INSERT INTO `entries` VALUES ('Carditis','n.','Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the\n   heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.'),('Cardines','pl. ','of Cardo'),('Cardo','n.','The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.'),('Cardo','n.','The hinge of a bivalve shell.'),('Cardol','n.','A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the\n   cashew nut.'),('Cardoon','n.','A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to\n   the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.'),('Care','n.','A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by\n   onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.'),('Care','n.','Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for\n   safety and prosperity.'),('Care','n.','Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness;\n   watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.'),('Care','n.','The object of watchful attention or anxiety.'),('Cared','imp. & p. p.','of Care'),('Caring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Care'),('Care','n.','To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard\n   or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.'),('Careened','imp. & p. p.','of Careen'),('Careening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Careen'),('Careen','v. t.','To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on\n   one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for\n   repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.'),('Careen','v. i.','To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when\n   sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.'),('Careenage','n.','Expense of careening ships.'),('Careenage','n.','A place for careening.'),('Career','n.','A race course: the ground run over.'),('Career','n.','A running; full speed; a rapid course.'),('Career','n.','General course of action or conduct in life, or in a\n   particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking;\n   usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character;\n   as, Washington\'s career as a soldier.'),('Career','n.','The flight of a hawk.'),('Careered','imp. & p. p.','of Career'),('Careering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Career'),('Career','v. i.','To move or run rapidly.'),('Careful','a.','Full of care; anxious; solicitous.'),('Careful','a.','Filling with care or solicitude; exposing to concern,\n   anxiety, or trouble; painful.'),('Careful','a.','Taking care; giving good heed; watchful; cautious;\n   provident; not indifferent, heedless, or reckless; -- often followed by\n   of, for, or the infinitive; as, careful of money; careful to do right.'),('Carefully','adv.','In a careful manner.'),('Carefulness','n.','Quality or state of being careful.'),('Careless','a.','Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful;\n   light-hearted.'),('Careless','a.','Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care;\n   negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.'),('Careless','a.','Without thought or purpose; without due care; without\n   attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous;\n   rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.'),('Careless','a.','Not receiving care; uncared for.'),('Carelessly','adv.','In a careless manner.'),('Carelessness','n.','The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness;\n   negligenece; inattention.'),('Carene','n.','A fast of forty days on bread and water.'),('Caress','n.','An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection;\n   an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.'),('Caressed','imp. & p. p.','of Caress'),('Caressing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caress'),('Caress','n.','To treat with tokens of fondness, affection, or kindness;\n   to touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle.'),('Caressingly','ad.','In caressing manner.'),('Caret','n.','A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate\n   that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which\n   belongs in the place marked by the caret.'),('Caret','n.','The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.'),('Caretuned','a.','Weary; mournful.'),('Careworn','a.','Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.'),('Carex','n.','A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial\n   herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.'),('Carf','','pret. of Carve.'),('Cargason','n.','A cargo.'),('Cargoes','pl. ','of Cargo'),('Cargo','n.','The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods,\n   merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load;\n   freight.'),('Cargoose','n.','A species of grebe (Podiceps crisratus); the crested\n   grebe.'),('Cariama','n.','A large, long-legged South American bird (Dicholophus\n   cristatus) which preys upon snakes, etc. See Seriema.'),('Caries','pl. ','of Carib'),('Carib','n.','A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the\n   Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of\n   South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India\n   islands.'),('Caribbean','a.','Alt. of Caribbee'),('Caribbee','a.','Of or pertaining to the Caribs, to their islands (the\n   eastern and southern West Indies), or to the sea (called the Caribbean\n   sea) lying between those islands and Central America.'),('Caribbee','n.','A Carib.'),('Caribe','n.','A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo\n   of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack\n   man or beast, often with fatal results.'),('Caribou','n.','The American reindeer, especially the common or woodland\n   species (Rangifer Caribou).'),('Caricature','v. t.','An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of\n   parts or characteristics, as in a picture.'),('Caricature','v. t.','A picture or other figure or description in which\n   the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear\n   ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.'),('Caricatured','imp. & p. p.','of Caricature'),('Caricaturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caricature'),('Caricature','v. t.','To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with\n   ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.'),('Caricaturist','n.','One who caricatures.'),('Caricous','a.','Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor.'),('Caries','n.','Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates\n   and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which\n   it dies in masses.'),('Carillon','n.','A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork\n   or by finger keys.'),('Carillon','n.','A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.'),('Carina','n.','A keel'),('Carina','n.','That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two\n   petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification'),('Carina','n.','A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.'),('Carina','n.','The keel of the breastbone of birds.'),('Carinaria','n.','A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin,\n   glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills.'),('Carinatae','n. pl.','A grand division of birds, including all existing\n   flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.'),('Carinate','a.','Alt. of Carinated'),('Carinated','a.','Shaped like the keel or prow of a ship; having a carina\n   or keel; as, a carinate calyx or leaf; a carinate sternum (of a bird).'),('Cariole','n.','A small, light, open one-horse carriage'),('Cariole','n.','A covered cart'),('Cariole','n.','A kind of calash. See Carryall.'),('Cariopsis','n.','See Caryopsis.'),('Cariosity','n.','Caries.'),('Carious','a.','Affected with caries; decaying; as, a carious tooth.'),('Cark','n.','A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.'),('Cark','v. i.','To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind;\n   to worry or grieve.'),('Cark','v. t.','To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.'),('Carkanet','n.','A carcanet.'),('Carking','a.','Distressing; worrying; perplexing; corroding; as, carking\n   cares.'),('Carl','n.','A rude, rustic man; a churl.'),('Carl','n.','Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl\n   hemp.'),('Carl','n.','A kind of food. See citation, below.'),('Carlin','n.','An old woman.'),('Carline','n.','Alt. of Caroline'),('Caroline','n.','A silver coin once current in some parts of Italy, worth\n   about seven cents.'),('Carline','n.','Alt. of Carling'),('Carling','n.','A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one\n   transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that\n   strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.'),('Carline thistle','','A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris),\n   found in Europe and Asia.'),('Carlings','n. pl.','Same as Carl, 3.'),('Carlist','n.','A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of\n   Spain.'),('Carlock','n.','A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of\n   the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine.'),('Carlot','n.','A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.'),('Carlovingian','a.','Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from,\n   Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings.'),('Carmagnole','n.','A popular or Red Rebublican song and dance, of the time\n   of the first French Revolution.'),('Carmagnole','n.','A bombastic report from the French armies.'),('Carman','n.','A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in,\n   a car or car.'),('Carmelite','a.','Alt. of Carmelin'),('Carmelin','a.','Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.'),('Carmelite','n.','A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of\n   Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth\n   century; a White Friar.'),('Carmelite','n.','A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.'),('Carminated','a.','Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated\n   lake.'),('Carminative','a.','Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.'),('Carminative','n.','A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel\n   wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or\n   flatulence.'),('Carmine','n.','A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.'),('Carmine','n.','A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared\n   from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.'),('Carmine','n.','The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted\n   as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid\n   properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.'),('Carminic','a.','Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.'),('Carmot','n.','The matter of which the philosopher\'s stone was believed to\n   be composed.'),('Carnage','n.','Flesh of slain animals or men.'),('Carnage','n.','Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed;\n   slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc.'),('Carnal','a.','Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal;\n   fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or\n   worldly as opposed to spiritual.'),('Carnal','a.','Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.'),('Carnalism','n.','The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism.'),('Carnalist','n.','A sensualist.'),('Carnality','n.','The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the\n   indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.'),('Carnalized','imp. & p. p.','of Carnalize'),('Carnalizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carnalize'),('Carnalize','v. t.','To make carnal; to debase to carnality.'),('Carnallite','n.','A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium,\n   sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.'),('Carnally','adv.','According to the flesh, to the world, or to human\n   nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually.'),('Carnal-minded','a.','Worldly-minded.'),('Carnal-mindedness','n.','Grossness of mind.'),('Carnary','n.','A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a\n   repository for human bones disintered from their original burial\n   places; a charnel house.'),('Carnassial','a.','Adapted to eating flesh.'),('Carnassial','n.','A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in\n   many carnivores.'),('Carnate','a.','Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.'),('Carnation','n.','The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.'),('Carnation','n.','Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any\n   part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.'),('Carnation','n.','A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having\n   very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a\n   rich, spicy scent.'),('Carnationed','a.','Having a flesh color.'),('Carnauba','n.','The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.'),('Carnelian','n.','A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh\n   red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good\n   polish, and often used for seals.'),('Carneous','a.','Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.'),('Carney','n.','A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that\n   the afflicted animal can not eat.'),('Carnifex','n.','The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of\n   the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman.'),('Carnification','n.','The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a\n   substance resembling flesh.'),('Carnify','v. i.','To form flesh; to become like flesh.'),('Carnin','n.','A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, found in extract\n   of meat, and related to xanthin.'),('Carnival','n.','A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman\n   Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and\n   Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with\n   Shrove Tuesday.'),('Carnival','n.','Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially\n   when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.'),('Carnivora','n. pl.','An order of Mammallia including the lion, tiger,\n   wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon\n   flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The\n   teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws\n   powerful.'),('Carnivoracity','n.','Greediness of appetite for flesh.'),('Carnivore','n.','One of the Carnivora.'),('Carnivorous','a.','Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a)\n   to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog,\n   etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to\n   substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.'),('Carnose','a.','Alt. of Carnous'),('Carnous','a.','Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.'),('Carnous','a.','Of a fleshy consistence; -- applied to succulent leaves,\n   stems, etc.'),('Carnosity','n.','A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or\n   fungous growth.'),('Carnosity','n.','Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering.'),('Carob','n.','An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in\n   the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John\'s bread; --\n   called also carob tree.'),('Carob','n.','One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree,\n   which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; --\n   called also St. John\'s bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.'),('Caroche','n.','A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach.'),('Caroched','a.','Placed in a caroche.'),('Caroigne','n.','Dead body; carrion.'),('Carol','n.','A round dance.'),('Carol','n.','A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay.'),('Carol','n.','A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter\n   carol.'),('Carol','n.','Joyful music, as of a song.'),('Caroled','imp. & p. p.','of Carol'),('Carolled','','of Carol'),('Caroling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carol'),('Carolling','','of Carol'),('Carol','v. t.','To praise or celebrate in song.'),('Carol','v. t.','To sing, especially with joyful notes.'),('Carol','v. i.','To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble.'),('Carol','n.','Alt. of Carrol'),('Carrol','n.','A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the\n   inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th\n   century.'),('Carolin','n.','A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars;\n   also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.'),('Carolina pink','','See Pinkboot.'),('Caroline','n.','A coin. See Carline.'),('Caroling','n.','A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols.'),('Carolinian','n.','A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.'),('Carolitic','a.','Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.'),('Caroluses','pl. ','of Carolus'),('Caroli','pl. ','of Carolus'),('Carolus','n.','An English gold coin of the value of twenty or\n   twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.'),('Carom','n.','A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in\n   contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more\n   balls with the player\'s ball. In England it is called cannon.'),('Carom','v. i.','To make a carom.'),('Caromel','n.','See Caramel.'),('Caroteel','n.','A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about\n   700 lbs.'),('Carotic','a.','Of or pertaining to stupor; as, a carotic state.'),('Carotic','a.','Carotid; as, the carotic arteries.'),('Carotid','n.','One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood\n   is conveyed from the aorta to the head. [See Illust. of Aorta.]'),('Carotid','a.','Alt. of Carotidal'),('Carotidal','a.','Pertaining to, or near, the carotids or one of them; as,\n   the carotid gland.'),('Carotin','n.','A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from\n   the carrot.'),('Carousal','n.','A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.'),('Carouse','n.','A large draught of liquor.'),('Carouse','n.','A drinking match; a carousal.'),('Caroused','imp. & p. p.','of Carouse'),('Carousing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carouse'),('Carouse','v. i.','To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part\n   in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.'),('Carouse','v. t.','To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.'),('Carouser','n.','One who carouses; a reveler.'),('Carousing','a.','That carouses; relating to a carouse.'),('Carousingly','adv.','In the manner of a carouser.'),('Carped','imp. & p. p.','of Carp'),('Carping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carp'),('Carp','v. i.','To talk; to speak; to prattle.'),('Carp','v. i.','To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions\n   without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.'),('Carp','v. t.','To say; to tell.'),('Carp','v. t.','To find fault with; to censure.'),('Carp','pl. ','of Carp'),('Carps','pl. ','of Carp'),('Carp','n.','A fresh-water herbivorous fish (Cyprinus carpio.). Several\n   other species of Cyprinus, Catla, and Carassius are called carp. See\n   Cruclan carp.'),('Carpal','a.','Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist.'),('Carpal','n.','One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale.'),('Carpalia','pl. ','of Carpale'),('Carpale','n.','One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of\n   the series articulating with the metacarpals.'),('Carpathian','a.','Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in\n   Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary\n   on the north, east, and south.'),('Carpel','n.','Alt. of Carpellum'),('Carpellum','n.','A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel,\n   or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See\n   Illust of Carpaphore.'),('Carpellary','a.','Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.'),('Carpenter','n.','An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder\n   of houses, ships, etc.'),('Carpentering','n.','The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of\n   working in timber; carpentry.'),('Carpentry','n.','The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in\n   the construction of buildings.'),('Carpentry','n.','An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being\n   framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a\n   carpenter.'),('Carper','n.','One who carps; a caviler.'),('Carpet','n.','A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also\n   of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to\n   be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug\n   or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.'),('Carpet','n.','A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.'),('Carpeted','imp. & p. p.','of Carpet'),('Carpeting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carpet'),('Carpet','v. t.','To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with\n   carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.'),('Carpetbag','n.','A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because\n   originally made of carpet.'),('Carpetbagger','n.','An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern\n   man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part\n   of the United States after the Civil War (1865).'),('Carpeting','n.','The act of covering with carpets.'),('Carpeting','n.','Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general.'),('Carpetless','a.','Without a carpet.'),('Carpetmonger','n.','One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of\n   carpets.'),('Carpetmonger','n.','One fond of pleasure; a gallant.'),('Carpetway','n.','A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed\n   field.'),('Carphology','n.','See Floccillation.'),('Carping','a.','Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.'),('Carpintero','n.','A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus),\n   noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in\n   trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown,\n   are extracted for food by the bird.'),('Carpogenic','a.','Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.'),('Carpolite','n.','A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.'),('Carpological','a.','Of or pertaining to carpology.'),('Carpologist','n.','One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.'),('Carpology','n.','That branch of botany which relates to the structure of\n   seeds and fruit.'),('Carpophagous','a.','Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.'),('Carpophore','n.','A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis\n   between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.'),('Carpophyll','n.','A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion\n   of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]'),('Carpophyte','n.','A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the\n   result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.'),('Carpospore','n.','A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red\n   algae.'),('Carpi','pl. ','of Carpus'),('Carpus','n.','The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or\n   antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight\n   short bones disposed in two rows.'),('Carrack','n.','See Carack.'),('Carrageen','n.','Alt. of Carrigeen'),('Carrigeen','n.','A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed\n   (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of\n   commerce.'),('Carrancha','n.','The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so\n   called in imitation of its notes.'),('Carraway','n.','See Caraway.'),('Carrel','n.','See Quarrel, an arrow.'),('Carrel','n.','Same as 4th Carol.'),('Carriable','a.','Capable of being carried.'),('Carriage','n.','That which is carried; burden; baggage.'),('Carriage','n.','The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.'),('Carriage','n.','The price or expense of carrying.'),('Carriage','n.','That which carries of conveys,'),('Carriage','n.','A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for\n   elegance and comfort.'),('Carriage','n.','A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun\n   carriage.'),('Carriage','n.','A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports\n   some other moving object or part.'),('Carriage','n.','A frame or cage in which something is carried or\n   supported; as, a bell carriage.'),('Carriage','n.','The manner of carrying one\'s self; behavior; bearing;\n   deportment; personal manners.'),('Carriage','n.','The act or manner of conducting measures or projects;\n   management.'),('Carriageable','a.','Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in\n   carriages.'),('Carriboo','n.','See Caribou.'),('Carrick','n.','A carack. See Carack.'),('Carrier','n.','One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.'),('Carrier','n.','One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry\n   goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.'),('Carrier','n.','That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which\n   communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a\n   lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.\n   (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a\n   position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.'),('Carrion','n.','The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh\n   so corrupted as to be unfit for food.'),('Carrion','n.','A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.'),('Carrion','a.','Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding\n   on carrion.'),('Carrol','n.','See 4th Carol.'),('Carrom','n.','See Carom.'),('Carronade','n.','A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to\n   throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of\n   breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as\n   the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its\n   carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.'),('Carron oil','','A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an\n   application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works\n   in Scotland.'),('Carrot','n.','An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many\n   varieties.'),('Carrot','n.','The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant,\n   usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.'),('Carroty','a.','Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to\n   reddish yellow hair, etc.'),('Carrow','n.','A strolling gamester.'),('Carried','imp. & p. p.','of Carry'),('Carrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carry'),('Carry','v. t.','To convey or transport in any manner from one place to\n   another; to bear; -- often with away or off.'),('Carry','v. t.','To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to\n   place; to have upon or about one\'s person; to bear; as, to carry a\n   wound; to carry an unborn child.'),('Carry','v. t.','To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to\n   lead or guide.'),('Carry','v. t.','To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or\n   column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to\n   carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.'),('Carry','v. t.','To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to\n   carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.'),('Carry','v. t.','To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a\n   leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to\n   a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.'),('Carry','v. t.','To get possession of by force; to capture.'),('Carry','v. t.','To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show\n   or exhibit; to imply.'),('Carry','v. t.','To bear (one\'s self); to behave, to conduct or demean; --\n   with the reflexive pronouns.'),('Carry','v. t.','To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as\n   stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is\n   carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries\n   stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.'),('Carry','v. i.','To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and\n   carry.'),('Carry','v. i.','To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar\n   carries well.'),('Carry','v. i.','To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well\n   i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.'),('Carry','v. i.','To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as\n   a hare.'),('Carries','pl. ','of Carry'),('Carry','n.','A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried\n   between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.'),('Carryall','n.','A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats\n   for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.'),('Carrying','n.','The act or business of transporting from one place to\n   another.'),('Carryk','n.','A carack.'),('Carrytale','n.','A talebearer.'),('Carse','n.','Low, fertile land; a river valley.'),('Cart','n.','A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian\n   dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.'),('Cart','n.','A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry,\n   or for transporting bulky and heavy articles.'),('Cart','n.','A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers,\n   etc.'),('Cart','n.','An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage.'),('Carted','imp. & p. p.','of Cart'),('Carting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cart'),('Cart','v. t.','To carry or convey in a cart.'),('Cart','v. t.','To expose in a cart by way of punishment.'),('Cart','v. i.','To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a\n   carter.'),('Cartage','n.','The act of carrying in a cart.'),('Cartage','n.','The price paid for carting.'),('Cartbote','n.','Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and\n   repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.'),('Carte','n.','Bill of fare.'),('Carte','n.','Short for Carte de visite.'),('Carte','n.','Alt. of Quarte'),('Quarte','n.','A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the\n   hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary\'s\n   right breast.'),('Carte blanche','','A blank paper, with a person\'s signature, etc., at the\n   bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what\n   conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.'),('Cartes de visite','pl. ','of Carte de visite'),('Carte de visite','','A visiting card.'),('Carte de visite','','A photographic picture of the size formerly in use\n   for a visiting card.'),('Cartel','n.','An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of\n   prisoners.'),('Cartel','n.','A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single\n   combat.'),('Cartel','v. t.','To defy or challenge.'),('Carter','n.','A charioteer.'),('Carter','n.','A man who drives a cart; a teamster.'),('Carter','n.','Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman'),('Carter','n.','A British fish; the whiff.'),('Cartesian','a.','Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene\n   Descartes, or his philosophy.'),('Cartesian','n.','An adherent of Descartes.'),('Cartesianism','n.','The philosophy of Descartes.'),('Carthaginian','a.','Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of\n   northern Africa.'),('Carthaginian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Carthage.'),('Carthamin','n.','A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or\n   Carthamus tinctorius.'),('Carthusian','n.','A member of an exceeding austere religious order,\n   founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.'),('Carthusian','a.','Pertaining to the Carthusian.'),('Cartilage','n.','A translucent, elastic tissue; gristle.'),('Cartilagineous','a.','See Cartilaginous.'),('Cartilaginification','n.','The act or process of forming cartilage.'),('Cartilaginous','a.','Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and\n   tough like cartilage.'),('Cartilaginous','a.','Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the\n   bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain\n   fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.'),('Cartman','n.','One who drives or uses a cart; a teamster; a carter.'),('Cartographer','n.','One who makes charts or maps.'),('Cartographic','a.','Alt. of Cartographical'),('Cartographical','a.','Of or pertaining to cartography.'),('Cartographically','adv.','By cartography.'),('Cartography','n.','The art or business of forming charts or maps.'),('Cartomancy','n.','The art of telling fortunes with cards.'),('Carton','n.','Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.'),('Cartoon','n.','A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a\n   model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics,\n   tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.'),('Cartoon','n.','A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine;\n   esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of \"Puck.\"'),('Cartoonist','n.','One skilled in drawing cartoons.'),('Cartouches','pl. ','of Cartouch'),('Cartouch','n.','A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a\n   firearm; a cartridge'),('Cartouch','n.','A cartridge box.'),('Cartouch','n.','A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a\n   cannon.'),('Cartouch','n.','A gunner\'s bag for ammunition'),('Cartouch','n.','A military pass for a soldier on furlough.'),('Cartouch','n.','A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has\n   the form of a scroll of paper'),('Cartouch','n.','A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription,\n   formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any\n   tablet of ornamental form.'),('Cartouch','n.','An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing\n   the name of a sovereign.'),('Cartridge','n.','A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held\n   together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other\n   material.'),('Cartularies','pl. ','of Cartulary'),('Cartulary','n.','A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.'),('Cartulary','n.','An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or\n   other public papers.'),('Cartway','n.','A way or road for carts.'),('Cartwright','n.','An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.'),('Carucage','n.','A tax on every plow or plowland.'),('Carucage','n.','The act of plowing.'),('Carucate','n.','A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year\n   and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres.'),('Caruncle','n.','Alt. of Caruncula'),('Caruncula','n.','A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the\n   small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of\n   the eye.'),('Caruncula','n.','An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the\n   hilum of a seed.'),('Caruncula','n.','A naked, flesh appendage, on the head of a bird, as the\n   wattles of a turkey, etc.'),('Caruncular','a.','Alt. of Carunculous'),('Carunculous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with\n   caruncles.'),('Carunculate','a.','Alt. of Carunculated'),('Carunculated','a.','Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.'),('Carus','n.','Coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy.'),('Carvacrol','n.','A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and\n   disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).'),('Carved','imp. & p. p.','of Carve'),('Carving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Carve'),('Carve','v. t.','To cut.'),('Carve','v. t.','To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic\n   or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.'),('Carve','v. t.','To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving;\n   to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.'),('Carve','v. t.','To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to\n   divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.'),('Carve','v. t.','To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.'),('Carve','v. t.','To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.'),('Carve','v. t.','To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.'),('Carve','v. i.','To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave\n   or cut figures.'),('Carve','v. i.','To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.'),('Carve','n.','A carucate.'),('Carvel','n.','Same as Caravel.'),('Carvel','n.','A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.'),('Carvelbuilt','a.','Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of\n   lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.'),('Carven','a.','Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.'),('Carvene','n.','An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.'),('Carver','n.','One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or\n   as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural\n   adornments, etc.'),('Carver','n.','One who carves or divides meat at table.'),('Carver','n.','A large knife for carving.'),('Carving','n.','The act or art of one who carves.'),('Carving','n.','A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other\n   material.'),('Carving','n.','The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or\n   epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.'),('Carvist','n.','A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried\n   on the hand; a hawk in its first year.'),('Carvol','n.','One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.'),('Car wheel','','A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.'),('Caryatic','a.','Alt. of Caryatid'),('Caryatid','a.','Of or pertaining to a caryatid.'),('Caryatids','pl. ','of Caryatid'),('Caryatid','n.','A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the\n   place of a column or pilaster.'),('Caryatides','n. pl.','Caryatids.'),('Caryophyllaceous','a.','Having corollas of five petals with long claws\n   inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink'),('Caryophyllaceous','a.','Belonging to the family of which the pink and the\n   carnation are the types.'),('Caryophyllin','n.','A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance,\n   extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.'),('Caryophyllous','a.','Caryophyllaceous.'),('Caryopses','pl. ','of Caryopsis'),('Caryopsis','n.','A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin\n   membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and\n   seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat,\n   barley, etc.'),('Casal','a.','Of or pertaining to case; as, a casal ending.'),('Cascabel','n.','The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually\n   a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old\n   writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of\n   Cannon.]'),('Cascade','n.','A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook;\n   a waterfall less than a cataract.'),('Cascade','v. i.','To fall in a cascade.'),('Cascade','v. i.','To vomit.'),('Cascalho','n.','A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in\n   which the Brazilian diamond is usually found.'),('Cascara sagrada','','Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn\n   (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.'),('Cascarilla','n.','A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub (Croton Eleutheria);\n   also, its aromatic bark.'),('Cascarillin','n.','A white, crystallizable, bitter substance extracted\n   from oil of cascarilla.'),('Case','n.','A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a\n   case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a\n   cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.'),('Case','n.','A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as,\n   a case of goods; a case of instruments.'),('Case','n.','A shallow tray divided into compartments or \"boxes\" for\n   holding type.'),('Case','n.','An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.'),('Case','n.','A small fissure which admits water to the workings.'),('Cased','imp. & p. p.','of Case'),('Casing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Case'),('Case','v. t.','To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.'),('Case','v. t.','To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.'),('Case','n.','Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.'),('Case','n.','That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance;\n   a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things;\n   affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian\n   tribes.'),('Case','n.','A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury;\n   as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.'),('Case','n.','The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as\n   distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a\n   cause.'),('Case','n.','One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a\n   noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other\n   words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation\n   which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.'),('Case','v. i.','To propose hypothetical cases.'),('Caseation','n.','A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy\n   mass.'),('Case-bay','n.','The space between two principals or girders'),('Case-bay','n.','One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in\n   naked flooring.'),('Caseharden','v. t.','To subject to a process which converts the surface\n   of iron into steel.'),('Caseharden','v. t.','To render insensible to good influences.'),('Casehardened','a.','Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.'),('Casehardened','a.','Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good\n   influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance\n   of good influences; -- said of persons.'),('Casehardening','n.','The act or process of converting the surface of iron\n   into steel.'),('Caseic','a.','Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.'),('Casein','n.','A proteid substance present in both the animal and the\n   vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk,\n   and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the\n   vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of\n   leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin.'),('Case knife','','A knife carried in a sheath or case.'),('Case knife','','A large table knife; -- so called from being formerly\n   kept in a case.'),('Casemate','n.','A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon\n   may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being\n   used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.'),('Casemate','n.','A hollow molding, chiefly in cornices.'),('Casemated','a.','Furnished with, protected by, or built like, a casemate.'),('Casement','n.','A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright\n   side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.'),('Casemented','a.','Having a casement or casements.'),('Caseous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the\n   qualities of cheese; cheesy.'),('Casern','n.','A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the\n   rampart; barracks.'),('Case shot','','A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or\n   canister.'),('Caseum','n.','Same as Casein.'),('Caseworm','n.','A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.'),('Cash','n.','A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and\n   paid out; a money box.'),('Cash','n.','Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to\n   bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money'),('Cash','n.','Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell\n   goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash.'),('Cashed','imp. & p. p.','of Cash'),('Casing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cash'),('Cash','v. t.','To pay, or to receive, cash for; to exchange for money;\n   as, cash a note or an order.'),('Cash','v. t.','To disband.'),('Cash','n.sing & pl.','A Chinese coin.'),('Cashbook','n.','A book in which is kept a register of money received or\n   paid out.'),('Cashew','n.','A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which\n   the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in\n   all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the\n   extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.'),('Cashier','n.','One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer\n   who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of\n   a bank or a mercantile company.'),('Cahiered','imp. & p. p.','of Cashier'),('Cashiering','p. pr. &vb. n.','of Cashier'),('Cashier','v. t.','To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with\n   ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.'),('Cashier','v. t.','To put away or reject; to disregard.'),('Cashierer','n.','One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer\n   of monarchs.'),('Cashmere','n.','A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in\n   Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of\n   Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, is\n   richly embroidered for sale to Europeans.'),('Cashmere','n.','A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and\n   cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.'),('Cashmerette','n.','A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy\n   surface like cashmere.'),('Cashoo','n.','See Catechu.'),('Casing','n.','The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a\n   case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.'),('Casing','n.','An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to\n   precent the radiation of heat.'),('Casing','n.','An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a\n   window. See Case, n., 4.'),('Casings','n. pl.','Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.'),('Casinos','pl. ','of Casino'),('Casini','pl. ','of Casino'),('Casino','n.','A small country house.'),('Casino','n.','A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements,\n   for dancing, gaming, etc.'),('Casino','n.','A game at cards. See Cassino.'),('Cask','n.','Same as Casque.'),('Cask','n.','A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops,\n   usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or\n   smaller than a barrel.'),('Cask','n.','The quantity contained in a cask.'),('Cask','n.','A casket; a small box for jewels.'),('Cask','v. t.','To put into a cask.'),('Casket','n.','A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental\n   character, as for jewels, etc.'),('Casket','n.','A kind of burial case.'),('Casket','n.','Anything containing or intended to contain something highly\n   esteemed'),('Casket','n.','The body.'),('Casket','n.','The tomb.'),('Casket','n.','A book of selections.'),('Casket','n.','A gasket. See Gasket.'),('Casket','v. t.','To put into, or preserve in, a casket.'),('Casque','n.','A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a\n   vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.'),('Cass','v. t.','To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send\n   away.'),('Cassada','n.','See Cassava.'),('Cassareep','n.','A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava\n   (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated\n   by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.'),('Cassate','v. t.','To render void or useless; to vacate or annul.'),('Cassation','n.','The act of annulling.'),('Cassava','n.','A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with\n   fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.'),('Cassava','n.','A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the\n   cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.'),('Casse Paper','','Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.'),('Casserole','n.','A small round dish with a handle, usually of porcelain.'),('Casserole','n.','A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement)\n   of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled\n   with vegetables or meat.'),('Cassia','n.','A genus of leguminous plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees) of\n   many species, most of which have purgative qualities. The leaves of\n   several species furnish the senna used in medicine.'),('Cassia','n.','The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China,\n   etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as\n   cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor,\n   and the amount of outer bark attached.'),('Cassican','n.','An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the\n   starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and\n   suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to\n   the piping crow, an Australian bird.'),('Cassideous','a.','Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad,\n   helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.'),('Cassidony','n.','The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas)'),('Cassidony','n.','The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other\n   plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.'),('Cassimere','n.','A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men\'s garments.'),('Cassinette','n.','A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine\n   wool, or wool and silk.'),('Cassinian ovals','','See under Oval.'),('Cassino','n.','A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually\n   for twenty-one points.'),('Cassioberry','n.','The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which\n   grows from Virginia to Florida.'),('Cassiopeia','n.','A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated\n   between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of\n   Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.'),('Cassiterite','n.','Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in\n   tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine\n   luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric\n   fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments\n   or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See\n   Black tin, under Black.'),('Cassius','n.','A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some\n   compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and\n   staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly\n   called Purple of Cassius.'),('Cassock','n.','A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as\n   well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.'),('Cassock','n.','A garment resembling a long frock coat worn by the clergy\n   of certain churches when officiating, and by others as the usually\n   outer garment.'),('Cassocked','a.','Clothed with a cassock.'),('Cassolette','n.','a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit\n   perfumes.'),('Cassonade','n.','Raw sugar; sugar not refined.'),('Cassowaries','pl. ','of Cassowary'),('Cassowary','n.','A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east\n   Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed\n   with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates\n   overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each\n   wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs\n   with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.'),('Cassumunar','n.','Alt. of Cassumuniar'),('Cassumuniar','n.','A pungent, bitter, aromatic, gingerlike root, obtained\n   from the East Indies.'),('Cast','imp. & p. p.','of Cast'),('Casting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cast'),('Cast','v. t.','To send or drive by force; to throw; to fling; to hurl; to\n   impel.'),('Cast','v. t.','To direct or turn, as the eyes.'),('Cast','v. t.','To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot.'),('Cast','v. t.','To throw down, as in wrestling.'),('Cast','v. t.','To throw up, as a mound, or rampart.'),('Cast','v. t.','To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.'),('Cast','v. t.','To bring forth prematurely; to slink.'),('Cast','v. t.','To throw out or emit; to exhale.'),('Cast','v. t.','To cause to fall; to shed; to reflect; to throw; as, to\n   cast a ray upon a screen; to cast light upon a subject.'),('Cast','v. t.','To impose; to bestow; to rest.'),('Cast','v. t.','To dismiss; to discard; to cashier.'),('Cast','v. t.','To compute; to reckon; to calculate; as, to cast a\n   horoscope.'),('Cast','v. t.','To contrive; to plan.'),('Cast','v. t.','To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as,\n   to be cast in damages.'),('Cast','v. t.','To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to\n   make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice.'),('Cast','v. t.','To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal\n   or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells,\n   stoves, bullets.'),('Cast','v. t.','To stereotype or electrotype.'),('Cast','v. t.','To fix, distribute, or allot, as the parts of a play among\n   actors; also to assign (an actor) for a part.'),('Cast','v. i.','To throw, as a line in angling, esp, with a fly hook.'),('Cast','v. i.','To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in\n   getting under weigh.'),('Cast','v. i.','To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan; as,\n   to cast about for reasons.'),('Cast','v. i.','To calculate; to compute.'),('Cast','v. i.','To receive form or shape in a mold.'),('Cast','v. i.','To warp; to become twisted out of shape.'),('Cast','v. i.','To vomit.'),('Cast','','3d pres. of Cast, for Casteth.'),('Cast','n.','The act of casting or throwing; a throw.'),('Cast','n.','The thing thrown.'),('Cast','n.','The distance to which a thing is or can be thrown.'),('Cast','n.','A throw of dice; hence, a chance or venture.'),('Cast','n.','That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the\n   skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk\'s stomach, the excrement of a\n   earthworm.'),('Cast','n.','The act of casting in a mold.'),('Cast','n.','An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a\n   pattern.'),('Cast','n.','That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy,\n   as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.'),('Cast','n.','Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a peculiar cast of\n   countenance.'),('Cast','n.','A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.'),('Cast','n.','A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically,\n   an opportunity of riding; a lift.'),('Cast','n.','The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.'),('Cast','n.','A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from\n   the hand.'),('Cast','n.','A stoke, touch, or trick.'),('Cast','n.','A motion or turn, as of the eye; direction; look; glance;\n   squint.'),('Cast','n.','A tube or funnel for conveying metal into a mold.'),('Cast','n.','Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in\n   counting herrings, etc; a warp.'),('Cast','n.','Contrivance; plot, design.'),('Castalian','a.','Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of\n   inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses.'),('Castanea','n.','A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the\n   chestnut and chinquapin.'),('Castanet','n.','See Castanets.'),('Castanets','n. pl.','Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood,\n   shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the\n   middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment\n   to their dance and guitars.'),('Castaway','n.','One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.'),('Castaway','n.','One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a\n   reprobate.'),('Castaway','a.','Of no value; rejected; useless.'),('Caste','n.','One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are\n   divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.'),('Caste','n.','A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society\n   who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.'),('Castellan','n.','A governor or warden of a castle.'),('Castellanies','pl. ','of Castellany'),('Castellany','n.','The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and\n   jurisdiction appertaining to a castle.'),('Castellated','a.','Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern\n   castellated.'),('Castellated','a.','Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle;\n   built in the style of a castle.'),('Castellation','n.','The act of making into a castle.'),('Caster','n.','One who casts; as, caster of stones, etc. ; a caster of\n   cannon; a caster of accounts.'),('Caster','n.','A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain\n   condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.'),('Caster','n.','A stand to hold a set of cruets.'),('Caster','n.','A small wheel on a swivel, on which furniture is supported\n   and moved.'),('Castigated','imp. & p. p.','of Castigate'),('Castigating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Castigate'),('Castigate','v. t.','To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to\n   chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.'),('Castigate','v. t.','To emend; to correct.'),('Castigation','n.','Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent\n   criticism.'),('Castigation','n.','Emendation; correction.'),('Castigator','n.','One who castigates or corrects.'),('Castigatory','a.','Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.'),('Castigatory','n.','An instrument formerly used to punish and correct\n   arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.'),('Castile soap','','A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with\n   olive oil and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the\n   above-described soap.'),('Castilian','n.','An inhabitant or native of Castile, in Spain.'),('Castilian','n.','The Spanish language as spoken in Castile.'),('Castillan','a.','Of or pertaining to Castile, in Spain.'),('Casting','n.','The act of one who casts or throws, as in fishing.'),('Casting','n.','The act or process of making casts or impressions, or of\n   shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring\n   molten metal into a mold.'),('Casting','n.','That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so\n   cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.'),('Casting','n.','The warping of a board.'),('Casting','n.','The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as\n   skin, feathers, excrement, etc.'),('Cast iron','','Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast\n   furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought\n   iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and\n   sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus,\n   silica, etc.'),('Cast-iron','a.','Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy;\n   unyielding.'),('Castle','n.','A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or\n   nobleman; a fortress.'),('Castle','n.','Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.'),('Castle','n.','A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant\'s back.'),('Castle','n.','A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of\n   chess; a rook.'),('Castled','imp. & p. p.','of Castle'),('Castling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Castle'),('Castle','v. i.','To move the castle to the square next to king, and then\n   the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the\n   purpose of covering the king.'),('Castlebuilder','n.','Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms\n   visionary schemes.'),('Castled','a.','Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a\n   castled height or crag.'),('Castled','a.','Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.'),('Castle-guard','n.','The guard or defense of a castle.'),('Castle-guard','n.','A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain\n   distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in\n   it; castle-ward.'),('Castle-guard','n.','A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform\n   service within the realm, without limitation of time.'),('Castlery','n.','The government of a castle.'),('Castlet','n.','A small castle.'),('Castleward','n.','Same as Castleguard.'),('Castling','n.','That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an\n   abortion.'),('Castling','n.','A compound move of the king and castle. See Castle, v. i.'),('Cast-off','a.','Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.'),('Castor','n.','A genus of rodents, including the beaver. See Beaver.'),('Castor','n.','Castoreum. See Castoreum.'),('Castor','n.','A hat, esp. one made of beaver fur; a beaver.'),('Castor','n.','A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.'),('Castor','n.','See Caster, a small wheel.'),('Castor','n.','the northernmost of the two bright stars in the\n   constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux.'),('Castor','n.','Alt. of Castorite'),('Castorite','n.','A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba.'),('Castor and Pollux','','See Saint Elmo\'s fire, under Saint.'),('Castor bean','','The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus\n   communis, or Palma Christi.)'),('Castoreum','n.','A peculiar bitter orange-brown substance, with strong,\n   penetrating odor, found in two sacs between the anus and external\n   genitals of the beaver; castor; -- used in medicine as an\n   antispasmodic, and by perfumers.'),('Castorin','n.','A white crystalline substance obtained from castoreum.'),('Castor oil','','A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the\n   seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is\n   inodorous and insipid.'),('Castrametation','n.','The art or act of encamping; the making or laying\n   out of a camp.'),('Castrated','imp. & p. p.','of Castrate'),('Castrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Castrate'),('Castrate','v. t.','To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld;\n   to alter.'),('Castrate','v. t.','To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous,\n   or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.'),('Castration','n.','The act of castrating.'),('Castrato','n.','A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his\n   voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.'),('Castrel','n.','See Kestrel.'),('Castrensial','a.','Belonging to a camp.'),('Castrensian','a.','Castrensial.'),('Cast steel','','See Cast steel, under Steel.'),('Casual','a.','Happening or coming to pass without design, and without\n   being foreseen or expected; accidental; fortuitous; coming by chance.'),('Casual','a.','Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as,\n   casual expenses.'),('Casual','n.','One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he\n   does not belong; a vagrant.'),('Casualism','n.','The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by\n   chance.'),('Casualist','n.','One who believes in casualism.'),('Casually','adv.','Without design; accidentally; fortuitously; by chance;\n   occasionally.'),('Casualness','n.','The quality of being casual.'),('Casualties','pl. ','of Casualty'),('Casualty','n.','That which comes without design or without being\n   foreseen; contingency.'),('Casualty','n.','Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or\n   other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.'),('Casualty','n.','Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or\n   desertion.'),('Casuarina','n.','A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping\n   branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some\n   of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent\n   quality, called beefwood from its color.'),('Casuist','n.','One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.'),('Casuist','v. i.','To play the casuist.'),('Casuistic','a.','Alt. of Casuistieal'),('Casuistieal','a.','Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.'),('Casuistry','a.','The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of\n   conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or\n   determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by\n   rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of\n   society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the\n   application of general moral rules to particular cases.'),('Casuistry','a.','Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching\n   in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.'),('Casus','n.','An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of\n   circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident.'),('Cat','n.','An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The\n   domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is\n   much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild\n   cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and\n   Tiger cat.'),('Cat','n.','A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and\n   deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.'),('Cat','n.','A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a\n   ship.'),('Cat','n.','A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet,\n   of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.'),('Cat','n.','An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with\n   which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according\n   to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.'),('Cat','n.','A cat o\' nine tails. See below.'),('tted','imp. & p. p.','of Cat'),('Catting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cat'),('Cat','v. t.','To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.'),('Cata','','The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a\n   prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed\n   to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops\n   the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as\n   in cathartic, catholic.'),('Catabaptist','n.','One who opposes baptism, especially of infants.'),('Catabasion','n.','A vault under altar of a Greek church.'),('Catabiotic','a.','See under Force.'),('Catacaustic','a.','Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic\n   curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a.'),('Catacaustic','n.','A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.'),('Catachresis','n.','A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another,\n   or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, \"To take\n   arms against a sea of troubles\". Shak. \"Her voice was but the shadow of\n   a sound.\" Young.'),('Catachrestic','a.','Alt. of Catachrestical'),('Catachrestical','a.','Belonging to, or in the manner of, a catachresis;\n   wrested from its natural sense or form; forced; far-fetched.'),('Cataclysm','n.','An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a\n   deluge.'),('Cataclysm','n.','Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive\n   changes of the earth\'s surface.'),('Cataclysmal','a.','Alt. of Cataclysmic'),('Cataclysmic','a.','Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.'),('Cataclysmist','n.','One who believes that the most important geological\n   phenomena have been produced by cataclysms.'),('Catacomb','n.','A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent\n   used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.'),('Catacoustic','n.','That part of acoustics which treats of reflected\n   sounds or echoes See Acoustics.'),('Catadioptric','a.','Alt. of Catadioptrical'),('Catadioptrical','a.','Pertaining to, produced by, or involving, both the\n   reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light.'),('Catadioptrics','n.','The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena,\n   or of the used of catadioptric instruments.'),('Catadrome','n.','A race course.'),('Catadrome','n.','A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.'),('Catadromous','a.','Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer\n   the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching\n   in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.'),('Catadromous','a.','Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn;\n   -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.'),('Catafalco','n.','See Catafalque.'),('Catafalque','n.','A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral\n   solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the\n   remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.'),('Catagmatic','a.','Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.'),('Cataian','n.','A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a\n   term of reproach.'),('Catalan','a.','Of or pertaining to Catalonia.'),('Catalan','n.','A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of\n   Catalonia.'),('Catalectic','a.','Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an\n   imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.'),('Catalectic','a.','Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a\n   substance.'),('Catalepsy','n.','Alt. of Catalepsis'),('Catalepsis','n.','A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body\n   and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the\n   action of the heart and lungs continues.'),('Cataleptic','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with\n   catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.'),('Catallacta','n. pl.','A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the\n   type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia,\n   and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.'),('Catallactics','n.','The science of exchanges, a branch of political\n   economy.'),('Catalog','n. & v.','Catalogue.'),('Catalogize','v. t.','To insert in a catalogue; to register; to catalogue.'),('Catalogue','n.','A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged\n   methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the\n   students of a college, or of books, or of the stars.'),('Catalogued','imp. & p. p.','of Catalogue'),('Cataloguing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Catalogue'),('Catalogue','v. t.','To make a list or catalogue; to insert in a\n   catalogue.'),('Cataloguer','n.','A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making\n   of catalogues.'),('Catalpa','n.','A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the\n   best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental\n   North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical\n   pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also\n   Indian bean.'),('Catalyse','pl. ','of Catalysis'),('Catalysis','n.','Dissolution; degeneration; decay.'),('Catalysis','n.','A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of\n   certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by\n   mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with\n   the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by\n   alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left\n   unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of\n   sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as\n   diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.'),('Catalysis','n.','The catalytic force.'),('Catalytic','a.','Relating to, or causing, catalysis.'),('Catalytic','n.','An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black,\n   aluminium chloride, etc.'),('Catamaran','n.','A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs\n   or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; --\n   used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East\n   and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the\n   lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.'),('Catamaran','n.','Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails\n   or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats\n   remarkable for speed.'),('Catamaran','n.','A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.'),('Catamaran','n.','A quarrelsome woman; a scold.'),('Catamenia','n. pl.','The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges;\n   menses.'),('Catamenial','a.','Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.'),('Catamite','n.','A boy kept for unnatural purposes.'),('Catamount','n.','The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United\n   States, to the lynx.'),('Catanadromous','a.','Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to\n   the sea, as the salmon; anadromous.'),('Catapasm','n.','A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to\n   sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.'),('Catapeltic','a.','Of or pertaining to a catapult.'),('Catapetalous','a.','Having the petals held together by stamens, which\n   grow to their bases, as in the mallow.'),('Cataphonic','a.','Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.'),('Cataphonics','n.','That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected\n   sounds; catacoustics.'),('Cataphract','n.','Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for\n   the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern\n   nations.'),('Cataphract','n.','A horseman covered with a cataphract.'),('Cataphract','n.','The armor or plate covering some fishes.'),('Cataphracted','a.','Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates,\n   scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony\n   plates, hard, callous skin, etc.'),('Cataphractic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.'),('Cataphysical','a.','Unnatural; contrary to nature.'),('Cataplasm','n.','A soft and moist substance applied externally to some\n   part of the body; a poultice.'),('Catapuce','n.','Spurge.'),('Catapult','n.','An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by\n   the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.'),('Catapult','n.','A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small\n   stones, etc.'),('Cataract','n.','A great fall of water over a precipice; a large\n   waterfall.'),('Cataract','n.','An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule,\n   which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys\n   the sight.'),('Cataract','n.','A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of\n   pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.'),('Cataractous','a.','Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with\n   cataract.'),('Catarrh','n.','An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which\n   there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and\n   quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the\n   bladder.'),('Catarrhal','a.','Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of\n   the nature of catarrh.'),('Catarrhine','n.','One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana,\n   including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close\n   together and turned downward. See Monkey.'),('Catarrhous','a.','Catarrhal.'),('Catastaltic','a.','Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic\n   qualities.'),('Catastasis','n.','That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which\n   the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.'),('Catastasis','n.','The state, or condition of anything; constitution;\n   habit of body.'),('Catasterism','n.','A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.'),('Catastrophe','n.','An event producing a subversion of the order or system\n   of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature;\n   hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.'),('Catastrophe','n.','The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a\n   denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.'),('Catastrophe','n.','A violent and widely extended change in the surface of\n   the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected\n   by internal causes.'),('Catastrophic','a.','Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.'),('Catastrophism','n.','The doctrine that the geological changes in the\n   earth\'s crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical\n   causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.'),('Catastrophist','n.','One who holds the theory or catastrophism.'),('Catawba','n.','A well known light red variety of American grape.'),('Catawba','n.','A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba\n   grape.'),('Catawbas','n. pl.','An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally\n   inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the\n   Santee.'),('Catbird','n.','An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to\n   the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other\n   birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a\n   cat.'),('Catboat','n.','A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward\n   as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See\n   Illustration in Appendix.'),('Catcall','n.','A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in\n   playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill\n   instrument for making such a noise.'),('Caught','imp. & p. p.','of Catch'),('Catched','','of Catch'),('Catching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Catch'),('Catch','v. t.','To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to\n   grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a\n   ball.'),('Catch','v. t.','To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief.'),('Catch','v. t.','To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as,\n   to catch a bird or fish.'),('Catch','v. t.','Hence: To insnare; to entangle.'),('Catch','v. t.','To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as,\n   to catch a melody.'),('Catch','v. t.','To communicate to; to fasten upon; as, the fire caught\n   the adjoining building.'),('Catch','v. t.','To engage and attach; to please; to charm.'),('Catch','v. t.','To get possession of; to attain.'),('Catch','v. t.','To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion,\n   infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to\n   catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.'),('Catch','v. t.','To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to\n   catch one in the act of stealing.'),('Catch','v. t.','To reach in time; to come up with; as, to catch a train.'),('Catch','v. i.','To attain possession.'),('Catch','v. i.','To be held or impeded by entanglement or a light\n   obstruction; as, a kite catches in a tree; a door catches so as not to\n   open.'),('Catch','v. i.','To take hold; as, the bolt does not catch.'),('Catch','v. i.','To spread by, or as by, infecting; to communicate.'),('Catch','n.','Act of seizing; a grasp.'),('Catch','n.','That by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened;\n   as, the catch of a gate.'),('Catch','n.','The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold\n   of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch.'),('Catch','n.','That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the\n   whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish.'),('Catch','n.','Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in\n   matrimony.'),('Catch','n.','Passing opportunities seized; snatches.'),('Catch','n.','A slight remembrance; a trace.'),('Catch','n.','A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers\n   catch up each other\'s words.'),('Catchable','a.','Capable of being caught.'),('Catch-basin','n.','A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter\n   discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass\n   readily through the sewer.'),('Catchdrain','n.','A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the\n   surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the\n   surplus water.'),('Catcher','n.','One who, or that which, catches.'),('Catcher','n.','The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the\n   ball.'),('Catchfly','n.','A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other\n   parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere.\n   The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.'),('Catching','a.','Infectious; contagious.'),('Catching','a.','Captivating; alluring.'),('Catching','n.','The act of seizing or taking hold of.'),('Catch-meadow','n.','A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet\n   on the side of hill.'),('Catchment','n.','A surface of ground on which water may be caught and\n   collected into a reservoir.'),('Catchpenny','a.','Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from\n   the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.'),('Catchpenny','n.','Some worthless catchpenny thing.'),('Catchpoll','n.','A bailiff\'s assistant.'),('Catchup','n.','Alt. of Catsup'),('Catsup','n.','A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc.'),('Catchwater','n.','A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.'),('Catchweed','n.','See Cleavers.'),('Catchweight','adv.','Without any additional weight; without being\n   handicapped; as, to ride catchweight.'),('Catchword','n.','Among theatrical performers, the last word of the\n   preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.'),('Catchword','n.','The first word of any page of a book after the first,\n   inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the\n   assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.'),('Catchword','n.','A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,\n   the catchword of a political party, etc.'),('Catchwork','n.','A work or artificial water-course for throwing water on\n   lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.'),('Cate','n.','Food. [Obs.] See Cates.'),('Catechetic','a.','Alt. of Catechetical'),('Catechetical','a.','Relating to or consisting in, asking questions and\n   receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching.'),('Catechetically','adv.','In a catechetical manner; by question and answer.'),('Catechetics','n.','The science or practice of instructing by questions\n   and answers.'),('Catechin','n.','One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a\n   white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and\n   catechuin.'),('Catechisation','n.','The act of catechising.'),('Catechised','imp. & p. p.','of Catechise'),('Catechising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Catechise'),('Catechise','v. t.','To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers,\n   and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points\n   of religious faith.'),('Catechise','v. t.','To question or interrogate; to examine or try by\n   questions; -- sometimes with a view to reproof, by eliciting from a\n   person answers which condemn his own conduct.'),('Catechiser','n.','One who catechises.'),('Catechism','n.','A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.'),('Catechism','n.','A book containing a summary of principles, especially of\n   religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.'),('Catechismal','a.','Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of\n   questions and answers; catechetical.'),('Catechist','n.','One who instructs by question and answer, especially in\n   religions matters.'),('Catechistic','a.','Alt. of Catechistical'),('Catechistical','a.','Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.'),('Catechize','v. t.','See Catechise.'),('Catechu','n.','A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction\n   and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants\n   growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid,\n   and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names\n   terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.'),('Catechuic','a.','Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See\n   catechin.'),('Catechumen','L. catechunenus, Gr.','One who is\n   receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a\n   neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a\n   Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full\n   membership in the church.'),('Catechumenate','n.','The state or condition of a catechumen or the time\n   during which one is a catechumen.'),('Catechumenical','a.','Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical\n   instructions.'),('Catechumenist','n.','A catechumen.'),('Categorematic','a.','Capable of being employed by itself as a term; --\n   said of a word.'),('Categorical','a.','Of or pertaining to a category.'),('Categorical','a.','Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions\n   or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a\n   categorical proposition, or answer.'),('Categorically','adv.','Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as,\n   to affirm categorically.'),('Categoricalness','n.','The quality of being categorical, positive, or\n   absolute.'),('Categorist','n.','One who inserts in a category or list; one who\n   classifies.'),('Categorize','v. t.','To insert in a category or list; to class; to\n   catalogue.'),('Categories','pl. ','of Category'),('Category','n.','One of the highest classes to which the objects of\n   knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged\n   in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.'),('Category','n.','Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are\n   both in the same category.'),('Catel','n.','Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or\n   income.'),('Catelectrode','n.','The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.'),('Catelectrotonic','a.','Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.'),('Catelectrotonus','n.','The condition of increased irritability of a nerve\n   in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a\n   current of electricity through it.'),('Catene','pl. ','of Catena'),('Catena','n.','A chain or series of things connected with each other.'),('Catenary','a.','Alt. of Catenarian'),('Catenarian','a.','Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary\n   curve.'),('Catenary','n.','The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density\n   and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of\n   suspension, not in the same vertical line.'),('Catenated','imp. & p. p.','of Catenate'),('Catenating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Catenate'),('Catenate','v. t.','To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.'),('Catenation','n.','Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a\n   regular or connected series. See Concatenation.'),('Catenulate','a.','Consisting of little links or chains.'),('Catenulate','a.','Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of\n   indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells,\n   etc.'),('Cater','n.','A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.'),('Catered','imp. & p. p.','of Cater'),('Catering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cater'),('Cater','n.','To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.'),('Cater','n.','By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at\n   theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.'),('Cater','n.','The four of cards or dice.'),('Cater','v. t.','To cut diagonally.'),('Cateran','n.','A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.'),('Cater-cornered','a.','Diagonal.'),('Cater-cousin','n.','A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.'),('Caterer','n.','One who caters.'),('Cateress','n.','A woman who caters.'),('Caterpillar','n.','The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous\n   insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other\n   insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The\n   true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of\n   abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy,\n   others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent\n   vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly\n   called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm,\n   silkworm.'),('Caterpillar','n.','A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling\n   caterpillars.'),('Caterwauled','imp. & p. p.','of Caterwaul'),('Caterwauling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caterwaul'),('Caterwaul','v. i.','To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh,\n   offensive noise.'),('Caterwaul','n.','A caterwauling.'),('Caterwauling','n.','The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry\n   like the cry of cats.'),('Catery','n.','The place where provisions are deposited.'),('Cates','n.','Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food;\n   delicacies; dainties.'),('Cat-eyed','a.','Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.'),('Catfall','n.','A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead.'),('Catfish','n.','A name given in the United States to various species of\n   siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat\n   (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat\n   (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also\n   sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.'),('Catgut','n.','A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of\n   animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.'),('Catgut','n.','A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.'),('Catharine wheel','','See catherine wheel.'),('Catharist','n.','One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like\n   than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See\n   Albigenses.'),('Cat-harpin','n.','See Cat-harping.'),('Cat-harping','n.','One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in\n   the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.'),('Catharsis','n.','A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of\n   the mouth, bowels, etc.'),('Cathartic','a.','Alt. of Catharical'),('Catharical','a.','Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool;\n   purgative.'),('Catharical','a.','Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna,\n   as cathartic acid.'),('Cathartic','n.','A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a\n   purgative of moderate activity.'),('Cathartin','n.','The bitter, purgative principle of senna. It is a\n   glucoside with the properties of a weak acid; -- called also cathartic\n   acid, and cathartina.'),('Cathay','n.','China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have\n   been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name\n   for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)'),('Cathead','n.','A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of\n   vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.'),('Cathedra','n.','The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any\n   person in high authority.'),('Cathedral','n.','The principal church in a diocese, so called because in\n   it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.'),('Cathedral','a.','Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a\n   cathedral church; cathedral service.'),('Cathedral','a.','Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or\n   bishop; official; authoritative.'),('Cathedral','a.','Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral\n   walks.'),('Cathedralic','a.','Cathedral.'),('Cathedrated','a.','Relating to the chair or office of a teacher.'),('Catheretic','n.','A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other\n   excrescences.'),('Catherine wheel','','Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also\n   Catherine-wheel window.'),('Catherine wheel','','A revolving piece of fireworks resembling in form\n   the window of the same name.'),('Catheter','n.','The name of various instruments for passing along mucous\n   canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the\n   bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.'),('Catheterism','n.','Alt. of Catheterization'),('Catheterization','n.','The operation of introducing a catheter.'),('Catheterized','imp. & p. p.','of Catheterize'),('Catheterizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Catheterize'),('Catheterize','v. t.','To operate on with a catheter.'),('Cathetometer','n.','An instrument for the accurate measurement of small\n   differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the\n   upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same\n   column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling\n   apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic\n   standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or\n   depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the\n   differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated\n   standard.'),('Catheti','pl. ','of Cathetus'),('Cathetus','n.','One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another;\n   as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that\n   include the right angle.'),('Cathode','n.','The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric\n   current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at\n   which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative\n   pole; -- opposed to anode.'),('Cathodic','a.','A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of\n   the nervous influence.'),('Cat-hole','n.','One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports,\n   through which hawsers may be passed.'),('Catholic','a.','Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.'),('Catholic','a.','Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as,\n   catholic tastes.'),('Catholic','a.','Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics;\n   as, the Catholic emancipation act.'),('Catholic','n.','A person who accepts the creeds which are received in\n   common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.'),('Catholic','n.','An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman\n   Catholic.'),('Catholical','a.','Catholic.'),('Catholicism','n.','The state or quality of being catholic or universal;\n   catholicity.'),('Catholicism','n.','Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.'),('Catholicism','n.','The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or\n   adherence thereto.'),('Catholicism','n.','The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church,\n   or adherence thereto.'),('Catholicity','n.','The state or quality of being catholic; universality.'),('Catholicity','n.','Liberality of sentiments; catholicism.'),('Catholicity','n.','Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held\n   by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held;\n   orthodoxy.'),('Catholicity','n.','Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or\n   the doctrines themselves.'),('Catholicize','v. t. & i.','To make or to become catholic or Roman\n   Catholic.'),('Catholicly','adv.','In a catholic manner; generally; universally.'),('Catholicness','n.','The quality of being catholic; universality;\n   catholicity.'),('Catholicon','n.','A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.'),('Catholicos','n.','The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides\n   at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and\n   consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and\n   Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.'),('Catilinarian','a.','Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator;\n   resembling Catiline\'s conspiracy.'),('Cation','n.','An electro-positive substance, which in\n   electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.'),('Catkin','n.','An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a\n   slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as\n   in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the\n   chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a\n   cat\'s tail. See Illust. of Ament.'),('Catlike','a.','Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.'),('Catling','n.','A little cat; a kitten.'),('Catling','n.','Catgut; a catgut string.'),('Catling','n.','A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.'),('Catlinite','n.','A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the\n   Indians for their pipes.'),('Catnip','n.','Alt. of Catmint'),('Catmint','n.','A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria),\n   somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in\n   medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.'),('Cato-cathartic','n.','A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.'),('Catonian','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman,\n   Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.'),('Cat o\' nine tails','','See under Cat.'),('Catopter','n.','Alt. of Catoptron'),('Catoptron','n.','A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror.'),('Catoptric','a.','Alt. of Catoptrical'),('Catoptrical','a.','Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by\n   reflection.'),('Catoptrics','n.','That part of optics which explains the properties and\n   phenomena of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected\n   from mirrors or polished bodies; -- formerly called anacamptics.'),('Catoptromancy','n.','A species of divination, which was performed by\n   letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face\n   in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill\n   omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.'),('Catopron','n.','See Catopter.'),('Catpipe','n.','See Catcall.'),('Cat-rigged','a.','Rigged like a catboat.'),('Cat-salt','n.','A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the\n   bittern or leach brine.'),('Cat\'s-eye','n.','A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent\n   reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The name is given to\n   other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.'),('Cat\'s-foot','n.','A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with\n   catnip; ground ivy.'),('Cat-silver','n.','Mica.'),('Catskill period','','The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in\n   America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill\n   mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation.\n   See the Diagram under Geology.'),('Catsos','pl. ','of Catso'),('Catso','n.','A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.'),('Cat\'s-paw','n.','A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the\n   water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.'),('Cat\'s-paw','n.','A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into\n   which a tackle may be hooked.'),('Cat\'s-paw','n.','A dupe; a tool; one who, or that which, is used by\n   another as an instrument to a accomplish his purposes.'),('Cat\'s-tail','n.','See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus.'),('Catstick','n.','A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat\n   or tipcat.'),('Catstitch','v. t.','To fold and sew down the edge of with a coarse zigzag\n   stitch.'),('Catsup','n.','Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.'),('Cat-tail','n.','A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes,\n   with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical\n   spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for\n   seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin.'),('Cattish','a.','Catlike; feline'),('Cattle','n. pl.','Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also,\n   including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules,\n   asses, and swine.'),('Catty','n.','An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.'),('Caucasian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region\n   between the Black and Caspian seas.'),('Caucasian','a.','Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom\n   the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.'),('Caucasian','n.','A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a\n   Circassian or Georgian.'),('Caucasian','n.','A member of any of the white races of mankind.'),('Caucus','n.','A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons\n   belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to\n   select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding\n   measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.'),('Caucused','imp. & p. p.','of Caucus'),('Caucusing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caucus'),('Caucus','v. i.','To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.'),('Caudad','adv.','Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.'),('Cauda galli','','A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed,\n   characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit.'),('Caudal','a.','Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a\n   tail-like appendage.'),('Caudata','n. pl.','See Urodela.'),('Caudate','a.','Alt. of Caudated'),('Caudated','a.','Having a tail; having a termination like a tail.'),('Caudices','pl. ','of Caudex'),('Caudexes','pl. ','of Caudex'),('Caudex','n.','The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a\n   palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous\n   plant.'),('Caudicle','n.','Alt. of Caudicula'),('Caudicula','n.','A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of\n   pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.'),('Caudle','n.','A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of\n   wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.'),('Caudled','imp. & p. p.','of Caudle'),('Caudling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caudle'),('Caudle','v. t.','To make into caudle.'),('Caudle','v. t.','Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.'),('Cauf','n.','A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.'),('Caufle','n.','A gang of slaves. Same as Coffle.'),('Caught','','imp. & p. p. of Catch.'),('Cauk','n.','Alt. of Cauker'),('Cauker','n.','See Cawk, Calker.'),('Caul','n.','A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a\n   net.'),('Caul','n.','The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or\n   less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.'),('Caul','n.','A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the\n   fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.'),('Caulescent','a.','Having a leafy stem.'),('Caulicle','n.','A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in\n   the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.'),('Cauliculi','pl. ','of Cauliculus'),('Cauliculus','n.','In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks\n   rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to\n   support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian.'),('Cauliflower','n.','An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of\n   which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a\n   vegetable.'),('Cauliflower','n.','The edible head or \"curd\" of a cauliflower plant.'),('Cauliform','a.','Having the form of a caulis.'),('Cauline','a.','Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a\n   caulis.'),('Caules','pl. ','of Caulis'),('Caulis','n.','An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may\n   bear flowers.'),('Caulk','v. t. & n.','See Calk.'),('Caulocarpous','a.','Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after\n   year, as most trees and shrubs.'),('Cauma','n.','Great heat, as of the body in fever.'),('Cauponize','v. i.','To sell wine or victuals.'),('Causable','a.','Capable of being caused.'),('Causal','a.','Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a\n   cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.'),('Causal','n.','A causal word or form of speech.'),('Causality','n.','The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause,\n   in producing its effect.'),('Causality','n.','The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.'),('Causally','adv.','According to the order or series of causes; by tracing\n   effects to causes.'),('Causally','n.','The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing.'),('Causation','n.','The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an\n   effect is produced.'),('Causationist','n.','One who believes in the law of universal causation.'),('Causative','a.','Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.'),('Causative','a.','Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative\n   is a causative case.'),('Causative','n.','A word which expresses or suggests a cause.'),('Causatively','adv.','In a causative manner.'),('Causator','n.','One who causes.'),('Cause','v.','That which produces or effects a result; that from which\n   anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.'),('Cause','v.','That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground;\n   reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.'),('Cause','v.','Sake; interest; advantage.'),('Cause','v.','A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a\n   party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right;\n   case; ground of action.'),('Cause','v.','Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question;\n   affair in general.'),('Cause','v.','The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and\n   upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which\n   a person or party seeks to attain.'),('Caused','imp. & p. p.','of Cause'),('Causing','p. pr. & v. n.','of Cause'),('Cause','n.','To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to\n   bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by\n   an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.'),('Cause','v. i.','To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make\n   excuse.'),('Cause','conj.','Abbreviation of Because.'),('Causeful','n.','Having a cause.'),('Causeless','a.','1. Self-originating; uncreated.'),('Causeless','a.','Without just or sufficient reason; groundless.'),('Causeless','adv.','Without cause or reason.'),('Causelessness','n.','The state of being causeless.'),('Causer','n.','One who or that which causes.'),('Causeuse','n.','A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete.'),('Causeway','n.','Alt. of Causey'),('Causey','n.','A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground,\n   serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground.'),('Causewayed','a.','Alt. of Causeyed'),('Causeyed','a.','Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved.'),('Causidical','a.','Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and\n   defense of suits.'),('Caustic','a.','Alt. of Caustical'),('Caustical','a.','Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating\n   away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.'),('Caustical','a.','Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.'),('Caustic','a.','Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other\n   organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an\n   escharotic.'),('Caustic','a.','A caustic curve or caustic surface.'),('Caustically','adv.','In a caustic manner.'),('Causticily','n.','The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the\n   causticity of potash.'),('Causticily','n.','Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a\n   reply or remark.'),('Causticness','n.','The quality of being caustic; causticity.'),('Cautel','n.','Caution; prudence; wariness.'),('Cautel','n.','Craft; deceit; falseness.'),('Cautelous','a.','Caution; prudent; wary.'),('Cautelous','a.','Crafty; deceitful; false.'),('Cauter','n.','A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.'),('Cauterant','n.','A cauterizing substance.'),('Cauterism','n.','The use or application of a caustic; cautery.'),('Cauterization','n.','The act of searing some morbid part by the\n   application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such\n   application.'),('Cauterized','imp. & p. p.','of Cauterize'),('Cauterizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cauterize'),('Cauterize','v. t.','To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.'),('Cauterize','v. t.','To sear, as the conscience.'),('Cauteries','pl. ','of Cautery'),('Cautery','n.','A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron,\n   or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy\n   animal tissue.'),('Cautery','n.','The iron of other agent in cauterizing.'),('Caution','n.','A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in\n   order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to\n   danger; provident care; wariness.'),('Caution','n.','Security; guaranty; bail.'),('Caution','n.','Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation\n   to wariness; advice; injunction.'),('Cautioned','imp. & p. p.','of Caution'),('Cautioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caution'),('Caution','v. t.','To give notice of danger to; to warn; to exhort [one]\n   to take heed.'),('Cautionary','a.','Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as,\n   cautionary signals.'),('Cautionary','a.','Given as a pledge or as security.'),('Cautionary','a.','Wary; cautious.'),('Cautioner','n.','One who cautions or advises.'),('Cautioner','n.','A surety or sponsor.'),('Cautionry','n.','Suretyship.'),('Cautious','a.','Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of\n   acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect;\n   wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.'),('Cautiously','adv.','In a cautious manner.'),('Cautiousness','n.','The quality of being cautious.'),('Cavalcade','n.','A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous\n   march of horsemen by way of parade.'),('Cavalero','n.','Alt. of Cavaliero'),('Cavaliero','n.','A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine.'),('Cavalier','n.','A military man serving on horseback; a knight.'),('Cavalier','n.','A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.'),('Cavalier','n.','One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as\n   contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.'),('Cavalier','n.','A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the\n   level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.'),('Cavalier','a.','Gay; easy; offhand; frank.'),('Cavalier','a.','High-spirited.'),('Cavalier','a.','Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.'),('Cavalier','a.','Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.'),('Cavalierish','a.','Somewhat like a cavalier.'),('Cavalierism','n.','The practice or principles of cavaliers.'),('Cavalierly','adv.','In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner;\n   arrogantly.'),('Cavalierness','n.','A disdainful manner.'),('Cavally','n.','A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): --\n   called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]'),('Cavalry','n.','That part of military force which serves on horseback.'),('Cavalryman','n.','One of a body of cavalry.'),('Cavatina','n.','Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a\n   song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and\n   vaguely used.'),('Cave','n.','A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a\n   subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.'),('Cave','n.','Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.'),('Caved','imp. & p. p.','of Cave'),('Caving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cave'),('Cave','n.','To make hollow; to scoop out.'),('Cave','v. i.','To dwell in a cave.'),('Cave','v. i.','To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence\n   (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a\n   disputed matter.'),('Caveat','n.','A notice given by an interested party to some officer not\n   to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a\n   caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the\n   taking out of letters of administration, etc.'),('Caveat','n.','A description of some invention, designed to be patented,\n   lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and\n   operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person,\n   respecting the same invention.'),('Caveat','n.','Intimation of caution; warning; protest.'),('Caveating','n.','Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary\'s sword\n   to the other.'),('Caveator','n.','One who enters a caveat.'),('Cavendish','n.','Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs\n   or cakes.'),('Cavern','n.','A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.'),('Caverned','a.','Containing caverns.'),('Caverned','a.','Living in a cavern.'),('Cavernous','a.','Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity;\n   hollow.'),('Cavernous','a.','Filled with small cavities or cells.'),('Cavernous','a.','Having a sound caused by a cavity.'),('Cavernulous','a.','Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal.'),('Cavesson','n.','Alt. of Cavezon'),('Cavezon','n.','A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses.'),('Cavetto','n.','A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical\n   architecture. See Illust. of Column.'),('Caviare','n.','Alt. of Caviar'),('Caviar','n.','The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a\n   relish, esp. in Russia.'),('Cavicorn','a.','Having hollow horns.'),('Cavicornia','n. pl.','A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and\n   planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox.'),('Caviled','imp. & p. p.','of Cavil'),('Cavilled','','of Cavil'),('Caviling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cavil'),('Cavilling','','of Cavil'),('Cavil','v. i.','To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault\n   without good reason.'),('Cavil','v. t.','To cavil at.'),('Cavil','n.','A captious or frivolous objection.'),('Caviler','n.','Alt. of Caviller'),('Caviller','n.','One who cavils.'),('Caviling','a.','Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See\n   Captious.'),('Cavilingly','adv.','In a caviling manner.'),('Cavillation','n.','Frivolous or sophistical objection.'),('Cavilous','a.','Alt. of Cavillous'),('Cavillous','a.','Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil;\n   quibbing.'),('Cavin','n.','A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their\n   aproach to a place.'),('Cavitary','a.','Containing a body cavity; as, the cavitary or nematoid\n   worms.'),('Cavities','pl. ','of Cavity'),('Cavity','n.','Hollowness.'),('Cavity','n.','A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity.'),('Cavo-relievo','n.','Cavo-rilievo.'),('Cavo-rilievo','n.','Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking\n   made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain\n   surface around.'),('Cavorted','imp. & p. p.','of Cavort'),('Cavorting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cavort'),('Cavort','v. i.','To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his\n   rider.'),('Cavies','pl. ','of Cavy'),('Cavy','n.','A rodent of the genera Cavia and Dolichotis, as the guinea\n   pig (Cavia cobaya). Cavies are natives of South America.'),('Cawed','imp. & p. p.','of Caw'),('Cawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Caw'),('Caw','v. i.','To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.'),('Caw','n.','The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.'),('Cawk','n.','An opaque, compact variety of barite, or heavy spar.'),('Cawker','n.','See Calker.'),('Cawky','a.','Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.'),('Caxon','n.','A kind of wig.'),('Caxton','n.','Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English\n   printer.'),('Cay','n.','See Key, a ledge.'),('Cayenne','n.','Cayenne pepper.'),('Cayman','n.','The south America alligator. See Alligator.'),('Cayugas','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western\n   New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.'),('Cayuse','n.','An Indian pony.'),('Cazique','n.','Alt. of Cazic'),('Cazic','n.','A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in\n   America.'),('Ceased','imp. & p. p.','of Cease'),('Ceasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cease'),('Cease','v. i.','To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to\n   desist; as, the noise ceased.'),('Cease','v. i.','To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.'),('Cease','v. t.','To put a stop to; to bring to an end.'),('Cease','n.','Extinction.'),('Ceaseless','a.','Without pause or end; incessant.'),('Ceaseless','adv.','Without intermission or end.'),('Cecidomyia','n.','A genus of small dipterous files, including several\n   very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.'),('Cecity','n.','Blindness.'),('Cecutiency','n.','Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness.'),('Cedar','n.','The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable\n   for its durability and fragrant odor.'),('Cedar','a.','Of or pertaining to cedar.'),('Cedared','a.','Covered, or furnished with, cedars.'),('Cedarn','a.','Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.'),('Ceded','imp. & p. p.','of Cede'),('Ceding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cede'),('Cede','v. t.','To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede\n   a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.'),('Cedilla','n.','A mark placed under the letter c [thus, c], to show that\n   it is to be sounded like s, as in facade.'),('Cedrat','n.','Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large\n   fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.'),('Cedrene','n.','A rich aromatic oil, C15H24, extracted from oil of red\n   cedar, and regarded as a polymeric terpene; also any one of a class of\n   similar substances, as the essential oils of cloves, cubebs, juniper,\n   etc., of which cedrene proper is the type.'),('Cedrine','a.','Of or pertaining to cedar or the cedar tree.'),('Cedriret','n.','Same as Coerulignone.'),('Cedry','a.','Of the nature of cedar.'),('Cedule','n.','A scroll; a writing; a schedule.'),('Ceduous','a.','Fit to be felled.'),('Ceiled','imp. & p. p.','of Ceil'),('Ceiling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ceil'),('Ceil','v. t.','To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to\n   furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.'),('Ceil','v. t.','To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster,\n   stucco, thin boards, or the like.'),('Ceiling','v. t.','The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of\n   the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.'),('Ceiling','v. t.','The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface,\n   with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.'),('Ceiling','v. t.','The inner planking of a vessel.'),('Ceint','n.','A girdle.'),('Celadon','n.','A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of\n   this tint.'),('Celandine','n.','A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the\n   poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in\n   jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure\n   warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.'),('Celature','n.','The act or art of engraving or embossing.'),('Celature','n.','That which is engraved.'),('Celebrant','n.','One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied\n   particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as\n   distinguished from his assistants.'),('Celebrated','imp. & p. p.','of Celebrate'),('Celebrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Celebrate'),('Celebrate','v. t.','To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to\n   celebrate the name of the Most High.'),('Celebrate','v. t.','To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and\n   respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to\n   keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.'),('Celebrate','v. t.','To perform or participate in, as a sacrament or\n   solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to\n   celebrate a marriage.'),('Celebrated','a.','Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned.'),('Celebration','n.','The act, process, or time of celebrating.'),('Celebrator','n.','One who celebrates; a praiser.'),('Celebrious','a.','Famous.'),('Celebrities','pl. ','of Celebrity'),('Celebrity','n.','Celebration; solemnization.'),('Celebrity','n.','The state or condition of being celebrated; fame;\n   renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.'),('Celebrity','n.','A person of distinction or renown; -- usually in the\n   plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.'),('Celeriac','n.','Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large\n   globular root, which is used for food.'),('Celerity','n.','Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.'),('Celery','n.','A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which\n   the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.'),('Celestial','a.','Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.'),('Celestial','a.','Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly;\n   divine.'),('Celestial','n.','An inhabitant of heaven.'),('Celestial','n.','A native of China.'),('Celestialize','v. t.','To make celestial.'),('Celestially','adv.','In a celestial manner.'),('Celestify','v. t.','To make like heaven.'),('Celestine','n.','Alt. of Celestite'),('Celestite','n.','Native strontium sulphate, a mineral so named from its\n   occasional delicate blue color. It occurs crystallized, also in compact\n   massive and fibrous forms.'),('Celestine','n.','Alt. of Celestinian'),('Celestinian','n.','A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order\n   founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.'),('Celiac','a.','See Coellac.'),('Celibacy','n.','The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a\n   bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.'),('Celibate','n.','Celibate state; celibacy.'),('Celibate','n.','One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by\n   vows not to marry.'),('Celibate','a.','Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.'),('Celibatist','n.','One who lives unmarried.'),('Celidography','n.','A description of apparent spots on the disk of the\n   sun, or on planets.'),('Cell','n.','A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a\n   monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.'),('Cell','n.','A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.'),('Cell','n.','Any small cavity, or hollow place.'),('Cell','n.','The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.'),('Cell','n.','Same as Cella.'),('Cell','n.','A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for\n   holding the exciting fluid of a battery.'),('Cell','n.','One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater\n   part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are\n   composed.'),('Celled','imp. & p. p.','of Cell'),('Cell','v. t.','To place or inclose in a cell.'),('Cella','n.','The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as\n   distinguished from the open porticoes.'),('Cellar','n.','A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the\n   surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.'),('Cellarage','n.','The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar.'),('Cellarage','n.','Chare for storage in a cellar.'),('Cellarer','n.','A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who\n   has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.'),('Cellaret','n.','A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of\n   wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer\n   in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.'),('Cellarist','n.','Same as Cellarer.'),('Celled','a.','Containing a cell or cells.'),('Cellepore','n.','A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute\n   cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.'),('Celliferous','a.','Bearing or producing cells.'),('Cellos','pl. ','of Cello'),('Celli','pl. ','of Cello'),('Cello','n.','A contraction for Violoncello.'),('Cellular','a.','Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to\n   a cell or cells.'),('Cellulated','a.','Cellular.'),('Cellule','n.','A small cell.'),('Celluliferous','a.','Bearing or producing little cells.'),('Cellulitis','n.','An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue,\n   esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.'),('Celluloid','n.','A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and\n   camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but\n   variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite,\n   etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles,\n   as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.'),('Cellulose','a.','Consisting of, or containing, cells.'),('Cellulose','n.','The substance which constitutes the essential part of\n   the solid framework of plants, of ordinary wood, linen, paper, etc. It\n   is also found to a slight extent in certain animals, as the tunicates.\n   It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is\n   convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids.\n   When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin.'),('Celotomy','n.','The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure\n   in strangulated hernia.'),('Celsiture','n.','Height; altitude.'),('Celsius','n.','The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders\n   Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the\n   centigrade thermometer or scale.'),('Celt','n.','One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a\n   great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the\n   present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the\n   northern shores of France.'),('Celt','n.','A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli,\n   or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.'),('Celtiberian','a.','Of or pertaining to the ancient Celtiberia (a district\n   in Spain lying between the Ebro and the Tagus) or its inhabitants the\n   Celtiberi (Celts of the river Iberus).'),('Celtiberian','n.','An inhabitant of Celtiberia.'),('Celtic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes,\n   literature, tongue.'),('Celtic','n.','The language of the Celts.'),('Celticism','n.','A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.'),('Celticize','v. t.','To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.'),('Cembalo','n.','An old name for the harpsichord.'),('Cement','n.','Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other,\n   as mortar, glue, etc.'),('Cement','n.','A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay\n   and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.'),('Cement','n.','The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.'),('Cement','n.','Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in\n   friendship, or men in society.'),('Cement','n.','The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth;\n   -- called also cementum.'),('Cemented','imp. & p. p.','of Cement'),('Cementing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cement'),('Cement','n.','To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.'),('Cement','n.','To unite firmly or closely.'),('Cement','n.','To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar\n   bottom.'),('Cement','v. i.','To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.'),('Cemental','a.','Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental\n   tubes.'),('Cementation','n.','The act or process of cementing.'),('Cementation','n.','A process which consists in surrounding a solid body\n   with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree\n   not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body\n   being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes\n   steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain\n   by cementation with sand.'),('Cementatory','a.','Having the quality of cementing or uniting firmly.'),('Cementer','n.','A person or thing that cements.'),('Cementitious','n.','Of the nature of cement.'),('Cemeterial','a.','Of or pertaining to a cemetery.'),('Cemeteries','pl. ','of Cemetery'),('Cemetery','n.','A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a\n   graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.'),('Cenanthy','n.','The absence or suppression of the essential organs\n   (stamens and pistil) in a flower.'),('Cenation','n.','Meal-taking; dining or supping.'),('Cenatory','a.','Of or pertaining to dinner or supper.'),('Cenobite','n.','One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a\n   community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in\n   solitude.'),('Cenobitic','a.','Alt. of Cenobitical'),('Cenobitical','a.','Of or pertaining to a cenobite.'),('Cenobitism','n.','The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice\n   of a cenobite.'),('Cenogamy','n.','The state of a community which permits promiscuous sexual\n   intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing\n   communism.'),('Cenotaph','n.','An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person\n   who is buried elsewhere.'),('Cenotaphy','n.','A cenotaph.'),('Cenozoic','a.','Belonging to the most recent division of geological time,\n   including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age\n   of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.'),('Cense','n.','A census; -- also, a public rate or tax.'),('Cense','n.','Condition; rank.'),('Censed','imp. & p. p.','of Cense'),('Censing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cense'),('Cense','v. t.','To perfume with odors from burning gums and spices.'),('Cense','v. i.','To burn or scatter incense.'),('Censer','n.','A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned.'),('Censor','n.','One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the\n   number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of\n   inspector of morals and conduct.'),('Censor','n.','One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are\n   committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain\n   anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.'),('Censor','n.','One given to fault-finding; a censurer.'),('Censor','n.','A critic; a reviewer.'),('Censorial','a.','Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public\n   morals.'),('Censorial','a.','Full of censure; censorious.'),('Censorian','a.','Censorial.'),('Censorious','a.','Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in\n   making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.'),('Censorious','a.','Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.'),('Censorship','n.','The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a\n   censorship.'),('Censual','a.','Relating to, or containing, a census.'),('Censurable','a.','Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable;\n   reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.'),('Censure','n.','Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.'),('Censure','n.','The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as\n   wrong; reprehension; blame.'),('Censure','n.','Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand;\n   condemnatory judgment.'),('Censured','imp. & p. p.','of Censure'),('Censuring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Censure'),('Censure','v. i.','To form or express a judgment in regard to; to\n   estimate; to judge.'),('Censure','v. i.','To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to\n   express disapprobation of.'),('Censure','v. i.','To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical\n   sentence.'),('Censure','v. i.','To judge.'),('Censurer','n.','One who censures.'),('Census','n.','A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate,\n   for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five\n   years.'),('Census','n.','An official registration of the number of the people, the\n   value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.'),('Cent','n.','A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a\n   hundred.'),('Cent','n.','A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar,\n   formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.'),('Cent','n.','An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so\n   called because 100 points won the game.'),('Centage','n.','Rate by the hundred; percentage.'),('Cental','n.','A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in\n   many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.'),('Cental','n.','Relating to a hundred.'),('Centare','n.','A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one\n   square meter, or about 1/ square yards.'),('Centaur','n.','A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.'),('Centaur','n.','A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and\n   the Southern Cross.'),('Centaurea','n.','A large genus of composite plants, related to the\n   thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus)\n   and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).'),('Centaury','n.','A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is\n   usually given to the Erytheraea Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of\n   Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to\n   the unrelated Centaurea.'),('Centenarian','a.','Of or relating to a hundred years.'),('Centenarian','n.','A person a hundred years old.'),('Centenary','a.','Relating to, or consisting of, a hundred.'),('Centenary','a.','Occurring once in every hundred years; centennial.'),('Centenaries','pl. ','of Centenary'),('Centenary','n.','The aggregate of a hundred single things; specifically,\n   a century.'),('Centenary','n.','A commemoration or celebration of an event which\n   occurred a hundred years before.'),('Centennial','a.','Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of\n   an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.'),('Centennial','a.','Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial\n   jubilee; a centennial celebration.'),('Centennial','a.','Lasting or aged a hundred years.'),('Centennial','n.','The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any\n   event; a centenary.'),('Centennially','adv.','Once in a hundred years.'),('Center','n.','A point equally distant from the extremities of a line,\n   figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle;\n   the middle point or place.'),('Center','n.','The middle or central portion of anything.'),('Center','n.','A principal or important point of concentration; the\n   nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an\n   object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.'),('Center','n.','The earth.'),('Center','n.','Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who\n   support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the\n   legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the\n   conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and\n   the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left,\n   See Right, and Left.'),('Center','n.','A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault\n   or arch are supported in position until the work becomes\n   self-supporting.'),('Center','n.','One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon\n   which the work is held, and about which it revolves.'),('Center','n.','A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or\n   other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can\n   turn, as in a lathe.'),('Centered','imp. & p. p.','of Centre'),('Centred','','of Centre'),('Centering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Centre'),('Centring','','of Centre'),('Center','v. i.','Alt. of Centre'),('Centre','v. i.','To be placed in a center; to be central.'),('Centre','v. i.','To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest\n   on, or gather about, as a center.'),('Center','v. t.','Alt. of Centre'),('Centre','v. t.','To place or fix in the center or on a central point.'),('Centre','v. t.','To collect to a point; to concentrate.'),('Centre','v. t.','To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a\n   center.'),('Centerbit','n.','Alt. of Centrebit'),('Centrebit','n.','An instrument turning on a center, for boring holes. See\n   Bit, n., 3.'),('Centerboard','n.','Alt. of Centreboard'),('Centreboard','n.','A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or\n   slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case\n   amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the\n   area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is\n   beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast\n   of the United States'),('Centerfire cartridge','','See under Cartridge.'),('Centering','n.','Same as Center, n., 6.'),('Centerpiece','n.','Alt. of Centrepiece'),('Centrepiece','n.','An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table,\n   ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.'),('Centesimal','a.','Hundredth.'),('Centesimal','n.','A hundredth part.'),('Centesimation','n.','The infliction of the death penalty upon one person\n   in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.'),('Centesm','n.','Hundredth.'),('-mi','pl. ','of Centesimo'),('Centesimo','n.','A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a\n   centime.'),('Centiare','n.','See centare.'),('Centicipitous','a.','Hundred-headed.'),('Centifidous','a.','Divided into a hundred parts.'),('Centifolious','a.','Having a hundred leaves.'),('Centigrade','a.','Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a\n   hundred divisions or equal parts.'),('Centigrade','a.','Of or pertaining to the centigrade thermometer; as, 10¡\n   centigrade (or 10¡ C.).'),('Centigram','n.','Alt. of Centigramme'),('Centigramme','n.','The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432\n   of a grain. See Gram.'),('Centiliter','n.','Alt. of Centilitre'),('Centilitre','n.','The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or\n   capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic\n   inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.'),('Centiloquy','n.','A work divided into a hundred parts.'),('Centime','n.','The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin\n   and money of account.'),('Centimeter','n.','Alt. of Centimetre'),('Centimetre','n.','The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length\n   equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch.\n   See Meter.'),('Centinel','n.','Sentinel.'),('Centinody','n.','A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum\n   verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.'),('Centiped','n.','A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened,\n   venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they\n   are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet.'),('Centistere','n.','The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic\n   feet.'),('Centner','n.','A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then\n   into smaller parts.'),('Centner','n.','The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental\n   countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.'),('Centos','pl. ','of Cento'),('Cento','n.','A literary or a musical composition formed by selections\n   from different authors disposed in a new order.'),('Centonism','n.','The composition of a cento; the act or practice of\n   composing a cento or centos.'),('Central','a.','Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or\n   middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the\n   center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points.'),('Central','n.','Alt. of Centrale'),('Centrale','n.','The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus\n   or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.'),('Centralism','n.','The state or condition of being central; the\n   combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.'),('Centralism','n.','The system by which power is centralized, as in a\n   government.'),('Centralities','pl. ','of Centrality'),('Centrality','n.','The state of being central; tendency towards a center.'),('Centralization','n.','The act or process of centralizing, or the state of\n   being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several\n   parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general\n   government; the centralization of commerce in a city.'),('Centralized','imp. & p. p.','of Centralize'),('Centralizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Centralize'),('Centralize','v. t.','To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into\n   or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.'),('Centrally','adv.','In a central manner or situation.'),('Centre','n. & v.','See Center.'),('Centric','a.','Alt. of Centrical'),('Centrical','a.','Placed in the center or middle; central.'),('Centricity','n.','The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.'),('Centrifugal','a.','Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.'),('Centrifugal','a.','Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base,\n   as a flower cluster.'),('Centrifugal','a.','Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the\n   fruit, as some embryos.'),('Centrifugal','n.','A centrifugal machine.'),('Centrifugence','n.','The property or quality of being centrifugal.'),('Centring','n.','See Centring.'),('Centripetal','a.','Tending, or causing, to approach the center.'),('Centripetal','a.','Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and\n   proceeding in order towards the summit.'),('Centripetal','a.','Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the\n   fruit, as some embryos.'),('Centripetal','a.','Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing\n   toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.'),('Centripetence','n.','Centripetency.'),('Centripetency','n.','Tendency toward the center.'),('Centriscoid','a.','Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of\n   which the bellows fish is an example.'),('Centrobaric','a.','Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process\n   of finding it.'),('Centrode','n.','In two figures having relative motion, one of the two\n   curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center.'),('Centroid','n.','The center of mass, inertia, or gravity of a body or\n   system of bodies.'),('Centrolecithal','a.','Having the food yolk placed at the center of the\n   ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal.'),('Centrolinead','n.','An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or\n   lines converging to a center.'),('Centrolineal','a.','Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so\n   as to meet in a point or center.'),('Centrosome','n.','A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a\n   cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the\n   machinery of cell division is organized.'),('Centrostaltic','a.','A term applied to the action of nerve force in the\n   spinal center.'),('Centrums','pl. ','of Centrum'),('Centra','pl. ','of Centrum'),('Centrum','n.','The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.'),('Centry','n.','See Sentry.'),('Centumviri','pl. ','of Centumvir'),('Centumvir','n.','One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try\n   civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met\n   usually in four sections.'),('Centumviral','a.','Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.'),('Centumvirate','n.','The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.'),('Centuple','a.','Hundredfold.'),('Centuple','v. t.','To increase a hundredfold.'),('Centuplicated','imp. & p. p.','of Centuplicate'),('Centuplicating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Centuplicate'),('Centuplicate','a.','To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times.'),('Centurial','a.','Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon.'),('Centuriate','a.','Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds.'),('Centuriate','v. t.','To divide into hundreds.'),('Centuriator','n.','Alt. of Centurist'),('Centurist','n.','An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp.\n   one of those who wrote the \"Magdeburg Centuries.\" See under Century.'),('Centurion','n.','A military officer who commanded a minor division of the\n   Roman army; a captain of a century.'),('Centuries','pl. ','of Century'),('Century','n.','A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a\n   hundred things.'),('Century','n.','A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place\n   over two centuries ago.'),('Century','n.','A division of the Roman people formed according to their\n   property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.'),('Century','n.','One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was\n   divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.'),('Cepevorous','a.','Feeding upon onions.'),('Cephalad','adv.','Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the\n   body; opposed to caudad.'),('Cephalalgia','n.','Alt. of Cephalalgy'),('Cephalalgy','n.','Pain in the head; headache.'),('Cephalalgic','a.','Relating to, or affected with, headache.'),('Cephalalgic','n.','A remedy for the headache.'),('Cephalanthium','n.','Same as Anthodium.'),('Cephalaspis','n.','A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red\n   sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a\n   broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.'),('Cephalata','n. pl.','A large division of Mollusca, including all except\n   the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed.\n   See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Cephalate','a.','Having a head.'),('Cephalic','a.','Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under\n   Anterior.'),('Cephalic','n.','A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.'),('Cephalitis','n.','Same as Phrenitis.'),('Cephalization','n.','Domination of the head in animal life as expressed\n   in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in\n   or near the head, in animal development.'),('Cephalo','','A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected\n   with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.'),('Cephalocercal','a.','Relating to the long axis of the body.'),('Cephaloid','a.','Shaped like the head.'),('Cephalology','n.','The science which treats of the head.'),('Cephalomere','n.','One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the\n   head of arthropods.'),('Cephalometer','n.','An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of\n   a fetus during delivery.'),('Cephalon','n.','The head.'),('Cephalophora','n. pl.','The cephalata.'),('Cephalopod','n.','Alt. of Cephalopode'),('Cephalopode','n.','One of the Cephalopoda.'),('Cephalopoda','n. pl.','The highest class of Mollusca.'),('Cephalopodic','a.','Alt. of Cephalopodous'),('Cephalopodous','a.','Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.'),('Cephaloptera','n.','One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta\n   birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the\n   coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow\n   to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and\n   weighing more than a ton.'),('Cephalosome','n.','The anterior region or head of insects and other\n   arthropods.'),('Cephalostyle','n.','The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath\n   in the base of cartilaginous crania.'),('Cephalothorax','n.','The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and\n   higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.'),('Cephalotome','n.','An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to\n   facilitate delivery.'),('Cephalotomy','n.','Dissection or opening of the head.'),('Cephalotomy','n.','Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the\n   fetal head with a saw.'),('Cephalotribe','n.','An obstetrical instrument for performing\n   cephalotripsy.'),('Cephalotripsy','n.','The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus\n   in the womb in order to effect delivery.'),('Cephalotrocha','n.','A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia\n   around the head.'),('Cephalous','a.','Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a\n   division of mollusks.'),('Cepheus','n.','A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is\n   in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the\n   fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.'),('Ceraceous','a.','Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.'),('Cerago','n.','Beebread.'),('Ceramic','a.','Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making\n   earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.'),('Ceramics','n.','The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery,\n   tiles, etc.'),('Ceramics','n.','Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as,\n   vases, urns, etc.'),('Cerargyrite','n.','Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale\n   yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut\n   by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).'),('Cerasin','n.','A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry\n   gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.'),('Cerasin','n.','A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin,\n   tragacanthin, etc.'),('Cerasinous','a.','Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.'),('Cerasinous','a.','Of a cherry color.'),('Cerastes','n.','A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale\n   over each eye; the horned viper.'),('Cerate','n.','An unctuous preparation for external application, of a\n   consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so\n   that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not\n   melt when applied to the skin.'),('Cerated','p. a.','Covered with wax.'),('Ceratine','a.','Sophistical.'),('Ceratobranchia','n. pl.','A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on\n   the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.'),('Ceratobranchial','a.','Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the\n   epibranchial in a branchial arch.'),('Ceratobranchial','n.','A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.'),('Ceratodus','n.','A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first\n   known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have\n   been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed\n   that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are\n   called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.'),('Ceratohyal','a.','Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epihyal\n   in the hyoid arch.'),('Ceratohyal','n.','A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms\n   one of the small horns of the hyoid.'),('Ceratosaurus','n.','A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to\n   the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length,\n   and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See\n   Illustration in Appendix.'),('Ceratospongiae','n. pl.','An order of sponges in which the skeleton\n   consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.'),('Ceraunics','n.','That branch of physics which treats of heat and\n   electricity.'),('Ceraunoscope','n.','An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient\n   mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning.'),('Cerberean','a.','Of or pertaining to, or resembling, Cerberus.'),('Cerberus','n.','A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding\n   the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian\n   or guardian, esp. if surly.'),('Cerberus','n.','A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons;\n   the bokadam.'),('Cercal','a.','Of or pertaining to the tail.'),('Cercarle','pl. ','of Cercaria'),('Cercaria','n.','The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a\n   tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.'),('Cercarian','a.','Of, like, or pertaining to, the Cercariae.'),('Cercarian','n.','One of the Cercariae.'),('Cercopod','n.','One of the jointed antenniform appendages of the\n   posterior somites of certain insects.'),('Cerci','pl. ','of Cercus'),('Cercus','n.','See Cercopod.'),('Cere','n.','The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of\n   prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.'),('Cered','imp. & p. p.','of Cere'),('Cering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cere'),('Cere','v. t.','To wax; to cover or close with wax.'),('Cereal','a.','Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for\n   their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or\n   grain.'),('Cereal','n.','Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain\n   itself; -- usually in the plural.'),('Cerealia','n. pl.','Public festivals in honor of Ceres.'),('Cerealia','n. pl.','The cereals.'),('Cerealin','n.','A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase,\n   obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into\n   dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid.'),('Cerebel','n.','The cerebellum.'),('Cerebellar','a.','Alt. of Cerebellous'),('Cerebellous','a.','Pertaining to the cerebellum.'),('Cerebellums','pl. ','of Cerebellum'),('Cerebella','pl. ','of Cerebellum'),('Cerebellum','n.','The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above\n   the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action.\n   See Brain.'),('Cerebral','a.','Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.'),('Cerebral','n.','One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian\n   languages. See Lingual, n.'),('Cerebralism','n.','The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are\n   functions or products of the brain only.'),('Cerebralist','n.','One who accepts cerebralism.'),('Cerebrate','v. i.','To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in\n   action.'),('Cerebration','n.','Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.'),('Cerebric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain.'),('Cerebricity','n.','Brain power.'),('Cerebriform','a.','Like the brain in form or substance.'),('Cerebrifugal','a.','Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain\n   to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal\n   impressions) outwards.'),('Cerebrin','n.','A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from\n   brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is\n   uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of\n   the decomposition of some more complex substance.'),('Cerebripetal','a.','Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the\n   spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal\n   impressions) from the exterior inwards.'),('Cerebritis','n.','Inflammation of the cerebrum.'),('Cerebroid','a.','Resembling, or analogous to, the cerebrum or brain.'),('Cerebrology','n.','The science which treats of the cerebrum or brain.'),('Cerebropathy','n.','A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity,\n   occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also\n   brain fag.'),('Cerebroscopy','n.','Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of\n   disease; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of\n   the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an\n   ophthalmoscope).'),('Cerebrose','n.','A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the\n   nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.'),('Cerebro-spinal','a.','Of or pertaining to the central nervous system\n   consisting of the brain and spinal cord.'),('Cerebrums','pl. ','of Cerebrum'),('Cerebra','pl. ','of Cerebrum'),('Cerebrum','n.','The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the\n   brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.'),('Cerecloth','n.','A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or\n   glutinous matter.'),('Cerement','n.','A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a\n   dead body when embalmed.'),('Cerement','n.','Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.'),('Ceremonial','a.','Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual;\n   according to the forms of established rites.'),('Ceremonial','a.','Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense\n   ceremonious is now preferred.]'),('Ceremonial','n.','A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or\n   established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the\n   courts of princes; outward form.'),('Ceremonial','n.','The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic\n   church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on\n   solemn occasions.'),('Ceremonialism','n.','Adherence to external rites; fondness for ceremony.'),('Ceremonially','adv.','According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person\n   ceremonially unclean.'),('Ceremonialness','n.','Quality of being ceremonial.'),('Ceremonious','a.','Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In\n   this sense ceremonial is now preferred.]'),('Ceremonious','a.','According to prescribed or customary rules and forms;\n   devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious.'),('Ceremoniously','adv.','In a ceremonious way.'),('Ceremoniousness','n.','The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.'),('Ceremonies','pl. ','of Ceremony'),('Ceremony','n.','Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical\n   character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of\n   important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the\n   transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events;\n   as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in\n   consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies.'),('Ceremony','n.','Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method\n   of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom\n   or authority.'),('Ceremony','n.','A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter,\n   garland, etc.'),('Ceremony','n.','A sign or prodigy; a portent.'),('Cereous','a.','Waxen; like wax.'),('Ceres','n.','The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn\n   and tillage.'),('Ceres','n.','The first discovered asteroid.'),('Ceresin','n.','A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite,\n   and used as a substitute for beeswax.'),('Cereus','n.','A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of\n   America, from California to Chili.'),('Cerial','a.','Same as Cerrial.'),('Ceriferous','a.','Producing wax.'),('Cerin','n.','A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork;\n   sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in\n   alcohol.'),('Cerin','n.','A variety of the mineral allanite.'),('Cerinthian','n.','One of an ancient religious sect, so called from\n   Cerinthus, a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with\n   the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics.'),('Ceriph','n.','One of the fine lines of a letter, esp. one of the fine\n   cross strokes at the top and bottom of letters.'),('Cerise','a.','Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile\n   fabrics, especially silk.'),('Cerite','n.','A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; --\n   so called from its hornlike form.'),('Cerite','n.','A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly\n   massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.'),('Cerium','n.','A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite,\n   allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles\n   iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile.\n   It tarnishes readily in the air.'),('Cernuous','a.','Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; --\n   said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.'),('Cero','n.','A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the\n   genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less\n   commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero\n   (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king,\n   cero (S. regalis).'),('Cerograph','n.','A writing on wax.'),('Cerographic','a.','Alt. of Cerographical'),('Cerographical','a.','Of or pertaining to cerography.'),('Cerographist','n.','One who practices cerography.'),('Cerography','n.','The art of making characters or designs in, or with,\n   wax.'),('Cerography','n.','A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed\n   sheets of wax.'),('Cerolite','n.','A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine,\n   occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.'),('Ceroma','n.','The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which\n   wrestlers were anointed among the ancient Romans.'),('Ceroma','n.','That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and\n   wrestlers anointed themselves.'),('Ceroma','n.','The cere of birds.'),('Ceromancy','n.','Divination by dropping melted wax in water.'),('Ceroon','n.','A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound\n   with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.'),('Ceroplastic','a.','Relating to the art of modeling in wax.'),('Ceroplastic','a.','Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.'),('Ceroplastics','n.','Alt. of Ceroplasty'),('Ceroplasty','n.','The art of modeling in wax.'),('Cerosin','n.','A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane,\n   and crystallizing in delicate white laminae.'),('Cerote','n.','See Cerate.'),('Cerotene','n.','A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the\n   distillation of cerotin.'),('Cerotic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax;\n   as, cerotic acid or alcohol.'),('Cerotin','n.','A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from\n   Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; --\n   called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.'),('Cerrial','a.','Of or pertaining to the cerris.'),('Cerris','n.','A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and\n   southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.'),('Certain','a.','Assured in mind; having no doubts; free from suspicions\n   concerning.'),('Certain','a.','Determined; resolved; -- used with an infinitive.'),('Certain','a.','Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.'),('Certain','a.','Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.'),('Certain','a.','Unfailing; infallible.'),('Certain','a.','Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.'),('Certain','a.','Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or\n   some; -- sometimes used independenty as a noun, and meaning certain\n   persons.'),('Certain','n.','Certainty.'),('Certain','n.','A certain number or quantity.'),('Certain','adv.','Certainly.'),('Certainly','adv.','Without doubt or question; unquestionably.'),('Certainness','n.','Certainty.'),('Certainties','pl. ','of Certainty'),('Certainty','n.','The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.'),('Certainty','n.','A fact or truth unquestionable established.'),('Certainty','n.','Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.'),('Certes','adv.','Certainly; in truth; verily.'),('Certificate','n.','A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as,\n   certificate of good behavior.'),('Certificate','n.','A written declaration legally authenticated.'),('Certificated','imp. & p. p.','of Certificate'),('Certificating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Certificate'),('Certificate','v. t.','To verify or vouch for by certificate.'),('Certificate','v. t.','To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate\n   the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.'),('Certification','n.','The act of certifying.'),('Certifier','n.','One who certifies or assures.'),('Certified','imp. & p. p.','of Certify'),('Certifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Certify'),('Certify','v. t.','To give cetain information to; to assure; to make\n   certain.'),('Certify','v. t.','To give certain information of; to make certain, as a\n   fact; to verify.'),('Certify','v. t.','To testify to in writing; to make a declaration\n   concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.'),('Certiorari','n.','A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to\n   call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there\n   depending, in order that the party may have more sure and speedy\n   justice, or that errors and irregularities may be corrected. It is\n   obtained upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or\n   can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.'),('Certitude','n.','Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty.'),('Cerule','a.','Blue; cerulean.'),('Cerulean','a.','Sky-colored; blue; azure.'),('Ceruleous','a.','Cerulean.'),('Cerulific','a.','Producing a blue or sky color.'),('Cerumen','n.','The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the\n   external ear; the earwax.'),('Ceruminous','a.','Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the\n   ceruminous glands.'),('Ceruse','n.','White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.'),('Ceruse','n.','A cosmetic containing white lead.'),('Ceruse','n.','The native carbonate of lead.'),('Cerused','a.','Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face.'),('Cerusite','n.','Alt. of Cerussite'),('Cerussite','n.','Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless,\n   white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also\n   massive and compact.'),('Cervantite','n.','See under Antimony.'),('Cervelat','n.','An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in\n   tone.'),('Cervical','a.','Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.'),('Cervicide','n.','The act of killing deer; deer-slaying.'),('Cervine','a.','Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidae.'),('Cervixes','pl. ','of Cervix'),('Cervices','pl. ','of Cervix'),('Cervix','n.','The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the\n   womb. See Illust. of Bird.'),('Cervus','n.','A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other\n   allied species.'),('Ceryl','n.','A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds\n   obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.'),('Cesarean','a.','Alt. of Cesarian'),('Cesarian','a.','Same as Caesarean, Caesarian.'),('Cesarism','n.','See Caesarism.'),('Cespitine','n.','An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing\n   various members of the pyridine series.'),('Cespititious','a.','Same as Cespitious.'),('Cespitose','a.','Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from\n   one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.'),('Cespitous','a.','Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy.'),('Cess','n.','A rate or tax.'),('Cess','n.','Bound; measure.'),('Cessed','imp. & p. p.','of Cess'),('Cessing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cess'),('Cess','v. t.','To rate; to tax; to assess.'),('Cess','v. i.','To cease; to neglect.'),('Cessant','a.','Inactive; dormant'),('Cessation','n.','A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether\n   temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.'),('Cessavit','n.','A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant\n   has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.'),('Cesser','v. i.','a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make\n   payment, for two years.'),('Cessible','a.','Giving way; yielding.'),('Cession','n.','A yielding to physical force.'),('Cession','n.','Concession; compliance.'),('Cession','n.','A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to\n   another person; the act of ceding.'),('Cession','n.','The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another\n   without a proper dispensation.'),('Cession','n.','The voluntary surrender of a person\'s effects to his\n   creditors to avoid imprisonment.'),('Cessionary','a.','Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary\n   bankrupt.'),('Cessment','v. t.','An assessment or tax.'),('Cessor','v. i.','One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service\n   by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of\n   cessavit. See Cessavit.'),('Cessor','v. t.','An assessor.'),('Cesspipe','n.','A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or\n   cesspool.'),('Cesspool','n.','A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain,\n   to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any\n   receptacle of filth.'),('Cest','n.','A woman\'s girdle; a cestus.'),('Cestode','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.'),('Cestode','n.','One of the Cestoidea.'),('Cestoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.'),('Cestoid','n.','One of the Cestoidea.'),('Cestoidea','n. pl.','A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which\n   the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and\n   usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or\n   segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female\n   reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See\n   Tapeworm.'),('Cestoldean','n.','One of the Cestoidea.'),('Cestraciont','n.','A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related\n   genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing\n   shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and\n   a similar one found in California are living examples.'),('Cestraciont','a.','Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the genus\n   Cestracion.'),('Cestus','n.','A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which\n   gave the wearer the power of exciting love.'),('Cestus','n.','A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris)\n   is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long,\n   girdlelike form.'),('Cestus','n.','A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands,\n   and often loaded with lead or iron.'),('Cestuy','pron.','Alt. of Cestui'),('Cestui','pron.','He; the one.'),('Cesura','n.','See Caesura.'),('Cesural','a.','See Caesural.'),('Cetacea','n. pl.','An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like\n   ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living\n   young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed\n   to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living\n   suborders:'),('Cetacean','n.','One of the Cetacea.'),('Cetaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cetacea.'),('Cete','n.','One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.'),('Cetene','n.','An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series,\n   obtained from spermaceti.'),('Ceterach','n.','A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).'),('Cetewale','n.','Same as Zedoary.'),('Cetic','a.','Of or pertaining to a whale.'),('Cetin','n.','A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of\n   spermaceti.'),('Cetological','a.','Of or pertaining to cetology.'),('Cetologist','a.','One versed in cetology.'),('Cetology','n.','The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.'),('Cetraric','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss\n   (Cetaria Islandica).'),('Cetrarin','n.','A white substance extracted from the lichen, Iceland moss\n   (Cetraria Islandica). It consists of several ingredients, among which\n   is cetraric acid, a white, crystalline, bitter substance.'),('Cetyl','n.','A radical, C16H33, not yet isolated, but supposed to exist\n   in a series of compounds homologous with the ethyl compounds, and\n   derived from spermaceti.'),('Cetylic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, spermaceti.'),('Ceylanite','n.','A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is\n   also called pleonaste.'),('Ceylonese','a.','Of or pertaining to Ceylon.'),('Ceylonese','n. sing. & pl.','A native or natives of Ceylon.'),('C. G. S.','','An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to\n   a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the\n   centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or\n   mass, and the second as the unit of time.'),('Chab','n.','The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).'),('Chabasite','n.','Alt. of Cabazite'),('Cabazite','n.','A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals,\n   varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a\n   hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.'),('Chablis','n.','A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.'),('Chablis','n.','a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as\n   in California.'),('Chabouk','n.','Alt. of Chabuk'),('Chabuk','n.','A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction\n   of punishment.'),('Chace','n.','See 3d Chase, n., 3.'),('Chace','v. t.','To pursue. See Chase v. t.'),('Chachalaca','n.','The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula).'),('Chak','v. i.','To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the\n   restraint of the bridle.'),('Chacma','n.','A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius);\n   -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]'),('Chaconne','n.','An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like\n   the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers\n   as themes for variations.'),('Chad','n.','See Shad.'),('Chaetetes','n.','A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian\n   limestones.'),('Chaetiferous','a.','Bearing setae.'),('Chaetodont','n.','A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The\n   chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors.'),('Chaetodont','a.','Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family\n   Chaetodontidae.'),('Chaetognath','a.','Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha.'),('Chaetognatha','n. pl.','An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which\n   the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on\n   each side of the head.'),('Chaetopod','a.','Pertaining to the Chaetopoda.'),('Chaetopod','n.','One of the Chaetopoda.'),('Chaetopoda','n. pl.','A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized\n   by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the\n   segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta,\n   including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including\n   most of the marine species.'),('Chaetotaxy','n.','The arrangement of bristles on an insect.'),('Chafed','imp. & p. p.','of Chafe'),('Chafing','p pr. & vb. n.','of Chafe'),('Chafe','v. t.','To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to\n   stimulate and make warm.'),('Chafe','v. t.','To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.'),('Chafe','v. t.','To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.'),('Chafe','v. i.','To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to\n   wear by friction.'),('Chafe','v. i.','To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.'),('Chafe','v. i.','To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to\n   be irritated.'),('Chafe','n.','Heat excited by friction.'),('Chafe','n.','Injury or wear caused by friction.'),('Chafe','n.','Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.'),('Chafer','n.','One who chafes.'),('Chafer','n.','A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan.'),('Chafer','n.','A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied\n   to other species; as, the rose chafer.'),('Chafery','v. t.','An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated\n   before being wrought into bars.'),('Chafewax','n.','Alt. of Chaffwax'),('Chaffwax','n.','Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing\n   writs and other documents.'),('Chafeweed','n.','The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure\n   chafing.'),('Chaff','n.','The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the\n   seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.'),('Chaff','n.','Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character;\n   the refuse part of anything.'),('Chaff','n.','Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.'),('Chaff','n.','Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.'),('Chaff','n.','The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each\n   flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower.'),('Chaffed','imp. & p. p.','of Chaff'),('Chaffing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chaff'),('Chaff','v. i.','To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to\n   banter.'),('Chaff','v. t.','To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in\n   ironical or bantering language; to quiz.'),('Chaffer','n.','One who chaffs.'),('Chaffer','n.','Bargaining; merchandise.'),('Chaffered','imp. & p. p.','of Chaffer'),('Chaffering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chaffer'),('Chaffer','n.','To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to\n   haggle or higgle; to negotiate.'),('Chaffer','n.','To talk much and idly; to chatter.'),('Chaffer','v. t.','To buy or sell; to trade in.'),('Chaffer','v. t.','To exchange; to bandy, as words.'),('Chafferer','n.','One who chaffers; a bargainer.'),('Chaffern','v. t.','A vessel for heating water.'),('Chaffery','n.','Traffic; bargaining.'),('Chaffinch','n.','A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety\n   of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also\n   copper finch.'),('Chaffing','n.','The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or\n   ridicule; raillery; banter.'),('Chaffless','a.','Without chaff.'),('Chaffy','a.','Abounding in, or resembling, chaff.'),('Chaffy','a.','Light or worthless as chaff.'),('Chaffy','a.','Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.'),('Chaffy','a.','Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of\n   certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.'),('Chafing','v. t.','The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by\n   rubbing.'),('Chagreen','n.','See Shagreen.'),('Chagrin','n.','Vexation; mortification.'),('Chagrined','imp. & p. p.','of Chagrin'),('Chargrining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chagrin'),('Chagrin','n.','To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not\n   a little chagrined.'),('Chagrin','v. i.','To be vexed or annoyed.'),('Chagrin','a.','Chagrined.'),('Chain','n.','A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or\n   fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of\n   restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical\n   power, etc.'),('Chain','n.','That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a\n   bond; as, the chains of habit.'),('Chain','n.','A series of things linked together; or a series of things\n   connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of\n   mountains; a chain of events or ideas.'),('Chain','n.','An instrument which consists of links and is used in\n   measuring land.'),('Chain','n.','Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the\n   dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.'),('Chain','n.','The warp threads of a web.'),('Chained','imp. p. p.','of Chain'),('Chaining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chain'),('Chain','v. t.','To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or\n   bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.'),('Chain','v. t.','To keep in slavery; to enslave.'),('Chain','v. t.','To unite closely and strongly.'),('Chain','v. t.','To measure with the chain.'),('Chain','v. t.','To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.'),('Chainless','a.','Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.'),('Chainlet','n.','A small chain.'),('Chain pump','','A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a\n   drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be\n   raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube\n   through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the\n   point of discharge.'),('Chain stitch','','An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used\n   in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.'),('Chain stitch','','A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads\n   forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as\n   distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.'),('Chain wheel','','A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel.'),('Chain wheel','','An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a\n   motor driven by water.'),('Chainwork','n.','Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain\n   stitch work.'),('Chair','n.','A movable single seat with a back.'),('Chair','n.','An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but\n   esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.'),('Chair','n.','The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to\n   address the chair.'),('Chair','n.','A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles,\n   or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.'),('Chair','n.','An iron block used on railways to support the rails and\n   secure them to the sleepers.'),('Chaired','imp. & p. pr.','of Chair'),('Chairing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chair'),('Chair','v. t.','To place in a chair.'),('Chair','v. t.','To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.'),('Chairmen','pl. ','of Chairman'),('Chairman','n.','The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or\n   private meeting, or of any organized body.'),('Chairman','n.','One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.'),('Chairmanship','n.','The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized\n   body.'),('Chaise','n.','A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top,\n   and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually\n   drawn by one horse.'),('Chaise','n.','a carriage in general.'),('Chaja','n.','The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna,\n   chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna,\n   and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in\n   guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.'),('Chalazas','pl. ','of Chalaza'),('Chalazae','pl. ','of Chalaza'),('Chalaza','n.','The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats\n   cohere with each other and the nucleus.'),('Chalaza','n.','A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which\n   exists in the white of the bird\'s egg, and serves to maintain the yolk\n   in its position; the treadle.'),('Chalazal','a.','Of or pertaining to the chalaza.'),('Chalaze','n.','Same as Chalaza.'),('Chalaziferous','a.','Having or bearing chalazas.'),('Chalazion','n.','A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by\n   retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.'),('Chalcanthite','n.','Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.'),('Chalcedonic','a.','Of or pertaining to chalcedony.'),('Chalcedonies','pl. ','of Chalcedony'),('Chalcedony','n.','A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz,\n   having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.'),('Chalchihuitl','n.','The Mexican name for turquoise. See Turquoise.'),('Chalcid fly','','One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects\n   (Chalcididae. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.'),('Chalcidian','n.','One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards\n   (Chalcidae), having four small or rudimentary legs.'),('Chalcocite','n.','Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and\n   vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.'),('Chalcographer','n.','Alt. of Chalcographist'),('Chalcographist','n.','An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver\n   of copper plates for printing upon paper.'),('Chalcography','n.','The act or art of engraving on copper or brass,\n   especially of engraving for printing.'),('Chalcopyrite','n.','Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of\n   copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in\n   tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.'),('Chaldaic','a.','Of or pertaining to Chaldea.'),('Chaldaic','n.','The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.'),('Chaldaism','n.','An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.'),('Chaldean','a.','Of or pertaining to Chaldea.'),('Chaldean','n.','A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.'),('Chaldean','n.','A learned man, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the\n   Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much\n   cultivated by the Chaldeans.'),('Chaldean','n.','Nestorian.'),('Chaldee','a.','Of or pertaining to Chaldea.'),('Chaldee','n.','The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; eastern Aramaic,\n   or the Aramaic used in Chaldea.'),('Chaldrich','n.','Alt. of Chalder'),('Chalder','n.','A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.'),('Chaldron','n.','An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels\n   heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at\n   Newcastle. Now used exclusively for coal and coke.'),('Chalet','n.','A herdsman\'s hut in the mountains of Switzerland.'),('Chalet','n.','A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains;\n   any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.'),('Chalice','n.','A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament\n   of the Lord\'s Supper.'),('Chaliced','a.','Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.'),('Chalk','n.','A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish\n   white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same\n   composition as common limestone.'),('Chalk','n.','Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by\n   extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in\n   the same manner. See Crayon.'),('Chalked','imp. & p. p.','of Chalk'),('Chalking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chalk'),('Chalk','v. t.','To rub or mark with chalk.'),('Chalk','v. t.','To manure with chalk, as land.'),('Chalk','v. t.','To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.'),('Chalkcutter','n.','A man who digs chalk.'),('Chalkiness','n.','The state of being chalky.'),('Chalkstone','n.','A mass of chalk.'),('Chalkstone','n.','A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of\n   sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and\n   in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.'),('Chalky','a.','Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as,\n   a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.'),('Challenge','n.','An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of\n   any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also,\n   the letter or message conveying the summons.'),('Challenge','n.','The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at\n   his post, and demanding the countersign.'),('Challenge','n.','A claim or demand.'),('Challenge','n.','The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the\n   scent of their game.'),('Challenge','n.','An exception to a juror or to a member of a court\n   martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to\n   act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not\n   sit in trial upon him or his cause.'),('Challenge','n.','An exception to a person as not legally qualified to\n   vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.'),('Challenged','imp. & p. p.','of Challenge'),('Challenging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Challenge'),('Challenge','n.','To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to\n   defy.'),('Challenge','n.','To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by\n   personal combat.'),('Challenge','n.','To claim as due; to demand as a right.'),('Challenge','n.','To censure; to blame.'),('Challenge','n.','To question or demand the countersign from (one who\n   attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with \"Who\n   comes there?\"'),('Challenge','n.','To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the\n   accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.'),('Challenge','n.','To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or\n   member of a court.'),('Challenge','n.','To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the\n   ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.'),('Challenge','v. i.','To assert a right; to claim a place.'),('Challengeable','a.','That may be challenged.'),('Challenger','n.','One who challenges.'),('Challis','n.','A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric,\n   for ladies\' dresses.'),('Chalon','n.','A bed blanket.'),('Chalybean','a.','Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of\n   Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.'),('Chalybean','a.','Of superior quality and temper; -- applied to steel.'),('Chalybeate','a.','Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like\n   iron; as, chalybeate springs.'),('Chalybeate','n.','Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters\n   as an ingredient.'),('Chalybeous','a.','Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.'),('Chalybite','n.','Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.'),('Cham','v. t.','To chew.'),('Cham','n.','The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.'),('Chamade','n.','A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.'),('Chamal','n.','The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.'),('Chamber','n.','A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a\n   bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.'),('Chamber','n.','Apartments in a lodging house.'),('Chamber','n.','A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative\n   body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.'),('Chamber','n.','A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or\n   association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.'),('Chamber','n.','A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as,\n   the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of\n   the eye.'),('Chamber','n.','A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room\n   or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done\n   out of court.'),('Chamber','n.','A chamber pot.'),('Chamber','n.','That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds\n   the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore;\n   -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp.\n   in breech-loading guns.'),('Chamber','n.','A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain\n   the powder.'),('Chamber','n.','A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its\n   breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and\n   theatrical cannonades.'),('Chambered','imp. & p. p.','of Chamber'),('Chambering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chamber'),('Chamber','v. i.','To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.'),('Chamber','v. i.','To be lascivious.'),('Chamber','v. t.','To shut up, as in a chamber.'),('Chamber','v. t.','To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.'),('Chambered','a.','Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a\n   chambered gun.'),('Chamberer','n.','One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.'),('Chamberer','n.','A civilian; a carpetmonger.'),('Chambering','n.','Lewdness.'),('Chamberlain','n.','An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or\n   chambers.'),('Chamberlain','n.','An upper servant of an inn.'),('Chamberlain','n.','An officer having the direction and management of the\n   private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the\n   high officers of a court.'),('Chamberlain','n.','A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the\n   chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.'),('Chamberlainship','n.','Office of a chamberlain.'),('Chambermaid','n.','A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the\n   beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.'),('Chambermaid','n.','A lady\'s maid.'),('Chambertin','n.','A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.'),('Chambrel','n.','Same as Gambrel.'),('Chameck','n.','A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the\n   thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.'),('Chameleon','n.','A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several\n   species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with\n   fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much\n   compressed laterally, giving it a high back.'),('Chameleonize','v. t.','To change into various colors.'),('Chamfer','n.','The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle,\n   formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.'),('Chamfered','imp. & p. p.','of Chamfer'),('Chamfering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chamfer'),('Chamfer','v. t.','To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to\n   channel; to flute.'),('Chamfer','v. t.','To make a chamfer on.'),('Chamfret','n.','A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.'),('Chamfret','n.','A chamfer.'),('Chamfron','n.','The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.'),('Chamlet','n.','See Camlet.'),('Chamois','n.','A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on\n   the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It\n   possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.'),('Chamois','n.','A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from\n   sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy\n   leather. See Shammy.'),('Chamomile','n.','See Camomile.'),('Champed','imp. & p. p.','of Champ'),('Champing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Champ'),('Champ','v. t.','To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be\n   heard.'),('Champ','v. t.','To bite into small pieces; to crunch.'),('Champ','v. i.','To bite or chew impatiently.'),('Champ','n.','Alt. of Champe'),('Champe','n.','The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.'),('Champagne','n.','A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the\n   province of Champagne, in France.'),('Champaign','n.','A flat, open country.'),('Champaign','a.','Flat; open; level.'),('Champer','n.','One who champs, or bites.'),('Champertor','n.','One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or\n   the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to\n   obtain a share of the gain.'),('Champerty','n.','Partnership in power; equal share of authority.'),('Champerty','n.','The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by\n   furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate\n   concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall\n   receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit;\n   maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in\n   suit. See Maintenance.'),('Champignon','n.','An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).'),('Chappion','n.','One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient\n   times contended in single combat in behalf of another\'s honor or\n   rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a\n   defender; an advocate; a hero.'),('Chappion','n.','One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an\n   acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and\n   is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England.'),('Championed','imp. & p. p.','of Champion'),('Championing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Champion'),('Champion','v. t.','To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as\n   champion; to support or maintain; to protect.'),('Championness','n.','A female champion.'),('Championship','n.','State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.'),('Champlain period','','A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately\n   following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake\n   Champlain.'),('Chamsin','n.','See Kamsin.'),('Chance','n.','A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity\n   other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense\n   often personified.'),('Chance','n.','The operation or activity of such agent.'),('Chance','n.','The supposed effect of such an agent; something that\n   befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of\n   uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected\n   occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.'),('Chance','n.','A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with\n   reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for\n   life; the chances are all against him.'),('Chance','n.','Probability.'),('Chanced','imp. & p. p.','of Chance'),('Chancing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chance'),('Chance','v. i.','To happen, come, or arrive, without design or\n   expectation.'),('Chance','v. t.','To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with\n   it as object.'),('Chance','v. t.','To befall; to happen to.'),('Chance','a.','Happening by chance; casual.'),('Chance','adv.','By chance; perchance.'),('Chanceable','a.','Fortuitous; casual.'),('Chanceably','adv.','By chance.'),('Chanceful','a.','Hazardous.'),('Chancel','v. t.','That part of a church, reserved for the use of the\n   clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.'),('Chancel','v. t.','All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the\n   line of the transept farthest from the main front.'),('Chancellery','n.','Chancellorship.'),('Chancellor','n.','A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in\n   the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.'),('Chancellorship','n.','The office of a chancellor; the time during which\n   one is chancellor.'),('Chance-medley','n.','The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden\n   and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.'),('Chance-medley','n.','Luck; chance; accident.'),('Chancery','n.','In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature\n   next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in\n   equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery\n   division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction\n   only in equity.'),('Chancery','n.','In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity;\n   proceeding in equity.'),('Chancre','n.','A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion\n   of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called\n   also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.'),('Chancroid','n.','A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and\n   some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting\n   point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; --\n   called also soft chancre.'),('Chancrous','a.','Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.'),('Chandelier','n.','A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like,\n   having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.'),('Chandelier','n.','A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover\n   pioneers.'),('Chandler','n.','A maker or seller of candles.'),('Chandler','n.','A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a\n   word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.'),('Chandlerly','a.','Like a chandler; in a petty way.'),('Chandlery','n.','Commodities sold by a chandler.'),('Chandoo','n.','An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and\n   India for smoking.'),('Chandry','n.','Chandlery.'),('Chanfrin','n.','The fore part of a horse\'s head.'),('Changed','imp. & p. p.','of Change'),('Changing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Change'),('Change','v. t.','To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one\n   state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance\n   of a thing; to change the countenance.'),('Change','v. t.','To alter by substituting something else for, or by\n   giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change\n   one\'s occupation; to change one\'s intention.'),('Change','v. t.','To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed\n   by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.'),('Change','v. t.','Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations\n   of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or\n   a bank bill.'),('Change','v. i.','To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes\n   change for the better.'),('Change','v. i.','To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes\n   to-morrow night.'),('Change','v. t.','Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or\n   form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or\n   principles.'),('Change','v. t.','A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of\n   another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.'),('Change','v. t.','A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the\n   moon.'),('Change','v. t.','Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.'),('Change','v. t.','That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for\n   another.'),('Change','v. t.','Small money; the money by means of which the larger\n   coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the\n   balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding\n   the sum due.'),('Change','v. t.','A place where merchants and others meet to transact\n   business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.'),('Change','v. t.','A public house; an alehouse.'),('Change','v. t.','Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other\n   than that of the diatonic scale.'),('Changeability','n.','Changeableness.'),('Changeable','a.','Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable;\n   variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.'),('Changeable','a.','Appearing different, as in color, in different lights,\n   or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.'),('Changeableness','n.','The quality of being changeable; fickleness;\n   inconstancy; mutability.'),('Changeably','adv.','In a changeable manner.'),('Changeful','a.','Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.'),('Changeless','a.','That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless\n   purpose.'),('Changeling','n.','One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place\n   of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.'),('Changeling','n.','A simpleton; an idiot.'),('Changeling','n.','One apt to change; a waverer.'),('Changeling','a.','Taken or left in place of another; changed.'),('Changeling','a.','Given to change; inconstant.'),('Changer','n.','One who changes or alters the form of anything.'),('Changer','n.','One who deals in or changes money.'),('Changer','n.','One apt to change; an inconstant person.'),('Chank','n.','The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several\n   species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella\n   pyrum. Called also chank chell.'),('Channel','n.','The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.'),('Channel','n.','The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where\n   the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage\n   for vessels.'),('Channel','n.','A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands;\n   as, the British Channel.'),('Channel','n.','That through which anything passes; means of passing,\n   conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by\n   different channels.'),('Channel','n.','A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.'),('Channel','n.','Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside\n   of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear\n   of the bulwarks.'),('Channeled','imp. & p. p.','of Channel'),('Channelled','','of Channel'),('Channeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Channel'),('Channelling','','of Channel'),('Channel','v. t.','To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or\n   channels in; to groove.'),('Channel','v. t.','To course through or over, as in a channel.'),('Channeling','n.','The act or process of forming a channel or channels.'),('Channeling','n.','A channel or a system of channels; a groove.'),('Chanson','n.','A song.'),('Chansonnettes','pl. ','of Chansonnette'),('Chansonnette','n.','A little song.'),('Chanted','imp. & p. p.','of Chant'),('Chanting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chant'),('Chant','v. t.','To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.'),('Chant','v. t.','To celebrate in song.'),('Chant','v. t.','To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a\n   tune called a chant.'),('Chant','v. i.','To make melody with the voice; to sing.'),('Chant','v. i.','To sing, as in reciting a chant.'),('Chant','v. t.','Song; melody.'),('Chant','v. t.','A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by\n   double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It\n   is the most ancient form of choral music.'),('Chant','v. t.','A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.'),('Chant','v. t.','Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.'),('Chantant','a.','Composed in a melodious and singing style.'),('Chanter','n.','One who chants; a singer or songster.'),('Chanter','n.','The chief singer of the chantry.'),('Chanter','n.','The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.'),('Chanter','n.','The hedge sparrow.'),('Chanterelle','n.','A name for several species of mushroom, of which one\n   (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.'),('Chanticleer','n.','A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of\n   his voice in crowing.'),('Chanting','n.','Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.'),('Chantor','n.','A chanter.'),('Chantress','n.','A female chanter or singer.'),('Chantries','pl. ','of Chantry'),('Chantry','n.','An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and\n   offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.'),('Chantry','n.','A chapel or altar so endowed.'),('Chaomancy','n.','Divination by means of appearances in the air.'),('Chaos','n.','An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.'),('Chaos','n.','The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before\n   the creation of distinct and orderly forms.'),('Chaos','n.','Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a\n   confused mixture; confusion; disorder.'),('Chaotic','a.','Resembling chaos; confused.'),('Chaotically','adv.','In a chaotic manner.'),('Chapped','imp. & p. p.','of Chap'),('Chapping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chap'),('Chap','v. t.','To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause\n   the skin of to crack or become rough.'),('Chap','v. t.','To strike; to beat.'),('Chap','v. i.','To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands\n   chap.'),('Chap','v. i.','To strike; to knock; to rap.'),('Chap','n.','A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or\n   in the skin.'),('Chap','n.','A division; a breach, as in a party.'),('Chap','n.','A blow; a rap.'),('Chap','n.','One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly\n   in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.'),('Chap','n.','One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.'),('Chap','n.','A buyer; a chapman.'),('Chap','n.','A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.'),('Chap','v. i.','To bargain; to buy.'),('Chaparral','n.','A thicket of low evergreen oaks.'),('Chaparral','n.','An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets\n   of thorny shrubs and brambles.'),('Chapbook','n.','Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or\n   hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.'),('Chape','n.','The piece by which an object is attached to something, as\n   the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by\n   which it is fastened to a strap.'),('Chape','n.','The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.'),('Chape','n.','The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard,\n   belt, etc.'),('Chapeux','pl. ','of Chapeau'),('Chapeau','n.','A hat or covering for the head.'),('Chapeau','n.','A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.'),('Chaped','p. p. / a.','Furnished with a chape or chapes.'),('Chapel','n.','A subordinate place of worship'),('Chapel','n.','a small church, often a private foundation, as for a\n   memorial'),('Chapel','n.','a small building attached to a church'),('Chapel','n.','a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.'),('Chapel','n.','A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the\n   chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.'),('Chapel','n.','In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the\n   Established Church; a meetinghouse.'),('Chapel','n.','A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court\n   of a prince or nobleman.'),('Chapel','n.','A printing office, said to be so called because printing\n   was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.'),('Chapel','n.','An association of workmen in a printing office.'),('Chapel','v. t.','To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.'),('Chapel','v. t.','To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to\n   turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the\n   same tack on which she had been sailing.'),('Chapeless','a.','Without a chape.'),('Chapelet','n.','A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and\n   fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been\n   adjusted to the convenience of the rider.'),('Chapelet','n.','A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.'),('Chapellanies','pl. ','of Chapellany'),('Chapellany','n.','A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a\n   subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.'),('Chapelry','n.','The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.'),('Chaperon','n.','A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.'),('Chaperon','n.','A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the\n   hearse in pompous funerals.'),('Chaperon','n.','A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for\n   propriety, or as a guide and protector.'),('Chaperoned','imp. & p. p.','of Chaperon'),('Chaperoning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chaperon'),('Chaperon','v. t.','To attend in public places as a guide and protector;\n   to matronize.'),('Chaperonage','n.','Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public;\n   protection afforded by a chaperon.'),('Chapfallen','a.','Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication\n   of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.'),('Chapiter','n.','A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.'),('Chapiter','n.','A summary in writing of such matters as are to be\n   inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of\n   assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles.'),('Chaplain','n.','An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs\n   religious service in a chapel.'),('Chaplain','n.','A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or\n   navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the\n   purpose of performing divine service.'),('Chaplain','n.','Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct\n   religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or\n   a temperance lodge.'),('Chaplaincy','n.','The office, position, or station of a chaplain.'),('Chaplainship','n.','The office or business of a chaplain.'),('Chaplainship','n.','The possession or revenue of a chapel.'),('Chapless','a.','Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.'),('Chaplet','n.','A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.'),('Chaplet','n.','A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman\n   Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.'),('Chaplet','n.','A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.'),('Chaplet','n.','A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.'),('Chaplet','n.','A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on\n   its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.'),('Chaplet','n.','A tuft of feathers on a peacock\'s head.'),('Chaplet','n.','A small chapel or shrine.'),('Chapleted','imp. & p. p.','of Chaplet'),('Chaplet','v. t.','To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.'),('Chapmen','pl. ','of Chapman'),('Chapman','n.','One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.'),('Chapman','n.','A peddler; a hawker.'),('Chappy','','Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.'),('Chaps','n. pl.','The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.'),('Chapter','n.','A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty\n   chapters.'),('Chapter','n.','An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other\n   clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church,\n   or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.'),('Chapter','n.','A community of canons or canonesses.'),('Chapter','n.','A bishop\'s council.'),('Chapter','n.','A business meeting of any religious community.'),('Chapter','n.','An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of\n   the Freemasons.'),('Chapter','n.','A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.'),('Chapter','n.','A chapter house.'),('Chapter','n.','A decretal epistle.'),('Chapter','n.','A location or compartment.'),('Chapter','v. t.','To divide into chapters, as a book.'),('Chapter','v. t.','To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter\n   and verse.'),('Chaptrel','n.','An impost.'),('Char','n.','Alt. of Charr'),('Charr','n.','One of the several species of fishes of the genus\n   Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep\n   lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook\n   trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.'),('Char','n.','A car; a chariot.'),('Char','n.','Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.'),('Char','v. t.','Alt. of Chare'),('Chare','v. t.','To perform; to do; to finish.'),('Chare','v. t.','To work or hew, as stone.'),('Char','v. i.','Alt. of Chare'),('Chare','v. i.','To work by the day, without being a regularly hired\n   servant; to do small jobs.'),('Charred','imp. & p. p.','of Char'),('Charring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Char'),('Char','n.','To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to\n   charcoal; to burn to a cinder.'),('Char','n.','To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.'),('Chara','n.','A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and\n   whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.'),('Chars-a-banc','pl. ','of Char-a-bancs'),('Char-a-bancs','n.','A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats\n   running lengthwise.'),('Charact','n.','A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.]\n   See Character.'),('Character','n.','A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.'),('Character','n.','Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar\n   form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an\n   inscription in the Runic character.'),('Character','n.','The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which\n   a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed\n   by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is;\n   nature; disposition.'),('Character','n.','Strength of mind; resolution; independence;\n   individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.'),('Character','n.','Moral quality; the principles and motives that control\n   the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from\n   suspicion.'),('Character','n.','Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct\n   with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable\n   character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character\n   as a daughter.'),('Character','n.','The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person\n   or thing; reputation; as, a man\'s character for truth and veracity; to\n   give one a bad character.'),('Character','n.','A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc.,\n   given to a servant.'),('Character','n.','A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person\n   characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates\n   certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a\n   great historical character.'),('Character','n.','One of the persons of a drama or novel.'),('Charactered','imp. & p. p.','of Character'),('Character','v. t.','To engrave; to inscribe.'),('Character','v. t.','To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to\n   describe; to characterize.'),('Characterism','n.','A distinction of character; a characteristic.'),('Characteristic','a.','Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the\n   character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits,\n   of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.'),('Characteristic','n.','A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an\n   element of character; that which characterized.'),('Characteristic','n.','The integral part (whether positive or negative) of\n   a logarithm.'),('Characteristical','a.','Characteristic.'),('Characteristically','adv.','In a characteristic manner; in a way that\n   characterizes.'),('Characterization','n.','The act or process of characterizing.'),('Characterized','imp. & p. p.','of Characterize'),('Characterizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Characterize'),('Characterize','v. t.','To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar\n   marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.'),('Characterize','v. t.','To engrave or imprint.'),('Characterize','v. t.','To indicate the character of; to describe.'),('Characterize','v. t.','To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the\n   character of.'),('Characterless','a.','Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without\n   character or force.'),('Charactery','n.','The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs\n   or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.'),('Charactery','n.','That which is charactered; the meaning.'),('Charade','n.','A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two\n   or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the\n   word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.'),('Charbocle','n.','Carbuncle.'),('Charbon','n.','A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the\n   corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become\n   obliterated.'),('Charbon','n.','A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and\n   cattle. See Maligmant pustule.'),('Charcoal','v. t.','Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal\n   substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc.,\n   from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various\n   mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.'),('Charcoal','v. t.','Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a\n   drawing implement.'),('Chard','n.','The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white\n   beet, etc., blanched for table use.'),('Chard','n.','A variety of the white beet, which produces large, succulent\n   leaves and leafstalks.'),('Chare','n.','A narrow street.'),('Chare','n. & v.','A chore; to chore; to do. See Char.'),('Charged','imp. & p. p.','of Charge'),('Charging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Charge'),('Charge','v. t.','To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load;\n   to fill.'),('Charge','v. t.','To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to\n   command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge\n   earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to\n   charge an agent.'),('Charge','v. t.','To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.'),('Charge','v. t.','To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars\n   a barrel for apples.'),('Charge','v. t.','To place something to the account of as a debt; to\n   debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side\n   of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.'),('Charge','v. t.','To impute or ascribe; to lay to one\'s charge.'),('Charge','v. t.','To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a\n   person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or\n   done) at the door of.'),('Charge','v. t.','To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus\n   or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear;\n   to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine,\n   etc.'),('Charge','v. t.','To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an\n   architectural member with a molding.'),('Charge','v. t.','To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or;\n   to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses\n   or.'),('Charge','v. t.','To call to account; to challenge.'),('Charge','v. t.','To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.'),('Charge','v. i.','To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed\n   bayonets.'),('Charge','v. i.','To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.'),('Charge','v. i.','To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.'),('Charge','v. i.','To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given\n   by a sportsman to a dog.'),('Charge','v. t.','A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.'),('Charge','v. t.','A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care,\n   custody, or management of another; a trust.'),('Charge','v. t.','Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office;\n   responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.'),('Charge','v. t.','Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.'),('Charge','v. t.','Harm.'),('Charge','v. t.','An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.'),('Charge','v. t.','An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address)\n   containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a\n   jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.'),('Charge','v. t.','An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation;\n   indictment; specification of something alleged.'),('Charge','v. t.','Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents,\n   taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.'),('Charge','v. t.','The price demanded for a thing or service.'),('Charge','v. t.','An entry or a account of that which is due from one\n   party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as,\n   a charge in an account book.'),('Charge','v. t.','That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel,\n   etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc.,\n   is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it\n   at one time'),('Charge','v. t.','The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden\n   onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for\n   attack; as, to sound the charge.'),('Charge','v. t.','A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring\n   a weapon to the charge.'),('Charge','v. t.','A soft of plaster or ointment.'),('Charge','v. t.','A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.'),('Charge','n.','Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy\n   pounds; -- called also charre.'),('Charge','n.','Weight; import; value.'),('Chargeable','a.','That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a\n   duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.'),('Chargeable','a.','Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible;\n   as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.'),('Chargeable','a.','Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.'),('Chargeableness','n.','The quality of being chargeable or expensive.'),('Chargeably','adv.','At great cost; expensively.'),('Chargeant','a.','Burdensome; troublesome.'),('Charges d\'affaires','pl. ','of Charge d\'affaires'),('Charge d\'affaires','n.','A diplomatic representative, or minister of an\n   inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the\n   minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim,\n   for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.'),('Chargeful','a.','Costly; expensive.'),('Chargehouse','n.','A schoolhouse.'),('Chargeless','a.','Free from, or with little, charge.'),('Chargeous','a.','Burdensome.'),('Charger','n.','One who, or that which charges.'),('Charger','n.','An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.'),('Charger','n.','A large dish.'),('Charger','n.','A horse for battle or parade.'),('Chargeship','n.','The office of a charge d\'affaires.'),('Charily','adv.','In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.'),('Chariness','n.','The quality of being chary.'),('Chariot','n.','A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state\n   processions, etc.'),('Chariot','n.','A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one\n   seat.'),('Charioted','imp. & p. p.','of Chariot'),('Charioting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chariot'),('Chariot','v. t.','To convey in a chariot.'),('Chariotee','n.','A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with\n   two seats.'),('Charioteer','n.','One who drives a chariot.'),('Charioteer','n.','A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones.'),('Charism','n.','A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking\n   foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the\n   early Christians.'),('Charismatic','a.','Of or pertaining to a charism.'),('Charitable','a.','Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind.'),('Charitable','a.','Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the\n   best side, and to avoid harsh judgment.'),('Charitable','a.','Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely;\n   generous; beneficent.'),('Charitable','a.','Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or\n   intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a\n   charitable institution.'),('Charitable','a.','Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient.'),('Charitableness','n.','The quality of being charitable; the exercise of\n   charity.'),('Charitably','adv.','In a charitable manner.'),('Charities','pl. ','of Charity'),('Charity','n.','Love; universal benevolence; good will.'),('Charity','n.','Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a\n   disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the\n   words and actions of others.'),('Charity','n.','Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent\n   institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.'),('Charity','n.','Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or\n   suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.'),('Charity','n.','A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support\n   such an institution; as, Lady Margaret\'s charity.'),('Charity','n.','Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including\n   relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and\n   public institutions.'),('Charivari','n.','A mock serenade of discordant noises, made with kettles,\n   tin horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.'),('Chark','n.','Charcoal; a cinder.'),('Charked','imp. & p. p.','of Chark'),('Chark','v. t.','To burn to a coal; to char.'),('Charlatan','n.','One who prates much in his own favor, and makes\n   unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a\n   mountebank.'),('Charlatanic','a.','Alt. of Charlatanical'),('Charlatanical','a.','Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension;\n   empirical; pretentious; quackish.'),('Charlatanism','n.','Charlatanry.'),('Charlatanry','n.','Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling;\n   empiricism.'),('Charles\'s Wain','','The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper,\n   in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. See Ursa major, under\n   Ursa.'),('Charlock','n.','A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow\n   flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also\n   chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.'),('Charlotte','n.','A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with\n   slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.'),('Charm','n.','A melody; a song.'),('Charm','n.','A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the\n   practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an\n   incantation.'),('Charm','n.','That which exerts an irresistible power to please and\n   attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.'),('Charm','n.','Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in\n   averting ill or securing good fortune.'),('Charm','n.','Any small decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a\n   key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at\n   the watch chain.'),('Charmed','imp. & p. p.','of Charm'),('Charming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Charm'),('Charm','n.','To make music upon; to tune.'),('Charm','n.','To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural\n   influence; to affect by magic.'),('Charm','n.','To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which\n   gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.'),('Charm','n.','To attract irresistibly; to delight exceedingly; to enchant;\n   to fascinate.'),('Charm','n.','To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or\n   supernatural influences; as, a charmed life.'),('Charm','v. i.','To use magic arts or occult power; to make use of charms.'),('Charm','v. i.','To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please\n   greatly; to be fascinating.'),('Charm','v. i.','To make a musical sound.'),('Charmel','n.','A fruitful field.'),('Charmer','n.','One who charms, or has power to charm; one who uses the\n   power of enchantment; a magician.'),('Charmer','n.','One who delights and attracts the affections.'),('Charmeress','n.','An enchantress.'),('Charmful','a.','Abounding with charms.'),('Charming','a.','Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting;\n   fascinating; attractive.'),('Charmless','a.','Destitute of charms.'),('Charneco','n.','Alt. of Charnico'),('Charnico','n.','A sort of sweet wine.'),('Charnel','a.','Containing the bodies of the dead.'),('Charnel','n.','A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.'),('Charon','n.','The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the\n   souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.'),('Charpie','n.','Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth;\n   -- used for surgical dressings.'),('Charqui','n.','Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the\n   wind and sun.'),('Charr','n.','See 1st Char.'),('Charras','n.','The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as\n   Churrus.'),('Charre','n.','See Charge, n., 17.'),('Charry','a.','Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.'),('Chart','n.','A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which\n   information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in\n   tabular form; as, an historical chart.'),('Chart','n.','A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is\n   projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by\n   which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as,\n   the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.'),('Chart','n.','A written deed; a charter.'),('Charted','imp. & p. p.','of Chart'),('Chart','v. t.','To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to\n   chart a coast.'),('Charta','n.','Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written;\n   parchment or paper.'),('Charta','n.','A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See\n   Magna Charta.'),('Chartaceous','a.','Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture;\n   papery.'),('Charte','n.','The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French\n   monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.'),('Charter','n.','A written evidence in due form of things done or granted,\n   contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.'),('Charter','n.','An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a\n   state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises,\n   or privileges.'),('Charter','n.','An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other\n   corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument\n   in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as\n   the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.'),('Charter','n.','A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.'),('Charter','n.','The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the\n   contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is\n   offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.'),('Chartered','imp. & p. p.','of Charter'),('Chartering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Charter'),('Charter','v. t.','To establish by charter.'),('Charter','v. t.','To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter\n   party, under Charter, n.'),('Chartered','a.','Granted or established by charter; having, or existing\n   under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.'),('Chartered','a.','Hired or let by charter, as a ship.'),('Charterer','n.','One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a\n   voyage.'),('Charterhouse','n.','A well known public school and charitable foundation\n   in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in\n   London.'),('Charterist','n.','Same as Chartist.'),('Chartism','n.','The principles of a political party in England (1838-48),\n   which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual\n   parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as\n   set forth in a document called the People\'s Charter.'),('Chartist','n.','A supporter or partisan of chartism.'),('Chartless','a.','Without a chart; having no guide.'),('Chartless','a.','Not mapped; uncharted; vague.'),('Chartographer','n.','Alt. of Chartography'),('Chartographic','n.','Alt. of Chartography'),('Chartography','n.','Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.'),('Chartomancy','n.','Divination by written paper or by cards.'),('Chartometer','n.','An instrument for measuring charts or maps.'),('Chartreuse','n.','A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse,\n   mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.'),('Chartreuse','n.','An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; --\n   made at La Grande Chartreuse.'),('Chartreux','n.','A Carthusian.'),('Chartulary','n.','See Cartulary.'),('Charwomen','pl. ','of Charwoman'),('Charwoman','n.','A woman hired for odd work or for single days.'),('Chary','a.','Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift;\n   saving; frugal.'),('Charybdis','n.','A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite\n   Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See\n   Scylla.'),('Chasable','a.','Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.'),('Chased','imp. & p. p.','of Chase'),('Chasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chase'),('Chase','v. t.','To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an\n   enemy, or game; to hunt.'),('Chase','v. t.','To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move\n   on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off;\n   as, to chase the hens away.'),('Chase','v. t.','To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.'),('Chase','v. i.','To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a\n   doctor.'),('Chase','v.','Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as\n   of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly\n   desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.'),('Chase','v.','That which is pursued or hunted.'),('Chase','v.','An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is\n   private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private\n   property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace.'),('Chase','v.','A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or\n   otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the\n   dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.'),('Chase','n.','A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type\n   are imposed.'),('Chase','n.','The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to\n   the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.'),('Chase','n.','A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as\n   for the reception of drain tile.'),('Chase','n.','A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a\n   flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends\n   of clinker-built boats.'),('Chase','v. t.','To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting\n   away parts, and the like.'),('Chase','v. t.','To cut, so as to make a screw thread.'),('Chaser','n.','One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a\n   hunter.'),('Chaser','n.','Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern\n   chaser. See under Bow, Stern.'),('Chaser','n.','One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase.'),('Chaser','n.','A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing\n   screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a\n   lathe.'),('Chasible','n.','See Chasuble.'),('Chasing','n.','The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools;\n   also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.'),('Chasm','n.','A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth\n   or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.'),('Chasm','n.','A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.'),('Chasmed','a.','Having gaps or a chasm.'),('Chasmy','a.','Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.'),('Chasse','n.','A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left.'),('Chasse','v. i.','To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse;\n   chasse to the right or left.'),('Chasselas','n.','A white grape, esteemed for the table.'),('Chassepot','n.','A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved\n   needle gun.'),('Chasseur','n.','One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry,\n   trained for rapid movements.'),('Chasseur','n.','An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a\n   plume and sword.'),('Chassis','n.','A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which\n   the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward.\n   [See Gun carriage.]'),('Chast','v. t.','to chasten.'),('Chaste','a.','Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.'),('Chaste','a.','Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and\n   obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind;\n   chaste eyes.'),('Chaste','a.','Pure in design and expression; correct; free from\n   barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in\n   composition or art.'),('Chaste','a.','Unmarried.'),('Chastely','adv.','In a chaste manner; with purity.'),('Chastened','imp. & p. p.','of Chasten'),('Chastening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chasten'),('Chasten','v. t.','To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the\n   purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.'),('Chasten','v. t.','To purify from errors or faults; to refine.'),('Chastened','a.','Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.'),('Chastener','n.','One who chastens.'),('Chasteness','n.','Chastity; purity.'),('Chasteness','n.','Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or\n   affected; as, chasteness of design.'),('Chastisable','a.','Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.'),('Chastised','imp. & p. p.','of Chastise'),('Chastising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chastise'),('Chastise','v. t.','To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any\n   other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish,\n   as with stripes.'),('Chastise','v. t.','To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify;\n   to free from faults or excesses.'),('Chastisement','n.','The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment\n   and correction; discipline; punishment.'),('Chastiser','n.','One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.'),('Chastity','n.','The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from\n   unlawful sexual intercourse.'),('Chastity','n.','Moral purity.'),('Chastity','n.','The unmarried life; celibacy.'),('Chastity','n.','Chasteness.'),('Chasuble','n.','The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass,\n   consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece,\n   and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only.\n   The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar,\n   designed to be emblematical of Christ\'s sufferings. In the Greek Church\n   the chasuble is a large round mantle.'),('Chatted','imp. & p. p.','of Chat'),('Chatting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chat'),('Chat','v. i.','To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse\n   without form or ceremony; to gossip.'),('Chat','v. t.','To talk of.'),('Chat','n.','Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.'),('Chat','n.','A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in\n   America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I.\n   viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name\n   is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat,\n   and whinchat.'),('Chat','n.','A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.'),('Chat','n.','Small stones with ore.'),('Chateux','pl. ','of Chateau'),('Chateau','n.','A castle or a fortress in France.'),('Chateau','n.','A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a\n   gentleman\'s country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as,\n   the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.'),('Chatelaine','n.','An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her\n   waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys,\n   trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.'),('Chatelet','n.','A little castle.'),('Chatellany','n.','Same as Castellany.'),('Chati','n.','A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).'),('Chatoyant','a.','Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that\n   of a changeable silk, or oa a cat\'s eye in the dark.'),('Chatoyant','n.','A hard stone, as the cat\'s-eye, which presents on a\n   polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.'),('Chatoyment','n.','Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of\n   colors.'),('Chattel','n.','Any item of movable or immovable property except the\n   freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive\n   term than goods or effects.'),('Chattelism','n.','The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of\n   being a chattel.'),('Chattered','imp. & p. p.','of Chatter'),('Chattering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chatter'),('Chatter','v. i.','To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but\n   are inarticulate and indistinct.'),('Chatter','v. i.','To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to\n   jabber; to prate.'),('Chatter','v. i.','To make a noise by rapid collisions.'),('Chatter','v. t.','To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.'),('Chatter','n.','Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid,\n   thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.'),('Chatter','n.','Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.'),('Chatteration','n.','The act or habit of chattering.'),('Chatterer','n.','A prater; an idle talker.'),('Chatterer','n.','A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its\n   monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the\n   arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more\n   common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.'),('Chattering','n.','The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of\n   making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the\n   collision of the teeth; chatter.'),('Chattiness','n.','The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and\n   pleasantly.'),('Chatty','a.','Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.'),('Chatty','n.','A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.'),('Chatwood','n.','Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.'),('Chaud-medley','n.','The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of\n   blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished\n   from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.'),('Chaudron','n.','See Chawdron.'),('Chauffer','n.','A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box\n   of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.'),('Chauldron','n.','See Chawdron.'),('Chaun','n.','A gap.'),('Chaun','v. t. & i.','To open; to yawn.'),('Chaunt','n. & v.','See Chant.'),('Chaunter','n.','A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.'),('Chaunter','n.','A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.'),('Chaunter','n.','The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.'),('Chaunterie','n.','See Chantry.'),('Chaus','n.','a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).'),('Chausses','n. pl.','The garment for the legs and feet and for the body\n   below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied\n   also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.'),('Chaussure','n.','A foot covering of any kind.'),('Chauvinism','n.','Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an\n   obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.'),('Chavender','n.','The chub.'),('Chawed','imp. & p. p.','of Chaw'),('Chawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chaw'),('Chaw','v. t.','To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating;\n   to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.'),('Chaw','v. t.','To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind\n   working upon; to brood over.'),('Chaw','v. t.','As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.'),('Chaw','v. t.','The jaw.'),('Chawdron','n.','Entrails.'),('Chay root','','The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India,\n   which yieds a durable red dyestuff.'),('Chazy epoch','','An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the\n   American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton\n   Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.'),('Cheap','n.','A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.'),('Cheap','n.','Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as\n   compared with the usual price or the real value.'),('Cheap','n.','Of comparatively small value; common; mean.'),('Cheap','adv.','Cheaply.'),('Cheap','v. i.','To buy; to bargain.'),('Cheapened','imp. & p. p.','of Cheapen'),('Cheapening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cheapen'),('Cheapen','v. t.','To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.'),('Cheapen','a.','To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to\n   depreciate.'),('Cheapener','n.','One who cheapens.'),('Cheap-jack','n.','Alt. of Cheap-john'),('Cheap-john','n.','A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.'),('Cheaply','adv.','At a small price; at a low value; in a common or\n   inferior manner.'),('Cheapness','n.','Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real\n   value.'),('Chear','n. & v.','See Cheer.'),('Cheat','n.','An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of\n   fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.'),('Cheat','n.','One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a\n   cheater.'),('Cheat','n.','A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; --\n   called also chess. See Chess.'),('Cheat','n.','The obtaining of property from another by an intentional\n   active distortion of the truth.'),('Cheated','imp. & p. p.','of Cheat'),('Cheating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cheat'),('Cheat','n.','To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to\n   swindle.'),('Cheat','n.','To beguile.'),('Cheat','v. i.','To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.'),('Cheat','n.','Wheat, or bread made from wheat.'),('Cheatable','a.','Capable of being cheated.'),('Cheatableness','n.','Capability of being cheated.'),('Cheater','n.','One who cheats.'),('Cheater','n.','An escheator.'),('Chebacco','n.','A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the\n   Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.'),('Chebec','n.','See Chebacco.'),('Chebec','n.','A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least\n   flycatcher.'),('Check','n.','A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such\n   a menace of a player\'s king by an adversary\'s move as would, if it were\n   any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is\n   said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.'),('Check','n.','A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest;\n   stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.'),('Check','n.','Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle,\n   guard, restraint, or rebuff.'),('Check','n.','A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be\n   prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed\n   against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check\n   on a railroad.'),('Check','n.','A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as\n   therein stated. See Bank check, below.'),('Check','n.','A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten\n   of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth\n   having such a figure.'),('Check','n.','The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other\n   birds.'),('Check','n.','Small chick or crack.'),('Checked','imp. & p. p.','of Check'),('Checking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Check'),('Check','v. t.','To make a move which puts an adversary\'s piece, esp. his\n   king, in check; to put in check.'),('Check','v. t.','To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to\n   hinder; to repress; to curb.'),('Check','v. t.','To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark,\n   token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against\n   (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to\n   secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.'),('Check','v. t.','To chide, rebuke, or reprove.'),('Check','v. t.','To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly\n   extended.'),('Check','v. t.','To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the\n   sun checks timber.'),('Check','v. i.','To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.'),('Check','v. i.','To clash or interfere.'),('Check','v. i.','To act as a curb or restraint.'),('Check','v. i.','To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in\n   small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.'),('Check','v. i.','To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after\n   other birds.'),('Check','a.','Checkered; designed in checks.'),('Checkage','n.','The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an\n   item in a list.'),('Checkage','n.','The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by\n   a check or checks.'),('Checker','v. t.','One who checks.'),('Checkered','imp. & p. p.','of Checker'),('Checkering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Checker'),('Checker','n.','To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by\n   crossing stripes of different colors.'),('Checker','n.','To variegate or diversify with different qualities,\n   colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of\n   prosperity and adversity.'),('Checker','v. t.','A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.'),('Checker','v. t.','A pattern in checks; a single check.'),('Checker','v. t.','Checkerwork.'),('Checkerberries','pl. ','of Checkerberry'),('Checkerberry','n.','A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the\n   wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the\n   partridge berry (Mitchella repens).'),('Checkerboard','n.','A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color,\n   used for playing checkers or draughts.'),('Checkered','a.','Marked with alternate squares or checks of different\n   color or material.'),('Checkered','a.','Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in\n   appearance, character, circumstances, etc.'),('Checkers','v.','A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by\n   two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are\n   moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost\n   all his men, or can not move them.'),('Checkerwork','n.','Work consisting of or showing checkers varied\n   alternately as to colors or materials.'),('Checkerwork','n.','Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.'),('Checklaton','n.','Ciclatoun.'),('Checklaton','n.','Gilded leather.'),('Checkless','a.','That can not be checked or restrained.'),('Checkmate','n.','The position in the game of chess when a king is in\n   check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.'),('Checkmate','n.','A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.'),('Checkmated','imp. & p. p.','of Checkmate'),('Checkmating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Checkmate'),('Checkmate','v. t.','To check (an adversary\'s king) in such a manner that\n   escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in\n   check from which there is no escape.'),('Checkmate','v. t.','To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.'),('Checkrein','n.','A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a\n   horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.'),('Checkrein','n.','A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse\n   of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.'),('Checkroll','n.','A list of servants in a household; -- called also\n   chequer roll.'),('Checkstring','n.','A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car\n   may signal to the driver.'),('Checkwork','n.','Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those\n   of a checkerboard.'),('Checky','a.','Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; --\n   said of the field or of an armorial bearing.'),('Cheddar','a.','Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as,\n   Cheddar cheese.'),('Cheek','n.','The side of the face below the eye.'),('Cheek','n.','The cheek bone.'),('Cheek','n.','Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work,\n   which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as,\n   the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.'),('Cheek','n.','The branches of a bridle bit.'),('Cheek','n.','A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved\n   laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the\n   middle part of a flask.'),('Cheek','n.','Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.'),('Cheek','v. t.','To be impudent or saucy to.'),('Cheeked','a.','Having a cheek; -- used in composition.'),('Cheeky','','a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.'),('Cheeped','imp. & p. p.','of Cheep'),('Cheep','v. i.','To chirp, as a young bird.'),('Cheep','v. t.','To give expression to in a chirping tone.'),('Cheep','n.','A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.'),('Cheer','n.','The face; the countenance or its expression.'),('Cheer','n.','Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.'),('Cheer','n.','Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.'),('Cheer','n.','That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions\n   prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good\n   cheer.'),('Cheer','n.','A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm,\n   applause, favor, etc.'),('Cheered','imp. & p. p.','of Cheer'),('Cheering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cheer'),('Cheer','v. t.','To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; --\n   often with up.'),('Cheer','v. t.','To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to\n   inspirit; to solace or comfort.'),('Cheer','v. t.','To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers;\n   as, to cheer hounds in a chase.'),('Cheer','v. i.','To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; --\n   usually with up.'),('Cheer','v. i.','To be in any state or temper of mind.'),('Cheer','v. i.','To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc.'),('Cheerer','n.','One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.'),('Cheerful','a.','Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery;\n   contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.'),('Cheerfully','adv.','In a cheerful manner, gladly.'),('Cheerfulness','n.','Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety;\n   alacrity.'),('Cheerily','adv.','In a cheery manner.'),('Cheeriness','n.','The state of being cheery.'),('Cheeringly','adv.','In a manner to cheer or encourage.'),('Cheerisness','n.','Cheerfulness.'),('Cheerless','a.','Without joy, gladness, or comfort.'),('Cheerly','a.','Gay; cheerful.'),('Cheerly','adv.','Cheerily.'),('Cheerry','a.','Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery\n   person.'),('Cheese','n.','The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated\n   from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.'),('Cheese','n.','A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the\n   form of a cheese.'),('Cheese','n.','The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow\n   (Malva rotundifolia).'),('Cheese','n.','A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form\n   assumed by a woman\'s dress when she stoops after extending the skirts\n   by a rapid gyration.'),('Cheeselep','n.','A bag in which rennet is kept.'),('Cheesemonger','n.','One who deals in cheese.'),('Cheeseparing','n.','A thin portion of the rind of a cheese.'),('Cheeseparing','a.','Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.'),('Cheesiness','n.','The quality of being cheesy.'),('Cheesy','a.','Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or\n   appearance of cheese.'),('Cheetah','n.','A species of leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) tamed and used\n   for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus.'),('Chef','n.','A chief of head person.'),('Chef','n.','The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family,\n   etc.'),('Chef','n.','Same as Chief.'),('Chefs-d\'oeuvre','pl. ','of Chef-d\'oeuvre'),('Chef-d\'oeuvre','n.','A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature,\n   etc.'),('Chegoe','n.','Alt. of Chegre'),('Chegre','n.','See Chigoe.'),('Cheiloplasty','n.','The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a\n   lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some\n   neighboring part.'),('Cheilopoda','n.','See Ch/lopoda.'),('Cheirepter','n.','One of the Cheiroptera.'),('Cheiroptera','n. pl.','An order of mammalia, including the bats, having\n   four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a\n   web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.'),('Cheiropterous','a.','Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.'),('Cheiropterygia','pl. ','of Cheiropterygium'),('Cheiropterygium','n.','The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher\n   vertebrates.'),('Cheirosophy','n.','The art of reading character as it is delineated in\n   the hand.'),('Cheirotherium','n.','A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil\n   footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and\n   believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration\n   in Appendix.'),('Chekelatoun','n.','See Ciclatoun.'),('Chekmak','n.','A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread\n   interwoven.'),('Chelae','pl. ','of Chela'),('Chela','n.','The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.'),('Chelate','a.','Same as Cheliferous.'),('Chelerythrine','n.','An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine,\n   and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless\n   crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is\n   identical with sanguinarine.'),('Chelicerae','pl. ','of Chelicera'),('Chelicera','n.','One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by\n   a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are\n   homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles\n   of insects.'),('Chelidon','n.','The hollow at the flexure of the arm.'),('Chelidonic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.'),('Chelidonius','n.','A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young\n   swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.'),('Chelifer','n.','See Book scorpion, under Book.'),('Cheliferous','a.','Having cheliform claws, like a crab.'),('Cheliform','a.','Having a movable joint or finger closing against a\n   preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be\n   used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.'),('Chelone','n.','A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order\n   Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead,\n   turtlehead, shellflower, etc.'),('Chelonia','n. pl.','An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and\n   turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum\n   united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are\n   covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.'),('Chelonian','a.','Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.'),('Chelonian','n.','One of the Chelonia.'),('Chelura','n.','A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and\n   sometimes destroy timber.'),('Chely','n.','A claw. See Chela.'),('Chemic','n.','A chemist; an alchemist.'),('Chemic','n.','A solution of chloride of lime.'),('Chemic','a.','Chemical.'),('Chemical','a.','Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the\n   forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of\n   chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.'),('Chemical','n.','A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a\n   reagent.'),('Chemically','adv.','According to chemical principles; by chemical process\n   or operation.'),('Chemiglyphic','a.','Engraved by a voltaic battery.'),('Chemiloon','n.','A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers\n   united in one.'),('Chemise','n.','A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.'),('Chemise','n.','A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.'),('Chemisette','n.','An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the\n   neck, shoulders, and breast.'),('Chemism','n.','The force exerted between the atoms of elementary\n   substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical\n   attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for\n   chemical activity or relationship.'),('Chemist','n.','A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical\n   investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.'),('Chemistry','n.','That branch of science which treats of the composition\n   of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of\n   alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon\n   variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the\n   constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but\n   merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry\n   deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of\n   molecules. See Atom, Molecule.'),('Chemistry','n.','An application of chemical theory and method to the\n   consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron;\n   the chemistry of indigo.'),('Chemistry','n.','A treatise on chemistry.'),('Chemitype','n.','One of a number of processes by which an impression from\n   an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an\n   ordinary printing press.'),('Chemolysis','n.','A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of\n   organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical\n   agents alone.'),('Chemosmosis','n.','Chemical action taking place through an intervening\n   membrane.'),('Chemosmotic','a.','Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis.'),('Chemung period','','A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian\n   system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the\n   rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or\n   epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.'),('Cheng','n.','A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.'),('Chenille','n.','Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of\n   ladies\' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of\n   Chenille rugs.'),('Chenomorphae','n. pl.','An order of birds, including the swans, ducks,\n   geese, flamingoes and screamers.'),('Chepster','n.','The European starling.'),('Cheque','n.','See Check.'),('Chequer','n. & v.','Same as Checker.'),('Chequing','n.','A coin. See Sequin.'),('Chequy','n.','Same as Checky.'),('Cherif','n.','See Cherif.'),('Cherimoyer','n.','A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with\n   fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.'),('Cherimoyer','n.','Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple,\n   and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.'),('Cherished','imp. & p. p.','of Cherish'),('Cherising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cherish'),('Cherish','v. t.','To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with\n   care; to protect and aid.'),('Cherish','v. t.','To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to\n   encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.'),('Cherisher','n.','One who cherishes.'),('Cherishment','n.','Encouragement; comfort.'),('Chermes','n.','See Kermes.'),('Cherogril','n.','See Cony.'),('Cherokees','n. pl.','An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting\n   the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now\n   mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most\n   civilized of the Indian Tribes.'),('Cheroot','n.','A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the\n   Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.'),('Cherry','n.','A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes\n   the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;'),('Cherry','n.','The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several\n   hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the\n   begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello,\n   May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France).'),('Cherry','n.','The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry),\n   valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub\n   which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees\n   (bird cherry).'),('Cherry','n.','The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and\n   flavors.'),('Cherry','n.','The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry,\n   used in cabinetmaking, etc.'),('Cherry','n.','A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.'),('Cherry','a.','Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry\n   lip; cherry cheeks.'),('Chersonese','n.','A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by\n   water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as,\n   the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.'),('Chert','n.','An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull\n   color.'),('Cherty','a.','Like chert; containing chert; flinty.'),('Cherubs','pl. ','of Cherub'),('Cherubim','pl. ','of Cherub'),('Cherub','n.','A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and\n   chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.'),('Cherub','n.','A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in\n   connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.'),('Cherub','n.','One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In\n   European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote\n   knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in\n   later art the children\'s heads with wings are generally called cherubs.'),('Cherub','n.','A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have\n   represented cherubs as beautiful children.'),('Cherubic','a.','Alt. of Cherubical'),('Cherubical','a.','Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic.'),('Cherubim','n.','The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.'),('Cherubin','a.','Cherubic; angelic.'),('Cherubin','n.','A cherub.'),('Cherup','v. i.','To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See\n   Chirrup.'),('Cherup','v. t.','To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful\n   sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.'),('Cherup','n.','A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the\n   cherup of a cricket.'),('Chervil','n.','A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided\n   aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups\n   and salads.'),('Ches','','pret. of Chese.'),('Chese','v. t.','To choose'),('Chesible','n.','See Chasuble.'),('Cheslip','n.','The wood louse.'),('Chess','n.','A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two\n   differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a\n   king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and\n   eight pawns.'),('Chess','n.','A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a\n   troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as\n   degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to\n   oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for\n   food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and\n   Willard\'s bromus.'),('Chess-apple','n.','The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).'),('Chessboard','n.','The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows\n   of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See\n   Checkerboard.'),('Chessel','n.','The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.'),('Chesses','n. pl.','The platforms, consisting of two or more planks\n   doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.'),('Chessil','n.','Gravel or pebbles.'),('Chessmen','pl. ','of Chessman'),('Chessman','n.','A piece used in the game of chess.'),('Chessom','n.','Mellow earth; mold.'),('Chesstree','n.','A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a\n   vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.'),('Chessy copper','','The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at\n   Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.'),('Chest','n.','A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a\n   trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.'),('Chest','n.','A coffin.'),('Chest','n.','The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone;\n   the thorax.'),('Chest','n.','A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are\n   transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.'),('Chest','n.','A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam,\n   liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an\n   organ.'),('Chested','imp. & p. p.','of Chest'),('Chest','v. i.','To deposit in a chest; to hoard.'),('Chest','v. i.','To place in a coffin.'),('Chest','n.','Strife; contention; controversy.'),('Chested','a.','Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as,\n   broad-chested; narrow-chested.'),('Chesterlite','n.','A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county\n   of Chester, Pennsylvania.'),('Chesteyn','n.','The chestnut tree.'),('Chest founder','','A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and\n   fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.'),('Chestnut','n.','The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of\n   Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly\n   bur.'),('Chestnut','n.','The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber,\n   used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.'),('Chestnut','n.','A bright brown color, like that of the nut.'),('Chestnut','n.','The horse chestnut (often so used in England).'),('Chestnut','n.','One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner\n   sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.'),('Chestnut','n.','An old joke or story.'),('Chestnut','a.','Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as,\n   chestnut curls.'),('Chetah','n.','See Cheetah.'),('Chetvert','n.','A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial\n   quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.'),('Chevachie','n.','See Chivachie.'),('Chevage','n.','See Chiefage.'),('Chevaux','pl. ','of Cheval'),('Cheval','n.','A horse; hence, a support or frame.'),('Chevaux-de-frise','pl. ','of Cheval-de-frise'),('Cheval-de-frise','n.','A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with\n   iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a\n   passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.'),('Chevalier','n.','A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.'),('Chevalier','n.','A member of certain orders of knighthood.'),('Chevaux','n. pl.','See Cheval.'),('Cheve','v. i.','To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to\n   cheve well in a enterprise.'),('Chevelure','n.','A hairlike envelope.'),('Cheven','n.','A river fish; the chub.'),('Cheventein','n.','A variant of Chieftain.'),('Cheveril','v. i.','Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol\n   of flexibility.'),('Cheveril','a.','Made of cheveril; pliant.'),('Cheverliize','v. i.','To make as pliable as kid leather.'),('Chevet','n.','The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round\n   or polygonal part.'),('Cheviot','n.','A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which\n   takes its name from the Cheviot hills.'),('Cheviot','n.','A woolen fabric, for men\'s clothing.'),('Chevisance','n.','Achievement; deed; performance.'),('Chevisance','n.','A bargain; profit; gain.'),('Chevisance','n.','A making of contracts.'),('Chevisance','n.','A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in\n   dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.'),('Chevisance','n.','An unlawful agreement or contract.'),('Chevrette','n.','A machine for raising guns or mortar into their\n   carriages.'),('Chevron','n.','One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two\n   broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the\n   dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.'),('Chevron','n.','A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a\n   non-commissioned officer\'s coat.'),('Chevron','n.','A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman\n   architecture.'),('Chevroned','p. a.','Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure\n   of a zigzag from.'),('Chevronel','n.','A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.'),('Chevronwise','adv.','In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be\n   divided chevronwise.'),('Chevrotain','n.','A small ruminant of the family Tragulidae a allied to\n   the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.'),('Chevy','v. t.','See Chivy, v. t.'),('Chewed','imp. & p. p.','of Chew'),('Chewing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chew'),('Chew','v. t.','To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.'),('Chew','v. t.','To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.'),('Chew','v. i.','To perform the action of biting and grinding with the\n   teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.'),('Chew','n.','That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at\n   once; a cud.'),('Chewer','n.','One who chews.'),('Chewet','n.','A kind of meat pie.'),('Chewink','n.','An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch\n   family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and\n   ground robin.'),('Cheyennes','n. pl.','A warlike tribe of indians, related to the\n   blackfeet, formerly inhabiting the region of Wyoming, but now mostly on\n   reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their\n   horsemanship.'),('Chian','a.','Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.'),('Chiaroscurist','n.','A painter who cares for and studies light and shade\n   rather than color.'),('Chiaroscuro','n.','Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro'),('Chiaro-oscuro','n.','The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of\n   art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.'),('Chiaro-oscuro','n.','The art or practice of so arranging the light and\n   dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.'),('Chiasm','n.','Alt. of Chiasma'),('Chiasma','n.','A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial\n   union of the optic nerves.'),('Chiasmus','n.','An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when\n   repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence'),('Chiastolite','n.','A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The\n   tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical\n   arrangement of impurities in the crystal.'),('Chibbal','n.','See Cibol.'),('Chibouque','n.','Alt. of Chibouk'),('Chibouk','n.','A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a\n   stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and\n   a bowl of baked clay.'),('Chic','n.','Good form; style.'),('Chica','n.','A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica,\n   used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.'),('Chica','n.','A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a\n   decoction of maize.'),('Chica','n.','A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said\n   to be the original of the fandango, etc.'),('Chicane','n.','The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away\n   attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically\n   applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.'),('Chicane','n.','To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.'),('Chicaner','n.','One who uses chicanery.'),('Chicanery','n.','Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure\n   the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.'),('Chiccory','n.','See Chicory.'),('Chiches','pl. ','of Chich'),('Chich','n.','The chick-pea.'),('Chicha','n.','See Chica.'),('Chichevache','n.','A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was\n   patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.'),('Chichling','n.','Alt. of Chichling vetch'),('Chichling vetch','n.','A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad\n   flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.'),('Chick','v. i.','To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.'),('Chick','n.','A chicken.'),('Chick','n.','A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.'),('Chickabiddy','n.','A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment\n   for a child.'),('Chickadee','n.','A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus\n   atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.'),('Chickaree','n.','The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so\n   called from its cry.'),('Chickasaws','n. pl.','A tribe of North American Indians (Southern\n   Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the\n   northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian\n   Territory.'),('Chicken','n.','A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.'),('Chicken','n.','A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.'),('Chicken-breasted','a.','Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by\n   forward curvature of the vertebral column.'),('Chicken-hearted','a.','Timid; fearful; cowardly.'),('Chicken pox','','A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children\n   only; varicella.'),('Chickling','n.','A small chick or chicken.'),('Chick-pea','n.','A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia,\n   Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.'),('Chick-pea','n.','Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially,\n   when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern\n   deserts.'),('Chickweed','n.','The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially\n   Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food\n   of small birds.'),('Chicky','n.','A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially\n   in calling fowls.'),('Chicory','n.','A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with\n   bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also\n   cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive.\n   See Endive.'),('Chicory','n.','The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.'),('Chide','p. pr. & vb. n.','To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault\n   with.'),('Chide','p. pr. & vb. n.','Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.'),('Chide','v. i.','To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find\n   fault; to contend angrily.'),('Chide','v. i.','To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.'),('Chide','n.','A continuous noise or murmur.'),('Chider','n.','One who chides or quarrels.'),('Chideress','n.','She who chides.'),('Chidester','n.','A female scold.'),('Chidingly','adv.','In a chiding or reproving manner.'),('Chief','n.','The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an\n   army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority\n   who directs the work of others; the principal actor or agent.'),('Chief','n.','The principal part; the most valuable portion.'),('Chief','n.','The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be\n   composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs.'),('Chief','a.','Highest in office or rank; principal; head.'),('Chief','a.','Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most\n   distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important;\n   as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.'),('Chief','a.','Very intimate, near, or close.'),('Chiefage','n.','A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.'),('Chief baron','','The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.'),('Chiefest','a.','First or foremost; chief; principal.'),('Chief hare','','A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits\n   of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony,\n   American pika, and little chief hare.'),('Chief justice','','The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.'),('Chief-justiceship','n.','The office of chief justice.'),('Chiefless','a.','Without a chief or leader.'),('Chiefly','adv.','In the first place; principally; preeminently; above;\n   especially.'),('Chiefly','adv.','For the most part; mostly.'),('Chiefrie','n.','A small rent paid to the lord paramount.'),('Chieftain','n.','A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a\n   troop, army, or clan.'),('Chieftaincy','n.','Alt. of Chieftainship'),('Chieftainship','n.','The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.'),('Chierte','n.','Love; tender regard.'),('Chievance','n.','An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported\n   as discount.'),('Chieve','v. i.','See Cheve, v. i.'),('Chiff-chaff','n.','A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); --\n   called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.'),('Chiffonier','n.','Alt. of niere'),('Chiffo','n.','Alt. of niere'),('niere','n.','One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.'),('niere','n.','A receptacle for rags or shreds.'),('niere','n.','A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with\n   shelves or drawers.'),('Chignon','n.','A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn\n   by a woman at the back of the head.'),('Chigoe','n.','Alt. of Chigre'),('Chigre','n.','A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West\n   Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed\n   part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great\n   irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome\n   sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.'),('Chikara','n.','The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India.'),('Chikara','n.','The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).'),('Chilblain','n.','A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by\n   exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain,\n   and sometimes ulceration.'),('Chilblain','v. t.','To produce chilblains upon.'),('Children','pl. ','of Child'),('Child','n.','A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the\n   first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law,\n   legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.'),('Child','n.','A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural;\n   as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.'),('Child','n.','One who, by character of practice, shows signs of\n   relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected\n   with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child\n   of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the\n   people.'),('Child','n.','A noble youth. See Childe.'),('Child','n.','A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and\n   youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young\n   person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding,\n   etc.'),('Child','n.','A female infant.'),('Childed','imp. & p. p.','of Child'),('Childing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Child'),('Child','v. i.','To give birth; to produce young.'),('Childbearing','n.','The act of producing or bringing forth children;\n   parturition.'),('Childbed','n.','The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in\n   labor; parturition.'),('Childbirth','n.','The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.'),('Childcrowing','n.','The crowing noise made by children affected with\n   spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.'),('Childe','n.','A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son,\n   until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe\n   Roland.'),('Childed','a.','Furnished with a child.'),('Childermas day','','A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in\n   commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called\n   also Holy Innocent\'s Day.'),('Childhood','n.','The state of being a child; the time in which persons\n   are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.'),('Childhood','n.','Children, taken collectively.'),('Childhood','n.','The commencement; the first period.'),('Childing','v. i.','Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.'),('Childish','a.','Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.'),('Childish','a.','Puerile; trifling; weak.'),('Childishly','adv.','In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a\n   weak or foolish manner.'),('Childishness','n.','The state or quality of being childish; simplicity;\n   harmlessness; weakness of intellect.'),('Childlessness','n.','The state of being childless.'),('Childlike','a.','Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children;\n   becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.'),('Childly','a.','Having the character of a child; belonging, or\n   appropriate, to a child.'),('Childly','adv.','Like a child.'),('Childness','n.','The manner characteristic of a child.'),('Children','n.','pl. of Child.'),('Childship','n.','The state or relation of being a child.'),('Chili','n.','A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum'),('Chiliad','n.','A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things;\n   especially, a period of a thousand years.'),('Chiliagon','n.','A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.'),('Chiliahedron','n.','A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces'),('Chilian','a.','Of or pertaining to Chili.'),('Chilian','n.','A native or citizen of Chili.'),('Chilian','n.','Alt. of Chiliarch'),('Chiliarch','n.','The commander or chief of a thousand men.'),('Chiliarchy','n.','A body consisting of a thousand men.'),('Chiliasm','n.','The millennium.'),('Chiliasm','n.','The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth\n   during the millennium.'),('Chiliast','n.','One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign\n   on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.'),('Chiliastic','a.','Millenarian.'),('Chill','n.','A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable\n   sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.'),('Chill','n.','A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body,\n   pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the\n   body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some\n   constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.'),('Chill','n.','A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement;\n   as, a chill comes over an assembly.'),('Chill','n.','An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly,\n   and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with\n   it.'),('Chill','n.','The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.'),('Chill','a.','Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.'),('Chill','a.','Affected by cold.'),('Chill','a.','Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking\n   enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.'),('Chill','a.','Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.'),('Chilled','imp. & p. p.','of Chill'),('Chilling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chill'),('Chill','v. t.','To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to\n   shiver; to affect with cold.'),('Chill','v. t.','To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress;\n   to discourage.'),('Chill','v. t.','To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of\n   crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the\n   hardness; said of cast iron.'),('Chill','v. i.','To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while\n   solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than\n   others.'),('Chilled','a.','Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled\n   iron; a chilled wheel.'),('Chilled','a.','Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is\n   called \"blooming.\"'),('Chilli','n.','See Chili.'),('Chilliness','n.','A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable\n   sensation of coldness.'),('Chilliness','n.','A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or\n   rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.'),('Chilliness','n.','Formality; lack of warmth.'),('Chilling','a.','Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold;\n   distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.'),('Chillness','n.','Coolness; coldness; a chill.'),('Chilly','a.','Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause\n   shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a\n   shivering.'),('Chilognath','n.','A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.'),('Chilognatha','n. pl.','One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They\n   have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs,\n   which are attached ventrally, near together.'),('Chiloma','n.','The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.'),('Chilopod','n.','A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.'),('Chilopoda','n. pl.','One of the orders of myriapods, including the\n   centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally\n   to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs\n   converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and\n   some species grow to the length of a foot.'),('Chilostoma','n. pl.','Alt. of Chilostomata'),('Chilostomata','n. pl.','An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly\n   with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the\n   aperture of the cells.'),('Chilostomatous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.'),('Chiltern Hundreds','','A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and\n   Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of\n   steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go\n   out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.'),('Chimaera','n.','A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the\n   order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished\n   with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.'),('Chimaeroid','a.','Related to, or like, the chimaera.'),('Chimango','','A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See\n   Caracara.'),('Chimb','n.','The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.'),('Chimb','v. i.','Chime.'),('Chime','n.','See Chine, n., 3.'),('Chime','n.','The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.'),('Chime','n.','A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in\n   the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or\n   produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their\n   divisions.'),('Chime','n.','Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.'),('Chimed','imp. & p. p.','of Chime'),('Chiming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chime'),('Chime','n.','To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.'),('Chime','n.','To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to\n   correspond; to fall in with.'),('Chime','n.','To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by\n   in or in with.'),('Chime','n.','To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in\n   rhyming.'),('Chime','v. i.','To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a\n   set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.'),('Chime','v. i.','To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.'),('Chimer','n.','One who chimes.'),('Chimeras','pl. ','of Chimera'),('Chimera','n.','A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having\n   the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.'),('Chimera','n.','A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the\n   imagination; as, the chimera of an author.'),('Chimere','n.','The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are\n   usually attached.'),('Chimeric','a.','Chimerical.'),('Chimerical','a.','Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly\n   conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in\n   thought; as, chimerical projects.'),('Chimerically','adv.','Wildy; vainly; fancifully.'),('Chiminage','n.','A toll for passage through a forest.'),('Chimneys','pl. ','of Chimney'),('Chimney','n.','A fireplace or hearth.'),('Chimney','n.','That part of a building which contains the smoke flues;\n   esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending\n   through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of\n   chimney shaft.'),('Chimney','n.','A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a\n   lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.'),('Chimney','n.','A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending\n   downward in a vein.'),('Chimney-breast','n.','The horizontal projection of a chimney from the\n   wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the\n   inside of a building only.'),('Chimney-piece','n.','A decorative construction around the opening of a\n   fireplace.'),('Chimpanzee','n.','An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or\n   Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most\n   respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four\n   feet high.'),('Chin','n.','The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of\n   the under jaw.'),('Chin','n.','The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches\n   of the lower jaw bone, in birds.'),('China','n.','A country in Eastern Asia.'),('China','n.','China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain.\n   See Porcelain.'),('Chinaldine','n.','See Quinaldine.'),('Chinamen','pl. ','of Chinaman'),('Chinaman','n.','A native of China; a Chinese.'),('Chincapin','n.','See Chinquapin.'),('Chinch','n.','The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).'),('Chinch','n.','A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States,\n   is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called\n   chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its\n   disgusting odor.'),('Chincha','n.','A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.'),('Chinche','a.','Parsimonious; niggardly.'),('Chincherie','n.','Penuriousness.'),('Chinchilla','n.','A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a\n   large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of\n   a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.'),('Chinchilla','n.','The fur of the chinchilla.'),('Chinchilla','n.','A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.'),('Chinchona','','Alt. of Chincona'),('Chincona','','See Cinchona.'),('Chin cough','','Whooping cough.'),('Chine','n.','A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin\n   Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.'),('Chine','n.','The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.'),('Chine','n.','A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining\n   parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]'),('Chine','n.','The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting\n   ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.'),('Chined','imp. & p. p.','of Chine'),('Chine','v. t.','To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.'),('Chine','v. t.','Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..'),('Chined','a.','Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in\n   composition.'),('Chined','a.','Broken in the back.'),('Chinese','a.','Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.'),('Chinese','n. sing. & pl.','A native or natives of China, or one of that\n   yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.'),('Chinese','n. sing. & pl.','The language of China, which is monosyllabic.'),('Chink','n.','A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than\n   breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.'),('Chinked','imp. & p. p.','of Chink'),('Chinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chink'),('Chink','v. i.','To crack; to open.'),('Chink','v. t.','To cause to open in cracks or fissures.'),('Chink','v. t.','To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.'),('Chink','n.','A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight\n   degree of violence.'),('Chink','n.','Money; cash.'),('Chink','v. t.','To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small\n   pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.'),('Chink','v. i.','To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the\n   collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.'),('Chinky','a.','Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow\n   clefts.'),('Chinned','a.','Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as,\n   short-chinned.'),('Chinoidine','n.','See Quinodine.'),('Chinoline','n.','See Quinoline.'),('Chinone','n.','See Quinone.'),('Chinook','n.','One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the\n   state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls.\n   Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.'),('Chinook','n.','A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks,\n   sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana\n   and the adjacent territory.'),('Chinook','n.','A jargon of words from various languages (the largest\n   proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood\n   by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United\n   States.'),('Chinquapin','n.','A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea\n   pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the\n   chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.'),('Chinsed','imp. & p. p.','of Chinse'),('Chinsing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chinse'),('Chinse','v. t. & i.','To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a\n   chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.'),('Chintzes','pl. ','of Chintz'),('Chintz','n.','Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a\n   number of different colors, and often glazed.'),('Chioppine','n.','Same as Chopine, n.'),('Chipped','imp. & p. p.','of Chip'),('Chipping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chip'),('Chip','v. t.','To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape,\n   by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.'),('Chip','v. t.','To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an\n   eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.'),('Chip','v. t.','To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.'),('Chip','v. i.','To break or fly off in small pieces.'),('Chip','n.','A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an\n   ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.'),('Chip','n.','A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.'),('Chip','n.','Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in\n   a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.'),('Chip','n.','Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used\n   contemptuously.'),('Chip','n.','One of the counters used in poker and other games.'),('Chip','n.','The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.'),('Chipmunk','n.','A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes\n   called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel,\n   hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.'),('Chipper','v. i.','To chirp or chirrup.'),('Chipper','a.','Lively; cheerful; talkative.'),('Chippeways','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern\n   and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.'),('Chipping','n.','A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving\n   instrument; a fragment.'),('Chipping','n.','The act or process of cutting or breaking off small\n   pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or\n   block of stone to shape.'),('Chipping','n.','The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter\'s\n   ware, porcelain, etc.'),('Chipping bird','','The chippy.'),('Chipping squirrel','','See Chipmunk.'),('Chippy','a.','Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.'),('Chippy','n.','A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common\n   near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from\n   its simple note.'),('Chips','n.','A ship\'s carpenter.'),('Chiragra','n.','Gout in the hand.'),('Chiragrical','a.','Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that\n   disease.'),('Chiretta','n.','A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India,\n   having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and\n   febrifuge.'),('Chirk','v. i.','To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.'),('Chirk','v. i.','To chirp like a bird.'),('Chirk','v. t.','To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.'),('Chirk','v. i.','Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.'),('Chirm','v. i.','To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.'),('Chirognomy','n.','The art of judging character by the shape and\n   appearance of the hand.'),('Chirograph','n.','A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed\n   twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which\n   was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut,\n   and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a\n   charter party.'),('Chirograph','n.','The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the\n   foot of the fine.'),('Chirographer','n.','One who practice the art or business of writing or\n   engrossing.'),('Chirographer','n.','See chirographist, 2.'),('Chirographic','a.','Alt. of Chirographical'),('Chirographical','a.','Of or pertaining to chirography.'),('Chirographist','n.','A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.'),('Chirographist','n.','One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.'),('Chirography','n.','The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as,\n   skilled in chirography.'),('Chirography','n.','The art of telling fortunes by examining the hand.'),('Chirogymnast','n.','A mechanical contrivance for exercising the fingers\n   of a pianist.'),('Chirological','a.','Relating to chirology.'),('Chirologist','n.','One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the\n   hands and fingers.'),('Chirology','n.','The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of\n   communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a\n   substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf\n   and dumb. See Dactylalogy.'),('Chiromancer','n.','One who practices chiromancy.'),('Chiromancy','n.','The art or practice of foretelling events, or of\n   telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the\n   hand; palmistry.'),('Chiromanist','n.','Alt. of Chiromantist'),('Chiromantist','n.','A chiromancer.'),('Chiromantic','a.','Alt. of Chiromantical'),('Chiromantical','a.','Of or pertaining to chiromancy.'),('Chiromonic','a.','Relating to chironomy.'),('Chironomy','n.','The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime;\n   gesture'),('Chiroplast','n.','An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils\n   in playing on the piano, etc.'),('Chiropodist','n.','One who treats diseases of the hands and feet;\n   especially, one who removes corns and bunions.'),('Chiropody','n.','The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.'),('Chirosophist','n.','A fortune teller.'),('Chirped','imp. & p. p.','of Chirp'),('Chirping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chirp'),('Chirp','v. i.','To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or\n   crickets.'),('Chirp','n.','A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.'),('Chirper','n.','One who chirps, or is cheerful.'),('Chirping','a.','Cheering; enlivening.'),('Chirpingly','adv.','In a chirping manner.'),('Chirre','v. i.','To coo, as a pigeon.'),('Chirruped','imp. & p. p.','of Chirrup'),('Chirruping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chirrup'),('Chirrup','v. t.','To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.'),('Chirrup','v. i.','To chirp.'),('Chirrup','n.','The act of chirping; a chirp.'),('Chirrupy','a.','Cheerful; joyous; chatty.'),('Chirurgeon','n.','A surgeon.'),('Chirurgeonly','adv.','Surgically.'),('Chirurgery','n.','Surgery.'),('Chirurgic','a.','Alt. of Chirurgical'),('Chirurgical','a.','Surgical'),('Chisel','n.','A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade,\n   used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; --\n   usually driven by a mallet or hammer.'),('Chiseled','imp. & p. p.','of Chisel'),('Chiselled','','of Chisel'),('Chiseling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chisel'),('Chiselling','','of Chisel'),('Chisel','v. t.','To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to\n   chisel a block of marble into a statue.'),('Chisel','v. t.','To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.'),('Chisleu','n.','The ninth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year,\n   answering to a part of November with a part of December.'),('Chisley','a.','Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; --\n   said of a soil.'),('Chit','n.','The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout;\n   as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.'),('Chit','n.','A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or\n   insignificant person or animal.'),('Chit','n.','An excrescence on the body, as a wart.'),('Chit','n.','A small tool used in cleaving laths.'),('Chit','v. i.','To shoot out; to sprout.'),('Chit','3d sing.','Chideth.'),('Chitchat','n.','Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.'),('Chitin','n.','A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part\n   of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other\n   invertebrates; entomolin.'),('Chitinization','n.','The process of becoming chitinous.'),('Chitinous','a.','Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or\n   containing, chitin.'),('Chiton','n.','An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly\n   representing the modern shirt.'),('Chiton','n.','One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed\n   of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.'),('Chitter','v. i.','To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.'),('Chitter','v. i.','To shiver or chatter with cold.'),('Chitterling','n.','The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed\n   out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.'),('Chitterlings','n. pl.','The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for\n   food.'),('Chittra','n.','The axis deer of India.'),('Chitty','a.','Full of chits or sprouts.'),('Chitty','a.','Childish; like a babe.'),('Chivachie','n.','A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition.'),('Chivalric','a.','Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.'),('Chivalrous','a.','Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike;\n   heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.'),('Chivalrously','adv.','In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.'),('Chivalry','n.','A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on\n   horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.'),('Chivalry','n.','The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages,\n   or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.'),('Chivalry','n.','The qualifications or character of knights, as valor,\n   dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.'),('Chivalry','n.','A tenure of lands by knight\'s service; that is, by the\n   condition of a knight\'s performing service on horseback, or of\n   performing some noble or military service to his lord.'),('Chivalry','n.','Exploit.'),('Chive','n.','A filament of a stamen.'),('Chive','n.','A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the\n   onion. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.'),('Chivied','imp. & p. p.','of Chivy'),('Chivying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chivy'),('Chivy','v. t.','To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.'),('Chlamydate','a.','Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.'),('Chlamyphore','n.','A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus\n   truncatus, and C. retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with\n   a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the\n   spine.'),('Chlamyses','pl. ','of Chlamys'),('Chlamydes','pl. ','of Chlamys'),('Chlamys','n.','A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient\n   Greeks; a kind of cloak.'),('Chloasma','n.','A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or\n   yellowish brown pigmented spots.'),('Chloral','n.','A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and\n   harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl\n   alcohol.'),('Chloral','n.','Chloral hydrate.'),('Chloralamide','n.','A compound of chloral and formic amide used to\n   produce sleep.'),('Chloralism','n.','A morbid condition of the system resulting from\n   excessive use of chloral.'),('Chloralum','n.','An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium,\n   used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.'),('Chloranil','n.','A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a\n   derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain\n   benzene derivatives, as aniline.'),('Chlorate','n.','A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.'),('Chloraurate','n.','See Aurochloride.'),('Chlorhydric','a.','Same as Hydrochloric.'),('Chlorhydrin','n.','One of a class of compounds formed from certain\n   polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of\n   chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.'),('Chloric','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of\n   those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of\n   five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.'),('Chloridate','v. t.','To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with\n   chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.'),('Chloride','n.','A binary compound of chlorine with another element or\n   radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).'),('Chloridic','a.','Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.'),('Chloridize','v. t.','See Chloridate.'),('Chlorimetry','n.','See Chlorometry.'),('Chlorinated','imp. & p. p.','of Chlorinate'),('Chlorinating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chlorinate'),('Chlorinate','v. t.','To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.'),('Chlorination','n.','The act or process of subjecting anything to the\n   action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by\n   exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.'),('Chlorine','n.','One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a\n   greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an\n   intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It\n   is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt.\n   It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl.\n   Atomic weight, 35.4.'),('Chloriodic','a.','Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine\n   and iodine.'),('Chloriodine','n.','A compound of chlorine and iodine.'),('Chlorite','n.','The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color\n   and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of\n   alumina, iron, and magnesia.'),('Chlorite','n.','Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.'),('Chloritic','a.','Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic\n   sand.'),('Chlormethane','n.','A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily\n   condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.'),('Chloro-','','A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the\n   substance named.'),('Chlorocruorin','n.','A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the\n   green color of the blood in some species of worms.'),('Chlorodyne','n.','A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium,\n   chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.'),('Chloroform','n.','A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal\n   odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and\n   an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is\n   extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also\n   externally, to alleviate pain.'),('Chloroformed','imp. & p. p.','of Chloroform'),('Chloroforming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chloroform'),('Chloroform','v. t.','To treat with chloroform, or to place under its\n   influence.'),('Chloroleucite','n.','Same as Chloroplastid.'),('Chlorometer','n.','An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching\n   power of chloride of lime.'),('Chlorometry','n.','The process of testing the bleaching power of any\n   combination of chlorine.'),('Chloropal','n.','A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in\n   appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.'),('Chloropeptic','a.','Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called\n   pepsin-hydrochloric acid.'),('Chlorophane','n.','A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a\n   beautiful emerald green light.'),('Chlorophane','n.','The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of\n   the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.'),('Chlorophyll','n.','Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed\n   in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of\n   plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all\n   ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll\n   granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.'),('Chloroplastid','n.','A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called\n   chloroleucite.'),('Chloroplatinic','a.','See Platinichloric.'),('Chlorosis','n.','The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women,\n   characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin,\n   weakness, palpitation, etc.'),('Chlorosis','n.','A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green\n   or the leaves to lose their normal green color.'),('Chlorotic','a.','Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.'),('Chlorous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of\n   those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of\n   three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid,\n   HClO2.'),('Chlorous','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative\n   character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous\n   or zincous.'),('Chlorpicrin','n.','A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong\n   pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of\n   chlorine.'),('Chloruret','n.','A chloride.'),('Choak','v. t. & i.','See Choke.'),('Choanoid','a.','Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle\n   attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.'),('Chocard','n.','The chough.'),('Chocked','imp. & p. p.','of Chock'),('Chocking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chock'),('Chock','v. t.','To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch;\n   as, to chock a wheel or cask.'),('Chock','v. i.','To fill up, as a cavity.'),('Chock','n.','A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is\n   desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or\n   prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.'),('Chock','n.','A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It\n   has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or\n   hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.'),('Chock','adv.','Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.'),('Chock','v. t.','To encounter.'),('Chock','n.','An encounter.'),('Chockablock','a.','Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought\n   close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.'),('Chock-full','a.','Quite full; choke-full.'),('Chocolate','n.','A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the\n   Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar,\n   and cinnamon or vanilla.'),('Chocolate','n.','The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste\n   or cake in boiling water or milk.'),('Choctaws','n. pl.','A tribe of North American Indians (Southern\n   Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture,\n   and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of\n   the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.'),('Chode','','the old imp. of chide. See Chide.'),('Chogset','n.','See Cunner.'),('Choice','n.','Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or\n   separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the\n   determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.'),('Choice','n.','The power or opportunity of choosing; option.'),('Choice','n.','Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what\n   is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.'),('Choice','n.','A sufficient number to choose among.'),('Choice','n.','The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and\n   selected in preference to others; selection.'),('Choice','n.','The best part; that which is preferable.'),('Choice','superl.','Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select;\n   superior; precious; valuable.'),('Choice','superl.','Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; --\n   used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.'),('Choice','superl.','Selected with care, and due attention to preference;\n   deliberately chosen.'),('Choiceful','a.','Making choices; fickle.'),('Choicely','adv.','With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.'),('Choicely','adv.','In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently;\n   eminently.'),('Choiceness','n.','The quality of being of particular value or worth;\n   nicely; excellence.'),('Choir','n.','A band or organized company of singers, especially in church\n   service.'),('Choir','n.','That part of a church appropriated to the singers.'),('Choir','n.','The chancel.'),('Choked','imp. & p. p.','of Choke'),('Choking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Choke'),('Choke','v. t.','To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or\n   squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.'),('Choke','v. t.','To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to\n   block up.'),('Choke','v. t.','To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.;\n   to stifle.'),('Choke','v. t.','To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or\n   strong feeling.'),('Choke','v. t.','To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the\n   barrel of a shotgun.'),('Choke','v. i.','To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the\n   throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be\n   strangled.'),('Choke','v. i.','To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.'),('Choke','n.','A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the\n   feeling of strangulation.'),('Choke','n.','The tied end of a cartridge.'),('Choke','n.','A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket,\n   etc.'),('Chokeberry','n.','The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an\n   American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the\n   shrub.'),('Chokecherry','n.','The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry\n   (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.'),('Choke damp','','See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.'),('Chokedar','n.','A watchman; an officer of customs or police.'),('Choke-full','a.','Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.'),('Choke pear','','A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is\n   swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of\n   the mouth.'),('Choke pear','','A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that\n   can not be answered.'),('Choker','n.','One who, or that which, chokes.'),('Choker','n.','A stiff wide cravat; a stock.'),('Choke-strap','n.','A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part\n   of the collar, to keep the collar in place.'),('Choking','a.','That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.'),('Choking','a.','Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected\n   with strong emotion.'),('Choky Chokey','a.','Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to\n   suffocate.'),('Choky Chokey','a.','Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong\n   emotion.'),('Cholaemaa','n.','A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms,\n   dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the\n   blood.'),('Cholagogue','a.','Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.'),('Cholagogue','n.','An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the\n   system.'),('Cholate','n.','A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.'),('Cholecystis','n.','The gall bladder.'),('Cholecystotomy','n.','The operation of making an opening in the gall\n   bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.'),('Choledology','n.','A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.'),('Choleic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.'),('Choler','n.','The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of\n   irascibility.'),('Choler','n.','Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.'),('Cholera','n.','One of several diseases affecting the digestive and\n   intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one\n   commonly called Asiatic cholera.'),('Choleraic','a.','Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.'),('Choleric','a.','Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.'),('Choleric','a.','Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.'),('Choleric','a.','Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.'),('Cholericly','adv.','In a choleric manner; angrily.'),('Choleriform','a.','Resembling cholera.'),('Cholerine','n.','The precursory symptoms of cholera.'),('Cholerine','n.','The first stage of epidemic cholera.'),('Cholerine','n.','A mild form of cholera.'),('Choleroid','a.','Choleriform.'),('Cholesteric','a.','Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as,\n   cholesteric acid.'),('Cholesterin','n.','A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and\n   odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially\n   in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.'),('Choliamb','n.','Alt. of Choliambic'),('Choliambic','n.','A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a\n   spondee in the sixth or last.'),('Cholic','a.','Alt. of Cholinic'),('Cholinic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.'),('Choline','n.','See Neurine.'),('Cholochrome','n.','See Bilirubin.'),('Cholophaein','n.','See Bilirubin.'),('Choltry','n.','A Hindoo caravansary.'),('Chomp','v. i.','To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.'),('Chondrification','n.','Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.'),('Chondrify','v. t. & i.','To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.'),('Chondrigen','n.','The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long\n   boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.'),('Chondrigenous','a.','Affording chondrin.'),('Chondrin','n.','A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless\n   and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action\n   of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient\n   of commercial gelatin.'),('Chondrite','n.','A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of\n   chondrules.'),('Chondritic','a.','Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular\n   structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.'),('Chondritis','n.','An inflammation of cartilage.'),('Chondro-','','A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular\n   cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous\n   skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.'),('Chondrodite','n.','A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in\n   color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.'),('Chondroganoidea','n.','An order of ganoid fishes, including the\n   sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.'),('Chondrogen','n.','Same as Chondrigen.'),('Chondrogenesis','n.','The development of cartilage.'),('Chondroid','a.','Resembling cartilage.'),('Chondrology','n.','The science which treats of cartilages.'),('Chondromata','pl. ','of Chondroma'),('Chondroma','n.','A cartilaginous tumor or growth.'),('Chondrometer','n.','A steelyard for weighting grain.'),('Chondropterygian','a.','Having a cartilaginous skeleton.'),('Chondropterygian','n.','One of the Chondropterygii.'),('Chondropterygii','n. pl.','A group of fishes, characterized by\n   cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons,\n   etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the\n   latter.'),('Chondrostei','n. pl.','An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so\n   named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.'),('Chondrotomy','n.','The dissection of cartilages.'),('Chondrule','n.','A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually\n   enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the\n   mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.'),('Chose','imp.','of Choose'),('Chosen','p. p.','of Choose'),('Chose','','of Choose'),('Choosing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Choose'),('Choose','v. t.','To make choice of; to select; to take by way of\n   preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose\n   the least of two evils.'),('Choose','v. t.','To wish; to desire; to prefer.'),('Choose','v. i.','To make a selection; to decide.'),('Choose','v. i.','To do otherwise.'),('Chooser','n.','One who chooses; one who has the power or right of\n   choosing; an elector.'),('Chopped','imp. & p. p.','of Chop'),('Chopping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chop'),('Chop','v. t.','To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to\n   cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.'),('Chop','v. t.','To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp\n   instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.'),('Chop','v. t.','To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.'),('Chop','v. i.','To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or\n   other sharp instrument.'),('Chop','v. i.','To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to\n   catch or attempt to seize.'),('Chop','v. i.','To interrupt; -- with in or out.'),('Chop','v. i.','To barter or truck.'),('Chop','v. i.','To exchange; substitute one thing for another.'),('Chop','v. i.','To purchase by way of truck.'),('Chop','v. i.','To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.'),('Chop','v. i.','To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.'),('Chop','n.','A change; a vicissitude.'),('Chop','v. t. & i.','To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.'),('Chop','n.','The act of chopping; a stroke.'),('Chop','n.','A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of\n   meat; as, a mutton chop.'),('Chop','n.','A crack or cleft. See Chap.'),('Chop','n.','A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.'),('Chop','n.','A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.'),('Chop','n.','The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or\n   channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.'),('Chop','n.','Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.'),('Chop','n.','A permit or clearance.'),('Chopboat','n.','A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of\n   goods to and from vessels.'),('Chopchurch','n.','An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.'),('Chopfallen','a.','Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence,\n   crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.'),('Chophouse','n.','A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.'),('Chophouse','n.','A customhouse where transit duties are levied.'),('Chopin','n.','A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain,\n   varying from half a pint to a wine quart.'),('Chopin','n.','See Chopine.'),('Chopine','n.','A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some\n   cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.'),('Chop-logic','n.','One who bandies words or is very argumentative.'),('Chopness','n.','A kind of spade.'),('Chopper','n.','One who, or that which, chops.'),('Chopping','a.','Stout or plump; large.'),('Chopping','a.','Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having\n   tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.'),('Chopping','n.','Act of cutting by strokes.'),('Choppy','a.','Full of cracks.'),('Choppy','a.','Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.'),('Chops','n. pl.','The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.'),('Chops','n. pl.','The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel,\n   harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.'),('Chopstick','n.','One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by\n   the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.'),('Choragic','a.','Of or pertaining to a choragus.'),('Choragi','pl. ','of Choragus'),('Choragus','n.','A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense\n   and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical\n   contents at Athens.'),('Choral','a.','Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or\n   adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.'),('Choral','n.','A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the\n   congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.'),('Choralist','n.','A singer or composer of chorals.'),('Chorally','adv.','In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a\n   choir; in harmony.'),('Chord','n.','The string of a musical instrument.'),('Chord','n.','A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing\n   more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.'),('Chord','n.','A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle\n   or curve.'),('Chord','n.','A cord. See Cord, n., 4.'),('Chord','n.','The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal,\n   resisting compression or tension.'),('Chorded','imp. & p. p.','of Chord'),('Chording','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chord'),('Chord','v. t.','To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to\n   tune.'),('Chord','v. i.','To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords\n   with that.'),('Chorda','n.','A cord.'),('Chordal','a.','Of or pertaining to a chord.'),('Chordata','n. pl.','A comprehensive division of animals including all\n   Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal\n   nervous cord.'),('Chordee','n.','A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward\n   curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.'),('Chore','n.','A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of\n   a household or farm, either within or without doors.'),('Chored','imp. & p. p.','of Chore'),('Choring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chore'),('Chore','v. i.','To do chores.'),('Chore','n.','A choir or chorus.'),('Chorea','n.','St. Vitus\'s dance; a disease attended with convulsive\n   twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.'),('Choree','n.','See Choreus.'),('Choregraphic','a.','Alt. of Choregraphical'),('Choregraphical','a.','Pertaining to choregraphy.'),('Choregraphy','n.','The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is\n   represented by notes.'),('Choreic','a.','Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.'),('Chorepiscopal','a.','Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or\n   authority.'),('Chorepiscopi','pl. ','of Chorepiscopus'),('Chorepiscopus','n.','A \"country\" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the\n   ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction\n   in a rural district.'),('Choreus','n.','Alt. of Choree'),('Choree','n.','a trochee.'),('Choree','n.','A tribrach.'),('Choriambs','pl. ','of Choriamb'),('Choriamb','n.','Same as Choriambus.'),('Choriambic','a.','Pertaining to a choriamb.'),('Choriambic','n.','A choriamb.'),('Choriambi','pl. ','of Choriambus'),('Choriambuses','pl. ','of Choriambus'),('Choriambus','n.','A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first\n   and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus,\n   or trochee, and an iambus united.'),('Choric','a.','Of or pertaining to a chorus.'),('Chorion','n.','The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb;\n   also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of\n   development.'),('Chorion','n.','The true skin, or cutis.'),('Chorion','n.','The outer membrane of seeds of plants.'),('Chorisis','n.','The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more\n   parts.'),('Chorist','n.','A singer in a choir; a chorister.'),('Chorister','n.','One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.'),('Chorister','n.','One who leads a choir in church music.'),('Choristic','a.','Choric; choral.'),('Chorograph','n.','An instrument for constructing triangles in marine\n   surveying, etc.'),('Chorographer','n.','One who describes or makes a map of a district or\n   region.'),('Chorographer','n.','A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the\n   locality of ancient places.'),('Chorographical','a.','Pertaining to chorography.'),('Chorography','n.','the mapping or description of a region or district.'),('Choroid','a.','resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the\n   ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.'),('Choroid','n.','The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.'),('Choroidal','a.','Pertaining to the choroid coat.'),('Chorology','n.','The science which treats of the laws of distribution of\n   living organisms over the earth\'s surface as to latitude, altitude,\n   locality, etc.'),('Chorometry','n.','The art of surveying a region or district.'),('Choruses','pl. ','of Chorus'),('Chorus','n.','A band of singers and dancers.'),('Chorus','n.','A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the\n   acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events\n   suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was\n   thus sung by the chorus.'),('Chorus','n.','An interpreter in a dumb show or play.'),('Chorus','n.','A company of singers singing in concert.'),('Chorus','n.','A composition of two or more parts, each of which is\n   intended to be sung by a number of voices.'),('Chorus','n.','Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the\n   end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or\n   choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.'),('Chorus','n.','The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration;\n   as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.'),('Chorused','imp. & p. p.','of Chorus'),('Chorusing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chorus'),('Chorus','v. i.','To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.'),('Choses','pl. ','of Chose'),('Chose','n.','A thing; personal property.'),('Chose','','imp. & p. p. of Choose.'),('Chosen','p. p.','Selected from a number; picked out; choice.'),('Chosen','n.','One who, or that which is the object of choice or special\n   favor.'),('Chouan','n.','One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany,\n   etc.), during and after the French revolution.'),('Chough','n.','A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It\n   is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; --\n   also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow.\n   The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.'),('Chouicha','n.','The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See\n   Quinnat.'),('Chouka','n.','The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.'),('Choule','n.','See Jowl.'),('Choultry','n.','See Choltry.'),('Choused','imp. & p. p.','of Chouse'),('Chousing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chouse'),('Chouse','v. t.','To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of;\n   as, to chouse one out of his money.'),('Chouse','n.','One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.'),('Chouse','n.','A trick; sham; imposition.'),('Chouse','n.','A swindler.'),('Chout','n.','An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.'),('Chowchow','a.','Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as,\n   chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).'),('Chowchow','n.','A kind of mixed pickles.'),('Chowder','n.','A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc.,\n   stewed together.'),('Chowder','n.','A seller of fish.'),('Chowder','v. t.','To make a chowder of.'),('Chowry','n.','A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.'),('Chowter','v. t.','To grumble or mutter like a froward child.'),('Choy root','','See Chay root.'),('Chrematistics','n.','The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of\n   the science, of political economy.'),('Chreotechnics','n.','The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture,\n   manufactures, and commerce.'),('Chrestomathic','a.','Teaching what is useful.'),('Chrestomathy','n.','A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used\n   in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.'),('Chrism','n.','Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the\n   bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism,\n   confirmation, ordination, etc.'),('Chrism','n.','The same as Chrisom.'),('Chrismal','a.','Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.'),('Chrismation','n.','The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.'),('Chrismatory','n.','A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.'),('Chrisom','n.','A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle\n   thrown over a child when baptized or christened.'),('Chrisom','n.','A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so\n   called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.'),('Christ','n.','The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It\n   is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.'),('Christcross','n.','The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or\n   stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o\'clock on a\n   dial.'),('Christcross','n.','The beginning and the ending.'),('Christcross-row','','The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the\n   cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes\n   practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.'),('Christened','imp. & p. p.','of Christen'),('Christening','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Christen'),('Christen','v. t.','To baptize and give a Christian name to.'),('Christen','v. t.','To give a name; to denominate.'),('Christen','v. t.','To Christianize.'),('Christen','v. t.','To use for the first time.'),('Christendom','n.','The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence,\n   the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.'),('Christendom','n.','The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any\n   name or appelation.'),('Christendom','n.','That portion of the world in which Christianity\n   prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in\n   distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.'),('Christendom','n.','The whole body of Christians.'),('Christian','n.','One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe,\n   in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose\n   inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.'),('Christian','n.','One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents,\n   and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.'),('Christian','n.','One of a Christian denomination which rejects human\n   creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are\n   congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are\n   also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.'),('Christian','n.','One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of\n   open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative\n   rule of faith and practice.'),('Christian','a.','Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian\n   people.'),('Christian','a.','Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a\n   Christian court.'),('Christian','a.','Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind;\n   kindly; gentle; beneficent.'),('Christianism','n.','The Christian religion.'),('Christianism','n.','The Christian world; Christendom.'),('Christianite','n.','Same as Anorthite.'),('Christianite','n.','See Phillipsite.'),('Christianity','n.','The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines\n   and precepts taught by Christ.'),('Christianity','n.','Practical conformity of one\'s inward and outward life\n   to the spirit of the Christian religion'),('Christianity','n.','The body of Christian believers.'),('Christianization','n.','The act or process of converting or being\n   converted to a true Christianity.'),('Christianized','imp. & p. p.','of Christianize'),('Christianizing','p. pr. vb. n.','of Christianize'),('Christianize','v. t.','To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as,\n   to Christianize pagans.'),('Christianize','v. t.','To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.'),('Christianize','v. i.','To adopt the character or belief of a Christian;\n   to become Christian.'),('Christianlike','a.','Becoming to a Christian.'),('Christianly','adv.','In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian\n   religion.'),('Christianly','a.','Christianlike.'),('Christianness','n.','Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity.'),('Christless','a.','Without faith in Christ; unchristian.'),('Christlike','a.','Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc.'),('Christly','a.','Christlike.'),('Christmas','n.','An annual church festival (December 25) and in some\n   States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often\n   celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts,\n   greetings, and hospitality.'),('Christmastide','n.','The season of Christmas.'),('Christocentric','a.','Making Christ the center, about whom all things are\n   grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the\n   central object of thought or emotion.'),('Christology','n.','A treatise on Christ; that department of theology\n   which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.'),('Christom','n.','See Chrisom.'),('Christophany','n.','An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after\n   the crucifixion.'),('Christ\'s-thorn','n.','One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in\n   Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi,\n   and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be\n   considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of\n   Thorns.'),('Chromascope','n.','An instrument for showing the optical effects of\n   color.'),('Chromate','n.','A salt of chromic acid.'),('Chromatic','a.','Relating to color, or to colors.'),('Chromatic','a.','Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or\n   semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the\n   diatonic scale.'),('Chromatical','a.','Chromatic.'),('Chromatically','adv.','In a chromatic manner.'),('Chromatics','n.','The science of colors; that part of optics which treats\n   of the properties of colors.'),('Chromatin','n.','Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.'),('Chromatism','n.','The state of being colored, as in the case of images\n   formed by a lens.'),('Chromatism','n.','An abnormal coloring of plants.'),('Chromatogenous','a.','Producing color.'),('Chromatography','n.','A treatise on colors'),('Chromatology','n.','A treatise on colors.'),('Chromatophore','n.','A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid\n   pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes\n   of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They\n   are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.'),('Chromatophore','n.','One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass\n   give color to the part of the plant containing them.'),('Chromatoscope','n.','A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to\n   rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star,\n   instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.'),('Chromatosphere','n.','A chromosphere.'),('Chromatrope','n.','An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects\n   of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of\n   colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.'),('Chromatrope','n.','A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce\n   kaleidoscopic effects.'),('Chromatype','n.','A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made\n   sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.'),('Chromatype','n.','The process by which such picture is made.'),('Chrome','n.','Same as Chromium.'),('Chromic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the\n   compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.'),('Chromid','n.','One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes\n   abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable\n   food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.'),('Chromidrosis','n.','Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.'),('Chromism','n.','Same as Chromatism.'),('Chromite','n.','A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of\n   chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.'),('Chromite','n.','A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an\n   acid.'),('Chromium','n.','A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in\n   the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it\n   is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its\n   chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium\n   chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are\n   used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.'),('Chromos','pl. ','of Chromo'),('Chromo','n.','A chromolithograph.'),('Chromoblast','n.','An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.'),('Chromogen','','Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.'),('Chromogen','','Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more\n   chromophores.'),('Chromogenic','a.','Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as,\n   chromogenic bacteria.'),('Chromograph','n.','An apparatus by which a number of copies of written\n   matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.'),('Chromoleucite','n.','A chromoplastid.'),('Chromolithograph','n.','A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated\n   impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic\n   process.'),('Chromolithographer','n.','One who is engaged in chromolithography.'),('Chromolithographic','a.','Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.'),('Chromolithography','n.','Lithography adapted to printing in inks of\n   various colors.'),('Chromophane','n.','A general name for the several coloring matters, red,\n   green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the\n   retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light;\n   distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.'),('Chromophore','n.','Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2)\n   which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an\n   ingredient.'),('Chromophotography','n.','The art of producing photographs in colors.'),('Chromophotolithograph','n.','A photolithograph printed in colors.'),('Chromoplastid','n.','A protoplasmic granule of some other color than\n   green; -- also called chromoleucite.'),('Chromosome','n.','One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of\n   the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of\n   Weismann.'),('Chromosphere','n.','An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of\n   incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the\n   photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up\n   into enormous tongues of flame.'),('Chromospheric','a.','Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.'),('Chromotype','n.','A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a\n   chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.'),('Chromotype','n.','A photographic picture in the natural colors.'),('Chromous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this\n   element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.'),('Chromule','n.','A general name for coloring matter of plants other than\n   chlorophyll, especially that of petals.'),('Chronic','a.','Relating to time; according to time.'),('Chronic','a.','Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.'),('Chronical','a.','Chronic.'),('Chronicle','n.','An historical register or account of facts or events\n   disposed in the order of time.'),('Chronicle','n.','A narrative of events; a history; a record.'),('Chronicle','n.','The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which\n   immediately follow 2 Kings.'),('Chronicled','imp. & p. p.','of Chronicle'),('Chronicling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chronicle'),('Chronicle','v. t.','To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to\n   register.'),('Chronicler','n.','A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the\n   order of time; an historian.'),('Chronique','n.','A chronicle.'),('Chronogram','n.','An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made\n   to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a\n   particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus\n   Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.- the capitals of which\n   give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.'),('Chronogram','n.','The record or inscription made by a chronograph.'),('Chronogrammatic','a.','Alt. of Chronogrammatical'),('Chronogrammatical','a.','Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.'),('Chronogrammatist','n.','A writer of chronograms.'),('Chronograph','n.','An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of\n   time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The\n   action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.'),('Chronograph','n.','Same as Chronogram, 1.'),('Chronograph','n.','A chronoscope.'),('Chronographer','n.','One who writes a chronography; a chronologer.'),('Chronographic','a.','Of or pertaining to a chronograph.'),('Chronography','n.','A description or record of past time; history.'),('Chronologer','n.','Same as Chronologist.'),('Chronologic','a.','Alt. of Chronological'),('Chronological','a.','Relating to chronology; containing an account of\n   events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as,\n   chronological tables.'),('Chronologist','n.','Alt. of Chronologer'),('Chronologer','n.','A person who investigates dates of events and\n   transactions; one skilled in chronology.'),('Chronologies','pl. ','of Chronology'),('Chronology','n.','The science which treats of measuring time by regular\n   divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their\n   proper dates.'),('Chronometer','n.','An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.'),('Chronometer','n.','A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation\n   balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time\n   with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in\n   determining longitude, etc.'),('Chronometer','n.','A metronome.'),('Chronometric','a.','Alt. of Chronometrical'),('Chronometrical','a.','Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a\n   chronometer.'),('Chronometry','n.','The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by\n   periods or divisions.'),('Chronopher','n.','An instrument signaling the correct time to distant\n   points by electricity.'),('Chronoscope','n.','An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time;\n   used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of\n   short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.'),('Chrysalid','a.','Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.'),('Chrysalids','pl. ','of Chrysalid'),('Chrysalid','n.','See Chrysalis.'),('Chrysalides','pl. ','of Chrysalis'),('Chrysalis','n.','The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies,\n   from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).'),('Chrysaniline','n.','A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the\n   manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.'),('Chrysanthemum','n.','A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and\n   of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums\n   (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.'),('Chrysarobin','n.','A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential\n   constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence\n   formerly called also chrysphanic acid.'),('Chrysaurin','n.','An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.'),('Chryselephantine','a.','Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.'),('Chrysene','n.','One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar,\n   allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline\n   substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored\n   yellow by impurities.'),('Chrysoberyl','n.','A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or\n   brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard,\n   and is often used as a gem.'),('Chrysochlore','n.','A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the\n   golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green\n   and gold.'),('Chrysocolla','n.','A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a\n   blue or greenish blue color.'),('Chrysogen','n.','A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude\n   anthracene.'),('Chrysography','n.','The art of writing in letters of gold.'),('Chrysography','n.','A writing executed in letters of gold.'),('Chrysoidine','n.','An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye,\n   C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling\n   chrysoidine proper.'),('Chrysolite','n.','A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a\n   yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; --\n   called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was\n   also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.'),('Chrysology','n.','That branch of political economy which relates to the\n   production of wealth.'),('Chrysopa','n.','A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.'),('Chrysophane','n.','A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter,\n   yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on\n   decomposition.'),('Chrysophanic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling,\n   chrysophane.'),('Chrysoprase','n.','An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by\n   nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.'),('Chrysoprasus','n.','See Chrysoprase.'),('Chrysosperm','n.','The seed of gold; a means of creating gold.'),('Chrysotype','n.','A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the\n   use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of\n   chloride of gold.'),('Chrysotype','n.','2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.'),('Chthonic','a.','Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.'),('Chthonophagia','n.','Alt. of Chthonophagy'),('Chthonophagy','n.','A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to\n   eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the\n   West Indies, etc.'),('Chub','n.','A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp\n   family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven.\n   In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of\n   the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to\n   several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.'),('Chubbed','a.','Chubby.'),('Chubbedness','n.','The state of being chubby.'),('Chubby','a.','Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.'),('Chub-faced','a.','Having a plump, short face.'),('Chucked','imp. & p. p.','of Chuck'),('Chucking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chuck'),('Chuck','v. i.','To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls\n   her chickens; to cluck.'),('Chuck','v. i.','To chuckle; to laugh.'),('Chuck','v. t.','To call, as a hen her chickens.'),('Chuck','n.','The chuck or call of a hen.'),('Chuck','n.','A sudden, small noise.'),('Chuck','n.','A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.'),('Chucked','imp. & p. p.','of Chuck'),('Chucking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chuck'),('Chuck','v. t.','To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.'),('Chuck','v. t.','To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.'),('Chuck','v. t.','To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in\n   turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.'),('Chuck','n.','A slight blow or pat under the chin.'),('Chuck','n.','A short throw; a toss.'),('Chuck','n.','A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe,\n   for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.'),('Chuck','n.','A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.'),('Chuck','n.','A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed\n   up and caught; jackstones.'),('Chuck','n.','A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck\n   and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a\n   chuck steak; a chuck roast.'),('Chuckled','imp. & p. p.','of Chuckle'),('Chuckling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chuckle'),('Chuckle','v. t.','To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck.'),('Chuckle','v. t.','To fondle; to cocker.'),('Chuckle','n.','A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction,\n   exultation, or derision.'),('Chuckle','v. i.','To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as\n   expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.'),('Chucklehead','n.','A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.'),('Chuckleheaded','a.','Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid.'),('Chuck-Will\'s-widow','n.','A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus\n   Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its\n   note.'),('Chud','v. t.','To champ; to bite.'),('Chuet','n.','Minced meat.'),('Chufa','n.','A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible\n   tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions;\n   the earth almond.'),('Chuff','n.','A coarse or stupid fellow.'),('Chuff','a.','Stupid; churlish.'),('Chuffily','adv.','Clownishly; surlily.'),('Chuffiness','n.','The quality of being chuffy.'),('Chuffy','a.','Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.'),('Chuffy','a.','Rough; clownish; surly.'),('Chulan','n.','The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used\n   in China for perfuming tea.'),('Chum','n.','A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and\n   intimate friend.'),('Chummed','imp. p. p.','of Chum'),('Chumming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Chum'),('Chum','v. i.','To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at\n   college.'),('Chum','n.','Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.'),('Chump','n.','A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.'),('Chunam','n.','Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.'),('Chunk','n.','A short, thick piece of anything.'),('Chunky','a.','Short and thick.'),('Church','n.','A building set apart for Christian worship.'),('Church','n.','A Jewish or heathen temple.'),('Church','n.','A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping\n   together.'),('Church','n.','A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed,\n   observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical\n   authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the\n   Presbyterian church.'),('Church','n.','The collective body of Christians.'),('Church','n.','Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church\n   of Brahm.'),('Church','n.','The aggregate of religious influences in a community;\n   ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of\n   the church against some moral evil.'),('Churched','imp. & p. p.','of Church'),('Churching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Church'),('Church','v. t.','To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite\n   with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from\n   the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.'),('Church-ale','n.','A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the\n   dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.'),('Church-bench','n.','A seat in the porch of a church.'),('Churchdom','n.','The institution, government, or authority of a church.'),('Churchgoer','n.','One who attends church.'),('Churchgoing','a.','Habitually attending church.'),('Churchgoing','a.','Summoning to church.'),('Church-haw','n.','Churchyard.'),('Churchism','n.','Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some\n   church organization; sectarianism.'),('Churchless','a.','Without a church.'),('Churchlike','a.','Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a\n   clergyman.'),('Churchliness','n.','Regard for the church.'),('Churchly','a.','Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church;\n   ecclesiastical.'),('Churchmen','pl. ','of Churchman'),('Churchman','n.','An ecclesiastic or clergyman.'),('Churchman','n.','An Episcopalian, or a member of the Established Church\n   of England.'),('Churchman','n.','One was is attached to, or attends, church.'),('Churchmanly','a.','Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman.'),('Churchmanship','n.','The state or quality of being a churchman;\n   attachment to the church.'),('Church modes','','The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See\n   Gregorian.'),('Churchship','n.','State of being a church.'),('Churchwarden','n.','One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal\n   church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the\n   provision of what is necessary for the communion service.'),('Churchwarden','n.','A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube.'),('Churchwardenship','n.','The office of a churchwarden.'),('Churchy','a.','Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.'),('Churchyard','n.','The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are\n   buried; a cemetery.'),('Churl','n.','A rustic; a countryman or laborer.'),('Churl','n.','A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.'),('Churl','n.','A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.'),('Churl','a.','Churlish; rough; selfish.'),('Churlish','a.','Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly;\n   illiberal; niggardly.'),('Churlish','a.','Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily\n   wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of\n   some minerals.'),('Churlishly','adv.','In a churlish manner.'),('Churlishness','n.','Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or\n   courtesy.'),('Churly','a.','Rude; churlish; violent.'),('Churme','n.','Alt. of Chirm'),('Chirm','n.','Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.'),('Churn','v. t.','A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or\n   otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to\n   separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.'),('Churned','imp. & p. p.','of Churn'),('Churning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Churn'),('Churn','v. t.','To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn,\n   in order to make butter.'),('Churn','v. t.','To shake or agitate with violence.'),('Churn','v. i.','To perform the operation of churning.'),('Churning','n.','The act of one who churns.'),('Churning','n.','The quantity of butter made at one operation.'),('Churrus','n.','A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which\n   exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.'),('Churrworm','n.','An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; --\n   called also fan cricket.'),('Chuse','v. t.','See Choose.'),('Chute','n.','A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects\n   are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which\n   water passes to a wheel.'),('Chute','n.','See Shoot.'),('Chutney','n.','Alt. of Chutnee'),('Chutnee','n.','A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India,\n   compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.'),('Chylaceous','a.','Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of\n   chyle.'),('Chylaqueous','a.','Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said\n   of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.'),('Chyle','n.','A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a\n   state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by\n   the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals,\n   and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.'),('Chylifaction','n.','The act or process by which chyle is formed from food\n   in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.'),('Chylifactive','a.','Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the\n   power to form chyle.'),('Chyliferous','a.','Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous\n   vessels.'),('Chylific','a.','Chylifactive.'),('Chylification','n.','The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.'),('Chylificatory','a.','Chylifactive.'),('Chylify','v. t. & i.','To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.'),('Chylopoetic','a.','Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the\n   chylopoetic organs.'),('Chylous','a.','Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.'),('Chyluria','n.','A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or\n   fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.'),('Chyme','n.','The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines\n   just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the\n   intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.'),('Chymic','','Alt. of Chymistry'),('Chymist','','Alt. of Chymistry'),('Chymistry','','See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.'),('Chymiferous','a.','Bearing or containing chyme.'),('Chymification','n.','The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive\n   action of gastric juice.'),('Chymify','v. t.','To form into chyme.'),('Chymous','a.','Of or pertaining to chyme.'),('Chyometer','n.','An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a\n   piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity\n   expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.'),('Cibarious','a.','Pertaining to food; edible.'),('Cibation','n.','The act of taking food.'),('Cibation','n.','The process or operation of feeding the contents of the\n   crucible with fresh material.'),('Cibol','n.','A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes\n   called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.'),('Ciboria','pl. ','of Ciborium'),('Ciborium','n.','A canopy usually standing free and supported on four\n   columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.'),('Ciborium','n.','The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.'),('Cicadas','pl. ','of Cicada'),('Cicadae','pl. ','of Cicada'),('Cicada','n.','Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous\n   insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound\n   by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a\n   pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted\n   American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust.\n   Another common species is the dogday cicada.'),('Cicala','n.','A cicada. See Cicada.'),('Cicatrice','n.','A cicatrix.'),('Cicatricial','a.','Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.'),('Cicatricle','n.','The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the\n   point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.'),('Cicatrisive','a.','Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good\n   for healing of a wound.'),('Cicatrices','pl. ','of Cicatrix'),('Cicatrix','n.','The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of\n   continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and\n   which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.'),('Cicatrizant','n.','A medicine or application that promotes the healing of\n   a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.'),('Cicatrization','n.','The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of\n   being cicatrized.'),('Cicatrized','imp. & p. p.','of Cicatrize'),('Cicatrizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cicatrize'),('Cicatrize','v. t.','To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as\n   in wounded or ulcerated flesh.'),('Cicatrize','v. i.','To heal; to have a new skin.'),('Cicatrose','a.','Full of scars.'),('Cicely','n.','Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera\n   Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.'),('Cicero','n.','Pica type; -- so called by French printers.'),('Ciceroni','pl. ','of Cicerone'),('Cicerones','pl. ','of Cicerone'),('Cicerone','n.','One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a\n   guide.'),('Ciceronian','a.','Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.'),('Ciceronianism','n.','Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action\n   Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.'),('Cichoraceous','a.','Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite\n   plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.'),('Cich-pea','n.','The chick-pea.'),('Cicisbeism','n.','The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.'),('Cicisbei','pl. ','of Cicisbeo'),('Cicisbeo','n.','A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about\n   women.'),('Cicisbeo','n.','A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking\n   stick, etc.'),('Ciclatoun','n.','A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the\n   Middle Ages.'),('Cicurate','v. t.','To tame.'),('Cicuration','n.','The act of taming.'),('Cicuta','n.','a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the\n   water hemlock or cowbane is best known.'),('Cicutoxin','n.','The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta)\n   extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.'),('Cid','n.','Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy\n   Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish\n   royalty, in the 11th century.'),('Cid','n.','An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish\n   national hero, Ruy Diaz.'),('Cider','n.','The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for\n   making vinegar, and for other purposes.'),('Ciderist','n.','A maker of cider.'),('Ciderkin','n.','A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace\n   in water.'),('Ci-devant','a.','Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant\n   governor.'),('Cierge','n.','A wax candle used in religous rites.'),('Cigar','n.','A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.'),('Cigarette','n.','A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper\n   for smoking.'),('Cilia','n. pl.','The eyelashes.'),('Cilia','n. pl.','Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages\n   lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and\n   in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the\n   exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the\n   Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.'),('Cilia','n. pl.','Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a\n   fringe like the eyelash.'),('Cilia','n. pl.','Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling\n   true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.'),('Ciliary','a.','Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to\n   special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the\n   choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.'),('Ciliary','a.','Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or\n   vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.'),('Ciliata','n. pl.','One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by\n   having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in\n   others they form a band around the mouth.'),('Ciliate','a.','Alt. of Ciliated'),('Ciliated','a.','Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate\n   leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the\n   windpipe.'),('Cilice','n.','A kind of haircloth undergarment.'),('Cilician','a.','Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.'),('Cilician','n.','A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.'),('Cilicious','a.','Made, or consisting, of hair.'),('Ciliform','a.','Alt. of Ciliiform'),('Ciliiform','a.','Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.'),('Ciliograde','a.','Moving by means of cilia, or cilialike organs; as, the\n   ciliograde Medusae.'),('Cilium','n.','See Cilia.'),('Cill','n.','See Sill., n. a foundation.'),('Cillosis','n.','A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.'),('Cima','n.','A kind of molding. See Cyma.'),('Cimar','n.','See Simar.'),('Cimbal','n.','A kind of confectionery or cake.'),('Cimbia','n.','A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if\n   to strengthen it.'),('Cimbrian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.'),('Cimbrian','n.','One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.'),('Cimbric','a.','Pertaining to the Cimbri, an ancient tribe inhabiting\n   Northern Germany.'),('Cimbric','n.','The language of the Cimbri.'),('Cimeliarch','n.','A superintendent or keeper of a church\'s valuables; a\n   churchwarden.'),('Cimeter','n.','See Scimiter.'),('Cimices','pl. ','of Cimex'),('Cimex','n.','A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the\n   best known example. See Bedbug.'),('Cimia','n.','See Cimbia.'),('Cimiss','n.','The bedbug.'),('Cimmerian','a.','Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to\n   have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.'),('Cimmerian','a.','Without any light; intensely dark.'),('Cimolite','n.','A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish\n   color.'),('Cinch','n.','A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.'),('Cinch','n.','A tight grip.'),('Cinchona','n.','A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru\n   and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies,\n   producing a medicinal bark of great value.'),('Cinchona','n.','The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per\n   cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits\'\n   bark.'),('Cinchonaceous','a.','Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants\n   that produce it.'),('Cinchonic','a.','Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.'),('Cinchonidine','n.','One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found\n   especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance,\n   C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker\n   than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.'),('Cinchonine','n.','One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and\n   resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.'),('Cinchonism','n.','A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued\n   use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo,\n   etc.'),('Cinchonize','v. t.','To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or\n   with cinchona.'),('Cincinnati epoch','','An epoch at the close of the American lower\n   Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio.\n   The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.'),('Cincture','n.','A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as\n   by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.'),('Cincture','n.','That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.'),('Cincture','n.','The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the\n   extremity of the shaft of a column.'),('Cinctured','n.','Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.'),('Cinder','n.','Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in\n   which fire is extinct.'),('Cinder','n.','A hot coal without flame; an ember.'),('Cinder','n.','A scale thrown off in forging metal.'),('Cinder','n.','The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.'),('Cindery','a.','Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.'),('Cinefaction','n.','Cineration; reduction to ashes.'),('Cinematic','a.','Alt. of Cinematical'),('Cinematical','a.','See Kinematic.'),('Cinematics','n. sing.','See Kinematics.'),('Cineraceous','a.','Like ashes; ash-colored; cinereous.'),('Cineraria','n.','A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants,\n   mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.'),('Cinerary','a.','Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.'),('Cineration','n.','The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion;\n   cinefaction.'),('Cinereous','a.','Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.'),('Cinerescent','a.','Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling\n   that of wood ashes.'),('Cineritious','a.','Like ashes; having the color of ashes, -- as the\n   cortical substance of the brain.'),('Cinerulent','a.','Full of ashes.'),('Cingalese','n. sing. & pl.','A native or natives of Ceylon descended from\n   its primitive inhabitants'),('Cingalese','n. sing. & pl.','the language of the Cingalese.'),('Cingalese','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cingalese.'),('Cingle','n.','A girth.'),('Cingulum','n.','A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line\n   as seen on certain univalve shells.'),('Cingulum','n.','The clitellus of earthworms.'),('Cingulum','n.','The base of the crown of a tooth.'),('Cinnabar','n.','Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red\n   crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in\n   medicine.'),('Cinnabar','n.','The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment;\n   vermilion.'),('Cinnabarine','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of\n   cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.'),('Cinnamene','n.','Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because\n   obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.'),('Cinnamic','a.','Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.'),('Cinnamomic','a.','See Cinnamic.'),('Cinnamon','n.','The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a\n   tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste,\n   and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.'),('Cinnamon','n.','Cassia.'),('Cinnamone','n.','A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the\n   ketone of cinnamic acid.'),('Cinnamyl','n.','The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic\n   compounds.'),('Cinnoline','n.','A nitrogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to\n   quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.'),('Cinque','n.','Five; the number five in dice or cards.'),('Cinquecento','n. & a.','The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian\n   art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento\n   style.'),('Cinquefoil','n.','The name of several different species of the genus\n   Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of\n   its leaves to the fingers of the hand.'),('Cinquefoil','n.','An ornamental foliation having five points or cups,\n   used in windows, panels, etc.'),('Cinque-pace','n.','A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of\n   which were regulated by the number five.'),('Cinque Ports','','Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were\n   anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and\n   Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and\n   some minor places.'),('Cinque-spotted','a.','Five-spotted.'),('Cinter','n.','See Center.'),('Cinura','n. pl.','The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and\n   allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.'),('Cion','n.','See Scion.'),('Cipher','n.','A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses\n   nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases\n   its value tenfold.'),('Cipher','n.','One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.'),('Cipher','n.','A character in general, as a figure or letter.'),('Cipher','n.','A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials\n   of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter\'s cipher, an engraver\'s\n   cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.'),('Cipher','n.','A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of\n   writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a\n   writing in such characters.'),('Cipher','a.','Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.'),('Ciphered','imp. & p. p.','of Cipher'),('Ciphering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cipher'),('Cipher','v. i.','To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in\n   arithmetic.'),('Cipher','v. t.','To write in occult characters.'),('Cipher','v. t.','To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.'),('Cipher','v. t.','To decipher.'),('Cipher','v. t.','To designate by characters.'),('Cipherer','n.','One who ciphers.'),('Cipherhood','n.','Nothingness.'),('Cipolin','n.','A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish\n   zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of\n   talc.'),('Cippi','pl. ','of Cippus'),('Cippus','n.','A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an\n   inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for\n   indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral\n   inscriptions, etc.'),('Circ','n.','An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.'),('Circar','n.','A district, or part of a province. See Sircar.'),('Circassian','a.','Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.'),('Circassian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Circassia.'),('Circean','a.','Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and\n   Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and\n   then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a\n   Circean draught.'),('Circensial','a.','Alt. of Circensian'),('Circensian','a.','Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome.'),('Circinal','a.','Circinate.'),('Circinate','a.','Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center;\n   -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.'),('Circinate','v. t.','To make a circle around; to encompass.'),('Circination','n.','An orbicular motion.'),('Circination','n.','A circle; a concentric layer.'),('Circle','n.','A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its\n   circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point\n   within it, called the center.'),('Circle','n.','The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a\n   ring.'),('Circle','n.','An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which\n   consists of an entire circle.'),('Circle','n.','A round body; a sphere; an orb.'),('Circle','n.','Compass; circuit; inclosure.'),('Circle','n.','A company assembled, or conceived to assemble, about a\n   central point of interest, or bound by a common tie; a class or\n   division of society; a coterie; a set.'),('Circle','n.','A circular group of persons; a ring.'),('Circle','n.','A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.'),('Circle','n.','A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements\n   are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.'),('Circle','n.','Indirect form of words; circumlocution.'),('Circle','n.','A territorial division or district.'),('Circled','imp. & p. p.','of Circle'),('Circling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circle'),('Circle','n.','To move around; to revolve around.'),('Circle','n.','To encompass, as by a circle; to surround; to inclose; to\n   encircle.'),('Circle','v. i.','To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate.'),('Circled','a.','Having the form of a circle; round.'),('Circler','n.','A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of\n   wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given\n   to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a.'),('Circlet','n.','A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having\n   the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a\n   headband.'),('Circlet','n.','A round body; an orb.'),('Circlet','n.','A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.'),('Circocele','n.','See Cirsocele.'),('Circuit','n.','The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle\n   or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round\n   the sun.'),('Circuit','n.','The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the\n   measure of a line round an area.'),('Circuit','n.','That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.'),('Circuit','n.','The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.'),('Circuit','n.','A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in\n   the exercise of one\'s calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.'),('Circuit','n.','A certain division of a state or country, established by\n   law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.'),('Circuit','n.','A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.'),('Circuit','n.','Circumlocution.'),('Circuit','v. i.','To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.'),('Circuit','v. t.','To travel around.'),('Circuiteer','n.','A circuiter.'),('Circuiter','n.','One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge.'),('Circuition','n.','The act of going round; circumlocution.'),('Circuitous','a.','Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a\n   circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.'),('Circuity','n.','A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a\n   roundabout way of proceeding.'),('Circulable','a.','That may be circulated.'),('Circular','a.','In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.'),('Circular','a.','repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the\n   point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular\n   reasoning.'),('Circular','a.','Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence,\n   mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.'),('Circular','a.','Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a\n   common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a\n   circular letter.'),('Circular','a.','Perfect; complete.'),('Circular','a.','A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of\n   which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business\n   circular.'),('Circular','a.','A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.'),('Circularity','n.','The quality or state of being circular; a circular\n   form.'),('Circularly','adv.','In a circular manner.'),('Circulary','a.','Circular; illogical.'),('Ciorculated','imp. & p. p.','of Circulate'),('Circulating','P. pr. & vb. n.','of Circulate'),('Circulate','v. i.','To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round\n   and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.'),('Circulate','v. i.','To pass from place to place, from person to person,\n   or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story\n   circulates.'),('Circulate','v. t.','To cause to pass from place to place, or from person\n   to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of\n   credit.'),('Circulation','n.','The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which\n   brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.'),('Circulation','n.','The act of passing from place to place or person to\n   person; free diffusion; transmission.'),('Circulation','n.','Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc.,\n   current for coin.'),('Circulation','n.','The extent to which anything circulates or is\n   circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a\n   newspaper.'),('Circulation','n.','The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular\n   system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every\n   living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the\n   vessels and tissues of plants.'),('Circulative','a.','Promoting circulation; circulating.'),('Circulator','n.','One who, or that which, circulates.'),('Circulatorious','a.','Travelling from house to house or from town to\n   town; itinerant.'),('Circulatory','a.','Circular; as, a circulatory letter.'),('Circulatory','a.','Circulating, or going round.'),('Circulatory','a.','Subserving the purposes of circulation; as,\n   circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as,\n   circulatory diseases.'),('Circulatory','n.','A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally\n   exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages,\n   through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends\n   from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.'),('Circulet','n.','A circlet.'),('Circuline','a.','Proceeding in a circle; circular.'),('Circum-','','A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words,\n   and signifying around or about.'),('Circumagitate','v. t.','To agitate on all sides.'),('Circumambage','n.','A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness.'),('Circumambiency','n.','The act of surrounding or encompassing.'),('Circumambient','a.','Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides;\n   encompassing.'),('Circumambulate','v. t.','To walk round about.'),('Circumbendibus','n.','A roundabout or indirect way.'),('Circumcenter','n.','The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.'),('Circumcised','imp. & p. p.','of Circumcise'),('Circumcising','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circumcise'),('Circumcise','v. t.','To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case\n   of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.'),('Circumcise','v. t.','To purify spiritually.'),('Circumciser','n.','One who performs circumcision.'),('Circumcision','n.','The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of\n   males, or the internal labia of females.'),('Circumcision','n.','The Jews, as a circumcised people.'),('Circumcision','n.','Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual\n   purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.'),('Circumclusion','n.','Act of inclosing on all sides.'),('Circumcursation','n.','The act of running about; also, rambling language.'),('Circumdenudation','n.','Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an\n   object.'),('Circumduce','v. t.','To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for\n   introducing evidence.'),('Circumduct','v. t.','To lead about; to lead astray.'),('Circumduct','v. t.','To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of\n   judicature.'),('Circumduction','n.','A leading about; circumlocution.'),('Circumduction','n.','An annulling; cancellation.'),('Circumduction','n.','The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so\n   as to describe a concial surface.'),('Circumesophagal','a.','Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the\n   nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.'),('Circumesophageal','a.','Circumesophagal.'),('Circumfer','v. t.','To bear or carry round.'),('Circumference','n.','The line that goes round or encompasses a circular\n   figure; a periphery.'),('Circumference','n.','A circle; anything circular.'),('Circumference','n.','The external surface of a sphere, or of any\n   orbicular body.'),('Circumference','v. t.','To include in a circular space; to bound.'),('Circumferential','a.','Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing;\n   encircling; circuitous.'),('Circumferentially','adv.','So as to surround or encircle.'),('Circumferentor','n.','A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal\n   angles and bearings; a surveyor\'s compass. It consists of a compass\n   whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal\n   brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for\n   sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.'),('Circumferentor','n.','A graduated wheel for measuring tires; a tire\n   circle.'),('Circumflant','a.','Blowing around.'),('Circumflected','imp. & p. p.','of Circumflect'),('Circumflecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circumflect'),('Circumflect','v. t.','To bend around.'),('Circumflect','v. t.','To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.'),('Circumflection','n.','See Circumflexion.'),('Circumflex','n.','A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a\n   fall and a rise on the same a syllable.'),('Circumflex','n.','A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of\n   the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin\n   and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable,\n   marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2.'),('Circumflexed','imp. & p. p.','of Circumflex'),('Circumflexing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circumflex'),('Circumflex','v. t.','To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.'),('Circumflex','a.','Moving or turning round; circuitous.'),('Circumflex','a.','Curved circularly; -- applied to several arteries of\n   the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and\n   to other parts.'),('Circumflexion','n.','The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved\n   form.'),('Circumflexion','n.','A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.'),('Circumfluence','n.','A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a\n   fluid.'),('Circumfluent','a.','Alt. of Circumfluous'),('Circumfluous','a.','Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.'),('Circumforanean','a.','Alt. of Circumforaneous'),('Circumforaneous','a.','Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from\n   house to house.'),('Circumfulgent','a.','Shining around or about.'),('Circumfuse','v. t.','To pour round; to spread round.'),('Circumfusile','a.','Capable of being poured or spread round.'),('Circumfusion','n.','The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of\n   being spread round.'),('Circumgestation','n.','The act or process of carrying about.'),('Circumgyrate','v. t. & i.','To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a\n   rotary or circular motion.'),('Circumgyration','n.','The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round.'),('Circumgyratory','a.','Moving in a circle; turning round.'),('Circumgyre','v. i.','To circumgyrate.'),('Circumincession','n.','The reciprocal existence in each other of the\n   three persons of the Trinity.'),('Circumjacence','n.','Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on\n   every side.'),('Circumjacent','a.','Lying round; bordering on every side.'),('Circumjovial','n.','One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.'),('Circumlittoral','a.','Adjointing the shore.'),('Circumlocution','n.','The use of many words to express an idea that might\n   be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.'),('Circumlocutional','a.','Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions;\n   periphrastic; circuitous.'),('Circumlocutory','a.','Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.'),('Circummeridian','a.','About, or near, the meridian.'),('Circummure','v. t.','To encompass with a wall.'),('Circumnavigable','a.','Capable of being sailed round.'),('Circumnavigated','imp. & p. p.','of Circumnavigate'),('Circumnavigating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circumnavigate'),('Circumnavigate','v. t.','To sail completely round.'),('Circumnavigation','n.','The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.'),('Circumnavigator','n.','One who sails round.'),('Circumnutate','v. i.','To pass through the stages of circumnutation.'),('Circumnutation','n.','The successive bowing or bending in different\n   directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially\n   seen in climbing plants.'),('Circumpolar','a.','About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve\n   around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.'),('Circumposition','n.','The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or\n   the state of being so placed.'),('Circumrotary','a.','Alt. of Circumrotatory'),('Circumrotatory','a.','turning, rolling, or whirling round.'),('Circumrotate','v. t. & i.','To rotate about.'),('Circumrotation','n.','The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel;\n   circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.'),('Circumscissile','a.','Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure\n   extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.'),('Circumscribable','a.','Capable of being circumscribed.'),('Circumscribed','imp. & p. p.','of Circumscribe'),('Circumscribing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circumscribe'),('Circumscribe','v. t.','to write or engrave around.'),('Circumscribe','v. t.','To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to\n   surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.'),('Circumscribe','v. t.','To draw a line around so as to touch at certain\n   points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.'),('Circumscriber','n.','One who, or that which, circumscribes.'),('Circumscriptible','a.','Capable of being circumscribed or limited by\n   bounds.'),('Circumscription','n.','An inscription written around anything.'),('Circumscription','n.','The exterior line which determines the form or\n   magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.'),('Circumscription','n.','The act of limiting, or the state of being\n   limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.'),('Circumscriptive','a.','Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing\n   the limits or form of.'),('Circumscriptively','adv.','In a limited manner.'),('Circumscriptly','adv.','In a literal, limited, or narrow manner.'),('Circumspect','a.','Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the\n   probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.'),('Circumspection','n.','Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a\n   case; caution; watchfulness.'),('Circumspective','a.','Looking around every way; cautious; careful of\n   consequences; watchful of danger.'),('Circumspectively','adv.','Circumspectly.'),('Circumspectly','adv.','In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.'),('Circumspectness','n.','Vigilance in guarding against evil from every\n   quarter; caution.'),('Circumstance','n.','That which attends, or relates to, or in some way\n   affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.'),('Circumstance','n.','An event; a fact; a particular incident.'),('Circumstance','n.','Circumlocution; detail.'),('Circumstance','n.','Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of\n   property; situation; surroundings.'),('Circumstance','v. t.','To place in a particular situation; to supply\n   relative incidents.'),('Circumstanced','p. a.','Placed in a particular position or condition;\n   situated.'),('Circumstanced','p. a.','Governed by events or circumstances.'),('Circumstant','a.','Standing or placed around; surrounding.'),('Circumstantiable','a.','Capable of being circumstantiated.'),('Circumstantial','a.','Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or\n   particular incidents.'),('Circumstantial','a.','Incidental; relating to, but not essential.'),('Circumstantial','a.','Abounding with circumstances; detailing or\n   exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.'),('Circumstantial','n.','Something incidental to the main subject, but of\n   less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural;\n   as, the circumstantials of religion.'),('Circumstantiality','n.','The state, characteristic, or quality of being\n   circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.'),('Circumstantially','adv.','In respect to circumstances; not essentially;\n   accidentally.'),('Circumstantially','adv.','In every circumstance or particular; minutely.'),('Circumstantiated','imp. & p. p.','of Circumstantiate'),('Circumstantiating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Circumstantiate'),('Circumstantiate','v. t.','To place in particular circumstances; to invest\n   with particular accidents or adjuncts.'),('Circumstantiate','v. t.','To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter\n   into details concerning.'),('Circumterraneous','a.','Being or dwelling around the earth.'),('Circumundulate','v. t.','To flow round, as waves.'),('Circumvallate','v. t.','To surround with a rampart or wall.'),('Circumvallate','a.','Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.'),('Circumvallate','a.','Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the\n   circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.'),('Circumvallation','n.','The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.'),('Circumvallation','n.','A line of field works made around a besieged place\n   and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against\n   the attack of an enemy from without.'),('Circumvection','n.','The act of carrying anything around, or the state of\n   being so carried.'),('Circumvented','imp. & p. p.','of Circumvent'),('Circumventing','p. pr. vb. n.','of Circumvent'),('Circumvent','v. t.','To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or\n   deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.'),('Circumvention','n.','The act of prevailing over another by arts, address,\n   or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.'),('Circumventive','a.','Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices;\n   deluding.'),('Circumventor','n.','One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by\n   cunning.'),('Circumvest','v. t.','To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.'),('Circumvolant','a.','Flying around.'),('Circumvolation','n.','The act of flying round.'),('Circumvolution','n.','The act of rolling round; the state of being\n   rolled.'),('Circumvolution','n.','A thing rolled round another.'),('Circumvolution','n.','A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.'),('Circumvolved','imp. & p. p.','of Circumvolve'),('Circumvolving','p. pr. vb. n.','of Circumvolve'),('Circumvolve','v. t.','To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a\n   circular motion.'),('Circumvolve','v. i.','To roll round; to revolve.'),('Circuses','pl. ','of Circus'),('Circus','n.','A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of\n   wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided\n   lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or\n   course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public\n   shows.'),('Circus','n.','A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of\n   horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers,\n   with their equipage.'),('Circus','n.','Circuit; space; inclosure.'),('Cirl bunting','','A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus).'),('Cirque','n.','A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of\n   objects.'),('Cirque','n.','A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled\n   around by precipices of great height.'),('Cirrate','a.','Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.'),('Cirrhiferous','a.','See Cirriferous.'),('Cirrhose','a.','Same as Cirrose.'),('Cirrhosis','n.','A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes\n   smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence\n   sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by\n   increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance\n   of the organ.'),('Cirrhotic','a.','Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis;\n   as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.'),('Cirrhous','a.','See Cirrose.'),('Cirrhus','n.','Same as Cirrus.'),('Cirri','n. pl.','See Cirrus.'),('Cirriferous','a.','Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.'),('Cirriform','a.','Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages\n   of both animals and plants.'),('Cirrigerous','a.','Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or\n   hairlike appendages.'),('Cirrigrade','a.','Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.'),('Cirriped','n.','One of the Cirripedia.'),('Cirripedia','n. pl.','An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When\n   adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From\n   the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs,\n   looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See\n   Anatifa.'),('Cirrobranchiata','n. pl.','A division of Mollusca having slender,\n   cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.'),('Cirro-cumulus','n.','See under Cloud.'),('Cirrose','a.','Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.'),('Cirrose','a.','Resembling a tendril or cirrus.'),('Cirrostomi','n. pl.','The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from\n   the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.'),('Cirro-stratus','n.','See under Cloud.'),('Cirrous','a.','Cirrose.'),('Cirrous','a.','Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.'),('Cirri','pl. ','of Cirrus'),('Cirrus','n.','A tendril or clasper.'),('Cirrus','n.','A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca,\n   and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are\n   Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.'),('Cirrus','n.','The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida,\n   and Polychaeta.'),('Cirrus','n.','The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms,\n   and of certain Mollusca.'),('Cirrus','n.','See under Cloud.'),('Cirsocele','n.','The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.'),('Cirsoid','a.','Varicose.'),('Cirsotomy','n.','Any operation for the removal of varices by incision.'),('Cis-','','A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English\n   words, and signifying on this side.'),('Cisalpine','a.','On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome,\n   that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.'),('Cisatlantic','a.','On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the\n   eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer.'),('Cisco','n.','The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of\n   the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi,\n   a related species of Lake Michigan.'),('Ciselure','n.','The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus\n   chased.'),('Cisleithan','a.','On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.'),('Cismontane','a.','On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.'),('Cispadane','a.','On the hither side of the river Po with reference to\n   Rome; that is, on the south side.'),('Cissoid','n.','A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving\n   two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a\n   plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given\n   straight lines.'),('Cist','n.','A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round\n   or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover,\n   and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary\n   urn. See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Cist','n.','See Cyst.'),('Cisted','a.','Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.'),('Cistercian','n.','A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order,\n   established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme.\n   For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict\n   in all its rigor.'),('Cistercian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.'),('Cistern','n.','An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer,\n   or other liquids.'),('Cistern','n.','A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water.'),('Cistic','a.','See Cystic.'),('Cit','n.','A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used\n   contemptuously.'),('Citable','a.','Capable of being cited.'),('Citadel','n.','A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the\n   city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.'),('Cital','n.','Summons to appear, as before a judge.'),('Cital','n.','Citation; quotation'),('Citation','n.','An official summons or notice given to a person to\n   appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.'),('Citation','n.','The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another\n   person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.'),('Citation','n.','Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.'),('Citation','n.','A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to\n   prove a point in law.'),('Citator','n.','One who cites.'),('Citatory','a.','Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters\n   citatory.'),('Cited','imp. & p. p.','of Cite'),('Citing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cite'),('Cite','v. t.','To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as\n   before a court; to summon.'),('Cite','v. t.','To urge; to enjoin.'),('Cite','v. t.','To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the\n   words of another.'),('Cite','v. t.','To refer to or specify, as for support, proof,\n   illustration, or confirmation.'),('Cite','v. t.','To bespeak; to indicate.'),('Cite','v. t.','To notify of a proceeding in court.'),('Citer','n.','One who cites.'),('Citess','n.','A city woman'),('Cithara','n.','An ancient instrument resembling the harp.'),('Citharistic','a.','Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.'),('Cithern','n.','See Cittern.'),('Citicism','n.','The manners of a cit or citizen.'),('Citied','a.','Belonging to, or resembling, a city.'),('Citied','a.','Containing, or covered with, cities.'),('Citified','a.','Aping, or having, the manners of a city.'),('Citigradae','n. pl.','A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European\n   tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which\n   capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.'),('Citigrade','a.','Pertaining to the Citigradae.'),('Citigrade','n.','One of the Citigradae.'),('Citiner','n.','One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen.'),('Citizen','n.','One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a\n   freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not\n   entitled to its franchises.'),('Citizen','n.','An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.'),('Citizen','n.','A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes\n   allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection\n   from it.'),('Citizen','n.','One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen,\n   though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes\n   his legal status from such country.'),('Citizen','a.','Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of\n   citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.'),('Citizen','a.','Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city;\n   characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.'),('Citizeness','n.','A female citizen.'),('Citizenship','n.','The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.'),('Citole','n.','A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.'),('Citraconic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or having certain\n   characteristics of, citric and aconitic acids.'),('Citrate','n.','A salt of citric acid.'),('Citric','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon;\n   as, citric acid.'),('Citrination','n.','The process by which anything becomes of the color of\n   a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher\'s\n   stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color.'),('Citrine','a.','Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.'),('Citrine','n.','A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.'),('Citron','n.','A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly\n   aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.'),('Citron','n.','A citron tree.'),('Citron','n.','A citron melon.'),('Citrus','n.','A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc.,\n   originally natives of southern Asia.'),('Cittern','n.','An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and\n   played with a quill or plectrum.'),('Cittern-head','n.','Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of\n   a cittern usually ended with a carved head.'),('Cities','pl. ','of City'),('City','n.','A large town.'),('City','n.','A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective\n   body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen\n   or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common\n   council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the\n   seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.'),('City','n.','The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.'),('City','a.','Of or pertaining to a city.'),('Cive','n.','Same as Chive.'),('Civet','n.','A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken\n   from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of\n   clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive\n   when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with\n   another substance. It is used as a perfume.'),('Civet','n.','The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called\n   also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of\n   a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the\n   body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name\n   is also applied to other species.'),('Civet','v. t.','To scent or perfume with civet.'),('Civic','a.','Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to\n   man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.'),('Civicism','n.','The principle of civil government.'),('Civics','n.','The science of civil government.'),('Civil','a.','Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his\n   relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or\n   state.'),('Civil','a.','Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not\n   barbarous; -- said of the community.'),('Civil','a.','Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government;\n   -- said of an individual.'),('Civil','a.','Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to\n   those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.'),('Civil','a.','Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from\n   military, ecclesiastical, or official state.'),('Civil','a.','Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit\n   distinct from criminal proceedings.'),('Civilian','n.','One skilled in the civil law.'),('Civilian','n.','A student of the civil law at a university or college.'),('Civilian','n.','One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military\n   or clerical.'),('Civilist','n.','A civilian.'),('Civilities','pl. ','of Civillty'),('Civillty','n.','The state of society in which the relations and duties of\n   a citizen are recognized and obeyed; a state of civilization.'),('Civillty','n.','A civil office, or a civil process'),('Civillty','n.','Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a\n   polite act or expression.'),('Civilizable','a.','Capable of being civilized.'),('Civilization','n.','The act of civilizing, or the state of being\n   civilized; national culture; refinement.'),('Civilization','n.','Rendering a criminal process civil.'),('Civilized','imp. & p. p.','of Civilize'),('Civilizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Civilize'),('Civilize','v. t.','To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the\n   rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.'),('Civilize','v. t.','To admit as suitable to a civilized state.'),('Civilized','a.','Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in\n   arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.'),('Civilizer','n.','One who, or that which, civilizes or tends to civilize.'),('Civily','adv.','In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and\n   privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.'),('Civism','n.','State of citizenship.'),('Cizar','v. i.','To clip with scissors.'),('Cizars','n. pl.','Scissors.'),('Cize','n.','Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.'),('Clabber','n.','Milk curdled so as to become thick.'),('Clabber','v. i.','To become clabber; to lopper.'),('Clachan','n.','A small village containing a church.'),('Clacked','imp. & p. p.','of Clack'),('Clacking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clack'),('Clack','n.','To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such\n   noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle;\n   to click.'),('Clack','n.','To utter words rapidly and continually, or with abruptness;\n   to let the tongue run.'),('Clack','v. t.','To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of\n   noises; to click.'),('Clack','v. t.','To utter rapidly and inconsiderately.'),('Clack','v. t.','A sharp, abrupt noise, or succession of noises, made by\n   striking an object.'),('Clack','v. t.','Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of\n   a mill, or a clack valve.'),('Clack','v. t.','Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.'),('Clacker','n.','One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper\n   of a mill.'),('Clacker','n.','A claqueur. See Claqueur.'),('Clad','v.t','To clothe.'),('Clad','','imp. & p. p. of Clothe.'),('Cladocera','n. pl.','An order of the Entomostraca.'),('Cladophyll','n.','A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent\n   foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax\n   (Myrsiphillum).'),('Claggy','a.','Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.'),('Claik','n.','See Clake.'),('Claimed','imp. & p. p.','of Claim'),('Claiming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Claim'),('Claim','v./.','To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority,\n   right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.'),('Claim','v./.','To proclaim.'),('Claim','v./.','To call or name.'),('Claim','v./.','To assert; to maintain.'),('Claim','v. i.','To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title;\n   to have a claim.'),('Claim','n.','A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another\n   for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or\n   fact.'),('Claim','n.','A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt,\n   privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to\n   anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the\n   claimant.'),('Claim','n.','The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any\n   one intends to establish a right; as a settler\'s claim; a miner\'s\n   claim.'),('Claim','n.','A loud call.'),('Claimable','a.','Capable of being claimed.'),('Claimant','n.','One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a\n   claimer.'),('Claimer','n.','One who claims; a claimant.'),('Claimless','a.','Having no claim.'),('Clair-obscur','n.','See Chiaroscuro.'),('Clairvoyance','n.','A power, attributed to some persons while in a\n   mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in\n   their normal condition.'),('Clairvoyant','a.','Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while\n   in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.'),('Clairvoyant','n.','One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern\n   objects not present to the senses.'),('Clake','n.','Alt. of Claik'),('Claik','n.','The bernicle goose; -- called also clack goose.'),('Clam','v. t.','A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are\n   edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam\n   (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and\n   other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given\n   originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.'),('Clam','v. t.','Strong pinchers or forceps.'),('Clam','v. t.','A kind of vise, usually of wood.'),('Clammed','imp. & p. p.','of Clam'),('Clamming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clam'),('Clam','v. t.','To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter.'),('Clam','v. i.','To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere.'),('Clam','n.','Claminess; moisture.'),('Clam','n.','A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime\n   at once.'),('Clam','v. t. & i.','To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to\n   cause to clang.'),('Clamant','a.','Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.'),('Clamation','n.','The act of crying out.'),('Clamatores','n. pl.','A division of passerine birds in which the vocal\n   muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of\n   singing.'),('Clamatorial','a.','Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.'),('Clambake','n.','The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones,\n   between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an\n   occasion.'),('Clambered','imp. & p. p.','of Clamber'),('Clambering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clamber'),('Clamber','v. i.','To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; --\n   also used figuratively.'),('Clamber','n.','The act of clambering.'),('Clamber','v. t.','To ascend by climbing with difficulty.'),('Clamjamphrie','n.','Low, worthless people; the rabble.'),('Clammily','adv.','In a clammy manner.'),('Clamminess','n.','State of being clammy or viscous.'),('Clammy','Compar.','Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft\n   and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold\n   perspiration.'),('Clamor','n.','A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting\n   or exclamation.'),('Clamor','n.','Any loud and continued noise.'),('Clamor','n.','A continued expression of dissatisfaction or discontent; a\n   popular outcry.'),('Clamored','imp. & p. p.','of Clamor'),('Clamoring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clamor'),('Clamor','v. t.','To salute loudly.'),('Clamor','v. t.','To stun with noise.'),('Clamor','v. t.','To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout.'),('Clamor','v. i.','To utter loud sounds or outcries; to vociferate; to\n   complain; to make importunate demands.'),('Clamorer','n.','One who clamors.'),('Clamorous','a.','Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor;\n   calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling;\n   loud; turbulent.'),('Clamp','n.','Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a\n   piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.'),('Clamp','n.','An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held\n   in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.'),('Clamp','n.','A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into\n   another, to bind or strengthen.'),('Clamp','n.','One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft\n   material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without\n   bruising.'),('Clamp','n.','A thick plank on the inner part of a ship\'s side, used to\n   sustain the ends of beams.'),('Clamp','n.','A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for\n   roasting, or of coal for coking.'),('Clamp','n.','A mollusk. See Clam.'),('Clamped','imp. & p. p.','of Clamp'),('Clamping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clamp'),('Clamp','v. t.','To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to\n   place in a clamp.'),('Clamp','v. t.','To cover, as vegetables, with earth.'),('Clamp','n.','A heavy footstep; a tramp.'),('Clamp','v. i.','To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.'),('Clamper','n.','An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a\n   boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper.'),('Clan','n.','A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain,\n   regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same\n   surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.'),('Clan','n.','A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body\n   of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used\n   contemptuously.'),('Clancular','a.','Conducted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed.'),('Clancularly','adv.','privately; secretly.'),('Clandestine','a.','Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice,\n   usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand;\n   as, a clandestine marriage.'),('Clandestinity','n.','Privacy or secrecy.'),('Clanged','imp. & p. p.','of Clang'),('Clanging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clang'),('Clang','v. t.','To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic\n   sound.'),('Clang','v. i.','To give out a clang; to resound.'),('Clang','n.','A loud, ringing sound, like that made by metallic substances\n   when clanged or struck together.'),('Clang','n.','Quality of tone.'),('Clangor','v. t.','A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.'),('Clangorous','a.','Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.'),('Clangous','a.','Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.'),('Clanjamfrie','n.','Same as Clamjamphrie.'),('Clank','n.','A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of\n   metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or\n   less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than\n   clink.'),('Clanked','imp. & p. p.','of Clank'),('Clanking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clank'),('Clank','v. t.','To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank\n   their chains.'),('Clank','v. i.','To sound with a clank.'),('Clankless','a.','Without a clank.'),('Clannish','a.','Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan;\n   disposed to associate only with one\'s clan or clique; actuated by the\n   traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.'),('Clanship','n.','A state of being united together as in a clan; an\n   association under a chieftain.'),('Clansmen','pl. ','of Clansman'),('Clansman','n.','One belonging to the same clan with another.'),('Clapped','imp. & p. p.','of Clap'),('Clapping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clap'),('Clap','v. t.','To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a\n   quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one\'s hands; a\n   clapping of wings.'),('Clap','v. t.','To thrust, drive, put, or close, in a hasty or abrupt\n   manner; -- often followed by to, into, on, or upon.'),('Clap','v. t.','To manifest approbation of, by striking the hands\n   together; to applaud; as, to clap a performance.'),('Clap','v. t.','To express contempt or derision.'),('Clap','v. i.','To knock, as at a door.'),('Clap','v. i.','To strike the hands together in applause.'),('Clap','v. i.','To come together suddenly with noise.'),('Clap','v. i.','To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into.'),('Clap','v. i.','To talk noisily; to chatter loudly.'),('Clap','n.','A loud noise made by sudden collision; a bang.'),('Clap','n.','A burst of sound; a sudden explosion.'),('Clap','n.','A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow.'),('Clap','n.','A striking of hands to express approbation.'),('Clap','n.','Noisy talk; chatter.'),('Clap','n.','The nether part of the beak of a hawk.'),('Clap','n.','Gonorrhea.'),('Clapboard','n.','A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other;\n   -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.'),('Clapboard','n.','A stave for a cask.'),('Clapboard','v. t.','To cover with clapboards; as, to clapboard the sides\n   of a house.'),('Clapbread','n.','Alt. of Clapcake'),('Clapcake','n.','Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.'),('Clape','n.','A bird; the flicker.'),('Clapper','n.','A person who claps.'),('Clapper','n.','That which strikes or claps, as the tongue of a bell, or\n   the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell.'),('Clapper','n.','A rabbit burrow.'),('Clapperclaw','v. t.','To fight and scratch.'),('Clapperclaw','v. t.','To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.'),('Claps','v. t.','Variant of Clasp'),('Claptrap','n.','A contrivance for clapping in theaters.'),('Claptrap','n.','A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.'),('Claptrap','a.','Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining\n   applause; deceptive; unreal.'),('Claque','n.','A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical\n   exhibition.'),('Claqueur','n.','One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.'),('Clare','n.','A nun of the order of St. Clare.'),('Clarence','n.','A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and\n   a seat for the driver.'),('Clarenceux','n.','Alt. of Clarencieux'),('Clarencieux','n.','See King-at-arms.'),('Clarendon','n.','A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is\n   made in all sizes.'),('Clare-obscure','n.','See Chiaroscuro.'),('Claret','n.','The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc,\n   in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The\n   name is also given to similar wines made in the United States.'),('Claribella','n.','A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an\n   organ.'),('Clarichord','n.','A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a\n   spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.'),('Clarification','n.','The act or process of making clear or transparent,\n   by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.'),('Clarification','n.','The act of freeing from obscurities.'),('Clarifier','n.','That which clarifies.'),('Clarifier','n.','A vessel in which the process of clarification is\n   conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.'),('Clarified','imp. & p. p.','of Clarify'),('Clarifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clarify'),('Clarify','v. t.','To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent\n   matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.'),('Clarify','v. t.','To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or\n   illuminate.'),('Clarify','v. t.','To glorify.'),('Clarify','v. i.','To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free\n   from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.'),('Clarify','v. i.','To grow clear or bright; to clear up.'),('Clarigate','v. i.','To declare war with certain ceremonies.'),('Clarinet','n.','A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and\n   fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading\n   instrument in a military band.'),('Clarino','n.','A reed stop in an organ.'),('Clarion','n.','A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.'),('Clarionet','n.','See Clarinet.'),('Clarisonus','a.','Having a clear sound.'),('Claritude','n.','Clearness; splendor.'),('Clarity','n.','Clearness; brightness; splendor.'),('Claro-obscuro','n.','See Chiaroscuro.'),('Clarre','n.','Wine with a mixture of honey and species.'),('Clart','v. t.','To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc.'),('Clarty','a.','Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty.'),('Clary','v. i.','To make a loud or shrill noise.'),('Clary','n.','A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in\n   flavoring soups.'),('Clashed','imp. & p. p.','of Clash'),('Clashing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clash'),('Clash','v. i.','To make a noise by striking against something; to dash\n   noisily together.'),('Clash','v. i.','To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to\n   come onto collision; to interfere.'),('Clash','v. t.','To strike noisily against or together.'),('Clash','n.','A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of\n   bodies; a collision.'),('Clash','n.','Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or\n   contending interests, views, purposes, etc.'),('Clashingly','adv.','With clashing.'),('Clasped','imp. & p. p.','of Clasp'),('Clasping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clasp'),('Clasp','v. t.','To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to\n   shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).'),('Clasp','v. t.','To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to\n   grasp; to embrace.'),('Clasp','v. t.','To surround and cling to; to entwine about.'),('Clasp','n.','An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding\n   together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt,\n   the covers of a book, etc.'),('Clasp','n.','A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping,\n   as with the hand.'),('Clasper','n.','One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.'),('Clasper','n.','One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the\n   female among many of the Crustacea.'),('Clasper','n.','One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the\n   anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs.\n   See Illust. of Chimaera.'),('Claspered','a.','Furnished with tendrils.'),('Class','n.','A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common\n   characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated\n   class; the lower classes.'),('Class','n.','A number of students in a school or college, of the same\n   standing, or pursuing the same studies.'),('Class','n.','A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects,\n   grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any\n   classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders,\n   families, tribes, genera, etc.'),('Class','n.','A set; a kind or description, species or variety.'),('Class','n.','One of the sections into which a church or congregation is\n   divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.'),('Classed','imp. & p. p.','of Class'),('Classing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Class'),('Class','n.','To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class;\n   as, to class words or passages.'),('Class','n.','To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place\n   in, a class or classes.'),('Class','v. i.','To grouped or classed.'),('Classible','a.','Capable of being classed.'),('Classic','n.','Alt. of Classical'),('Classical','n.','Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in\n   literature or art.'),('Classical','n.','Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp.\n   to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when\n   their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places\n   inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their\n   deeds.'),('Classical','n.','Conforming to the best authority in literature and art;\n   chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.'),('Classic','n.','A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its\n   author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now\n   applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.'),('Classic','n.','One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a\n   student of classical literature.'),('Classicalism','n.','A classical idiom, style, or expression; a\n   classicism.'),('Classicalism','n.','Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the\n   classical canons of art.'),('Classicalist','n.','One who adheres to what he thinks the classical\n   canons of art.'),('Classicality','n.','Alt. of Classicalness'),('Classicalness','n.','The quality of being classical.'),('Classically','adv.','In a classical manner; according to the manner of\n   classical authors.'),('Classically','adv.','In the manner of classes; according to a regular\n   order of classes or sets.'),('Classicism','n.','A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.'),('Classicist','n.','One learned in the classics; an advocate for the\n   classics.'),('Classifiable','a.','Capable of being classified.'),('Classific','a.','Characterizing a class or classes; relating to\n   classification.'),('Classification','n.','The act of forming into a class or classes; a\n   distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according\n   to some common relations or affinities.'),('Classificatory','a.','Pertaining to classification; admitting of\n   classification.'),('Classifier','n.','One who classifies.'),('Classified','imp. & pp.','of Classify'),('Classifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Classify'),('Classify','v. t.','To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a\n   system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common\n   properties or characters.'),('Classes','pl. ','of Classis'),('Classis','n.','A class or order; sort; kind.'),('Classis','n.','An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches,\n   as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and\n   the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian\n   church.'),('Classmen','pl. ','of Classman'),('Classman','n.','A member of a class; a classmate.'),('Classman','n.','A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an\n   honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified.'),('Classmate','n.','One who is in the same class with another, as at school\n   or college.'),('Clastic','a.','Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy\n   (of models).'),('Clastic','a.','Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a\n   clastic rock.'),('Clathrate','a.','Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.'),('Clathrate','a.','Having the surface marked with raised lines resembling a\n   lattice, as many shells.'),('Clattered','imp. & p. p.','of Clatter'),('Clattering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clatter'),('Clatter','v. i.','To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies\n   together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.'),('Clatter','v. i.','To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.'),('Clatter','v. t.','To make a rattling noise with.'),('Clatter','n.','A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard\n   bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.'),('Clatter','n.','Commotion; disturbance.'),('Clatter','n.','Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.'),('Clatterer','n.','One who clatters.'),('Clatteringly','adv.','With clattering.'),('Claude Lorraine glass','','A slightly convex mirror, commonly of black\n   glass, used as a toy for viewing the reflected landscape.'),('Claudent','a.','Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent\n   muscle.'),('Claudicant','a.','Limping.'),('Claudication','n.','A halting or limping.'),('Clause','n.','A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or\n   sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.'),('Clause','n.','A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence\n   containing a subject and its predicate.'),('Clause','n.','See Letters clause / close, under Letter.'),('Claustral','a.','Cloistral.'),('Claustra','pl. ','of Claustrum'),('Claustrum','n.','A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemisphere\n   of the brain of man.'),('Clausular','n.','Consisting of, or having, clauses.'),('Clausure','n.','The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.'),('Clavate','a.','Alt. of Clavated'),('Clavated','a.','Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually\n   thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]'),('Clave','','imp. of Cleave.'),('Clavecin','n.','The harpsichord.'),('Clavel','n.','See Clevis.'),('Clavellate','a.','See Clavate.'),('Clavellated','a.','Said of potash, probably in reference to its having\n   been obtained from billets of wood by burning.'),('Claver','n.','See Clover.'),('Claver','n.','Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering.'),('Clavichord','n.','A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the\n   pianoforte. See Clarichord.'),('Clavicle','n.','The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the\n   scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or\n   breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter /, and is\n   situated just above the first rib on either side of the neck. In birds\n   the two clavicles are united ventrally, forming the merrythought, or\n   wishbone.'),('Clavicorn','a.','Having club-shaped antennae. See Antennae'),('Clavicorn','n.','One of the Clavicornes.'),('Clavicornes','n. pl.','A group of beetles having club-shaped antennae.'),('Clavicular','a.','Of or pertaining to the clavicle.'),('Clavier','n.','The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.'),('Claviform','a.','Club-shaped; clavate.'),('Claviger','n.','One who carries the keys of any place.'),('Claviger','n.','One who carries a club; a club bearer.'),('Clavigerous','a.','Bearing a club or a key.'),('Claves','pl. ','of Clavis'),('Clavises','pl. ','of Clavis'),('Clavis','n.','A key; a glossary.'),('Clavus','n.','A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.'),('Clavies','pl. ','of Clavy'),('Clavy','n.','A mantelpiece.'),('Claw','n.','A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.'),('Claw','n.','The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the\n   pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.'),('Claw','n.','Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and\n   forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.'),('Claw','n.','A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the\n   base of petals of the pink.'),('Clawed','imp. & p. p.','of Claw'),('Clawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Claw'),('Claw','n.','To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails.'),('Claw','n.','To relieve from some uneasy sensation, as by scratching; to\n   tickle; hence, to flatter; to court.'),('Claw','n.','To rail at; to scold.'),('Claw','v. i.','To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand\n   as a claw.'),('Clawback','n.','A flatterer or sycophant.'),('Clawback','a.','Flattering; sycophantic.'),('Clawback','v. t.','To flatter.'),('Clawed','a.','Furnished with claws.'),('Clawless','a.','Destitute of claws.'),('Clay','n.','A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the\n   hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of\n   the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing\n   aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and\n   other ingredients, are often present as impurities.'),('Clay','n.','Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of\n   the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.'),('Clayed','imp. & p. p.','of Clay'),('Claying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clay'),('Clay','v. t.','To cover or manure with clay.'),('Clay','v. t.','To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.'),('Clay-brained','a.','Stupid.'),('Clayes','n. pl.','Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with\n   osiers, to cover lodgments.'),('Clayey','a.','Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay;\n   like clay.'),('Clayish','a.','Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles\n   of it.'),('Claymore','n.','A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish\n   Highlanders.'),('Claytonia','n.','An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate\n   blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.'),('Cleading','n.','A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent\n   radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam\n   engine.'),('Cleading','n.','The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from that which is useless or injurious; without\n   defects; as, clean land; clean timber.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;\n   as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from ceremonial defilement.'),('Clean','superl.','Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure\n   in tone; healthy.'),('Clean','superl.','Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.'),('Clean','adv.','Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly;\n   entirely.'),('Clean','adv.','Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.'),('Cleaned','imp. & p. p.','of Clean'),('Cleaning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clean'),('Clean','a.','To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive,\n   or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.'),('Clean-cut','a.','See Clear-cut.'),('Cleaner','n.','One who, or that which, cleans.'),('Cleaning','n.','The act of making clean.'),('Cleaning','n.','The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.'),('Cleanlily','adv.','In a cleanly manner.'),('Clean-limbed','a.','With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a\n   clean-limbed young fellow.'),('Cleanliness','n.','State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.'),('Cleanly','superl.','Habitually clean; pure; innocent.'),('Cleanly','superl.','Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.'),('Cleanly','superl.','Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.'),('Cleanly','adv.','In a clean manner; neatly.'),('Cleanly','adv.','Innocently; without stain.'),('Cleanly','adv.','Adroitly; dexterously.'),('Cleanness','n.','The state or quality of being clean.'),('Cleanness','n.','Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious\n   courses.'),('Cleansable','a.','Capable of being cleansed.'),('Cleansed','imp. & p. p.','of Cleanse'),('Cleansing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cleanse'),('Cleanse','v. t.','To render clean; to free from fith, pollution,\n   infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.'),('Cleanser','n.','One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent.'),('Clean-timbered','a.','Well-proportioned; symmetrical.'),('Clear','superl.','Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light;\n   luminous; unclouded.'),('Clear','superl.','Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid;\n   perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable.'),('Clear','superl.','Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating;\n   discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head.'),('Clear','superl.','Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.'),('Clear','superl.','Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous.'),('Clear','superl.','Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.'),('Clear','superl.','Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots;\n   as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.'),('Clear','superl.','Free from guilt or stain; unblemished.'),('Clear','superl.','Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit.'),('Clear','superl.','Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as,\n   a clear view; to keep clear of debt.'),('Clear','superl.','Free from embarrassment; detention, etc.'),('Clear','n.','Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially;\n   the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space\n   between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.'),('Clear','adv.','In a clear manner; plainly.'),('Clear','adv.','Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a\n   piece clear off.'),('Cleared','imp. & p. p.','of Clear'),('Clearing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clear'),('Clear','v. t.','To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from\n   clouds.'),('Clear','v. t.','To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.'),('Clear','v. t.','To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of\n   perplexity; to make perspicuous.'),('Clear','v. t.','To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to\n   make perspicacious.'),('Clear','v. t.','To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement,\n   or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of\n   trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to\n   clear one\'s self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.'),('Clear','v. t.','To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify,\n   vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.'),('Clear','v. t.','To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure;\n   as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.'),('Clear','v. t.','To gain without deduction; to net.'),('Clear','v. i.','To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; --\n   often followed by up, off, or away.'),('Clear','v. i.','To disengage one\'s self from incumbrances, distress, or\n   entanglements; to become free.'),('Clear','v. i.','To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle\n   balances, as is done in a clearing house.'),('Clear','v. i.','To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for\n   Liverpool to-day.'),('Clearage','n.','The act of removing anything; clearance.'),('Clearance','n.','The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance.'),('Clearance','n.','A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at\n   the customhouse; permission to sail.'),('Clearance','n.','Clear or net profit.'),('Clearance','n.','The distance by which one object clears another, as the\n   distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in\n   a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel\n   tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it\n   engages.'),('Clear-cut','a.','Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo.'),('Clear-cut','a.','Concisely and distinctly expressed.'),('Clearedness','n.','The quality of being cleared.'),('Clearer','n.','One who, or that which, clears.'),('Clearer','n.','A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by\n   sailmakers, is finished.'),('Clear-headed','a.','Having a clear understanding; quick of perception;\n   intelligent.'),('Clearing','n.','The act or process of making clear.'),('Clearing','n.','A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.'),('Clearing','n.','A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an\n   exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling\n   differences of accounts.'),('Clearing','n.','The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing\n   house.'),('Clearly','adv.','In a clear manner.'),('Clearness','n.','The quality or state of being clear.'),('Clear-seeing','a.','Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a\n   clear understanding.'),('Clear-shining','a.','Shining brightly.'),('Clear-sighted','a.','Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted\n   reason'),('Clear-sightedness','n.','Acute discernment.'),('Clearstarched','imp. & p. p.','of Clearstarch'),('Clearstraching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clearstarch'),('Clearstarch','v. t.','To stiffen with starch, and then make clear by\n   clapping with the hands; as, to clearstarch muslin.'),('Clearstarcher','n.','One who clearstarches.'),('Clearstory','n.','Alt. of Clerestory'),('Clerestory','n.','The upper story of the nave of a church, containing\n   windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.'),('Clearwing','n.','A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings,\n   of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers\n   are examples.'),('Cleat','n.','A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to\n   something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position,\n   etc.'),('Cleat','n.','A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around\n   which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and\n   yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast,\n   etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.'),('Cleat','v. t.','To strengthen with a cleat.'),('Cleavable','a.','Capable of cleaving or being divided.'),('Cleavage','n.','The act of cleaving or splitting.'),('Cleavage','n.','The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of\n   splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the\n   cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth\n   surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by\n   cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.'),('Cleavage','n.','Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination\n   not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually\n   produced by pressure.'),('Cleaved','imp.','of Cleave'),('Clave','','of Cleave'),('Cleaved','p. p.','of Cleave'),('Cleaving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cleave'),('Cleave','v. i. ','To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.'),('Cleave','v. i. ','To unite or be united closely in interest or affection;\n   to adhere with strong attachment.'),('Cleave','v. i. ','To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate.'),('Cleft','imp.','of Cleave'),('Clave','','of Cleave'),('Clove','','of Cleave'),('Cleft','p. p.','of Cleave'),('Cleaved','','of Cleave'),('Cloven','','of Cleave'),('Cleaving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cleave'),('Cleave','v. t.','To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut.'),('Cleave','v. t.','To part or open naturally; to divide.'),('Cleave','v. i.','To part; to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of\n   bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost.'),('Cleavelandite','n.','A variety of albite, white and lamellar in\n   structure.'),('Cleaver','n.','One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a\n   butcher\'s instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.'),('Cleavers','n.','A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with\n   hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; --\n   called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.'),('Cleche','a.','Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the\n   color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first\n   bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare\n   Voided.'),('Clechy','a.','See Cleche.'),('Cledge','n.','The upper stratum of fuller\'s earth.'),('Cledgy','a.','Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil.'),('Clee','n.','A claw.'),('Clee','n.','The redshank.'),('Clef','n.','A character used in musical notation to determine the\n   position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.'),('Cleft','','imp. & p. p. from Cleave.'),('Cleft','a.','Divided; split; partly divided or split.'),('Cleft','a.','Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf.'),('Cleft','n.','A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice;\n   as, the cleft of a rock.'),('Cleft','n.','A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood.'),('Cleft','n.','A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.'),('Cleft-footed','a.','Having a cloven foot.'),('Cleftgraft','v. t.','To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a\n   scion.'),('Cleg','n.','A small breeze or horsefly.'),('Cleistogamic','a.','Alt. of Cleistogamous'),('Cleistogamous','a.','Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute,\n   closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of\n   certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds,\n   the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.'),('Clem','v. t. & i.','To starve; to famish.'),('Clematis','n.','A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly\n   climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit;\n   -- called also virgin\'s bower.'),('Clemence','n.','Clemency.'),('Clemencies','pl. ','of Clemency'),('Clemency','n.','Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness\n   of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.'),('Clemency','n.','Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of\n   the season.'),('Clement','a.','Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.'),('Clementine','a.','Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of\n   Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V.\n   and his compilations of canon law.'),('Clench','n. & v. t.','See Clinch.'),('Cleped','imp. & p. p.','of Clepe'),('Cleping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clepe'),('Ycleped','','of Clepe'),('Clepe','v. t.','To call, or name.'),('Clepe','v. i.','To make appeal; to cry out.'),('Clepsine','n.','A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a\n   proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.'),('Clepsydra','n.','A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the\n   graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See\n   Illust. in Appendix.'),('Cleptomania','n.','See Kleptomania.'),('Clerestory','n.','Same as Clearstory.'),('Clergeon','n.','A chorister boy.'),('Clergial','a.','Learned; erudite; clerical.'),('Clergical','a.','Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; clerkily;\n   learned.'),('Clergy','n.','The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the\n   service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity;\n   in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established\n   Church.'),('Clergy','n.','Learning; also, a learned profession.'),('Clergy','n.','The privilege or benefit of clergy.'),('Clergyable','a.','Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a\n   clergyable felony.'),('Clergymen','pl. ','of Clergyman'),('Clergyman','n.','An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to\n   preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually\n   restricted to a minister of the Established Church.'),('Cleric','n.','A clerk, a clergyman.'),('Cleric','a.','Same as Clerical.'),('Clerical','a.','Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.'),('Clerical','a.','Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.'),('Clericalism','n.','An excessive devotion to the interests of the\n   sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.'),('Clericity','n.','The state of being a clergyman.'),('Clerisy','n.','The literati, or well educated class.'),('Clerisy','n.','The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.'),('Clerk','n.','A clergyman or ecclesiastic.'),('Clerk','n.','A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of\n   letters.'),('Clerk','n.','A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the\n   responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.'),('Clerk','n.','One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an\n   accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.'),('Clerk','n.','An assistant in a shop or store.'),('Clerk-ale','n.','A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.'),('Clerkless','a.','Unlearned.'),('Clerklike','a.','Scholarlike.'),('Clerkliness','n.','Scholarship.'),('Clerkly','a.','Of or pertaining to a clerk.'),('Clerkly','adv.','In a scholarly manner.'),('Clerkship','n.','State, quality, or business of a clerk.'),('Cleromancy','n.','A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.'),('Cleronomy','n.','Inheritance; heritage.'),('Clerstory','n.','See Clearstory.'),('Clever','a.','Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity,\n   talent, or adroitness; expert.'),('Clever','a.','Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a\n   clever speech; a clever trick.'),('Clever','a.','Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.'),('Clever','a.','Well-shaped; handsome.'),('Clever','a.','Good-natured; obliging.'),('Cleverish','a.','Somewhat clever.'),('Cleverly','adv.','In a clever manner.'),('Cleverness','n.','The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity;\n   adroitness.'),('Clevis','n.','A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two\n   ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a\n   plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; --\n   called also clavel, clevy.'),('Clew','n.','Alt. of Clue'),('Clue','n.','A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.'),('Clue','n.','That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or\n   intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.'),('Clue','n.','A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a\n   fore-and-aft sail.'),('Clue','n.','A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.'),('Clue','n.','A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is\n   suspended.'),('Clewing','imp. & p. p. & vb. n','of Clew'),('Clew','n.','To direct; to guide, as by a thread.'),('Clew','n.','To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew\n   garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail\n   to the yard.'),('Cliche','n.','A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament,\n   or lettering, in relief.'),('Clicked','imp. & p. p.','of Click'),('Clicking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Click'),('Click','v. i.','To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such\n   noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.'),('Click','v. t.','To move with the sound of a click.'),('Click','v. t.','To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking\n   together, or against something.'),('Click','n.','A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a\n   pistol.'),('Click','n.','A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern\n   Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other\n   portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in\n   contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are\n   four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral\n   clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging\n   a horse forward.'),('Click','v. t.','To snatch.'),('Click','n.','A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs\n   of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched\n   wheel.'),('Click','n.','The latch of a door.'),('Click beetle','','See Elater.'),('Clicker','n.','One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.'),('Clicker','n.','One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.'),('Clicket','n.','The knocker of a door.'),('Clicket','n.','A latch key.'),('Clicky','a.','Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.'),('Clidastes','n.','A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the\n   Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.'),('Cliency','n.','State of being a client.'),('Client','n.','A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of\n   distinction and influence, who was called his patron.'),('Client','n.','A dependent; one under the protection of another.'),('Client','n.','One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to\n   his management.'),('Clientage','n.','State of being client.'),('Clientage','n.','A body of clients.'),('Cliental','a.','Of or pertaining to a client.'),('Cliented','a.','Supplied with clients.'),('Clientelage','n.','See Clientele, n., 2.'),('Clientele','n.','The condition or position of a client; clientship'),('Clientele','n.','The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.'),('Clientele','n.','The persons who make habitual use of the services of\n   another person; one\'s clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a\n   lawyer, doctor, notary, etc.'),('Clientship','n.','Condition of a client; state of being under the\n   protection of a patron.'),('Cliff','n.','A high, steep rock; a precipice.'),('Cliff','n.','See Clef.'),('Cliff limestone','','A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and\n   farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly\n   supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian\n   and partly Devonian.'),('Cliffy','a.','Having cliffs; broken; craggy.'),('Clift','n.','A cliff.'),('Clift','n.','A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.'),('Clift','n.','The fork of the legs; the crotch.'),('Clifted','a.','Broken; fissured.'),('Climacter','n.','See Climacteric, n.'),('Climacteric','a.','Relating to a climacteric; critical.'),('Climacteric','n.','A period in human life in which some great change is\n   supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are\n   thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd\n   numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.'),('Climacteric','n.','Any critical period.'),('Climacterical','a. & n.','See Climacteric.'),('Climatal','a.','Climatic.'),('Climatarchic','a.','Presiding over, or regulating, climates.'),('Climate','v. i.','One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the\n   equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the\n   pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of\n   the midsummer day.'),('Climate','v. i.','The condition of a place in relation to various\n   phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially\n   as they affect animal or vegetable life.'),('Climate','v. i.','To dwell.'),('Climatic','a.','Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited\n   by, a climate.'),('Climatical','a.','Climatic.'),('Climatized','imp. & p. p.','of Climatize'),('Climatizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Climatize'),('Climatize','v. t. & i.','To acclimate or become acclimated.'),('Climatography','n.','A description of climates.'),('Climatological','a.','Of or pertaining to climatology.'),('Climatologist','n.','One versed in, or who studies, climatology.'),('Climatology','n.','The science which treats of climates and investigates\n   their phenomena and causes.'),('Climature','n.','A climate.'),('Climax','v. i.','Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.'),('Climax','v. i.','A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph\n   are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in\n   impressiveness.'),('Climax','v. i.','The highest point; the greatest degree.'),('Climbed','imp. & p. p.','of Climb'),('Clomb','','of Climb'),('Climbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Climb'),('Climb','v. i.','To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands\n   and feet.'),('Climb','v. i.','To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.'),('Climb','v. i.','To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or\n   by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or\n   upright surface.'),('Climb','v. t.','To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or\n   laboriously or slowly; to mount.'),('Climb','n.','The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.'),('Climbable','a.','Capable of being climbed.'),('Climber','n.','One who, or that which, climbs'),('Climber','n.','A plant that climbs.'),('Climber','n.','A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.'),('Climber','v. i.','To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber.'),('Climbing','','p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb.'),('Clime','n.','A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.'),('Clinanthium','n.','The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; --\n   also called clinium.'),('Clinched','imp. & p. p.','of Clinch'),('Clinching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clinch'),('Clinch','v. t.','To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing\n   tightly.'),('Clinch','v. t.','To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch\n   the teeth or the first.'),('Clinch','v. t.','To bend or turn over the point of (something that has\n   been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to\n   clinch a nail.'),('Clinch','v. t.','To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to\n   clinch an argument.'),('Clinch','v. i.','To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or\n   grasp one another.'),('Clinch','n.','The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to\n   hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good\n   clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a\n   clinch.'),('Clinch','n.','A pun.'),('Clinch','n.','A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of\n   an anchor, or the breeching of a ship\'s gun to the ringbolts.'),('Clincher','n.','One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.'),('Clincher','n.','That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive\n   argument.'),('Clincher-built','a.','See Clinker-built.'),('Clung','imp. & p. p.','of Cling'),('Clong','','of Cling'),('Clinging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cling'),('Cling','v. i.','To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by\n   twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its\n   support; -- usually followed by to or together.'),('Cling','v. t.','To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or\n   embracing.'),('Cling','v. t.','To make to dry up or wither.'),('Cling','n.','Adherence; attachment; devotion.'),('Clingstone','a.','Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in\n   some kinds of peaches.'),('Clingstone','n.','A fruit, as a peach, whose flesh adheres to the stone.'),('Clingy','a.','Apt to cling; adhesive.'),('Clinic','n.','One confined to the bed by sickness.'),('Clinic','n.','One who receives baptism on a sick bed.'),('Clinic','n.','A school, or a session of a school or class, in which\n   medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of\n   patients in the presence of the pupils.'),('Clinical','v. i.','Alt. of Clinic'),('Clinic','v. i.','Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.'),('Clinic','v. i.','Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease\n   in the living subject.'),('Clinically','adv.','In a clinical manner.'),('Clinique','n.','A clinic.'),('Clinium','n.','See Clinanthium.'),('Clinked','imp. & p. p.','of Clink'),('Clinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clink'),('Clink','v. i.','To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as\n   by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.'),('Clink','v. i.','To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.'),('Clink','v. i.','To rhyme. [Humorous].'),('Clink','n.','A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of\n   sonorous bodies.'),('Clinkant','a.','See Clinquant.'),('Clinker','n.','A mass composed of several bricks run together by the\n   action of the fire in the kiln.'),('Clinker','n.','Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a\n   grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt\n   matter ejected from a volcano; slag.'),('Clinker','n.','A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.'),('Clinker','n.','A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.'),('Clinker-built','a.','Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that\n   the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below\n   it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.'),('Clinkstone','n.','An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in\n   structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.'),('Clinodiagonal','n.','That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic\n   crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See\n   Crystallization.'),('Clinodiagonal','a.','Pertaining to, or the direction of, the\n   clinodiagonal.'),('Clinodome','n.','See under Dome.'),('Clinographic','a.','Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in\n   which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of\n   projection.'),('Clinoid','a.','Like a bed; -- applied to several processes on the inner\n   side of the sphenoid bone.'),('Clinometer','n.','An instrument for determining the dip of beds or\n   strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb\n   level.'),('Clinometric','a.','Pertaining to, or ascertained by, the clinometer.'),('Clinometric','a.','Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to\n   solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric\n   systems.'),('Clinometry','n.','That art or operation of measuring the inclination of\n   strata.'),('Clinopinacoid','n.','The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which\n   is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal)\n   axes.'),('Clinorhombic','a.','Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely\n   inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.'),('Clinquant','a.','Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.'),('Clinquant','n.','Tinsel; Dutch gold.'),('Clio','n.','The Muse who presided over history.'),('Clione','n.','A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione\n   papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the\n   food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.'),('Clipped','imp. & p. p.','of Clip'),('Clipping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clip'),('Clip','v. t.','To embrace, hence; to encompass.'),('Clip','v. t.','To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the\n   hair; to clip coin.'),('Clip','v. t.','To curtail; to cut short.'),('Clip','v. i.','To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.'),('Clip','n.','An embrace.'),('Clip','n.','A cutting; a shearing.'),('Clip','n.','The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season\'s crop of\n   wool.'),('Clip','n.','A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.'),('Clip','n.','An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron\n   strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.'),('Clip','n.','A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned\n   up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip\n   and beak.'),('Clip','n.','A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.'),('Clipper','n.','One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges\n   of coin.'),('Clipper','n.','A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.'),('Clipper','n.','A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast\n   sailing.'),('Clipping','n.','The act of embracing.'),('Clipping','n.','The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the\n   practice of clipping the edges of coins.'),('Clipping','n.','That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece\n   separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.'),('Clique','v. i.','A narrow circle of persons associated by common\n   interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; -- generally\n   used in a bad sense.'),('Clique','v. i.','To To associate together in a clannish way; to act with\n   others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot; -- used with together.'),('Cliquish','a.','Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques;\n   exclusive in spirit.'),('Cliquism','n.','The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of\n   cliques.'),('Clitellus','n.','A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult\n   earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for\n   reproductive purposes.'),('Clitoris','n.','A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous\n   to the penis in the male.'),('Clivers','n.','See Cleavers.'),('Clivities','pl. ','of Clivity'),('Clivity','n.','Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.'),('Cloacae','pl. ','of Cloaca'),('Cloaca','n.','A sewer; as, the Cloaca Maxima of Rome.'),('Cloaca','n.','A privy.'),('Cloaca','n.','The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and\n   generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many\n   fishes.'),('Cloacal','a.','Of or pertaining to a cloaca.'),('Cloak','n.','A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards,\n   and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn\n   both by men and by women.'),('Cloak','n.','That which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a\n   fair pretense; a mask; a cover.'),('Cloaked','imp. & p. p.','of Cloak'),('Cloaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cloak'),('Cloak','v. t.','To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or\n   conceal.'),('Cloakedly','adv.','In a concealed manner.'),('Cloaking','n.','The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing\n   anything.'),('Cloaking','n.','The material of which of which cloaks are made.'),('Cloakroom','n.','A room, attached to any place of public resort, where\n   cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.'),('Clock','n.','A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other\n   divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved\n   by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the\n   hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the\n   watch, to be carried on the person.'),('Clock','n.','A watch, esp. one that strikes.'),('Clock','n.','The striking of a clock.'),('Clock','n.','A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.'),('Clock','v. t.','To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.'),('Clock','v. t. & i.','To call, as a hen. See Cluck.'),('Clock','n.','A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus\n   stercorarius).'),('Clocklike','a.','Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.'),('Clockwork','n.','The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that\n   of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.'),('Clod','n.','A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.'),('Clod','n.','The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.'),('Clod','n.','That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the\n   body of man in comparison with the soul.'),('Clod','n.','A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt'),('Clod','n.','A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck\n   piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.'),('Clod','v.i','To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate;\n   to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.'),('Clod','v. t.','To pelt with clods.'),('Clod','v. t.','To throw violently; to hurl.'),('Cloddish','a.','Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.'),('Cloddy','a.','Consisting of clods; full of clods.'),('Clodhopper','n.','A rude, rustic fellow.'),('Clodhopping','a.','Boorish; rude.'),('Clodpate','n.','A blockhead; a dolt.'),('Clodpated','a.','Stupid; dull; doltish.'),('Clodpoll','n.','A stupid fellow; a dolt.'),('Cloff','n.','Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred\n   weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a\n   general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.'),('Clog','v.','That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance,\n   restraint, or impediment, of any kind.'),('Clog','v.','A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an\n   animal to hinder motion.'),('Clog','v.','A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or\n   to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick\n   sole. Cf. Chopine.'),('Clogged','imp. & p. p.','of Clog'),('Clogging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clog'),('Clog','v. t.','To encumber or load, especially with something that\n   impedes motion; to hamper.'),('Clog','v. t.','To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke\n   up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.'),('Clog','v. t.','To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.'),('Clog','v. i.','To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with\n   extraneous matter.'),('Clog','v. i.','To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.'),('Clogginess','n.','The state of being clogged.'),('Clogging','n.','Anything which clogs.'),('Cloggy','a.','Clogging, or having power to clog.'),('Cloisonne','a.','Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the\n   lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a\n   kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from\n   champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to\n   receive the enamel.'),('Cloister','v. t.','An inclosed place.'),('Cloister','v. t.','A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a\n   court;'),('Cloister','v. t.','the series of such passages on the different sides of\n   any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.'),('Cloister','v. t.','A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from\n   the world for religious duties.'),('Cloistered','imp. & p. p.','of Cloister'),('Cloistering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cloister'),('Cloister','v. t.','To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from\n   the world; to immure.'),('Cloisteral','a.','Cloistral.'),('Cloistered','a.','Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.'),('Cloistered','a.','Furnished with cloisters.'),('Cloisterer','n.','One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.'),('Cloistral','a.','Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.'),('Cloistress','n.','A nun.'),('Cloke','n. & v.','See Cloak.'),('Clomb','','Alt. of Clomben'),('Clomben','','imp. & p. p. of Climb (for climbed).'),('Clomp','n.','See Clamp.'),('Clong','','imp. of Cling.'),('Clonic','a.','Having an irregular, convulsive motion.'),('Cloom','v. t.','To close with glutinous matter.'),('Cloop','n.','The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.'),('Closed','imp. & p. p.','of Close'),('Closing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Close'),('Close','n.','To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close\n   the eyes; to close a door.'),('Close','n.','To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close\n   the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.'),('Close','n.','To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to\n   finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a\n   course of instruction.'),('Close','n.','To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to\n   confine.'),('Close','v. i.','To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a\n   wound, or parts separated.'),('Close','v. i.','To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate\n   closed at six o\'clock.'),('Close','v. i.','To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight.'),('Close','n.','The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.'),('Close','n.','Conclusion; cessation; ending; end.'),('Close','n.','A grapple in wrestling.'),('Close','n.','The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.'),('Close','n.','A double bar marking the end.'),('Close','v. t.','An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of\n   land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; --\n   specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey.'),('Close','v. t.','A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and\n   the houses within.'),('Close','v. t.','The interest which one may have in a piece of ground,\n   even though it is not inclosed.'),('Close','v. t.','Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box.'),('Close','v. t.','Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters.'),('Close','v. t.','Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a\n   feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air, weather, etc.'),('Close','v. t.','Strictly confined; carefully quarded; as, a close\n   prisoner.'),('Close','v. t.','Out of the way observation; secluded; secret; hidden.'),('Close','v. t.','Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent.'),('Close','v. t.','Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact;\n   as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to\n   liquids.'),('Close','v. t.','Concise; to the point; as, close reasoning.'),('Close','v. t.','Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; --\n   often followed by to.'),('Close','v. t.','Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.'),('Close','v. t.','Intimate; familiar; confidential.'),('Close','v. t.','Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; as, a close vote.'),('Close','v. t.','Difficult to obtain; as, money is close.'),('Close','v. t.','Parsimonious; stingy.'),('Close','v. t.','Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact;\n   strict; as, a close translation.'),('Close','v. t.','Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating;\n   strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.'),('Close','v. t.','Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the\n   mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; --\n   opposed to open.'),('Close','adv.','In a close manner.'),('Close','adv.','Secretly; darkly.'),('Close-banded','a.','Closely united.'),('Close-barred','a.','Firmly barred or closed.'),('Close-bodied','a.','Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a\n   garment.'),('Close-fights','n. pl.','Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the\n   deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an\n   enemy\'s boarders; -- called also close quarters.'),('Closefisted','a.','Covetous; niggardly.'),('Closehanded','a.','Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.'),('Closehauled','a.','Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the\n   direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.'),('Closely','adv.','In a close manner.'),('Closely','adv.','Secretly; privately.'),('Closemouthed','a.','Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.'),('Closen','v. t.','To make close.'),('Closeness','n.','The state of being close.'),('Closer','n.','One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot\n   closer. See under Boot.'),('Closer','n.','A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.'),('Closer','n.','The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size\n   than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.'),('Closereefed','a.','Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.'),('Close-stool','n.','A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the\n   sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and\n   tight cover.'),('Closet','n.','A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for\n   privacy.'),('Closet','n.','A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for\n   household utensils, clothing, etc.'),('Closeting','imp. & p. pr. & vb. ','of Closet'),('Closet','v. t.','To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.'),('Closet','v. t.','To make into a closet for a secret interview.'),('Close-tongued','a.','Closemouthed; silent.'),('Closh','n.','A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis.'),('Closh','n.','The game of ninepins.'),('Closure','v. t.','The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a\n   chink.'),('Closure','v. t.','That which closes or shuts; that by which separate\n   parts are fastened or closed.'),('Closure','v. t.','That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.'),('Closure','v. t.','A conclusion; an end.'),('Closure','v. t.','A method of putting an end to debate and securing an\n   immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body. It is similar\n   in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the\n   British House of Commons in 1882. The French word cloture was\n   originally applied to this proceeding.'),('Clot','n.','A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated\n   mass, as of blood; a coagulum.'),('Clotted','imp. & p. p.','of Clot'),('Clotting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clot'),('Clot','v. i.','To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid\n   matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.'),('Clot','v. t.','To form into a slimy mass.'),('Clotbur','n.','The burdock.'),('Clotbur','n.','Same as Cocklebur.'),('Clote','n.','The common burdock; the clotbur.'),('Cloths','pl. ','of Cloth'),('Clothes','pl. ','of Cloth'),('Cloth','n.','A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as\n   in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen,\n   adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as\n   distinguished from all others.'),('Cloth','n.','The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.'),('Cloth','n.','The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the\n   clergy; hence, the clerical profession.'),('Clothed','imp. & p. p.','of Clothe'),('Clad','','of Clothe'),('Clothing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clothe'),('Clothe','v. t.','To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.'),('Clothe','v. t.','To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a\n   family; to clothe one\'s self extravagantly.'),('Clothe','v. t.','Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to\n   clothe one with authority or power.'),('Clothe','v. i.','To wear clothes.'),('Clothes','n. pl.','Covering for the human body; dress; vestments;\n   vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to\n   be worn, for decency or comfort.'),('Clothes','n. pl.','The covering of a bed; bedclothes.'),('Clotheshorse','n.','A frame to hang clothes on.'),('Clothesline','n.','A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.'),('Clothespin','n.','A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used\n   for fastening clothes on a line.'),('Clothespress','n.','A receptacle for clothes.'),('Clothier','n.','One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth.'),('Clothier','n.','One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells\n   clothes.'),('Clothing','n.','Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.'),('Clothing','n.','The art of process of making cloth.'),('Clothing','n.','A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a\n   boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.'),('Clothing','n.','See Card clothing, under 3d Card.'),('Clothred','p. p.','Clottered.'),('Clotpoll','n.','See Clodpoll.'),('Clotted','a.','Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of\n   a clot; sticky; slimy; foul.'),('Clotter','v. i.','To concrete into lumps; to clot.'),('Clotty','n.','Full of clots, or clods.'),('Cloture','n.','See Closure, 5.'),('Clotweed','n.','Cocklebur.'),('Cloud','n.','A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles,\n   suspended in the upper atmosphere.'),('Cloud','n.','A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor.'),('Cloud','n.','A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble;\n   hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one\'s reputation; a cloud\n   on a title.'),('Cloud','n.','That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that\n   which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of\n   sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.'),('Cloud','n.','A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection.'),('Cloud','n.','A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the\n   head.'),('Clouded','imp. & p. p.','of Cloud'),('Clouding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cloud'),('Cloud','v. t.','To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky\n   is clouded.'),('Cloud','v. t.','To darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with\n   a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen.'),('Cloud','v. t.','To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; --\n   esp. used of reputation or character.'),('Cloud','v. t.','To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate\n   with colors; as, to cloud yarn.'),('Cloud','v. i.','To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often\n   used with up.'),('Cloudage','n.','Mass of clouds; cloudiness.'),('Cloudberry','n.','A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamaemerous) growing in\n   the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.'),('Cloud-built','a.','Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial;\n   imaginary.'),('Cloud-burst','n.','A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been\n   precipitated at once.'),('Cloud-capped','a.','Having clouds resting on the top or head; reaching to\n   the clouds; as, cloud-capped mountains.'),('Cloud-compeller','n.','Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus.'),('Cloudily','adv.','In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely.'),('Cloudiness','n.','The state of being cloudy.'),('Clouding','n.','A mottled appearance given to ribbons and silks in the\n   process of dyeing.'),('Clouding','n.','A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular\n   intervals.'),('Cloudland','n.','Dreamland.'),('Cloudless','a.','Without a cloud; clear; bright.'),('Cloudlet','n.','A little cloud.'),('Cloudy','n.','Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy\n   sky.'),('Cloudy','n.','Consisting of a cloud or clouds.'),('Cloudy','n.','Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not\n   open or cheerful.'),('Cloudy','n.','Confused; indistinct; obscure; dark.'),('Cloudy','n.','Lacking clearness, brightness, or luster.'),('Cloudy','n.','Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as\n   marble.'),('Clough','n.','A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.'),('Clough','n.','A sluice used in returning water to a channel after\n   depositing its sediment on the flooded land.'),('Clough','n.','An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.'),('Clout','n.','A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.'),('Clout','n.','A swadding cloth.'),('Clout','n.','A piece; a fragment.'),('Clout','n.','The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably\n   once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.'),('Clout','n.','An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from\n   wearing; a washer.'),('Clout','n.','A blow with the hand.'),('Clouted','imp. & p. p.','of Clout'),('Clouting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clout'),('Clout','n.','To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage;\n   patch, or mend, with a clout.'),('Clout','n.','To join or patch clumsily.'),('Clout','n.','To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.'),('Clout','n.','To give a blow to; to strike.'),('Clout','n.','To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.'),('Clouterly','n.','Clumsy; awkward.'),('Clove','imp.','Cleft.'),('Clove','v. t.','A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part\n   of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove.'),('Clove','n.','A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of\n   the clove tree (Eugenia, / Caryophullus, aromatica), a native of the\n   Molucca Isles.'),('Clove','n.','One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales\n   of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic.'),('Clove','n.','A weight. A clove of cheese is about eight pounds, of wool,\n   about seven pounds.'),('Cloven','p. p. & a.','from Cleave, v. t.'),('Cloven-footed','a.','Alt. of Cloven-hoofed'),('Cloven-hoofed','a.','Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as\n   the ox.'),('Clover','n.','A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the\n   common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare\'s\n   foot, T. arvense.'),('Clovered','a.','Covered with growing clover.'),('Clowe-gilofre','n.','Spice clove.'),('Clown','n.','A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an\n   ill-bred person; a boor.'),('Clown','n.','One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.'),('Clown','n.','The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc.'),('Clown','v. i.','To act as a clown; -- with it.'),('Clownage','n.','Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery.'),('Clownery','n.','Clownishness.'),('Clownish','a.','Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown;\n   ungainly; awkward.'),('Clownishness','n.','The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of\n   behavior.'),('Cloyed','imp. & p. p.','of Cloy'),('Cloying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cloy'),('Cloy','v. t.','To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.'),('Cloy','v. t.','To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill\n   to loathing; to surfeit.'),('Cloy','v. t.','To penetrate or pierce; to wound.'),('Cloy','v. t.','To spike, as a cannon.'),('Cloy','v. t.','To stroke with a claw.'),('Cloyless','a.','That does not cloy.'),('Cloyment','n.','Satiety.'),('Club','n.','A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the\n   hand; a weapon; a cudgel.'),('Club','n.','Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the\n   trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.'),('Club','n.','An association of persons for the promotion of some common\n   object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp.\n   an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the\n   members.'),('Club','n.','A joint charge of expense, or any person\'s share of it; a\n   contribution to a common fund.'),('Clubbed','imp. & p. p.','of Club'),('Clubbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Club'),('Club','v. t.','To beat with a club.'),('Club','v. t.','To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.'),('Club','v. t.','To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a\n   common end; as, to club exertions.'),('Club','v. t.','To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to\n   club the expense.'),('Club','v. i.','To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some\n   common object; to unite.'),('Club','v. i.','To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge\n   or expense; to pay for something by contribution.'),('Club','v. i.','To drift in a current with an anchor out.'),('Clubbable','a.','Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.'),('Clubbed','a.','Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.'),('Clubber','n.','One who clubs.'),('Clubber','n.','A member of a club.'),('Clubbish','a.','Rude; clownish.'),('Clubbish','a.','Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.'),('Clubbist','n.','A member of a club; a frequenter of clubs.'),('Clubfist','n.','A large, heavy fist.'),('Clubfist','n.','A coarse, brutal fellow.'),('Clubfisted','a.','Having a large fist.'),('Clubfoot','n.','A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity,\n   usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.'),('Clubfooted','a.','Having a clubfoot.'),('Clubhand','n.','A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having\n   such a hand.'),('Clubhaul','v. t.','To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as\n   soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel\'s head to\n   the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the\n   other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.'),('Clubhouse','n.','A house occupied by a club.'),('Clubroom','n.','The apartment in which a club meets.'),('Club-rush','n.','A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some\n   species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.'),('Club-shaped','a.','Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of\n   certain insects.'),('Clucked','imp. & p. p.','of Cluck'),('Clucking','p pr. & vb. n.','of Cluck'),('Cluck','v. i.','To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.'),('Cluck','v. t.','To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her\n   chickens.'),('Cluck','n.','The call of a hen to her chickens.'),('Cluck','n.','A click. See 3d Click, 2.'),('Clucking','n.','The noise or call of a brooding hen.'),('Clue','n.','A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same\n   as Clew.'),('Clum','interj.','Silence; hush.'),('Clumber','n.','A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body,\n   which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.'),('Clump','n.','An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.'),('Clump','n.','A cluster; a group; a thicket.'),('Clump','n.','The compressed clay of coal strata.'),('Clump','v. t.','To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.'),('Clump','v. i.','To tread clumsily; to clamp.'),('Clumper','n.','To form into clumps or masses.'),('Clumps','n.','A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of\n   enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously\n   selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because\n   the players take sides in two \"clumps\" or groups, the \"clump\" which\n   guesses the word winning the game.'),('Clumpy','n.','Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.'),('Clumsily','adv.','In a clumsy manner; awkwardly; as, to walk clumsily.'),('Clumsiness','n.','The quality of being clumsy.'),('Clumsy','superl.','Stiff or benumbed, as with cold.'),('Clumsy','superl.','Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness,\n   or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence;\n   ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy\n   workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse.'),('Clunch','n.','Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.'),('Clunch','n.','One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.'),('Clung','','imp. & p. p. of Cling.'),('Clung','v. i.','Wasted away; shrunken.'),('Cluniac','n.','A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order,\n   founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.'),('Cluniacensian','a.','Cluniac.'),('Clupeoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the Herring family.'),('Cluster','n.','A number of things of the same kind growing together; a\n   bunch.'),('Cluster','n.','A number of similar things collected together or lying\n   contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.'),('Cluster','n.','A number of individuals grouped together or collected in\n   one place; a crowd; a mob.'),('Clustered','imp. & p. p.','of Cluster'),('Clustering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cluster'),('Cluster','v. i.','To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or\n   unite in a cluster or clusters.'),('Cluster','v. t.','To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a\n   bunch or close body.'),('Clusteringly','adv.','In clusters.'),('Clustery','n.','Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters.'),('Clutch','n.','A gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or\n   claws; seizure; grasp.'),('Clutch','n.','The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly;\n   -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, to fall\n   into the clutches of an adversary.'),('Clutch','n.','A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as\n   to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure.'),('Clutch','n.','Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain\n   or tackle.'),('Clutch','n.','The nest complement of eggs of a bird.'),('Clutched','imp. & p. p.','of Clutch'),('Clutching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clutch'),('Clutch','n.','To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws;\n   -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power.'),('Clutch','n.','To close tightly; to clinch.'),('Clutch','v. i.','To reach (at something) as if to grasp; to catch or\n   snatch; -- often followed by at.'),('Clutter','n.','A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the\n   room is in a clutter.'),('Clutter','n.','Clatter; confused noise.'),('Cluttered','imp. & p. p.','of Clutter'),('Cluttering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Clutter'),('Clutter','v. t.','To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with\n   things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to\n   clutter a room.'),('Clutter','v. i.','To make a confused noise; to bustle.'),('Clutter','n.','To clot or coagulate, as blood.'),('Clypeastroid','a.','Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied\n   to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the\n   upper side.'),('Clypeate','a.','Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.'),('Clypeate','a.','Furnished with a shield, or a protective plate or shell.'),('Clypeiform','a.','Shield-shaped; clypeate.'),('Clypei','pl. ','of Clypeus'),('Clypeus','n.','The frontal plate of the head of an insect.'),('Clysmian','a.','Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a\n   cataclysm; as, clysmian changes.'),('Clysmic','a.','Washing; cleansing.'),('Clyster','n.','A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a\n   syringe; an injection; an enema.'),('Cnemial','a.','Pertaining to the shin bone.'),('Cnidae','pl. ','of Cnida'),('Cnida','n.','One of the peculiar stinging, cells found in Coelenterata; a\n   nematocyst; a lasso cell.'),('Cnidaria','n. pl.','A comprehensive group equivalent to the true\n   Coelenterata, i. e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from\n   presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.'),('Cnidoblast','n.','One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop\n   into cnidae.'),('Cnidocil','n.','The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.'),('Co-','','A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in\n   conjunction, joint. It is used before vowels and some consonants. See\n   Com-.'),('Coacervate','a.','Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped.'),('Coacervate','v. t.','To heap up; to pile.'),('Coacervation','n.','A heaping together.'),('Coach','n.','A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the\n   sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two\n   persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.'),('Coach','n.','A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for\n   examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat\'s crew for a race.'),('Coach','n.','A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually\n   occupied by the captain.'),('Coach','n.','A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a\n   drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to\n   any passenger car.'),('Coached','imp. & p. p.','of Coach'),('Coaching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coach'),('Coach','v. t.','To convey in a coach.'),('Coach','v. t.','To prepare for public examination by private instruction;\n   to train by special instruction.'),('Coach','v. i.','To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with'),('Coachbox','','The seat of a coachman.'),('Coachdog','','One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the\n   Dalmatian dog.'),('Coachee','n.','A coachman'),('Coachfellow','n.','One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach;\n   hence (Fig.), a comrade.'),('Coachmen','pl. ','of Coachman'),('Coachman','n.','A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.'),('Coachman','n.','A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); --\n   called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of\n   the dorsal fin.'),('Coachmanship','n.','Skill in driving a coach.'),('Coachwhip snake','','A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern\n   United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).'),('Coact','v. t.','To force; to compel; to drive.'),('Coact','v. i.','To act together; to work in concert; to unite.'),('Coaction','n.','Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.'),('Coactive','a.','Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.'),('Coactive','a.','Acting in concurrence; united in action.'),('Coactively','adv.','In a coactive manner.'),('Coactivity','n.','Unity of action.'),('Coadaptation','n.','Mutual adaption.'),('Coadapted','a.','Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth.'),('Coadjument','n.','Mutual help; cooperation.'),('Coadjust','v. t.','To adjust by mutual adaptations.'),('Coadjustment','n.','Mutual adjustment.'),('Coadjutant','a.','Mutually assisting or operating; helping.'),('Coadjutant','n.','An assistant.'),('Coadjuting','a.','Mutually assisting.'),('Coadjutive','a.','Rendering mutual aid; coadjutant.'),('Coadjutor','n.','One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.'),('Coadjutor','n.','The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a\n   benefice.'),('Coadjutorship','n.','The state or office of a coadjutor; joint\n   assistance.'),('Coadjutress','n.','Alt. of Coadjutrix'),('Coadjutrix','n.','A female coadjutor or assistant.'),('Coadjuvancy','n.','Joint help; cooperation.'),('Coadjuvant','a.','Cooperating.'),('Coadjuvant','n.','An adjuvant.'),('Coadunate','a.','United at the base, as contiguous lobes of a leaf.'),('Coadunation','n.','Union, as in one body or mass; unity.'),('Coadunition','n.','Coadunation.'),('Coadventure','n.','An adventure in which two or more persons are\n   partakers.'),('Coadventure','v. i.','To share in a venture.'),('Coadventurer','n.','A fellow adventurer.'),('Coafforest','v. t.','To convert into, or add to, a forest.'),('Coag','n.','See Coak, a kind of tenon.'),('Coagency','n.','Agency in common; joint agency or agent.'),('Coagent','n.','An associate in an act; a coworker.'),('Coagment','v. t.','To join together.'),('Coagmentation','n.','The act of joining, or the state of being joined,\n   together; union.'),('Coagulability','n.','The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being\n   coagulated.'),('Coagulable','a.','Capable of being coagulated.'),('Coagulant','n.','That which produces coagulation.'),('Coagulate','a.','Coagulated.'),('Coagulated','imp. & p. p.','of Coagulate'),('Coagulating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coagulate'),('Coagulate','v. t.','To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or\n   semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical\n   reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the\n   white of an egg.'),('Coagulate','v. i.','To undergo coagulation.'),('Coagulated','a.','Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike\n   mass; curdled.'),('Coagulation','n.','The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike,\n   insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical\n   reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the\n   coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg\n   albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous\n   body into an insoluble modification.'),('Coagulation','n.','The substance or body formed by coagulation.'),('Coagulative','a.','Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a\n   coagulative agent.'),('Coagulator','n.','That which causes coagulation.'),('Coagulatory','a.','Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as,\n   coagulatory effects.'),('Coagula','pl. ','of Coagulum'),('Coagulum','a.','The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of\n   albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.'),('Coaita','n.','The native name of certain South American monkeys of the\n   genus Ateles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater.\n   See Illustration in Appendix.'),('Coak','n.','See Coke, n.'),('Coak','n.','A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with\n   the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron\n   uniting timbers.'),('Coak','n.','A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a\n   wooden block sheave.'),('Coak','v. t.','To unite, as timbers, by means of tenons or dowels in the\n   edges or faces.'),('Coal','n.','A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,\n   fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.'),('Coal','n.','A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug\n   from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting,\n   like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording,\n   when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.'),('Coaled','imp. & p. p.','of Coal'),('Coaling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coal'),('Coal','v. t.','To burn to charcoal; to char.'),('Coal','v. t.','To mark or delineate with charcoal.'),('Coal','v. t.','To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.'),('Coal','v. i.','To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.'),('Coal-black','a.','As black as coal; jet black; very black.'),('Coalery','n.','See Colliery.'),('Coalesced','imp. & p. p.','of Coalesce'),('Coalescing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coalesce'),('Coalesce','n.','To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as,\n   the parts separated by a wound coalesce.'),('Coalesce','n.','To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body\n   or community; as, vapors coalesce.'),('Coalescence','n.','The act or state of growing together, as similar\n   parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state\n   of being united; union; concretion.'),('Coalescent','a.','Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion\n   of similar parts; uniting.'),('Coalfish','n.','The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey,\n   coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.'),('Coalfish','n.','The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.'),('Coalfish','n.','The cobia.'),('Coalgoose','n.','The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.'),('Coalite','v. i.','To unite or coalesce.'),('Coalite','v. t.','To cause to unite or coalesce.'),('Coalition','n.','The act of coalescing; union into a body or mass, as of\n   separate bodies or parts; as, a coalition of atoms.'),('Coalition','n.','A combination, for temporary purposes, of persons,\n   parties, or states, having different interests.'),('Coalitioner','n.','A coalitionist.'),('Coalitionist','n.','One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who\n   advocates coalition.'),('Co-allies','pl. ','of Co-ally'),('Co-ally','n.','A joint ally.'),('Coal-meter','n.','A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See\n   Meter.'),('Coalmouse','n.','A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the\n   coletit.'),('Coalpit','n.','A pit where coal is dug.'),('Coalpit','n.','A place where charcoal is made.'),('Coal tar','','A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation\n   of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for\n   making printer\'s ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from\n   which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of\n   the benzene or aromatic series.'),('Coal-whipper','n.','One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.'),('Coal works','','A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for\n   raising the coal.'),('Coaly','n.','Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the\n   nature of coal.'),('Coamings','n. pl.','Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway,\n   skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running\n   bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as\n   distinguished from the transverse head ledges.'),('Coannex','v. t.','To annex with something else.'),('Coaptation','n.','The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as\n   of a broken bone or dislocated joint.'),('Coarct','a.','Alt. of Coarctate'),('Coarctate','a.','To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine\n   closely.'),('Coarctate','a.','To restrain; to confine.'),('Coarctate','a.','Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to\n   insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a\n   constriction.'),('Coarctation','n.','Confinement to a narrow space.'),('Coarctation','n.','Pressure; that which presses.'),('Coarctation','n.','A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or\n   orifice.'),('Coarse','superl.','Large in bulk, or composed of large parts or\n   particles; of inferior quality or appearance; not fine in material or\n   close in texture; gross; thick; rough; -- opposed to fine; as, coarse\n   sand; coarse thread; coarse cloth; coarse bread.'),('Coarse','superl.','Not refined; rough; rude; unpolished; gross;\n   indelicate; as, coarse manners; coarse language.'),('Coarse-grained','a.','Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence,\n   wanting in refinement.'),('Coarsely','adv.','In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly;\n   uncivilly; meanly.'),('Coarsen','v. t.','To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one\'s\n   character.'),('Coarseness','n.','The quality or state of being coarse; roughness;\n   inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture,\n   manners, or language.'),('Coarticulation','n.','The union or articulation of bones to form a joint.'),('Co-assessor','n.','A joint assessor.'),('Coast','v. t.','The side of a thing.'),('Coast','v. t.','The exterior line, limit, or border of a country;\n   frontier border.'),('Coast','v. t.','The seashore, or land near it.'),('Coasted','imp. & p. p.','of Coast'),('Coasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coast'),('Coast','n.','To draw or keep near; to approach.'),('Coast','n.','To sail by or near the shore.'),('Coast','n.','To sail from port to port in the same country.'),('Coast','n.','To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice.'),('Coast','v. t.','To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the\n   side of.'),('Coast','v. t.','To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.'),('Coast','v. t.','To conduct along a coast or river bank.'),('Coastal','a.','Of or pertaining to a coast.'),('Coaster','n.','A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in\n   the coasting trade.'),('Coaster','n.','One who sails near the shore.'),('Coasting','a.','Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports\n   along a coast.'),('Coasting','n.','A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying\n   on a coasting trade.'),('Coasting','n.','Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.'),('Coastwise','adv.','Alt. of Coastways'),('Coastways','adv.','By way of, or along, the coast.'),('Coat','n.','An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body;\n   especially, such a garment worn by men.'),('Coat','n.','A petticoat.'),('Coat','n.','The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order\n   or office; cloth.'),('Coat','n.','An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool,\n   husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek.'),('Coat','n.','A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a\n   tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of\n   tar or varnish.'),('Coat','n.','Same as Coat of arms. See below.'),('Coat','n.','A coat card. See below.'),('Coated','imp. & p. p.','of Coat'),('Coating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coat'),('Coat','v. t.','To cover with a coat or outer garment.'),('Coat','v. t.','To cover with a layer of any substance; as, to coat a jar\n   with tin foil; to coat a ceiling.'),('Coatee','n.','A coat with short flaps.'),('Coati','n.','A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to\n   the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.'),('Coating','n.','A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover\n   or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.'),('Coating','n.','Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.'),('Coatless','a.','Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.'),('Coaxed','imp. & p. p.','of Coax'),('Coaxing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Coax'),('Coax','v. t.','To persuade by gentle, insinuating courtesy, flattering,\n   or fondling; to wheedle; to soothe.'),('Coax','n.','A simpleton; a dupe.'),('Coaxation','n.','The act of croaking.'),('Coaxer','n.','One who coaxes.'),('Coaxingly','adv.','In a coaxing manner; by coaxing.'),('Cob','n.','The top or head of anything.'),('Cob','n.','A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous\n   person.'),('Cob','n.','The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.'),('Cob','n.','A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.'),('Cob','n.','A young herring.'),('Cob','n.','A fish; -- also called miller\'s thumb.'),('Cob','n.','A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.'),('Cob','n.','A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus\n   marinus).'),('Cob','n.','A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size,\n   as of coal, or stone.'),('Cob','n.','A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.'),('Cob','n.','Clay mixed with straw.'),('Cob','n.','A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks\n   with a strap or a flat piece of wood.'),('Cob','n.','A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s.\n   6d.'),('Cobbed','imp. & p. p.','of Cob'),('Cobbing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cob'),('Cob','v. t.','To strike'),('Cob','v. t.','To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its\n   better portions.'),('Cob','v. t.','To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat\n   piece of wood, or the like.'),('Cobaea','n.','A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South\n   America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large bell-shaped\n   flowers.'),('Cobalt','n.','A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group,\n   not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol\n   Co.'),('Cobalt','n.','A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.'),('Cobaltic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; --\n   said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence;\n   as, cobaltic oxide.'),('Cobaltiferous','a.','Containing cobalt.'),('Cobaltine','n.','Alt. of Cobaltite'),('Cobaltite','n.','A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of\n   arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.'),('Cobaltous','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; --\n   said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.'),('Cobbing','a.','Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2.'),('Cobble','n.','A fishing boat. See Coble.'),('Cobble','n.','A cobblestone.'),('Cobble','n.','Cob coal. See under Cob.'),('Cobbled','imp. & p. p.','of Cobble'),('Cobbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cobble'),('Cobble','v. t.','To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to\n   cobble shoes.'),('Cobble','v. t.','To make clumsily.'),('Cobble','v. t.','To pave with cobblestones.'),('Cobbler','n.','A mender of shoes.'),('Cobbler','n.','A clumsy workman.'),('Cobbler','n.','A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.'),('Cobblestone','n.','A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be\n   handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other\n   purposes.'),('Cobby','n.','Headstrong; obstinate.'),('Cobby','n.','Stout; hearty; lively.'),('Cobelligerent','a.','Carrying on war in conjunction with another power.'),('Cobelligerent','n.','A nation or state that carries on war in connection\n   with another.'),('Cobia','n.','An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the\n   crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant\n   fish.'),('Cobiron','n.','An andiron with a knob at the top.'),('Cobishop','n.','A joint or coadjutant bishop.'),('Coble','n.','A flat-floored fishing boat with a lug sail, and a drop\n   rudder extending from two to four feet below the keel. It was\n   originally used on the stormy coast of Yorkshire, England.'),('Cobnut','n.','A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.'),('Cobnut','n.','A game played by children with nuts.'),('Coboose','n.','See Caboose.'),('Cobourg','n.','A thin worsted fabric for women\'s dresses.'),('Cobra','n.','See Copra.'),('Cobra','n.','The cobra de capello.'),('Cobra de capello','','The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly\n   venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja --'),('Cobstone','n.','Cobblestone.'),('Cobswan','n.','A large swan.'),('Cobwall','n.','A wall made of clay mixed with straw.'),('Cobweb','n.','The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.'),('Cobweb','n.','A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant\n   and unwary.'),('Cobweb','n.','That which is thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and\n   worthless; rubbish.'),('Cobweb','n.','The European spotted flycatcher.'),('Cobwebbed','a.','Abounding in cobwebs.'),('Cobwebby','a.','Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a\n   cobweb.'),('Cobwork','a.','Built of logs, etc., laid horizontally, with the ends\n   dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work,\n   often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork\n   dock or breakwater.'),('Coca','n.','The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca).\n   In med., called Erythroxylon.'),('Cocagne','n.','An imaginary country of idleness and luxury.'),('Cocagne','n.','The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to\n   London and its suburbs.'),('Cocaine','n.','A powerful alkaloid, C17H21NO4, obtained from the leaves\n   of coca. It is a bitter, white, crystalline substance, and is\n   remarkable for producing local insensibility to pain.'),('Cocciferous','a.','Bearing or producing berries; bacciferous; as,\n   cocciferous trees or plants.'),('Coccinella','n.','A genus of small beetles of many species. They and\n   their larvae feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great\n   benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.'),('Coccobacteria','pl. ','of Coccobacterium'),('Coccobacterium','n.','One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable\n   organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.'),('Coccolite','n.','A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.'),('Coccolith','n.','One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably\n   vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.'),('Coccosphere','n.','A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking\n   up into coccoliths.'),('Coccosteus','n.','An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the\n   broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.'),('Cocculus Indicus','n.','The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a\n   climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and\n   stimulant.'),('Cocci','pl. ','of Coccus'),('Coccus','n.','One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.'),('Coccus','n.','A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects,\n   and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).'),('Coccus','n.','A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.'),('Coccygeal','a.','Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal\n   vertebrae.'),('Coccygeous','a.','Coccygeal.'),('Coccyges','pl. ','of Coccyx'),('Coccyx','n.','The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man\n   and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less\n   consolidated.'),('Cochineal','','A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of\n   the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc.,\n   and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.'),('Cochineal fig','','A plant of Central and Southern America, of the Cactus\n   family, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect,\n   which lives on it.'),('Cochin fowl','','A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from\n   Cochin China (Anam).'),('Cochlea','n.','An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which\n   is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.'),('Cochlear','a.','Of or pertaining to the cochlea.'),('Cochleare','n.','A spoon.'),('Cochleare','n.','A spoonful.'),('Cocleariform','a.','Spoon-shaped.'),('Cochleary','a.','Same as Cochleate.'),('Cochleate','a.','Alt. of Cochleated'),('Cochleated','a.','Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.'),('Cock','n.','The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic\n   fowls.'),('Cock','n.','A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.'),('Cock','n.','A chief man; a leader or master.'),('Cock','n.','The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning;\n   cockcrow.'),('Cock','n.','A faucet or valve.'),('Cock','n.','The style of gnomon of a dial.'),('Cock','n.','The indicator of a balance.'),('Cock','n.','The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a\n   balance in a clock or watch.'),('Cocked','imp. & p. p.','of Cock'),('Cocking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Cock'),('Cock','v. t.','To set erect; to turn up.'),('Cock','v. t.','To shape, as a hat, by turning up the brim.'),('Cock','v. t.','To set on one side in a pert or jaunty manner.'),('Cock','v. t.','To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid,\n   as an expression of derision or insinuation.'),('Cock','v. i.','To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.'),('Cock','n.','The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of\n   the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.'),('Cock','n.','The notch of an arrow or crossbow.'),('Cock','n.','The hammer in the lock of a firearm.'),('Cock','v. t.','To draw the hammer of (a firearm) fully back and set it\n   for firing.'),('Cock','v. i.','To draw back the hammer of a firearm, and set it for\n   firing.'),('Cock','n.','A small concial pile of hay.'),('Cock','v. t.','To put into cocks or heaps, as hay.'),('Cock','n.','A small boat.'),('Cock','n.','A corruption or disguise of the word God, used in oaths.'),('Cockade','n.','A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and\n   generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or\n   naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the\n   livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or\n   naval officer.'),('Cockaded','a.','Wearing a cockade.'),('Cock-a-hoop','a.','Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.'),('Cockal','n.','A game played with sheep\'s bones instead of dice'),('Cockal','n.','The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle\n   bone.'),('Cockaleekie','n.','A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly\n   seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.'),('Cockamaroo','n.','The Russian variety of bagatelle.'),('Cockateel','n.','An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novae-Hollandiae); --\n   so called from its note.'),