An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.

2.
A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.

3.
(Mus.)
A metronome.

Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.


word: Chronometrical
definition:
Chronometrical

Chronometric

{ Chron`o*met"ric (?), Chron`o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. chronométrique.]
Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.


word: Chronometry
definition:
Chronometry

Chro*nom"e*try
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. chronométrie.]
The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.


word: Chronopher
definition:
Chronopher

Chron"o*pher
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; time + _; to carry.]
An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.


word: Chronophotograph
definition:
Chronophotograph

Chron`o*pho"to*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; time + photograph.]
One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion.
Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.


word: Chronoscope
definition:
Chronoscope

Chron"o*scope
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; time + -scope.]
An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.


word: Chrysalis
definition:
Chrysalis

Chrys"a*lis
(?)
n.
pl. Chrysalides (#).
[L. chrysallis the gold-colored pupa of butterflies, Gr. _;, fr. _;  gold. Cf. Aurelia.]
(Zool.)
The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).


word: Chrysaniline
definition:
Chrysaniline

Chrys*an"i*line
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + E. anilene.]
(Chem.)
A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.


word: Chrysanthemum
definition:
Chrysanthemum

Chrys*an"the*mum
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; chryso`s gold + _; flower.]
(Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.


word: Chrysarobin
definition:
Chrysarobin

Chrys`a*ro"bin
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + araroba a foreign name of Goa powder + -in.]
(Chem.)
A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid.


word: Chrysaurin
definition:
Chrysaurin

Chrys*au"rin
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + L. aurum gold. So called from its color.]
An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.


word: Chryselephantine
definition:
Chryselephantine

Chrys`el*e*phan"tine
(?)
a.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + _; made of ivory, fr. _; ivory, elephant.]
Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

&hand_; The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for the hair and garments.


word: Chrysene
definition:
Chrysene

Chry"sene
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold.]
(Chem.)
One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.


word: Chrysoberyl
definition:
Chrysoberyl

Chrys"o*ber`yl
(?)
n.
[L. chrysoberyllus, Gr. _;; chryso`s gold + _; beryl.]
(Min.)
A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.


word: Chrysochlore
definition:
Chrysochlore

Chrys"o*chlore
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + chlwro`s light green: cf. F. chrysochlore.]
(Zool.)
A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.


word: Chrysocolla
definition:
Chrysocolla

Chrys"o*col`la
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. chryso`kolla gold solder; chryso`s gold + _; glue.]
(Min.)
A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.


word: Chrysogen
definition:
Chrysogen

Chrys"o*gen
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + -gen.]
(Chem.)
A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.


word: Chrysography
definition:
Chrysography

Chry*sog"ra*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; chryso`s gold + _; to write.]
1.
The art of writing in letters of gold.

2.
A writing executed in letters of gold.


word: Chrysoidine
definition:
Chrysoidine

Chrys*o"ï*dine
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + -oid + -ine.]
(Chem.)
An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoïdine proper.


word: Chrysolite
definition:
Chrysolite

Chrys"o*lite
(?)
n.
[L. chrysolithos, Gr. _;; chryso`s gold + _; stone: cf. F. chrysolithe.]
(Min.)
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.


word: Chrysology
definition:
Chrysology

Chry*sol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + -logy.]
That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.


word: Chrysopa
definition:
Chrysopa

Chrys*o"pa
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. chryso`s gold + _;, _;, eye, face.]
(Zool.)
A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.


word: Chrysophane
definition:
Chrysophane

Chrys"o*phane
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + _; to show.]
(Chem.)
A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.


word: Chrysophanic
definition:
Chrysophanic

Chrys`o*phan"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane.

Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin, etc.


word: Chrysophrys
definition:
Chrysophrys

Chrysophrys
n.
a genus of fishes consisting of the australian snapper.

Syn. -- genus Chrysophrys.


word: Chrysophyceae
definition:
Chrysophyceae

Chrysophyceae
n.
a class of yellow-green algae, all of which have flagella of unequal length.

Syn. -- class Chrysophyceae, Heterokontae, class Heterokontae.


word: Chrysophyllum
definition:
Chrysophyllum

Chrysophyllum
n.
a genus of tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs.

Syn. -- genus Chrysophyllum.


word: Chrysophyta
definition:
Chrysophyta

Chrysophyta
n.
a division of mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms, including the Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta.

Syn. -- division Chrysophyta.


word: chrysopid
definition:
chrysopid

chrysopid
n.
a pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae.

Syn. -- green lacewing, stink fly.


word: Chrysopidae
definition:
Chrysopidae

Chrysopidae
n.
a natural family of flies comprising the green lacewings.

Syn. -- family Chrysopidae.


word: Chrysoprase
definition:
Chrysoprase

Chrys"o*prase
(?)
n.
[OE. crisopace, OF. crisoprace, F. chrysoprase, L. chrysoprasus, fr. Gr. _;; chryso`s gold + _; leek.]
(Min.)
An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.


word: Chrysosperm
definition:
Chrysosperm

Chrys"o*sperm
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + _; seed.]
The seed of gold; a means of creating gold.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Chrysosplenium
definition:
Chrysosplenium

Chrysosplenium
n.
a genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers.

Syn. -- genus Chrysosplenium.


word: Chrysothamnus
definition:
Chrysothamnus

Chrysothamnus
n.
a genus of low branching shrubs of West North America.

Syn. -- genus Chrysothamnus.


word: Chrysotype
definition:
Chrysotype

Chrys"o*type
(?)
n.
[Gr. chryso`s gold + -type.]
1.
A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
Abney.

2.
2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.


word: Chthonian
definition:
Chthonian

Chtho"ni*an
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; in or under the earth, fr. _;, _;, earth.]
Designating, or pertaining to, gods or spirits of the underworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

Syn. -- chthonic, lower, nether.


word: Chthonic
definition:
Chthonic

Chthon"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, _;, the earth.]
Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.

[The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus.
Max Müller.


word: Chthonophagy
definition:
Chthonophagy

Chthonophagia

{ &VerbarChthon`o*pha"gi*a (?), Chtho*noph"a*gy (?), }
n.
[NL. chthonophagia; Gr. _;, _;, earth + _; to eat.]
A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.


word: Chub
definition:
Chub

Chub
(?)
n.
[This word seems to signify a large or thick fish. Cf. Sw. kubb a short and thick piece of wood, and perh. F. chabot chub.]
(Zool.)
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidæ or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.

Chub mackerel (Zool.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zool.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.


word: Chuck
definition:
Chuck

Chuck
(chŭk)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Chucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking.]
[Imitative of the sound.]
1.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

2.
To chuckle; to laugh.
[R.]
Marston.


word: Chuck₃
definition:
Chuck

Chuck
n.
1.
The chuck or call of a hen.

2.
A sudden, small noise.

3.
A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
chuck
Shak.


word: Chuck₄
definition:
Chuck

Chuck
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chucked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chucking.]
[F. choquer to strike. Cf. Shock, v. t.]
1.
To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.

Chucked the barmaid under the chin.
W. Irving.

2.
To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
[Colloq.]
chucked
Lord Palmerson.

3.
(Mech.)
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.


word: Chuck₅
definition:
Chuck

Chuck
n.
1.
A slight blow or pat under the chin.

2.
A short throw; a toss.

3.
(Mach.)
A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

Chuck farthing, a play in which a farthing is pitched into a hole; pitch farthing. -- Chuck hole, a deep hole in a wagon rut. -- Elliptic chuck, a chuck having a slider and an eccentric circle, which, as the work turns round, give it a sliding motion across the center which generates an ellipse. Knight.


word: Chuck₆
definition:
Chuck

Chuck
(chŭk)
n.
1.
A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
[Scot.]

2.
pl.
A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
[Scot.]


word: Chuck₇
definition:
Chuck

Chuck
n.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
[Colloq.]


word: chucker-out
definition:
chucker-out

chucker-out
n.
a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting; a bouncer{5}.

Syn. -- bouncer.


word: chuck-full
definition:
chuck-full

chuck-full
adj.
same as chock-full.
[predicate]

Syn. -- chockablock(predicate), chock-full(predicate), chockfull(predicate), chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate), cram full.


word: chuckhole
definition:
chuckhole

chuck"hole`
n.
a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering especially in a road surface.

Syn. -- pothole.


word: Chuckle
definition:
Chuckle

Chuc"kle
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Chuckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chuckling (?).]
[From 1st Chuck.]
1.
To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

2.
To fondle; to cocker.
[Obs.]
Dryden.


word: Chuckle₂
definition:
Chuckle

Chuc"kle
n.
A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.


word: Chuckle₃
definition:
Chuckle

Chuc"kle
v. i.
[From 1st Chuck.]
To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.


word: Chuck-Will's-widow
definition:
Chuck-Will's-widow

Chuck`-Will's-wid"ow
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
A large whippoorwill-like bird (a species of goatsucker) (Caprimulgus carolinensis, formerly Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.


word: Chufa
definition:
Chufa

Chu"fa
(?)
n.
[Sp.]
(Bot.)
A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.


word: Chuff
definition:
Chuff

Chuff
(?)
n.
[Perh. a modification of chub: cf. W. cyff stock, stump.]
A coarse or stupid fellow.
Shak.


word: Chulan
definition:
Chulan

Chu"lan
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.


word: Chum
definition:
Chum

Chum
(chŭm)
n.
[Perh. a contraction fr. comrade or chamber fellow: cf. also AS. cuma a comer, guest.]
A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.

New chum, a recent immigrant. [Australia]


word: Chum₂
definition:
Chum

Chum
v. i.
[imp. p. p. Chummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chumming.]
To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college.
[U. S.]


word: chummy
definition:
chummy

chummy
adj.
1.
having the relationship of friends or pals.
[colloquial]

Syn. -- matey, pally, palsy-walsy.

2.
associated on close terms.
[informal]

Syn. -- thick(predicate).


word: Chump
definition:
Chump

Chump
(chŭmp)
n.
[Cf. Icel. kumbr a chopping, E. chop.]
1.
A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Morton.

2.
a stupid person; a fool; a dolt; also, a dupe.

Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.


word: Chunam
definition:
Chunam

Chu*nam"
(chō*năm")
n.
[Hind. chūnā, from Skr. cūr&nsdot_;a powder, dust; or a Dravidian word.]
Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.
[India]
Whitworth.


word: chunga
definition:
chunga

chunga
n.
The Argentinian cariama (Chunga burmeisteri).

Syn. -- seriema, Chunga burmeisteri.


word: Chunk
definition:
Chunk

Chunk
(chŭ&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[Cf. Chump.]
A short, thick piece of anything.
[Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]


word: Chupatty
definition:
Chupatty

Chu*pat"ty
(?)
n.
pl. -ties (#)
[Hind. chapātī.]
A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India.
[Anglo-Indian]


word: Chuprassie
definition:
Chuprassie

Chuprassy

{ Chu*pras"sy Chu*pras"sie }
(?)
n.
[Hind. chaprāssī, fr. chaprās badge.]
A messenger or servant wearing an official badge.
[Anglo-Indian]


word: Church
definition:
Church

Church
(chûrch)
n.
[OE. chirche, chireche, cherche, Scot. kirk, from AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. kyriako`n the Lord's house, fr. kyriako`s concerning a master or lord, fr. ky`rios master, lord, fr. ky^ros power, might; akin to Skr. çūra hero, Zend. çura strong, OIr. caur, cur, hero. Cf. Kirk.]

1.
A building set apart for Christian worship.

2.
A Jewish or heathen temple.
[Obs.]
Acts xix. 37.

3.
A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
church
Acts xiv. 23.

4.
A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

5.
The collective body of Christians.

6.
Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

7.
The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors.
Bulwer.

&hand_; Church is often used in composition to denote something belonging or relating to the church; as, church authority; church history; church member; church music, etc.

Apostolic church. See under Apostolic. -- Broad church. See Broad Church. -- Catholic church or Universal church, the whole body of believers in Christ throughout the world. -- Church of England, or English church, the Episcopal church established and endowed in England by law. -- Church living, a benefice in an established church. -- Church militant. See under Militant. -- Church owl (Zool.), the white owl. See Barn owl. -- Church rate, a tax levied on parishioners for the maintenance of the church and its services. -- Church session. See under Session. -- Church triumphant. See under Triumphant. -- Church work, work on, or in behalf of, a church; the work of a particular church for the spread of religion. -- Established church, the church maintained by the civil authority; a state church.


word: Church₂
definition:
Church

Church
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Churched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Churching.]
To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.


word: Church-ale
definition:
Church-ale

Church"-ale`
(?)
n.
A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.
Wright. Nares.


word: Churchdom
definition:
Churchdom

Church"dom
(?)
n.
The institution, government, or authority of a church.
[R.]
Bp. Pearson.


word: Churchgoing
definition:
Churchgoing

Church"go`ing
a.
1.
Habitually attending church.

2.
Summoning to church.

The sound of the churchgoing bell.
Cowper.


word: Churchism
definition:
Churchism

Church"ism
(?)
n.
Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.


word: Churchman
definition:
Churchman

Church"man
(?)
n.
pl. Churchmen (#).
1.
An ecclesiastic or clergyman.

2.
An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church of England.
churchman
Macaulay.

3.
One was is attached to, or attends, church.


word: Churchmanship
definition:
Churchmanship

Church"man*ship
n.
The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.


word: Church modes
definition:
Church modes

Church" modes`
(?)
(Mus.)
The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.


word: Churchwarden
definition:
Churchwarden

Church"ward`en
(?)
n.
1.
One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.

2.
A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube.
[Slang, Eng.]

There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens.
W. Black.


word: Churchyard
definition:
Churchyard

Church"yard`
(?)
n.
The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.

Like graves in the holy churchyard.
Shak.


word: Churl
definition:
Churl

Churl
(?)
n.
[AS. ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man, husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles (orig., man, male), and perh. to Skr. jāra lover. Cf. Carl, Charles's Wain.]
1.
A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
churl
Spenser.

Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
Emerson.

2.
A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.

A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
Sir P. Sidney.

3.
A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
Drayton.


word: Churlish
definition:
Churlish

Churl"ish
a.
1.
Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.
Churlish
Ld. Burleigh.

Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
Cowper.

2.
Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.
Boyle.


word: Chirm₃
definition:
Chirm

Churme

{ Churme (?), Chirm (?) }
n.
[See Chirm.]
Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.
[Obs.]

The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches.
Bacon.


word: Churn
definition:
Churn

Churn
(chûrn)
n.
[OE. chirne, cherne, AS. ceren, cyrin; akin to D. karn, Dan. kierne. See Churn, v. t.]
A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.


word: Churn₂
definition:
Churn

Churn
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Churned (chûrnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Churning.]
[OE. chernen, AS. cernan; akin to LG. karnen, G. kernen, D. karnen, Dan. kierne, Sw. kärna, and also to E. corn, kernel, the meaning coming from the idea of extracting the kernel or marrow. See Kernel.]
1.
To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

2.
To shake or agitate with violence.

Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
Addison.


word: churned-up
definition:
churned-up

churned-up
adj.
agitated vigorously; -- of a liquid.

Syn. -- churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent.


word: Churning
definition:
Churning

Churn"ing
n.
1.
The act of one who churns.

2.
The quantity of butter made at one operation.


word: Churr
definition:
Churr

Churr
(?)
n.
[Cf. Chirr.]
A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.


word: Churr₂
definition:
Churr

Churr
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Churred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Churr"ing.]
To make a churr, as a cockchafer.
That's the churring of the nightjar.
Hall Caine.


word: Churrus
definition:
Churrus

Chur"rus
(?)
n.
[Hind. charas.]
A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.


word: Churrworm
definition:
Churrworm

Churr"worm`
(?)
n.
[AS. cyrran, cerran, to turn.]
(Zool.)
An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket.
Johnson.


word: Chute
definition:
Chute

Chute
(?)
n.
[F. chute, prop. a fall.]
1.
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

2.
See Shoot.


word: Chutnee
definition:
Chutnee

Chutney

{ Chut"ney (?), Chut"nee (?), }
n.
[Hind. chatnī.]
1.
A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, such as chopped fruits or green tomatoes, etc., often cooked with sweets and acids such as sugar and vinegar, with ginger and spices.

Syn. -- Indian relish.


word: chutzpah
definition:
chutzpah

chutzpa

chutzpa, chutzpah
n.
[Yiddish khutzpa.]
aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; gall; as, he had the chutzpah to question my decision.
[Also spelled hutzpa, and hutzpah.]

Syn. -- audacity, audaciousness.


word: Chylaceous
definition:
Chylaceous

Chy*la"ceous
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.


word: Chylaqueous
definition:
Chylaqueous

Chy*la"que*ous
(?)
a.
[Chyle + aqueous.]
(Zool.)
Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.


word: Chyle
definition:
Chyle

Chyle
(?)
n.
[NL. chylus, Gr. _; juice, chyle, fr. _; to pour: cf. F. chyle; prob. akin to E. fuse to melt.]
(Physiol.)
A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.


word: Chylifaction
definition:
Chylifaction

Chyl`i*fac"tion
(?)
n.
[Chyle + L. facere to make.]
(Physiol.)
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.


word: Chylifactive
definition:
Chylifactive

Chyl`i*fac"tive
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.


word: chylifactory
definition:
chylifactory

chylifactory
adj.
producing or converting into chyle.

Syn. -- chylific, chylifactive.


word: Chyliferous
definition:
Chyliferous

Chy*lif"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.]
(Physiol.)
Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.


word: Chylify
definition:
Chylify

Chy"li*fy
(?)
v. t. & i.
[Chyle + -ly.]
(Physiol.)
To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.


word: Chylopoetic
definition:
Chylopoetic

Chy`lo*po*et"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. chylopoiei^n to make into juice, chylo`s juice, chyle + poiei^n to make.]
(Physiol.)
Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.


word: Chyluria
definition:
Chyluria

Chy*lu"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL. from Gr. _; chyle + _; urine.]
(Med.)
A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.


word: Chyme
definition:
Chyme

Chyme
(?)
n.
[L. chymus chyle, Gr. _; juice, like _;, fr. _; to pour: cf. F. chyme. See Chyle.]
(Physiol.)
The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.


word: Chymistry
definition:
Chymistry

Chymist

Chymic

{ Chym"ic (?), Chym"ist, Chym"is*try (?). }
[Obs.]
See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.


word: Chymification
definition:
Chymification

Chym`i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Chyme + L. facere to make: cf. F. Chymification.]
(Physiol.)
The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.


word: Chyometer
definition:
Chyometer

Chy*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; to pour + -meter.]
(Chem.)
An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.


word: Cibation
definition:
Cibation

Ci*ba"tion
(?)
n.
[L. cibatio, fr. cibare to feed.]
1.
The act of taking food.

2.
(Alchemy)
The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.
B. Jonson.


word: Cibol
definition:
Cibol

Cib"ol
(?)
n.
[F. ciboule, LL. cepula, cepola, dim. of L. cepa, caepa, caepe, an onion. Cf. Chibbal, Cives.]
A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.


word: Ciborium
definition:
Ciborium

Ci*bo"ri*um
(?)
n.
pl. Ciboria (#).
[LL., fr. L. ciborium a cup, fr. Gr. _; a seed vessel of the Egyptian bean; also, a cup made from its largeleaves, or resembling its seed vessel in shape.]
1.
(Arch.)
A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

2.
(R. C. Ch.)
The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.


word: Cicada
definition:
Cicada

Ci*ca"da
(sĭ*kā"dȧ)
n.
pl. E. Cicadas (-dȧz), L. Cicadæ (-dē).
[L.]
(Zool.)
Any species of the genus Cicada or of the family Cicadidae. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (Cicada septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

Syn. -- cicala.


word: Cicadellidae
definition:
Cicadellidae

Cicadellidae
n.
a natural family comprising the leafhoppers.

Syn. -- family Cicadellidae.


word: Cicatricial
definition:
Cicatricial

Cic`a*tri"cial
(?)
a.
(Med.)
Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
Dunglison.


word: Cicatricle
definition:
Cicatricle

Cic"a*tri`cle
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. cicatricule, fr. L. cicatricula a small scar, fr. cicatrix a scar.]
(Biol.)
The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.


word: Cicatrisive
definition:
Cicatrisive

Cic"a*tri`sive
(?)
a.
Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.


word: Cicatrix
definition:
Cicatrix

Ci*ca"trix
(?)
n.
pl. Cicatrices (#).
[L.]
(Med.)
The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.


word: Cicatrizant
definition:
Cicatrizant

Cic"a*tri`zant
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. cicatrisant, properly p. pr. of cicatriser.]
(Med.)
A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.


word: Cicatrization
definition:
Cicatrization

Cic`a*tri*za"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. cicatrisation.]
(Med.)
The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.


word: Cicatrize
definition:
Cicatrize

Cic"a*trize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cicatrized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cicatrizing.]
[Cf. F. cicatriser, fr. cicatrice, L. cicatrix, scar.]
(Med.)
To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.
Wiseman.


word: Cicely
definition:
Cicely

Cic"e*ly
(?)
n.
[L. seselis, Gr. _;, _;; perh. ultimately of Egyptian origin.]
(Bot.)
Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.


word: Cicerone
definition:
Cicerone

Ci`ce*ro"ne
(?)
n.
pl. It. Ciceroni (#), E. Cicerones (#).
[It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]
One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero.
Trench.


word: Ciceronian
definition:
Ciceronian

Cic`e*ro"ni*an
(?)
a.
[L. Ciceronianus, fr. Cicero, the orator.]
Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.


word: Ciceronianism
definition:
Ciceronianism

Cic`e*ro"ni*an*ism
(?)
n.
Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.
Ciceronianism
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Cichoraceous
definition:
Cichoraceous

Cich`o*ra"ceous
(?)
a.
[See Chicory.]
Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.


word: Cicisbeo
definition:
Cicisbeo

Ci`cis*be"o
(?)
n.
pl. It. Cicisbei (#).
[It.]
1.
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

2.
A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc.
[Obs.]


word: Ciclatoun
definition:
Ciclatoun

Cic"la*toun`
(?)
n.
[Of. ciclaton.]
A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.
[Obs.]
[Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.]

His robe was of ciclatoun,
That coste many a Jane.
Chaucer.


word: Ciconiidae
definition:
Ciconiidae

Ciconiidae
n.
a natural family of birds comprising the storks.

Syn. -- family Ciconiidae.


word: Ciconiiformes
definition:
Ciconiiformes

Ciconiiformes
n.
an order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet, including the herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; and ibises.

Syn. -- order Ciconiiformes.


word: Cicurate
definition:
Cicurate

Cic"u*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. cicurare to tame, fr. cicur tame.]
To tame.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Cicuta
definition:
Cicuta

Ci*cu"ta
(?)
n.
[L., the poison hemlock.]
(Bot.)
a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

&hand_; The name cicuta is sometimes erroneously applied to Conium maculatum, or officinal hemlock.


word: Cicutoxin
definition:
Cicutoxin

Cic`u*tox"in
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.


word: Cid
definition:
Cid

Cid
(?)
n.
[Sp., fr. Ar. seid lord.]

1.
Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

2.
An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz.


word: Cider
definition:
Cider

Ci"der
(?)
n.
[F. cidre, OF. sidre, fr. L. sicera a kind of strong drink, Gr. _;; of Oriental origin; cf. Heb. shākar to be intoxicated, shēkār strong drink.]
The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

&hand_; Cider was formerly used to signify the juice of other fruits, and other kinds of strong liquor, but was not applied to wine.

Cider brandy, a kind of brandy distilled from cider. -- Cider mill, a mill in which cider is made. -- Cider press, the press of a cider mill.


word: Ciderkin
definition:
Ciderkin

Ci"der*kin
(?)
n.
[Cider + -kin.]
A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.

Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer.
Mortimer.


word: Ci-devant
definition:
Ci-devant

Ci`-de*vant"
(?)
a.
[F., hitherto, formerly.]
Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.


word: Cigar
definition:
Cigar

Ci*gar"
(sĭ*gär")
n.
[Sp. cigarro, orig., a kind of tobacco in the island of Cuba: cf. F. cigare.]
A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.


word: Cigarette
definition:
Cigarette

Cig`a*rette"
(?)
n.
[F. cigarette.]
A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
[Also spelled cigaret.]

Syn. -- cigarette, fag, weed.


word: cigarfish
definition:
cigarfish

Cigar fish

Cigar fish, cigarfish
n.
(Zool.)
a small fusiform fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found in the West Atlantic and on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Syn. -- round scad, quiaquia, Decapterus punctatus.


word: cigar-shaped
definition:
cigar-shaped

ci`gar"-shaped`
(sĭ*gär"-shāpt`)
adj.
cylindrical, tapering at each end; having the shape of a cigar.

Syn. -- fusiform, spindle-shaped.


word: cilantro
definition:
cilantro

cilantro
n.
1.
an Old World herb (Coriandrum sativum) with aromatic parsleylike leaves and seed.

Syn. -- coriander, coriander plant, Chinese parsley, Coriandrum sativum.

2.
a parsleylike herb used as seasoning or garnish.

Syn. -- coriander, Chinese parsley.


word: Cilia
definition:
Cilia

Cil"i*a
(?)
n. pl.
Cilium, the sing., is rarely used.
[L. cilium eyelid.]
1.
(Anat.)
The eyelashes.

2.
(Biol.)
Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

3.
(Bot.)
Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

4.
(Zool.)
Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.


word: Ciliary
definition:
Ciliary

Cil"ia*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. ciliaire.]

1.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

2.
(Biol.)
Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.


word: Ciliata
definition:
Ciliata

Cil`i*a"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Cilia.]
(Zool.)
One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.


word: Ciliated
definition:
Ciliated

Ciliate

{ Cil"i*ate (?), Cil"i*a`ted (?), }
a.
Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.


word: Cilician
definition:
Cilician

Ci*li"cian
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.
n. A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.


word: Cilicious
definition:
Cilicious

Ci*li"cious
(?)
a.
[L. cilicium a covering, orig. made of Cilician goat's hair, fr. Cilicious Cilician, fr. Cilicia, a province of Asia Minor.]
Made, or consisting, of hair.
[Obs.]

A Cilicious or sackcloth habit.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Ciliiform
definition:
Ciliiform

Ciliform

{ Cil"i*form (?), Cil"i*i*form` (?), }
a.
[Cilium + -form]
Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.


word: Ciliograde
definition:
Ciliograde

Cil"i*o*grade
(?)
a.
[Cilium + L. gradi to step: cf. F. ciliograde.]
(Zool.)
Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the ciliograde Medusæ.


word: Cillosis
definition:
Cillosis

Cil*lo"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. cilium eyelid.]
(Med.)
A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.


word: Cimbia
definition:
Cimbia

Cim"bi*a
(?)
n.
(Arch.)
A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
[Written also cimia.]


word: Cimbric
definition:
Cimbric

Cim"bric
(?)
a.
Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting Northern Germany.
n. The language of the Cimbri.


word: Cimeliarch
definition:
Cimeliarch

Ci*me"li*arch
(?)
n.
[L. cimeliarcha, Gr. _;, treasurer.]
A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Cimex
definition:
Cimex

Ci"mex
(?)
n.
pl. Cimices (#).
[L., a bug.]
(Zool.)
A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.


word: Cimicifuga
definition:
Cimicifuga

Cimicifuga
n.
a small genus of perennial herbs of N temperate regions: bugbane.

Syn. -- genus Cimicifuga.


word: Cimmerian
definition:
Cimmerian

Cim*me"ri*an
(?)
a.
[L. Cimmerius.]
[Written also Kimmerian.]
1.
Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

2.
Without any light; intensely dark.

In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Milton.


word: Cimolite
definition:
Cimolite

Cim"o*lite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; (sc. _;) Cimolian earth, fr. _;, L. Cimolus, an island of the Cyclades.]
(Min.)
A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.


word: Cinch
definition:
Cinch

Cinch
(?)
n.
[Sp. cincha, fr. L. cingere to gird.]

1.
A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
[West. U. S.]

2.
A tight grip.
[Colloq.]


word: Cinch₂
definition:
Cinch

Cinch
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cinched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cinch"ing.]
1.
To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly.
[Western U. S.]

2.
To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission.
[Slang, U. S.]


word: Cinch₃
definition:
Cinch

Cinch
v. i.
To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up.
[Western U. S.]


word: Cinch₄
definition:
Cinch

Cinch
n.
[Cf. cinch a girth, a tight grip, as v., to get a sure hold upon; perh. so named from the tactics used in the game; also cf. Sp. cinco five (the five spots of the color of the trump being important cards).]
A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five.


word: Cinch₅
definition:
Cinch

Cinch
v. t.
In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.


word: Cinchona
definition:
Cinchona

Cin*cho"na
(?)
n.
[So named from the wife of Count Chinchon, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain, contributed to the general propagation of this remedy.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

2.
(Med.)
The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.


word: Cinchonaceous
definition:
Cinchonaceous

Cin`cho*na"ceous
(?)
a.
Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.


word: Cinchonidine
definition:
Cinchonidine

Cin*chon"i*dine
(?)
n.
[From Cinchona.]
(Chem.)
One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.


word: Cinchonine
definition:
Cinchonine

Cin"cho*nine
(?)
n.
[From Cinchona: cf. F. cinchonine.]
(Chem.)
One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.


word: Cinchonism
definition:
Cinchonism

Cin"cho*nism
(?)
n.
[From Cinchona.]
(Med.)
A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.


word: Cinchonize
definition:
Cinchonize

Cin"cho*nize
(?)
v. t.
To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.


word: Cincinnati epoch
definition:
Cincinnati epoch

Cin`cin*na"ti ep"och
(?)
(Geol.)
An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.


word: Cincinnus
definition:
Cincinnus

Cin*cin"nus
(?)
n.
pl. -ni (#).
[Also cicinus, cicinnus.]
[L., a curl of hair.]
(Bot.)
A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme.
Cin*cin"nal (#), a.


word: Cinclidae
definition:
Cinclidae

Cinclidae
n.
a natural family of birds comprising the water ouzels, also called dippers, which dive under water in flowing streams.

Syn. -- family Cinclidae.


word: Cinclus
definition:
Cinclus

Cinclus
n.
the type genus of the bird family Cinclidae.  It includes the water ouzels Cinclus aquaticus of Europe and Cinclus mexicanus of western North America.

Syn. -- genus Cinclus.


word: Cincture
definition:
Cincture

Cinc"ture
(?)
n.
[L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird.]
1.
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

2.
That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
cincture
Bacon.

3.
(Arch.)
The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.


word: Cinder
definition:
Cinder

Cin"der
(sĭn"dẽr)
n.
[AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw. sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr. L. cinis. Cf. Sinter.]
1.
Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

2.
A hot coal without flame; an ember.
Swift.

3.
A scale thrown off in forging metal.

4.
The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.

Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.


word: Cinefaction
definition:
Cinefaction

Cin`e*fac"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. cinefactio: L. cinis ashes + facere to make: cf. F. cinéfaction.]
incineration; reduction to ashes.
[Obs.]


word: cine-film
definition:
cine-film

cine-film
n.
photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, used in a movie camera.

Syn. -- motion-picture film, movie film.


word: cinema
definition:
cinema

cinema
n.
1.
the art of creating motion pictures; as, this story would be good cinema; -- often used in the phrase the cinema.

Syn. -- the film.

2.
a theater where motion pictures are shown.

Syn. -- movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace.

3.
same as motion picture.
[Chiefly Brit.]


word: Cinematical
definition:
Cinematical

Cinematic

{ Cin`e*mat"ic (?), Cin`e*mat"ic*al (?) }
a.
1.
See Kinematic.

2.
Of or pertaining to the cinema; as, cinematic entertainment.


word: Cinematograph
definition:
Cinematograph

Cin`e*mat"o*graph
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, _;, motion + -graph.]
1.
an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass.
Encyc. Brit.

2.
A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.


word: Cinematographer
definition:
Cinematographer

Cin`e*ma*tog"ra*pher
(?)
n.
1.
One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art.

2.
one who exhibits motion pictures; an operator of a motion picture projector; a projectionist.


word: Cineraceous
definition:
Cineraceous

Cin`er*a"ceous
(?)
a.
[L. cineraceus, fr. cinis ashes.]
Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.


word: Cineraria
definition:
Cineraria

Cin`e*ra"ri*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. LL. cinerarius pert. to ashes, fr. cinis ashes. So called from the ash-colored down on the leaves.]
(Bot.)
A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.


word: Cinerary
definition:
Cinerary

Cin"er*a*ry
(?)
a.
[L. cinerarius, fr. cinis ashes.]
Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.


word: Cineration
definition:
Cineration

Cin`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. cinis ashes: cf. F. cinération.]
The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.


word: Cinerescent
definition:
Cinerescent

Cin`er*es"cent
(?)
a.
Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.


word: Cineritious
definition:
Cineritious

Cin`er*i"tious
(?)
a.
[L. cineritius, cinericius, fr. cinis ashes.]
Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the cortical substance of the brain.


word: Cingalese
definition:
Cingalese

Cin`ga*lese"
(?)
n. sing. & pl.
[Cf. F. Cingalais.]
A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitants
(sing.), the language of the Cingalese.
a. Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.
[Written also Singhalese.]

&hand_; Ceylonese is applied to the inhabitants of the island in general.


word: Cingulum
definition:
Cingulum

Cin"gu*lum
(?)
n.
[L., a girdle.]
(Zool.)
(a)
A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
(b)
The clitellus of earthworms.
(c)
The base of the crown of a tooth.


word: Cinnabar
definition:
Cinnabar

Cin"na*bar
(?)
n.
[L. cinnabaris, Gr. _;; prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Per. qinbār, Hind. shangarf.]

1.
(Min.)
Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

2.
The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.

Cinnabar Græcorum (_;). [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.


word: Cinnabarine
definition:
Cinnabarine

Cin"na*ba*rine
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. cinabarin.]
Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.


word: Cinnamene
definition:
Cinnamene

Cin"na*mene
(?)
n.
[From Cinnamic.]
(Chem.)
Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.


word: Cinnamic
definition:
Cinnamic

Cin*nam"ic
(?)
a.
[From Cinnamon.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

Cinnamic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, odorless substance. C6H5.C2H2C2H2.CO2H, formerly obtained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo.


word: Cinnamon
definition:
Cinnamon

Cin"na*mon
(?)
n.
[Heb. qinnām&omacrn; cf. Gr. _;, _;, cinnamomum, cinnamon. The Heb. word itself seems to have been borrowed from some other language; cf. Malay kājū mānis sweet wood.]
(a)
The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.
(b)
Cassia.

Cinnamon stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.


word: Cinnamone
definition:
Cinnamone

Cin"na*mone
(?)
n.
[Cinnamic + -one.]
A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.


word: Cinnamyl
definition:
Cinnamyl

Cin"na*myl
(?)
n.
[Cinnamic + -yl.]
(Chem.)
The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.
[Formerly written also cinnamule.]


word: Cinnoline
definition:
Cinnoline

Cin"no*line
(?)
n.
[Cinnamic + quinoline.]
A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.


word: Cinque
definition:
Cinque

Cinque
(?)
n.
[F. cinq, fr. L. quinque five. See Five.]
Five; the number five in dice or cards.


word: Cinquecentist
definition:
Cinquecentist

Cin`que*cen"tist
(?)
n.
1.
An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.

2.
A student or imitator of the art or literature of the Cinquecento.


word: Cinquecento
definition:
Cinquecento

Cin`que*cen"to
(?)
n. & a.
[It., five hundred, abbrev. for fifteen hundred. The Cinquecento style was so called because it arose after the year 1500.]
The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.


word: Cinquefoil
definition:
Cinquefoil

Cinque"foil`
(?)
n.
[Cinque five + foil, F. feuille leaf. See Foil.]
1.
(Bot.)
The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

2.
(Arch.)
An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc.
Gwilt.

Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.


word: Cinque-pace
definition:
Cinque-pace

Cinque"-pace`
(?)
n.
[Cinque + pace.]
A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five.
[Obs.]
Nares. Shak.


word: Cinque Ports
definition:
Cinque Ports

Cinque" Ports`
(?)
[Cinque + port.]
(Eng. Hist.)
Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.

Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.


word: Cinura
definition:
Cinura

Ci*nu"ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; To move + o'yra` tail.]
(Zool.)
The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.


word: Cion
definition:
Cion

Ci"on
(?)
n.
[OF. cion. See Scion.]
See Scion.

The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft.
Bacon.


word: Cipher
definition:
Cipher

Ci"pher
(?)
n.
[OF. cifre zero, F. Chiffre figure (cf. Sp.cifra, LL. cifra), fr. Ar. çifrun, çafrun, empty, cipher, zero, fr. çafira to be empty. Cf. Zero.]

1.
(Arith.)
A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

2.
One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.

Here he was a mere cipher.
W. Irving.

3.
A character in general, as a figure or letter.
[Obs.]

This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures.
Sir W. Raleigh.

4.
A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc.  The cut represents the initials N. W.

5.
A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.

His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher.
Bp. Burnet.

Cipher key, a key to assist in reading writings in cipher.


word: Cipher₃
definition:
Cipher

Ci"pher
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Ciphered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ciphering.]
To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

'T was certain he could write and cipher too.
Goldsmith.


word: Cipher₄
definition:
Cipher

Ci"pher
v. t.
1.
To write in occult characters.

His notes he ciphered with Greek characters.
Hayward.

2.
To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.

3.
To decipher.
[Obs.]
Shak.

4.
To designate by characters.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Cipolin
definition:
Cipolin

Cip"o*lin
(?)
n.
[It. cippollino, prop., a little onion, fr. cipolla onion (cf. E. cibol). So called because its veins consist, like onions, of different strata, one lying upon another.]
(Min.)
A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.


word: Cippus
definition:
Cippus

Cip"pus
(?)
n.
pl. Cippi (#).
[L., stake, post.]
A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
Gwilt.


word: circa
definition:
circa

cir"ca
(sẽr"kȧ)
adv.
prep.
[L.]
Approximately; about; commonly abbreviated ca.; -- used especially before dates and numerical measures; as, he was born circa 1650; ca. 50 feet high.

Syn. -- ca.


word: Circassian
definition:
Circassian

Cir*cas"sian
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.
n. A native or inhabitant of Circassia.


word: Circean
definition:
Circean

Cir*ce"an
(?)
a.
[L. Circaeus.]
Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.


word: Circensian
definition:
Circensian

Circensial

{ Cir*cen"sial (?), Cir*cen"sian (?), }
a.
[L. Circensis, ludi Circenses, the games in the Circus Maximus.]
Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome.

The pleasure of the Circensian shows.
Holyday.


word: Circinate
definition:
Circinate

Cir"ci*nate
(?)
a.
[L. circinatus, p. p. of circinare to make round, fr. circinus a pair of compasses, from Gr. _; a circle.]
(Bot.)
Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
Gray.


word: Circination
definition:
Circination

Cir`ci*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circinatio circle.]

1.
An orbicular motion.
[Obs.]
bailey.

2.
A circle; a concentric layer.
[Obs.]
circinations
Sir T. Browne.


word: Circle
definition:
Circle

Cir"cle
(sẽr"k'l)
n.
[OE. cercle, F. cercle, fr. L. circulus (Whence also AS. circul), dim. of circus circle, akin to Gr. kri`kos, ki`rkos, circle, ring. Cf. Circus, Circum-.]

1.
A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

2.
The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.

3.
(Astron.)
An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle.

&hand_; When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian  circle or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.

4.
A round body; a sphere; an orb.

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth.
Is. xi. 22.

5.
Compass; circuit; inclosure.

In the circle of this forest.
Shak.

6.
A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or division of society; a coterie; a set.

As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
Macaulay.

7.
A circular group of persons; a ring.

8.
A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.

Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain.
Dryden.

9.
(Logic)
A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.

That heavy bodies descend by gravity; and, again, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing.
Glanvill.

10.
Indirect form of words; circumlocution.
[R.]

Has he given the lie,
In circle, or oblique, or semicircle.
J. Fletcher.

11.
A territorial division or district.

&hand_; The Circles of the Holy Roman Empire, ten in number, were those principalities or provinces which had seats in the German Diet.

Azimuth circle. See under Azimuth. -- Circle of altitude (Astron.), a circle parallel to the horizon, having its pole in the zenith; an almucantar. -- Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve (Below). -- Circle of declination. See under Declination. -- Circle of latitude. (a) (Astron.) A great circle perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, passing through its poles. (b) (Spherical Projection) A small circle of the sphere whose plane is perpendicular to the axis. -- Circles of longitude, lesser circles parallel to the ecliptic, diminishing as they recede from it. -- Circle of perpetual apparition, at any given place, the boundary of that space around the elevated pole, within which the stars never set. Its distance from the pole is equal to the latitude of the place. -- Circle of perpetual occultation, at any given place, the boundary of the space around the depressed pole, within which the stars never rise. -- Circle of the sphere, a circle upon the surface of the sphere, called a great circle when its plane passes through the center of the sphere; in all other cases, a small circle. -- Diurnal circle. See under Diurnal. -- Dress circle, a gallery in a theater, generally the one containing the prominent and more expensive seats. -- Druidical circles (Eng. Antiq.), a popular name for certain ancient inclosures formed by rude stones circularly arranged, as at Stonehenge, near Salisbury. -- Family circle, a gallery in a theater, usually one containing inexpensive seats. -- Horary circles (Dialing), the lines on dials which show the hours. -- Osculating circle of a curve (Geom.), the circle which touches the curve at some point in the curve, and close to the point more nearly coincides with the curve than any other circle. This circle is used as a measure of the curvature of the curve at the point, and hence is called circle of curvature. -- Pitch circle. See under Pitch. -- Vertical circle, an azimuth circle. -- Voltaic circuit or Voltaic circle. See under Circuit. -- To square the circle. See under Square.


word: Circle₂
definition:
Circle

Cir"cle
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circling (?).]
[OE. cerclen, F. cercler, fr. L. circulare to make round. See Circle, n., and cf. Circulate.]

1.
To move around; to revolve around.

Other planets circle other suns.
Pope.

2.
To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle.
Prior. Pope.

Their heads are circled with a short turban.
Dampier.

So he lies, circled with evil.
Coleridge.

To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.


word: Circle₃
definition:
Circle

Cir"cle
v. i.
To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.

Thy name shall circle round the gaping through.
Byron.


word: Circler
definition:
Circler

Cir"cler
(?)
n.
A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Circlet
definition:
Circlet

Cir"clet
(?)
n.
1.
A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.

Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled.
Spenser.

2.
A round body; an orb.
Pope.

Fairest of stars . . . that crown'st the smiling morn
With thy bright circlet.
Milton.

3.
A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Circuit
definition:
Circuit

Cir"cuit
(?)
n.
[F. circuit, fr. L. circuitus, fr. circuire or circumire to go around; circum around + ire to go.]
1.
The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
Watts.

2.
The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles.
J. Stow.

3.
That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

The golden circuit on my head.
Shak.

4.
The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees.
Milton.

5.
A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

6.
(a)
(Law)
A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
Bouvier
(b)
(Methodist Church)
A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

7.
Circumlocution.
[Obs.]
circuit
Huloet.

Circuit court (Law), a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. -- Circuit of action or Circuity of action (Law), a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- Voltaic circle or Galvanic circle or Voltaic circuit or Galvanic circuit, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.


word: circuit breaker
definition:
circuit breaker

cir"cuit break"er
n.
(Elec.)
A device contained within an electrical circuit designed to interrupt the circuit when the current exceeds a preset value; it is sometimes called a contact breaker.  Its function is to prevent fire or damage to the circuit or the devices on the circuit which could be caused by excess current, such as that caused by a short-circuit.  It differs from a fuse in not having a conducting element which melts (see 2nd fuse, n.).  Circuit breakers are designed to be easily reset, i. e. to reclose the circuit after it has been opened by the circuit breaker; this is usually accomplished by simply moving a switch back and forth. They are commonly used in buildings to protect individual electrical lines, and are often contained in groups within a box called a circuit breaker panel, which divides the current from a main electrical line into multiple circuits each protected by a separate circuit breaker. Less commonly they may be found on individual devices.


word: Circuition
definition:
Circuition

Cir`cu*i"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circuitio. See Circuit.]
The act of going round; circumlocution.
[R.]


word: Circuitous
definition:
Circuitous

Cir*cu"i*tous
(?)
a.
[LL. circuitosus.]
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.


word: Circuity
definition:
Circuity

Cir*cu"i*ty
(?)
n.
A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.


word: Circular
definition:
Circular

Cir"cu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. circularis, fr. circulus circle: cf. F. circulaire. See Circle.]

1.
In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.

2.
repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

3.
Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.

Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido?
Dennis.

4.
Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.

A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England.
Hallam.

5.
Perfect; complete.
[Obs.]

A man so absolute and circular
In all those wished-for rarities that may take
A virgin captive.
Massinger.

Circular are, any portion of the circumference of a circle. -- Circular cubics (Math.), curves of the third order which are imagined to pass through the two circular points at infinity. -- Circular functions. (Math.) See under Function. -- Circular instruments, mathematical instruments employed for measuring angles, in which the graduation extends round the whole circumference of a circle, or 360°. -- Circular lines, straight lines pertaining to the circle, as sines, tangents, secants, etc. -- Circular note or Circular letter. (a) (Com.) See under Credit. (b) (Diplomacy) A letter addressed in identical terms to a number of persons. -- Circular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pass. -- Circular polarization. (Min.) See under Polarization. -- Circular sailing or Globular sailing (Naut.), the method of sailing by the arc of a great circle. -- Circular saw. See under Saw.


word: Circular₂
definition:
Circular

Cir"cu*lar
n.
[Cf. (for sense 1) F. circulaire, lettre circulaire. See Circular, a.]

1.
A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

2.
A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.


word: Circularity
definition:
Circularity

Cir`cu*lar"i*ty
(?)
n.
[LL. circularitas.]
The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.


word: circular-knit
definition:
circular-knit

circular-knit
adj.
knit on a circular form so as to have no seams; -- said of stockings.


word: Circulate
definition:
Circulate

Cir"cu*late
(#)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Circulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Circulating.]
[L. circulatus, p. p. of circulare, v. t., to surround, make round, circulari, v. i., to gather into a circle. See Circle.]

1.
To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Boyle.

2.
To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.

Circulating decimal. See Decimal. -- Circulating library, a library whose books are loaned to the public, usually at certain fixed rates. -- Circulating medium. See Medium.


word: Circulate₂
definition:
Circulate

Cir"cu*late
(?)
v. t.
To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.

Circulating pump. See under Pump.


word: circulating
definition:
circulating

circulating
adj.
1.
moving or flowing in a circuit and returning to the same point; as, steam circulating through the pipes; the circulating thyroid hormones.

2.
passing from one to another.
[prenominal]


word: Circulation
definition:
Circulation

Cir`cu*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circulatio: cf. F. circulation.]
1.
The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

This continual circulation of human things.
Swift.

2.
The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.

The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation.
Whewell.

3.
Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.

4.
The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.

5.
(Physiol.)
The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.


word: Circulator
definition:
Circulator

Cir"cu*la`tor
(?)
n.
[Cf.  L. circulator a peddler.]
One who, or that which, circulates.


word: Circulatorious
definition:
Circulatorious

Cir`cu*la*to"ri*ous
(?)
a.
Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
[Obs.]
Circulatorious
Barrow.


word: Circulatory
definition:
Circulatory

Cir"cu*la*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. circulatorius pert. to a mountebank: cf. F. circulatoire.]

1.
Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
Johnson.

2.
Circulating, or going round.
T. Warton.

3.
(Anat.)
Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.


word: Circulatory₂
definition:
Circulatory

Cir"cu*la*to*ry
n.
A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.


word: Circum-
definition:
Circum-

Cir"cum-
(?)
[Akin to circle, circus.]
A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.


word: Circumagitate
definition:
Circumagitate

Cir`cum*ag"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. circum + agitate.]
To agitate on all sides.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Circumambage
definition:
Circumambage

Cir`cum*am"bage
(?)
n.
[Pref. 
circum- + ambage, obs. sing. of ambages.]
A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.
[Obs.]
S. Richardson.


word: Circumambient
definition:
Circumambient

Cir`cum*am"bi*ent
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + ambient.]
Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
circumambient heaven
J. Armstrong.


word: Circumambulate
definition:
Circumambulate

Cir`cum*am"bu*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. circumambulatus, p. p. of circumambulare to walk around; circum + ambulare. See Ambulate.]
To walk round about.
Cir`cum*am`bu*la"tion (#), n.


word: Circumcise
definition:
Circumcise

Cir"cum*cise
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumcised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circumcising.]
[L. circumcisus, p. p. of circumcidere to cut around, to circumcise; circum + caedere to cut; akin to E. cæsura, homicide, concise, and prob. to shed, v. t.]
1.
To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

2.
(Script.)
To purify spiritually.


word: Circumcision
definition:
Circumcision

Cir`cum*cision
(?)
n.
[L. circumcisio.]
1.
The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.

&hand_; The circumcision of males is practiced as a religious rite by the Jews, Muslims, etc.  Circumcision of male infants is also a common practice as a hygienic measure, to reduce incidence of infection of the penis.

2.
(Script.)
(a)
The Jews, as a circumcised people.
(b)
Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.


word: Circumclusion
definition:
Circumclusion

Cir`cum*clu"sion
(?)
n.
[L. circumcludere, -clusum, to inclose.]
Act of inclosing on all sides.
[R.]


word: Circumcursation
definition:
Circumcursation

Cir`cum*cur*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumcursare, -satum, to run round about.]
The act of running about; also, rambling language.
[Obs.]
Barrow.


word: Circumdenudation
definition:
Circumdenudation

Cir`cum*den`u*da"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. circum- + denudation.]
(Geol.)
Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.

Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.


word: Circumduce
definition:
Circumduce

Cir`cum*duce"
(?)
v. t.
[See Circumduct.]
(Scots Law)
To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
Sir W. Scott.


word: Circumduct
definition:
Circumduct

Cir`cum*duct"
(?)
v. t.
[L. circumductus, p. p. of circumducere to lead around; circum + ducere to lead.]

1.
To lead about; to lead astray.
[R.]

2.
(Law)
To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.


word: Circumduction
definition:
Circumduction

Cir`cum*duc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumductio.]
1.
A leading about; circumlocution.
[R.]
Hooker.

2.
An annulling; cancellation.
[R.]
Ayliffe.

3.
(Physiol.)
The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a conical surface.


word: Circumesophagal
definition:
Circumesophagal

Cir`cum*e*soph"a*gal
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + esophagal.]
(Anat.)
Surrounding the esophagus; -- in (Zool.) said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.


word: Circumfer
definition:
Circumfer

Cir"cum*fer
(?)
v. t.
[L. circumferre; circum- + ferre to bear. See 1st Bear.]
To bear or carry round.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Circumference
definition:
Circumference

Cir*cum"fer*ence
(?)
n.
[L. circumferentia.]

1.
The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.
Millon.

2.
A circle; anything circular.

His ponderous shield . . .
Behind him cast. The broad circumference
Hung on his shoulders like the moon.
Milton.

3.
The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body.


word: Circumference₂
definition:
Circumference

Cir*cum"fer*ence
v. t.
To include in a circular space; to bound.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Circumferential
definition:
Circumferential

Cir*cum`fer*en"tial
(?)
a.
[LL. circumferentialis.]
Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Parkhurst.


word: Circumferentor
definition:
Circumferentor

Cir*cum`fer*en"tor
(?)
n.
[See Circumfer.]

1.
A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360°, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

2.
A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire circle.


word: Circumflant
definition:
Circumflant

Cir"cum*flant
(?)
a.
[L. circumflans, p. pr. of circumflare.]
Blowing around.
[Obs.]
Evelyn.


word: Circumflect
definition:
Circumflect

Cir"cum*flect
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumflecting.]
[L. circumflectere. See Circumflex.]
1.
To bend around.

2.
To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.
[R.]


word: Circumflex
definition:
Circumflex

Cir"cum*flex
(?)
n.
[L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible.]

1.
A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
Walker.

2.
A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or _;]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [_; or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.


word: Circumflex₂
definition:
Circumflex

Cir"cum*flex
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumflexed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circumflexing (?).]
To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
Walker.


word: Circumflex₃
definition:
Circumflex

Cir"cum*flex
a.
[Cf. L. circumflexus, p. p.]

1.
Moving or turning round; circuitous.
[R.]
Swift.

2.
(Anat.)
Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.


word: Circumflexion
definition:
Circumflexion

Cir`cum*flex"ion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.

2.
A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.


word: Circumfluous
definition:
Circumfluous

Circumfluent

{ Cir*cum"flu*ent (?), Cir*cum"flu*ous (?), }
a.
[L. circumfluere, p. pr. of circumfluere; circum + fluere to flow; also L. circumfluus.]
Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.
circumfluent
Pope.


word: Circumforaneous
definition:
Circumforaneous

Circumforanean

{ Cir`cum*fo*ra"ne*an (?), Cir`cum*fo*ra"ne*ous (?), }
a.
[L. circumforaneus found in markets; circum + forum a market place.]
Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Addison.


word: Circumfuse
definition:
Circumfuse

Cir`cum*fuse"
(?)
v. t.
[L. circumfusus, p. p. of circumfundere to pour around; circum + fundere to pour.]
To pour round; to spread round.

His army circumfused on either wing.
Milton.


word: Circumfusile
definition:
Circumfusile

Cir`cum*fu"sile
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + L. fusilis fusil, a.]
Capable of being poured or spread round.
Circumfusile
Pope.


word: Circumfusion
definition:
Circumfusion

Cir`cum*fu"sion
(?)
n.
[L. circumfusio.]
The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.
Swift.


word: Circumgestation
definition:
Circumgestation

Cir`cum*ges*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumgestare to carry around; circum + gestare to carry.]
The act or process of carrying about.
[Obs.]

Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Circumgyrate
definition:
Circumgyrate

Cir`cum*gy"rate
(?)
v. t. & i.
[Pref. circum- + gyrate.]
To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion.
Ray.


word: Circumgyration
definition:
Circumgyration

Cir`cum*gy*ra"tion
(?)
n.
The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round.

A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration.
Holland.


word: Circumincession
definition:
Circumincession

Cir`cum*in*ces"sion
(?)
n.
[Pref. circum- + L. incedere, incessum, to walk.]
(Theol.)
The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity.


word: Circumjacence
definition:
Circumjacence

Cir`cum*ja"cence
(?)
n.
Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.


word: Circumjacent
definition:
Circumjacent

Cir`cum*ja"cent
(?)
a.
[L. circumjacens, p. pr. of circumjacere; circum + jacēre to lie.]
Lying round; bordering on every side.
T. Fuller.


word: Circumjovial
definition:
Circumjovial

Cir`cum*jo"vi*al
(?)
n.
[Pref. circum- + L. Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jove.]
One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
[Obs.]
Derham.


word: Circumlittoral
definition:
Circumlittoral

Cir`cum*lit"to*ral
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + L. littus, littoris, shore; preferable form, litus, litoris.]
Adjointing the shore.


word: Circumlocution
definition:
Circumlocution

Cir`cum*lo*cu"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumlocutio, fr. circumloqui, -locutus, to make use of circumlocution; circum + loqui to speak. See Loquacious.]
The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

the plain Billingsgate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution.
Swift.

Circumlocution office, a term of ridicule for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.


word: Circumlocutional
definition:
Circumlocutional

Cir`cum*lo*cu"tion*al
(?)
a.
Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.


word: Circumlocutory
definition:
Circumlocutory

Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry
(?)
a.
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
Shenstone.

The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order.
Chambers's Journal.


word: Circummeridian
definition:
Circummeridian

Cir`cum*me*rid"i*an
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + meridian.]
About, or near, the meridian.


word: Circumnavigate
definition:
Circumnavigate

Cir`cum*nav"i*gate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumnavigated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circumnavigating (?).]
[L. circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round; circum + navigare to navigate.]
To sail completely round.

Having circumnavigated the whole earth.
T. Fuller.


word: Circumnavigation
definition:
Circumnavigation

Cir`cum*nav`i*ga"tion
(?)
n.
The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
Arbuthnot.


word: Circumnutate
definition:
Circumnutate

Cir`cum*nu"tate
(?)
v. i.
[Pref. circum- + nutate.]
To pass through the stages of circumnutation.


word: Circumnutation
definition:
Circumnutation

Cir`cum*nu*ta"tion
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.


word: Circumpolar
definition:
Circumpolar

Cir`cum*po"lar
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + polar.]
About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.


word: Circumposition
definition:
Circumposition

Cir`cum*po*si"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumpositio, fr. circumponere, - positium, to place around.]
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Evelyn.


word: Circumrotatory
definition:
Circumrotatory

Circumrotary

{ Cir`cum*ro"tary (?), Cir`cum*ro"ta*to*ry (?), }
a.
[Pref. circum- + rotary, rotatory.]
turning, rolling, or whirling round.


word: Circumrotate
definition:
Circumrotate

Cir`cum*ro"tate
(?)
v. t. & i.
[L. circumrotare; circum + rotare to turn round.]
To rotate about.
[R.]


word: Circumrotation
definition:
Circumrotation

Cir`cum*ro*ta"tion
(?)
n.
The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
J. Gregory.


word: Circumscissile
definition:
Circumscissile

Cir`cum*scis"sile
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + scissle.]
(Bot.)
Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.


word: Circumscribe
definition:
Circumscribe

Cir`cum*scribe"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumscribed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circumscribing.]
[L. circumscribere, -scriptum; circum + scribere to write, draw. See Soribe.]

1.
to write or engrave around.
[R.]

Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph.
Ashmole.

2.
To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.

To circumscribe royal power.
Bancroft.

3.
(Geom.)
To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.


word: Circumscription
definition:
Circumscription

Cir`cum*scrip"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumscriptio. See Circumscribe.]
1.
An inscription written around anything.
[R.]
Ashmole.

2.
The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
Ray.

3.
The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.

The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Johnson.

I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine.
Shak.


word: Circumscriptive
definition:
Circumscriptive

Cir`cum*scrip"tive
(?)
a.
Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.


word: Circumspect
definition:
Circumspect

Cir"cum*spect
(?)
a.
[L. circumspectus, p. p. of circumspicere to look about one's self, to observe; circum + spicere, specere, to look. See Spy.]
Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.


word: Circumspection
definition:
Circumspection

Cir`cum*spec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumspectio.]
Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

With silent circumspection, unespied.
Milton.


word: Circumspective
definition:
Circumspective

Cir`cum*spec"tive
(sẽr`kŭm*spĕk"tĭv)
a.
Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.
Circumspective
Pope.


word: circumspectly
definition:
circumspectly

cir"cum*spect`ly
(sẽr"kŭm*spĕkt`l&ybreve_;)
adv.
In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.


word: Circumspectness
definition:
Circumspectness

Cir"cum*spect"ness
n.
Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.

[Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: circumstance
definition:
circumstance

cir"cum*stance
(sẽr"kŭm*stăns)
n.
[L. circumstantia, fr. circumstans, -antis, p. pr. of circumstare to stand around; circum + stare to stand. See Stand.]
1.
That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
W. Irving.

2.
An event; a fact; a particular incident.

The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history.
Addison.

3.
Circumlocution; detail.
[Obs.]

So without more circumstance at all
I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
Shak.

4.
pl.
Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Addison.

Not a circumstance, of no account. [Colloq.] -- Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.


word: Circumstance
definition:
Circumstance

Cir"cum*stance
v. t.
To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner.
Addison.


word: Circumstanced
definition:
Circumstanced

Cir"cum*stanced
(sẽr"kŭm*stănst)
p. a.
1.
Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.

The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other.
Whewell.

2.
Governed by events or circumstances.
[Poetic  & R.]
circumstanced
Shak.


word: circumstant
definition:
circumstant

cir"cum*stant
(sẽr"kŭm*stănt)
a.
[L. circumstans. See Circumstance.]
Standing or placed around; surrounding.
[R.]
Circumstant
Sir K. Digby.


word: circumstantiable
definition:
circumstantiable

cir`cum*stan"tia*ble
(sẽr`kŭm*stăn"shȧ*b'l)
a.
Capable of being circumstantiated.
[Obs.]
Jer Taylor.


word: circumstantial
definition:
circumstantial

cir`cum*stan"tial
(sẽr`kŭm*stăn"shal)
a.
[Cf. F. circonstanciel.]

1.
Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.

The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety.
Paley.

2.
Incidental; relating to, but not essential.

We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship . . . and what is merely circumstantial.
Sharp.

3.
Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.

Tedious and circumstantial recitals.
Prior.

Circumstantial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a party; but the prevalent opinion now is that all such testimony is dependent on circumstances for its support. All testimony is more or less circumstantial. Wharton.


word: Circumstantial
definition:
Circumstantial

Cir`cum*stan"tial
n.
Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Addison.


word: Circumstantiality
definition:
Circumstantiality

Cir`cum*stan`ti*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
circumstantiality
De Quincey.


word: Circumstantially
definition:
Circumstantially

Cir`cum*stan"tial*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.

Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different.
Glanvill.

2.
In every circumstance or particular; minutely.

To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials.
Boyle.


word: Circumstantiate
definition:
Circumstantiate

Cir`cum*stan"ti*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumstantiated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circumstantiating (?).]
[See Circumstantiating (_;).]

1.
To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
[R.]

If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly.
Bramhall.

2.
To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning.

Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.
State Trials (1661).


word: Circumterraneous
definition:
Circumterraneous

Cir`cum*ter*ra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. circum- + L. terra earth.]
Being or dwelling around the earth.
Circumterraneous
H. Hallywell.


word: Circumundulate
definition:
Circumundulate

Cir`cum*un"du*late
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. circum- + undulate.]
To flow round, as waves.
[R.]


word: Circumvallate
definition:
Circumvallate

Cir`cum*val"late
(?)
v. t.
[L. circumvallatus, p. p. of circumvallare to surround with a wall; circum + vallare to wall, fr. vallum rampart.]
To surround with a rampart or wall.
Johnson.


word: Circumvallate₂
definition:
Circumvallate

Cir`cum*val"late
(?)
a.
1.
Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.

2.
(Anat.)
Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillæ, near the base of the tongue.


word: Circumvallation
definition:
Circumvallation

Cir`cum*val*la"tion
(?)
n.
(Mil.)
(a)
The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
(b)
A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.


word: Circumvection
definition:
Circumvection

Cir`cum*vec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumvectio; circum + vehere to carry.]
The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.


word: Circumvent
definition:
Circumvent

Cir`cum*vent"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumvented; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumventing.]
[L. circumventis, p. p. of circumvenire, to come around, encompass, deceive; circum + venire to come, akin to E. come.]
To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

I circumvented whom I could not gain.
Dryden.


word: Circumvention
definition:
Circumvention

Cir`cum*ven"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumventio.]
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.

A school in which he learns sly circumvention.
Cowper.


word: Circumventor
definition:
Circumventor

Cir`cum*vent"or
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.


word: Circumvest
definition:
Circumvest

Cir`cum*vest"
(?)
v. t.
[L. circumvestire; circum + vestire to clothe.]
To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
[Obs.]

Circumvested with much prejudice.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Circumvolant
definition:
Circumvolant

Cir*cum"vo*lant
(?)
a.
[L. circumvolans, p. pr. See Circumvolation.]
Flying around.

The circumvolant troubles of humanity.
G. Macdonald.


word: Circumvolation
definition:
Circumvolation

Cir`cum*vo*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. circumvolate. -volatum, to fly around; circum + volare to fly.]
The act of flying round.
[R.]


word: Circumvolution
definition:
Circumvolution

Cir`cum*vo*lu"tion
(?)
n.
[See Circumvolve.]

1.
The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

2.
A thing rolled round another.
Arbuthnot.

3.
A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.

He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions.
Beaconsfield.


word: Circumvolve
definition:
Circumvolve

Cir`cum*volve"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Circumvolved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Circumvolving.]
[L. circumvolvere, -volutum; circum + volvere to roll.]
To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
Herrick.


word: Circus
definition:
Circus

Cir"cus
(?)
n.
pl. Circuses (#).
[L. circus circle, ring, circus (in sense 1). See Circle, and cf. Cirque.]

1.
(Roman Antiq.)
A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

&hand_; The Circus Maximus at Rome could contain more than 100,000 spectators.
Harpers' Latin Dict.

2.
A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

3.
Circuit; space; inclosure.
[R.]

The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.
Byron.


word: Cirque
definition:
Cirque

Cirque
(?)
n.
[F., fr. L. circus.]

1.
A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.

A dismal cirque
Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor.
Keats.

2.
A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.


word: Cirrate
definition:
Cirrate

Cir"rate
(?)
a.
[L. cirratus having ringlets, fr. cirrus a curl.]
(Zool.)
Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.


word: Cirrhosis
definition:
Cirrhosis

Cir*rho"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut.]
(Med.)
A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.


word: Cirrhotic
definition:
Cirrhotic

Cir*rhot"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.


word: Cirriform
definition:
Cirriform

Cir"ri*form
(?)
a.
[Cirrus + -form.]
(Biol.)
Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.


word: Cirrigerous
definition:
Cirrigerous

Cir*rig"er*ous
(?)
a.
[Cirrus + -gerous.]
(Biol.)
Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.


word: Cirrigrade
definition:
Cirrigrade

Cir"ri*grade
(?)
a.
[Cirrus + L. gradi to walk.]
(Biol.)
Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.


word: cirio
definition:
cirio

cirio
n.
the candlewood of Mexico and couthwestern California (Idria columnaris or Fouquieria columnaris), having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers; -- called also the boojum tree.

Syn. -- boojum tree, Fouquieria columnaris, Idria columnaris.


word: Cirripedia
definition:
Cirripedia

Cir`ri*pe"di*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. cirrus curl + pes, pedis, foot.]
(Zool.)
An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.


word: Cirrobranchiata
definition:
Cirrobranchiata

Cir`ro*bran`chi*a"ta
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. E. cirrus + L. branchiae gills.]
(Zool.)
A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.


word: Cirrose
definition:
Cirrose

Cir"rose
(?)
a.
[See Cirrus.]
(Bot.)
(a)
Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
(b)
Resembling a tendril or cirrus.
[Spelt also cirrhose.]


word: Cirrostomi
definition:
Cirrostomi

Cir`ros"to*mi
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. E. cirrus + Gr. _; mouth.]
(Zool.)
The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.


word: Cirrous
definition:
Cirrous

Cir"rous
(?)
a.
1.
(Bot.)
Cirrose.

2.
(Zool.)
Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.


word: Cirrus
definition:
Cirrus

Cir"rus
(?)
n.
pl. Cirri (#).
[L., lock, curl, ringlet.]
[Also written cirrhus.]

1.
(Bot.)
A tendril or clasper.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
(b)
The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychæta.

&hand_; In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function.

3.
(Zool.)
The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.

4.
(Meteor.)
See under Cloud.


word: Cirsocele
definition:
Cirsocele

Cir"so*cele
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a dilated vein + _; tumor.]
(Med.)
The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.


word: Cirsoid
definition:
Cirsoid

Cir"soid
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; a dilated vein + -oid.]
(Med.)
Varicose.

Cirsoid aneurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.


word: Cirsotomy
definition:
Cirsotomy

Cir*sot"o*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a dilated vein + te`mnein to cut.]
(Surg.)
Any operation for the removal of varices by incision.
Dunglison.


word: Cis-
definition:
Cis-

Cis-
(?)
A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.


word: Cisalpine
definition:
Cisalpine

Cis*al"pine
(?)
a.
[L. Cisalpinus; cis on this side + Alpinus Alpine.]
On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.


word: Cisatlantic
definition:
Cisatlantic

Cis`at*lan"tic
(?)
a.
[Pref. cis- + Atlantic.]
On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.
Story.


word: Cisco
definition:
Cisco

Cis"co
(?)
n.
(Zool.)
The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to Coregonus Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.


word: Ciselure
definition:
Ciselure

Ci`se*lure"
(?)
n.
[F.]
The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
Weale.


word: Cisleithan
definition:
Cisleithan

Cis*lei"than
(?)
a.
[Pref. cis- + Leitha.]
On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.


word: Cismontane
definition:
Cismontane

Cis*mon"tane
(?)
a.
[Pref. cis- + L. mons mountain.]
On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.


word: Cispadane
definition:
Cispadane

Cis"pa*dane`
(?)
a.
[Pref. cis- + L. Padanus, pert. to the Padus or Po.]
On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.


word: Cissoid
definition:
Cissoid

Cis"soid
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; like ivy; _; ivy + e'i^dos form.]
(Geom.)
A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.


word: Cist
definition:
Cist

Cist
(?)
n.
[L. cista box, chest, Gr. _; Cf. Chest.]

1.
(Antiq.)
A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

2.
See Cyst.


word: Cistercian
definition:
Cistercian

Cis*ter"cian
(?)
n.
[LL. Cistercium. F. Cîteaux, a convent not far from Dijon, in France: cf. F. cistercien.]
(Eccl.)
A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Cîteaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
a. Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.


word: Cistern
definition:
Cistern

Cis"tern
(?)
n.
[OE. cisterne, OF. cisterne, F. cisterne, fr. L. cisterna, fr. cista box, chest. See Cist, and cf. chest.]
1.
An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.

2.
A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.
cisterns
Blackmore.


word: Cistus
definition:
Cistus

Cistus
n.
a genus of small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and northern Africa.

Syn. -- genus Cistus.


word: Cit
definition:
Cit

Cit
(_;)
n.
[Contr. fr. citizen.]
A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
cit
Johnson

Which past endurance sting the tender cit.
Emerson.


word: Citadel
definition:
Citadel

Cit"a*del
(?)
n.
[F. citadelle, It. citadella, di_;. of citt_; city, fr. L. civitas. See City.]
A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.

Syn. -- Stronghold. See Fortress.


word: Cital
definition:
Cital

Cit"al
(?)
n.
[From Cite]
1.
Summons to appear, as before a judge.
[R.]
Johnson

2.
Citation; quotation
[R.]
Johnson.


word: Citation
definition:
Citation

Ci*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[F. citation, LL. citatio, fr.L. citare to cite. See Cite]
1.
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

2.
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.

This horse load of citations and fathers.
Milton.

3.
Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

4.
(Law)
A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.


word: Citatory
definition:
Citatory

Ci"ta*to*ry
(?)
a.
[LL. citatirius.]
Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.


word: Cite
definition:
Cite

Cite
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cited; p. pr. & vb. n. Citing]
[F. citer, fr. L. citare, intens. of cire, ciēre, to put in motion, to excite; akin to Gr._; to go, Skr. _; to sharpen.]
1.
To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

The cited dead,
Of all past ages, to the general doom
Shall hasten.
Milton.

Cited by finger of God.
De Quincey.

2.
To urge; to enjoin.
[R.]
Shak.

3.
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Shak.

4.
To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.

The imperfections which you have cited.
Shak.

5.
To bespeak; to indicate.
[Obs.]

Aged honor cites a virtuous youth.
Shak.

6.
(Law)
To notify of a proceeding in court.
Abbot


word: Cithara
definition:
Cithara

Cith"a*ra
(?)
n.
[L. Cf. Cittern, Guitar.]
(Mus.)
An ancient stringed musical instrument resembling the harp.
[Also spelled kithara.]


word: Citharistic
definition:
Citharistic

Cith`a*ris"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; cithara.]
Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.


word: cither
definition:
cither

cither
n.
a musical instrument resembling a harp with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; the zither.  It is played with a plectrum and with fingers.

Syn. -- zither, zithern.


word: Citied
definition:
Citied

Cit"ied
(?)
a.
1.
Belonging to, or resembling, a city.
citied
[R.]
Drayton.

2.
Containing, or covered with, cities.
[R.]
citied
Keats.


word: Citigradae
definition:
Citigradae

Cit`i*gra"dæ
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. citus swift (p. p. of cire, ciere, to move) + gradi to walk. See Cite.]
(Zool.)
A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.


word: Citigrade
definition:
Citigrade

Cit"i*grade
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. citigrade.]
(Zool.)
Pertaining to the Citigradæ.
n. One of the Citigradæ.


word: Citizen
definition:
Citizen

Cit"i*zen
(?)
n.
[OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cité city.  See City, and cf. Cit.]
1.
One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.

That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs.
G. Eliot.

2.
An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
Shak.

3.
A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

&hand_; This protection is . . . national protection, recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his security and rights abroad as well as at home.
Abbot

4.
One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.


word: Citizen₂
definition:
Citizen

Cit"i*zen
a.
1.
Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

2.
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
[Obs.]

I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick.
Shak.


word: citizens' band
definition:
citizens' band

citizens' band
n.
that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations.  Abreviated CB.  Called also Citizens Radio Service.


word: Citole
definition:
Citole

Cit"ole
(?)
n.
[OF. citole, fr. L. cithara. See Cittern.]
(Mus.)
A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
[Obs.]


word: Citraconic
definition:
Citraconic

Cit`ra*con"ic
(?)
a.
[Citric + aconitic.]
Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.

Citraconic acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.


word: Citrange
definition:
Citrange

Cit"range
(?)
n.
[Citrus + orange.]
A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange (Citrus trifoliata). It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.


word: Citric
definition:
Citric

Cit"ric
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. citrique. See Citron.]
(Chem.)
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.

Citric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, C3H4OH.(CO2H)3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberries, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.


word: citrin
definition:
citrin

citrin
n.
a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation; -- called also vitamin P.

Syn. -- vitamin P, bioflavinoid.


word: Citrination
definition:
Citrination

Cit`ri*na"tion
(?)
n.
[See Citrine.]
The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.
Thynne.


word: Citrine
definition:
Citrine

Cit"rine
(?)
a.
[F. citrin. See Citron.]
Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.

Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unguentum hydrargyri nitratis.


word: Citron
definition:
Citron

Cit"ron
(sĭt"rŭn)
n.
[F. citron, LL. citro, fr. L. citrus citron tree (cf. citreum, sc. malum, a citron), from Gr. ki`tron citron]
1.
(Bot)
A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic; it is produced by the citron tree (Citrus medica).  The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.  The fruit was once called the lime.

2.
A citron tree, Citrus medica.

3.
A citron melon.

Citron melon. (a) A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh. (b) A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves. -- Citron tree (Bot.), the tree which bears citrons.  It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.


word: Citroncirus
definition:
Citroncirus

Citroncirus
n.
a cross between Citrus sinensis and Poncirus trifoliata.

Syn. -- genus Citroncirus.


word: citronwood
definition:
citronwood

citronwood
n.
1.
wood of a citron tree.

2.
a durable fragrant wood used in building (as in the roof of Cordova Cathedral); -- called also sandarac.

Syn. -- sandarac.


word: citrous
definition:
citrous

citrous
(sĭt"rŭs)
adj.
of or pertaining to a citrus tree; as, a citrous disease.

Syn. -- citrus.

2.
of or pertaining to citrus.
the citrus production of Florida

Syn. -- citrus.


word: citrulline
definition:
citrulline

citrulline
n.
an amino acid that is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine.


word: Citrullus
definition:
Citrullus

Citrullus
n.
a genus of vines including the watermelons (Citrullus lanata).

Syn. -- genus Citrullus.


word: Citrus
definition:
Citrus

Cit"rus
(sĭt"rŭs)
n.
[L., a citron tree.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, citron, grapefruit, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

2.
(Bot.)
any tree belonging to the genus Citrus, having leathery evergreen leaves and bearing a soft pulpy fruit covered by a thick skin; -- called also citrus tree.

3.
(Bot.)
the fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Citrus, having a thick shiny skin and a soft, sweet to tart pulp.


word: Cittern
definition:
Cittern

Cit"tern
(?)
n.
[L.cithara, Gr. kiqa`ra. Cf. Cithara, Gittern.]
(Mus.)
An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
[Written also cithern.]
Shak.

&hand_; Not to be confounded with zither.


word: Cittern-head
definition:
Cittern-head

Cit"tern-head`
(?)
n.
Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head.
Marsion


word: City
definition:
City

Cit"y
(sĭt"&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Cities (sĭt"ĭz).
[OE. cite, F. cité, fr. L. civitas citizenship, state, city, fr. civis citizen; akin to Goth. heiwa (in heiwafrauja man of the house), AS. hīwan, pl., members of a family, servants, hīred family, G.  heirath marriage, prop., providing a house, E. hind a peasant.]
1.
A large town.

2.
A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.

A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city.
Blackstone

When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law.
Palfrey

3.
The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
city
Shak.


word: City₂
definition:
City

Cit"y
a.
Of or pertaining to a city.
Shak.

City council. See under Council. -- City court, The municipal court of a city. [U. S.] -- City ward, a watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city. [Obs.] Fairfax.


word: cityfied
definition:
cityfied

city-like

city-like cityfied
adj.
having the customs or manners or dress of city people.

Syn. -- citified.


word: citywide
definition:
citywide

citywide
adj.
including or occurring in all parts of a city; as, citywide bussing; a citywide strike.


word: Civet
definition:
Civet

Civ"et
(sĭv"ĕt)
n.
[F. civette (cf. It. zibetto) civet, civet cat, fr. LGr. zape`tion, fr. Ar. zubād, zabād, civet.]
1.
A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

2.
(Zool)
The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat.  It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.


word: Civic
definition:
Civic

Civ"ic
(?)
a.
[L.civicus, fr. civis citizen. See City.]
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.

Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.


word: Civil
definition:
Civil

Civ"il
(?)
a.
[L. civilis, fr. civis citizen: cf. F. civil. See City.]
1.
Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.

2.
Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.

England was very rude and barbarous; for it is but even the other day since England grew civil.
Spenser.

3.
Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

Civil men come nearer the saints of God than others; they come within a step or two of heaven.
Preston

4.
Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.

&hand_; “A civil man now is one observant of slight external courtesies in the mutual intercourse between man and man; a civil man once was one who fulfilled all the duties and obligations flowing from his position as a 'civis' and his relations to the other members of that 'civitas.'”
Trench

5.
Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

6.
Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

Civil action, an action to enforce the rights or redress the wrongs of an individual, not involving a criminal proceeding. -- Civil architecture, the architecture which is employed in constructing buildings for the purposes of civil life, in distinction from military and naval architecture, as private houses, palaces, churches, etc. -- Civil death. (Law.) See under Death. -- Civil engineering. See under Engineering. -- Civil law. See under Law. -- Civil list. See under List. -- Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution. -- Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or military affairs. -- Civil service reform, the substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civil suit. Same as Civil action. -- Civil war. See under War. -- Civil year. See under Year.


word: Civilian
definition:
Civilian

Ci*vil"ian
(?)
n.
[From Civil]
1.
One skilled in the civil law.

Ancient civilians and writers upon government.
Swift.

2.
A student of the civil law at a university or college.
R. Graves.

3.
One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.


word: Civility
definition:
Civility

Ci*vil"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Civilities (#).
[L. civilitas: cf. F. civilité. See Civil.]
1.
The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.
[Obs.]

Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.
Sir J. Davies.

The gradual depature of all deeper signification from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization.
Trench.

2.
A civil office, or a civil process
[Obs.]

To serve in a civility.
Latimer.

3.
Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.

The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.
Chesterfield.

The sweet civilities of life.
Dryden.


word: Civilization
definition:
Civilization

Civ`i*li*za"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. civilisation.]
1.
The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion.
Burke

2.
(Law)
Rendering a criminal process civil.
[Obs.]


word: Civilize
definition:
Civilize

Civ"i*lize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Civilized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Civilizing.]
[Cf. F. civilizer, fr.L. civilis civil. See Civil.]
1.
To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
Her land to civilize, as to subdue.
Dryden

2.
To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
[Obs. or R.]
Civilizing
Milton.


word: Civilized
definition:
Civilized

Civ"i*lized
(?)
a.
Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.

Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society.
J. Quincy.


word: civil-libertarian
definition:
civil-libertarian

civil-libertarian
adj.
having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law.


word: civil-libertarian₂
definition:
civil-libertarian

civil-libertarian
n.
a person having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law.


word: civil rights
definition:
civil rights

civil right

civil right, civil rights
a legal right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship, including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of congress, including the right to legal and social and economic equality.


word: Civil Service Commission
definition:
Civil Service Commission

Civil Service Commission
In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).


word: Civil Service Reform
definition:
Civil Service Reform

Civil Service Reform
The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.


word: Civily
definition:
Civily

Civ"i*ly
(?)
adv.
In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.


word: Clachan
definition:
Clachan

Clach"an
(?)
n.
[Scot., fr. Gael.]
A small village containing a church.
[Scot.]
Sir W. Scott

Sitting at the clachon alehouse.
R. L. Stevenson.


word: Clack
definition:
Clack

Clack
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Clacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clacking.]
[Prob. of imitative origin; cf. F.claquer to clap, crack, D. klakken, MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., Clatter, Click.]
1.
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches.
Thackeray.

2.
To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness; to let the tongue run.


word: Clack₂
definition:
Clack

Clack
(?)
v. t.
1.
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

2.
To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.
Feltham.

To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]


word: Clack₃
definition:
Clack

Clack
n.
[Cf. F. claque a slap or smack, MHG. klac crack, W. clec crack, gossip. See Clack, v. t.]
1.
A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by striking an object.

2.
Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

3.
Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.

Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack.
South.

Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak.

Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. -- Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.


word: Clacker
definition:
Clacker

Clack"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.

2.
A claqueur. See Claqueur.


word: Cladocera
definition:
Cladocera

Cla*doc"e*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a sprout + _; a horn.]
(Zool.)
An order of the Entomostraca.

&hand_; They have a bivalve shell, covering the body but not the head, and from four to six pairs of legs and two pairs of antenæ, for use in swimming. They mostly inhabit fresh water.


word: cladode
definition:
cladode

cladode
n.
a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.

Syn. -- cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade.


word: Cladonia
definition:
Cladonia

Cladonia
n.
the type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia.

Syn. -- genus Cladonia.


word: Cladophyll
definition:
Cladophyll

Clad"o*phyll
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a sprout + _; a leaf.]
(Bot.)
A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).


word: Claim
definition:
Claim

Claim
(klām)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Claimed (klāmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming.]
[OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. kalei^n to call, Skr. kal to sound, G. holen to fetch, E. hale haul.]
1.
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

2.
To proclaim.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

3.
To call or name.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

4.
To assert; to maintain.
[Colloq.]


word: Claim₂
definition:
Claim

Claim
v. i.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.
Locke.


word: Claim₃
definition:
Claim

Claim
n.
[Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See Claim, v. t.]
1.
A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

2.
A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
claims
Hallam.

3.
The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
[U.S. & Australia]

4.
A loud call.
[Obs.]
Spenser

To lay claim to, to demand as a right. “Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?” Shak.


word: Claimant
definition:
Claimant

Claim"ant
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. clamant, p. pr. of clamer. Cf. Clamant.]
One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.


word: Clairaudience
definition:
Clairaudience

Clair*au"di*ence
(?)
n.
[F. clair clear + F. & E. audience a hearing. See Clear.]
Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.


word: Clairvoyance
definition:
Clairvoyance

Clair*voy"ance
(?)
n.
[F.]
A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discerning objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.


word: Clairvoyant
definition:
Clairvoyant

Clair*voy"ant
(?)
a.
[F., fr. clair clear + voyant, p. pr. of voir to see. See Clear, and Vision.]
Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.


word: Clairvoyant₂
definition:
Clairvoyant

Clair*voy"ant
n.
One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.


word: Claik₂
definition:
Claik

Clake

{ Clake, Claik (?), }
n.
(Zool.)
The bernicle goose; -- now called barnacle goose and also called clack goose.


word: Clam
definition:
Clam

Clam
(klăm)
n.
[Cf. Clamp, Clam, v. t., Clammy.]
1.
(Zool.)
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States.  The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.

You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure.
Capt. John Smith (1616).

Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much unlike a cockle; it lieth under the sand.
Wood (1634).

2.
(Ship Carp.)
Strong pinchers or forceps.

3.
pl.
(Mech.)
A kind of vise, usually of wood.

Blood clam. See under Blood.


word: Clam₂
definition:
Clam

Clam
(clăm)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clammed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clamming.]
[Cf. AS. clæman to clam, smear; akin to Icel. kleima to smear, OHG. kleimjan, chleimen, to defile, or E. clammy.]
To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.

A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again.
L'Estrange.


word: Clam₅
definition:
Clam

Clam
n.
[Abbrev. fr. clamor.]
A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once.
Nares.


word: Clamant
definition:
Clamant

Cla"mant
(?)
a.
[L. clamans, p. pr. of clamare to call. Cf. Claimant.]
Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.
Clamant
Thomson.


word: Clamation
definition:
Clamation

Cla*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. clamatio, fr. L. clamare to call.]
The act of crying out.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Clamatores
definition:
Clamatores

Clam`a*to"res
(?)
n. pl.
[L. clamator, pl. clamatores, a bawler.]
(Zool.)
A division of passerine birds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.


word: Clambake
definition:
Clambake

Clam"bake
(?)
n.
The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.


word: Clamber
definition:
Clamber

Clam"ber
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Clambered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clambering.]
[OE clambren, clameren, to heap together, climb; akin to Icel. klambra to clamp, G. klammern. Cf. Clamp, Climb.]
To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.

The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
Tennyson.


word: Clamber₃
definition:
Clamber

Clam"ber
v. t.
To ascend by climbing with difficulty.

Clambering the walls to eye him.
Shak.


word: Clammy
definition:
Clammy

Clam"my
(?)
a.
[Compar. Clammier (?); superl. Clammiest.]
[Cf. AS. clām clay. See Clam to clog, and cf. Clay.]
Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.


word: clammyweed
definition:
clammyweed

clammyweed
n.
strong-scented herb (Polanisia graveolens) common in the southern U. S. covered with intermixed gland and hairs.

Syn. -- Polanisia graveolens, Polanisia dodecandra.


word: Clamor
definition:
Clamor

Clam"or
(?)
n.
[OF. clamour, clamur, F. clameur, fr. L. clamor, fr. clamare to cry out. See Claim.]
1.
A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation from many people.
Shak.
[Also spelled clamour.]

Syn. -- clamor, hue and cry.

2.
Any loud and continued noise.
Addison.

3.
A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.
Macaulay.


word: Clamor₂
definition:
Clamor

Clam"or
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clamored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clamoring.]
1.
To salute loudly.
[R.]

The people with a shout
Rifted the air, clamoring their god with praise.
Milton

2.
To stun with noise.
[R.]
Bacon.

3.
To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.

Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly.
Longfellow.

To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang.
Bp. Warbur_;ion.


word: Clamor₃
definition:
Clamor

Clam"or
v. i.
To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to talk in a loud voice; to complain; to make importunate demands.

Syn. --  clamor, roar, vociferate, holler, hollo.

The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night.
Shak.

2.
to dispute in a loud voice.

Syn. -- brawl, wrangle, clamor.


word: Clamorous
definition:
Clamorous

Clam"or*ous
(?)
a.
[LL. clamorosus, for L. Clamosus: cf. OF. clamoreux.]
Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent.
clamorous
Southey.


word: Clamp
definition:
Clamp

Clamp
(klămp)
n.
[Cf. LG. & D. klamp, Dan. klampe, also D. klampen to fasten, clasp. Cf. Clamber, Cramp.]
1.
Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

2.
(a)
An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
(b)
(Joinery)
A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.

3.
One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

4.
(Shipbuilding)
A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.

5.
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.

6.
A mollusk. See Clam.
[Obs.]

Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.


word: Clamp₂
definition:
Clamp

Clamp
(klămp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clamped (klămt; 215) p. pr. & vb. n. Clamping.]
1.
To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.

2.
To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
[Eng.]


word: Clamp₄
definition:
Clamp

Clamp
v. i.
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.

The policeman with clamping feet.
Thackeray.


word: Clamper
definition:
Clamper

Clamp"er
(?)
n.
An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.
Kane.


word: clamshell
definition:
clamshell

clamshell
n.
1.
the shell of a clam.

2.
a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.

Syn. -- grapple.


word: Clan
definition:
Clan

Clan
(klăn)
n.
[Gael. clann offspring, descendants; akin to Ir. clann, cland, offspring, tribe, family; perh. from L. plania scion, slip, cutting. Cf. Plant, n.]
1.
A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
clan
Campbell.

2.
A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me.
Smolett.

The whole clan of the enlightened among us.
Burke.


word: Clancular
definition:
Clancular

Clan"cu*lar
(?)
a.
[L. clancularius , from clanculum secretly, adv. dim. of clam secretly.]
Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.
[Obs.]

Not close and clancular, but frank and open.
Barrow.


word: Clandestine
definition:
Clandestine

Clan*des"tine
(?)
a.
[L. clandestinus, fr. clam secretly; akin to celare, E. conceal: cf. F. clandestin.]
Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage.
Locke.


word: Clang
definition:
Clang

Clang
(klăng)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clanged (klăngd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clanging.]
[L. clangere; akin to Gr. kla`zein to clash, scream; or perh.  to E. clank.]
To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.

The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms.
Prior.


word: Clang₃
definition:
Clang

Clang
n.
1.
A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances when clanged or struck together.

The broadsword's deadly clang,
As if a thousand anvils rang.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
(Mus.)
Quality of tone.


word: clanger
definition:
clanger

clanger
n.
A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; as, he dropped a clanger.
[British]


word: clanging
definition:
clanging

clanging
adj.
emitting a series of clangs, as of metal objects colliding.

Syn. -- clangorous.


word: Clangor
definition:
Clangor

Clan"gor
(klă&nsmacr_;"gẽr)
n.
[L., fr. clangere. See Clang, v. t.]
A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
Dryden.


word: clangoring
definition:
clangoring

clangoring
n.
a loud resonant repeating noise.

Syn. -- clang, clangor, clangour, clank, clash, crash, jangle.


word: Clangorous
definition:
Clangorous

Clan"gor*ous
(?)
a.
[LL. clangorosus.]
Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.


word: Clank
definition:
Clank

Clank
(klă&nsmacr_;k)
n.
[Akin to clink, and of imitative origin; cf. G. klang sound, D. klank. Cf. Clang.]
A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.

But not in chains to pine,
His spirit withered with tyeur clank.
Byron.


word: Clank₂
definition:
Clank

Clank
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clanked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clanking.]
To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.


word: Clan-na-Gael
definition:
Clan-na-Gael

Clan"-na-Gael"
(?)
n.
[Ir., clan of the Gaels.]
A secret society of Irish Fenians founded in Philadelphia in 1881.


word: Clannish
definition:
Clannish

Clan"nish
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.


word: clannishness
definition:
clannishness

clan"nish*ness
n.
1.
a tendency to associate with only a select group.

Syn. -- cliquishness, exclusiveness.

2.
a tendency to associate with only one's own clan; the propensity to display the sentiments, habits, and prejudices of one's own clan.


word: Clanship
definition:
Clanship

Clan"ship
n.
A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.


word: Clap
definition:
Clap

Clap
(klăp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clapped (klăpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clapping.]
[AS. clappan; akin to Icel. & Sw. klappa, D, klappen, to clap, prate, G. klaffen, v. i., to split open, yelp, klopfen, v. t. & i., to knock.]
1.
To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

Then like a bird it sits and sings,
And whets and claps its silver wings.
Marvell.

2.
To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.

He had just time to get in and clap to the door.
Locke

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony.
Lamb.

3.
To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.

To clap hands. (a) To pledge faith by joining hands. [Obs.] Shak. (b) To express contempt or derision. [Obs.] Lam. ii. 15. -- To clap hold of, to seize roughly or quickly. -- To clap up. (a) To imprison hastily or without due formality. (b) To make or contrive hastily. [Obs.] “Was ever match clapped up so suddenly?”  Shak.


word: Clap₂
definition:
Clap

Clap
(?)
v. i.
1.
To knock, as at a door.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

2.
To strike the hands together in applause.

Their ladies bid them clap.
Shak.

3.
To come together suddenly with noise.

The doors around me clapped.
Dryden.

4.
To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.
[Obs.]
clap
Shak.

5.
To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Clap₃
definition:
Clap

Clap
(klăp)
n.
1.
A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.
clap
Swift.

2.
A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.

Horrible claps of thunder.
Hakewill.

3.
A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.

What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
Shak.

4.
A striking of hands to express approbation.

Unextrected claps or hisses.
Addison.

5.
Noisy talk; chatter.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

6.
(Falconry)
The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

Clap dish. See Clack dish, under Clack, n. -- Clap net, a net for taking birds, made to close or clap together.


word: Clapboard
definition:
Clapboard

Clap"board
(?)
n.
1.
A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.
[U. S.]

2.
A stave for a cask.
[Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Clapboard₂
definition:
Clapboard

Clap"board
v. t.
To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides of a house.
[U. S.]
Bartlett.


word: Clapcake
definition:
Clapcake

Clapbread

{ Clap"bread` (?), Clap"cake` (?) }
n.
Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.


word: Clapper
definition:
Clapper

Clap"per
(?)
n.
1.
A person who claps.

2.
That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.

Clapper rail (Zool.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).


word: clapperboard
definition:
clapperboard

clap"per*board`
(klăp"pẽr*b&omacrrd`)
n.
a device which synchronizes sound and picture while making a motion picture, consisting of boards held in front of a movie camera, which are are banged together.


word: Clapperclaw
definition:
Clapperclaw

Clap"per*claw
(klăp"pẽr*kl&asuml_;)
v. t.
[Clap + claw.]
1.
To fight and scratch.
C. Smart.

2.
To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.


word: Claptrap
definition:
Claptrap

Clap"trap`
(klăp"trăp`)
n.
1.
A contrivance for clapping in theaters.
[Obs.]

2.
A trick or device to gain applause, especially pretentious but empty rhetoric; humbug.


word: Claptrap₂
definition:
Claptrap

Clap"trap`
a.
Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.


word: Claque
definition:
Claque

Claque
(?)
n.
[F.]
1.
A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

2.
a group of sycophantic followers.


word: Clarence
definition:
Clarence

Clar"ence
(?)
n.
A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver.


word: Clarendon
definition:
Clarendon

Clar"en*don
(?)
n.
A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

&hand_; This line is in nonpareil Clarendon.


word: Clare-obscure
definition:
Clare-obscure

Clare"-ob*scure"
(?)
n.
[L. clarus clear + obscurus obscure; cf. F. clair-obscur. Cf. Chiaroscuro.]
(Painting)
See Chiaroscuro.


word: Claret
definition:
Claret

Clar"et
(klăr"ĕt)
n.
[OE. claret, clare, clarry, OF. claret, claré, fr. cler, F. clair, clear, fr. L. clarus clear. See Clear.]
The name first given in England to the red wines of Médoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.


word: Claribella
definition:
Claribella

Clar`i*bel"la
(?)
n.
[NL., from L. clarus clear + bellus fine.]
(Mus.)
A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.


word: Clarichord
definition:
Clarichord

Clar"i*chord
(?)
n.
[F. clatocorde, fr.L. clarus clear + chorda string. See Chord.]
A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.


word: Clarification
definition:
Clarification

Clar`i*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. clarification, L. clarificatio glorification.]
1.
The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.

2.
The act of freeing from obscurities.

The clarification of men's ideas.
Whewell.


word: Clarifier
definition:
Clarifier

Clar"i*fi`er
(?)
n.
1.
That which clarifies.

2.
A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.
Ure.


word: Clarify
definition:
Clarify

Clar"i*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clarified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clarifying.]
[F. clarifier, from L. clarificare; clarus clear + facere to make. See Clear, and Fact.]
1.
To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
clarified
Ure.

2.
To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

To clarify his reason, and to rectify his will.
South.

3.
To glorify.
[Obs.]

Fadir, clarifie thi name.
Wyclif (John ii. 28).


word: Clarify₂
definition:
Clarify

Clar"i*fy
v. i.
1.
To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

2.
To grow clear or bright; to clear up.

Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the discoursing with another.
Bacon.


word: Clarigate
definition:
Clarigate

Clar"i*gate
(?)
v. i.
[L. clarigare]
To declare war with certain ceremonies.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Clarinet
definition:
Clarinet

Clar"i*net`
(?)
n.
[F. clarinette, dim. of clarine, from L. clarus. See Clear, and cf. Clarion.]
(Mus.)
A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
[Often improperly called clarionet.]


word: Clarion
definition:
Clarion

Clar"i*on
(?)
n.
[OE. clarioun, OF. clarion, F. clairon, LL. clario, claro; so called from its clear tone, fr. L. clarus clear. See Clear.]
A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.

He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle.
E. Everett.


word: Clarisonus
definition:
Clarisonus

Cla*ris"o*nus
(?)
a.
[L. clarisonus; clarus + sonus.]
Having a clear sound.
[Obs.]
Ash.


word: Claritude
definition:
Claritude

Clar"i*tude
(?)
n.
[L. claritudo, fr. clarus clear.]
Clearness; splendor.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Clarity
definition:
Clarity

Clar"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. claritas, fr. clarus clear: cf. F. clarté.]
Clearness; brightness; splendor.

Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity,
Innumerable virgin graces row.
Beaumont.


word: Clart
definition:
Clart

Clart
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. Armor. kalar mud, mire, kalara to dirt, Sw. lort mud.]
To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.


word: Clary₂
definition:
Clary

Cla"ry
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. sclarea, scarlea, D. & G. scharlei, F. sclarée.]
(Bot.)
A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.

Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.


word: Clash
definition:
Clash

Clash
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Clashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clashing.]
[Of imitative origin; cf. G. klatschen, Prov. G. kleschen, D. kletsen, Dan. klaske, E. clack.]
1.
To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

2.
To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony.
Palfrey.


word: Clash₃
definition:
Clash

Clash
n.
1.
A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

The roll of cannon and clash of arms.
Tennyson.

2.
Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

Clashes between popes and kings.
Denham.


word: Clash gear
definition:
Clash gear

Clash gear
(Mach.)
A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.


word: Clasp
definition:
Clasp

Clasp
(klȧsp)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clasped (klȧspt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clasping]
[OE. claspen, clapsen, prob. akin to E. clap.]
1.
To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

2.
To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

3.
To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
Clasping
Milton.


word: Clasp₂
definition:
Clasp

Clasp
n.
1.
An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

2.
A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.

Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.


word: Clasper
definition:
Clasper

Clasp"er
(klȧsp"ẽr)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
claspers
Derham.

2.
(Zool.)
(a)
One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
(b)
One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.


word: Class
definition:
Class

Class
(klȧs)
n.
[F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul.]
1.
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

2.
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

3.
A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.

4.
A set; a kind or description, species or variety.

She had lost one class energies.
Macaulay.

5.
(Methodist Church)
One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

6.
One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject.  The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.

7.
A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.

Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.


word: Class₂
definition:
Class

Class
(klȧs)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Classed (klȧst); p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.]
[Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.]
1.
To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

&hand_; In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class.
Dana.

2.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.


word: Class₄
definition:
Class

Class
(klȧs)
a.
exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act.  Opposite of low-class
[informal]

Syn. -- high-class.


word: Class day
definition:
Class day

Class day
In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.


word: Classical
definition:
Classical

Classic

{ Clas"sic (klăs"sĭk), Clas"sic*al (?), }
a.
[L. classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from classis class: cf. F. classique. See Class, n.]
1.
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

Give, as thy last memorial to the age,
One classic drama, and reform the stage.
Byron.

Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins].
Arbuthnot.

2.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

Though throned midst Latium's classic plains.
Mrs. Hemans.

The epithet classical, as applied to ancient authors, is determined less by the purity of their style than by the period at which they wrote.
Brande & C.

He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
Macaulay.

3.
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.

Classical, provincial, and national synods.
Macaulay.

Classicals orders. (Arch.) See under Order.


word: Classic
definition:
Classic

Clas"sic
n.
1.
A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.

In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic.
Macaulay.

2.
One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.


word: Classicalism
definition:
Classicalism

Clas"sic*al*ism
(?)
n.
1.
A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

2.
Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.


word: Classicalist
definition:
Classicalist

Clas"sic*al*ist
n.
One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.
Ruskin.


word: Classicalness
definition:
Classicalness

Classicality

{ Clas`si*cal"i*ty (?), Clas"sic*al*ness (?), }
n.
The quality of being classical.


word: Classically
definition:
Classically

Clas"sic*al*ly
adv.
1.
In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

2.
In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.


word: classics
definition:
classics

classics
n. pl.
the branch of learning concerned with study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome.


word: Classification
definition:
Classification

Clas`si*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. classification.]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.


word: Classificatory
definition:
Classificatory

Clas"si*fi*ca`to*ry
(?)
a.
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification.
classificatory
Earle.


word: classified
definition:
classified

classified
adj.
1.
arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

Syn. -- categorized.

2.
assigned to a class of documents withheld from general circulation; -- of information or documents.  Opposite of unclassified.
[Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential; restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret]


word: Classify
definition:
Classify

Clas"si*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Classified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Classifying.]
[L. classis class + -fy.]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.


word: Classis
definition:
Classis

Clas"sis
(?)
n.
pl. Classes (#).
[L. See Class, n.]
1.
A class or order; sort; kind.
[Obs.]

His opinion of that classis of men.
Clarendon.

2.
(Eccl.)
An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.


word: Classman
definition:
Classman

Class"man
(?)
n.
pl. Classmen(#).
1.
A member of a class; a classmate.

2.
A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.
[Oxford, Eng.]


word: classy
definition:
classy

classy
adj.
1.
having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.  Opposite of styleless.
[informal]

Syn. -- posh, swish, stylish.

2.
exhibiting refinement and high character.   Opposite of low-class
[informal]

Syn. -- high-class.


word: Clastic
definition:
Clastic

Clas"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; br_;, fr. _; to break.]
1.
Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).

2.
(Min.)
Fragmental; made up of brok_; fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.


word: Clatch
definition:
Clatch

Clatch
(?)
n.
[Cf. Scot. clatch a slap, the noise caused by the collision of soft bodies; prob. of imitative origin.]
(Scot. & Dial. Eng.)
1.
A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

2.
Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.


word: Clatch₂
definition:
Clatch

Clatch
v. t. & i.
To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way.
[Scot.]


word: Clathraceae
definition:
Clathraceae

Clathraceae
n.
a antural family of fleshy stinkhornlike fungi.

Syn. -- family Clathraceae.


word: Clathrate
definition:
Clathrate

Clath"rate
(klăth"ra̝t)
a.
[L. clathri lattice, Gr. klh,qra.]
1.
(Bot.)
Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
Gray.

2.
(Zool.)
Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a lattice, as many shells.


word: Clatter
definition:
Clatter

Clat"ter
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Clattered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Clattering.]
[AS. cla_;rung a rattle, akin to D. klateren to rattle. Cf. Clack.]
1.
To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.

Clattering loud with iron clank.
Longfellow.

2.
To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.

I see thou dost but clatter.
Spenser.


word: Clatter₂
definition:
Clatter

Clat"ter
v. t.
To make a rattling noise with.

You clatter still your brazen kettle.
Swift.


word: Clatter₃
definition:
Clatter

Clat"ter
n.
1.
A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.

The goose let fall a golden egg
With cackle and with clatter.
Tennyson.

2.
Commotion; disturbance.
clatter
Barrow.

3.
Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.
clatter
Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ).

Throw by your clatter
And handle the matter.
B. Jonson


word: Claude Lorraine glass
definition:
Claude Lorraine glass

Claude" Lor*raine" glass`
(?)
[Its name is supposed to be derived from the similarity of the effects it gives to those of a picture by Claude Lorrain (often written Lorraine).]
A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.


word: Claudent
definition:
Claudent

Clau"dent
(?)
a.
[L. claudens, p. pr. of claudere to shut.]
Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle.
[R.]
Jonson


word: Claudicant
definition:
Claudicant

Clau"di*cant
(?)
a.
[L. claudicans, p. pr. of claudicare to limp, fr. claudus lame.]
Limping.
[R.]


word: Clause
definition:
Clause

Clause
(?)
n.
[F. clause, LL. clausa, equiv. to L. clausula clause, prop., close of _; rhetorical period, close, fr. claudere to shut, to end. See Close.]
1.
A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

The usual attestation clause to a will.
Bouvier.

2.
(Gram.)
A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.


word: Claustral
definition:
Claustral

Claus"tral
(?)
a.
[F., fr. LL. claustralis, fr. L. claustrum. See Cloister.]
Cloistral.
Ayliffe


word: Claustrum
definition:
Claustrum

Claus"trum
(?)
n.
pl. Claustra.
[L., a bolt or bar.]
(Anat.)
A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere of the brain of man.
Claus"tral, a.


word: Clausular
definition:
Clausular

Clau"su*lar
(?; 135)
a.
[From L. clausula. See Clause, n.]
Consisting of, or having, clauses.
Smart.


word: Clausure
definition:
Clausure

Clau"sure
(?; 135)
n.
[L. clausura. See Closure.]
The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
[R.]
Geddes.


word: Clavated
definition:
Clavated

Clavate

{ Cla"vate (?), Cla"va*ted (?), }
a.
[L. clava club.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]


word: Clavellated
definition:
Clavellated

Clav"el*la`ted
(klăv"ĕl*lā"tĕd)
a.
[Cf. LL. cineres clavelatti ashes of burnt lees or dregs of wine, F. clavel an inferior sort of soda, E. clavate.]
(Old Chem.)
Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning.
[Obs.]


word: Claver₂
definition:
Claver

Clav"er
n.
Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.
[Scot. & North of Eng.]

Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers.
Thackeray.


word: Claviceps
definition:
Claviceps

Claviceps
n.
a genus of fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses.

Syn. -- genus Claviceps.


word: Clavichord
definition:
Clavichord

Clav"i*chord
(?)
n.
[F. clavicorde, fr. L. clavis key + chorda string.]
(Mus.)
A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.


word: Clavicle
definition:
Clavicle

Clav"i*cle
(?)
n.
[F. clavicule, fr. L. clavicula a little key, tendril, dim. of clavis key, akin to claudere to shut. See Close, and cf. Clef.]
(Anat.)
The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter _;, and is situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or wishbone.


word: Clavicorn
definition:
Clavicorn

Clav"i*corn
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. clavicorne.]
(Zool.)
Having club-shaped antennæ. See Antennæ
n. One of the Clavicornes.


word: Clavicornes
definition:
Clavicornes

Clav`i*cor"nes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.; Fr. L. clava club + cornu horn.]
(Zool.)
A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.


word: Clavicular
definition:
Clavicular

Cla*vic"u*lar
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. claviculaire. See Clavicle.]
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the clavicle.


word: Clavier
definition:
Clavier

Cla"vi*er
(? F. ?)
n.
[F., fr. L. clavis key.]
(Mus.)
The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

&hand_; Clavier (_;) is the German name for a pianoforte.


word: Claviger
definition:
Claviger

Clav"i*ger
(?)
n.
[L., fr. clavis key + gerere to carry.]
One who carries the keys of any place.


word: Claviger₂
definition:
Claviger

Clav"i*ger
n.
[L., fr. clava club + gerere to carry.]
One who carries a club; a club bearer.


word: Clavy
definition:
Clavy

Cla"vy
(?)
n.
pl. Clavies (#).
[Cf. F. claveau centerpiece of an arch.]
(Arch.)
A mantelpiece.


word: Claw
definition:
Claw

Claw
(kl&asuml_;)
n.
[AS. clawu, clā, cleó; akin to D. klaauw, G. klaue, Icel. kl&omacr, Sw. & Dan. klo, and perh. to E. clew.]
1.
A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

2.
The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

3.
Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

4.
(Bot.)
A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink.
Gray.

Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.


word: Claw₂
definition:
Claw

Claw
(kl&asuml_;)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clawed (kl&asuml_;d); p. pr. & vb. n. Clawing.]
[AS. clawan. See Claw, n.]
1.
To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.

2.
To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.
[Obs.]

Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.
Holland.

3.
To rail at; to scold.
[Obs.]

In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.
T. Fuller

Claw me, claw thee, stand by me and I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndale. -- To claw away, to scold or revile. “The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it.”  L'Estrange. -- To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one) on the gall, to find fault with; to vex. [Obs.] Chaucer.


word: Claw₃
definition:
Claw

Claw
v. i.
To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw.
Clawing
W. D. Howells.

To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.


word: claxon₂
definition:
claxon

claxon
v.
to sound loudly; -- of car horns.

Syn. -- honk, blare, beep, toot, klaxon.

2.
to use the horn of a car.

Syn. -- honk.


word: Clay
definition:
Clay

Clay
(klā)
n.
[AS. cl&aemacr_;g; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. clām clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. Clog.]
1.
A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

2.
(Poetry & Script.)
Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

I also am formed out of the clay.
Job xxxiii. 6.

The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover.
Byron.

Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. -- Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug. -- Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite. -- Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc. -- Fire clay , a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick. -- Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin. -- Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron.


word: Clay₂
definition:
Clay

Clay
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Claying.]
1.
To cover or manure with clay.

2.
To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.


word: Clayes
definition:
Clayes

Clayes
(klāz)
n. pl.
[F. claie hurdle.]
(Fort.)
Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
[Obs.]


word: Claymore
definition:
Claymore

Clay"more`
(klā"m&omacrr`)
n.
[Gael. claidheamhmor a broadsword; Gael. claidheamh sword + mor great, large. Cf. Glaymore.]
A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.


word: Claymore mine
definition:
Claymore mine

Clay"more mine`
(klā"m&omacrr mīn`)
n.
(Mil.)
an antipersonnel land mine designed to produce a high-velocity spray of steel fragments in a relatively narrow fan-shaped cone, directed toward the enemy.  They are usually detonated by an electrical remote control.


word: Claytonia
definition:
Claytonia

Clay*to"ni*a
(?)
prop. n.
[Named after Dr. John Clayton, an American botanist.]
(Bot.)
An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.


word: Cleading
definition:
Cleading

Clead"ing
(?)
n.
[Scot., clothing. See Cloth.]

1.
A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

2.
The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.


word: Clean
definition:
Clean

Clean
(klēn)
a.
[Compar. Cleaner (klēn"ẽr); superl. Cleanest.]
[OE. clene, AS. cl&aemacr_;ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. Glair.]
1.
Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

2.
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

3.
Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

4.
Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

5.
Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
Lev. xxiii. 22.

6.
Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Ps. li. 10

That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
Tennyson.

7.
(Script.)
Free from ceremonial defilement.

8.
Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
clean
F. Harrison.

9.
Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.


word: Clean₂
definition:
Clean

Clean
adv.
1.
Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
clean
Shak.
All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Josh. iii. 17.

2.
Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.
[Obs.]
clean
Henley.


word: Clean₃
definition:
Clean

Clean
(klēn)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cleaned (klēnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.]
[See Clean, a., and cf. Cleanse.]
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] De Quincey.


word: cleaners
definition:
cleaners

cleaners
n.
a shop where dry cleaning is done.

Syn. -- dry cleaners, laundry, laundry shop.


word: Clean-limbed
definition:
Clean-limbed

Clean"-limbed`
(?)
a.
With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.
Dickens.


word: Cleanliness
definition:
Cleanliness

Clean"li*ness
(klĕn"lĭ*nĕs)
n.
[From Cleanly.]
State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.

Cleanliness from head to heel.
Swift.


word: clean-living
definition:
clean-living

clean-living
adj.
living in a manner above moral reproach; especially, abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse and excessive drunkenness.

Syn. -- chaste.


word: Cleanly
definition:
Cleanly

Clean"ly
(?)
a.
[Compar. Cleanlier (?); superl. Cleanliest.]
[From Clean.]
1.
Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
Cleanly
Glanvill.

Some plain but cleanly country maid.
Dryden.

Displays her cleanly platter on the board.
Goldsmith.

2.
Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
[Obs.]
cleanly
Prior.

3.
Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.
[Obs.]

Through his fine handling and his cleanly play.
Spenser.


word: Cleanly₂
definition:
Cleanly

Clean"ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In a clean manner; neatly.

He was very cleanly dressed.
Dickens.

2.
Innocently; without stain.
Shak.

3.
Adroitly; dexterously.
Middleton.


word: Cleanness
definition:
Cleanness

Clean"ness
n.
[AS. cl_;nnes. See Clean.]
1.
The state or quality of being clean.

2.
Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.
Chaucer.


word: Cleanse
definition:
Cleanse

Cleanse
(klĕnz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Cleansed (klĕnzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.]
[AS. cl&aemacr_;nsian, fr. cl&aemacr_;ne clean. See Clean.]
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John i. 7.

Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Shak.


word: cleansed
definition:
cleansed

cleansed
(klĕnzd)
adj.
having been made clean.  Opposite of dirty.
clean

Syn. -- cleaned, scrubbed.


word: Cleanser
definition:
Cleanser

Cleans"er
(klĕnz"ẽr)
n.
[AS. cl&aemacr_;nsere.]
One who, or that which, cleanses; especially, a detergent or other preparation used for cleaning.
Arbuthnot.

Syn. -- cleansing agent, cleaner.


word: clean-shaven
definition:
clean-shaven

clean-shaven
adj.
having the surface shaved to smoothness.

Syn. -- smooth-shaven, well-shaven.


word: Clear
definition:
Clear

Clear
(klēr)
a.
[Compar. Clearer (-ẽr); superl. Clearest.]
[OE. cler, cleer, OF. cler, F. clair, fr.L. clarus, clear, bright, loud, distinct, renowned; perh. akin to L. clamare to call, E. claim. Cf. Chanticleer, Clairvoyant, Claret, Clarify.]
1.
Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear.
Denham.

Fair as the moon, clear as the sun.
Canticles vi. 10.

2.
Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.

One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.
Pope.

3.
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.

Mother of science! now I feel thy power
Within me clear, not only to discern
Things in their causes, but to trace the ways
Of highest agents.
Milton.

4.
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.

With a countenance as clear
As friendship wears at feasts.
Shak.

5.
Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.

Hark! the numbers soft and clear
Gently steal upon the ear.
Pope.

6.
Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.

7.
Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.

8.
Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honor clear.
Pope.

9.
Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.

I often wished that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a-year.
Swift

10.
Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt.

My companion . . . left the way clear for him.
Addison.

11.
Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.

The cruel corporal whispered in my ear,
Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear.
Gay.

Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. -- Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.


word: Clear₂
definition:
Clear

Clear
(klēr)
n.
(Carp.)
Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.


word: Clear₃
definition:
Clear

Clear
adv.
1.
In a clear manner; plainly.

Now clear I understand
What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain.
Milton.

2.
Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.


