One who practices chiromancy.
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The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.
Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
A chiromancer.
Relating to chironomy.
The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture
An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.
One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.
a method of medical treatment that manipulates body structures, especially the spine, in the belief that it restores proper nerve functioning.
a therapist who practics chiropractic.
any mammal belonging to the order chiroptera; a bat.
an ancient order of mammalia dating to the early Eocene, including the bats. They are nocturnal mouselike mammals having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they form membranous wings that can be used in flying. They also have anatomical adaptations, including large ears, for echolocation, by which they navigate and in some cases find insects. The order includes the suborders Megachiroptera (the fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats). See Bat. Previously spelled cheiroptera.
nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
A fortune teller.
A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect.
One who chirps, or is cheerful.
Cheering; enlivening.
In a chirping manner.
To coo, as a pigeon.
The act of chirping; a chirp.
Cheerful; joyous; chatty.
A surgeon.
Surgically.
Surgery.
Surgical
To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
one of the two major languages of Zimbabwe.
The capital city of Moldova. Population (2000) = 676,700.
The third month of the Jewish civil year; the ninth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, occupying a part of November and a part of December; -- same as Kislev.
Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil.
Chideth.
Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
The process of becoming chitinous.
Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.
small intestines of hogs prepared as food.
An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.
The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
The axis deer of India.
Full of chits or sprouts.
A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.
A cavalry raid; hence, a military expedition.
Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.
In a chivalrous manner; gallantly; magnanimously.
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.
Leggings.
A filament of a stamen.
A perennial plant (Allium Schoenoprasum), allied to the onion, having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning. The young leaves are used in omelets, etc.
same as chivy.
To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch; to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to.
Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.
a coccoid rickettsia which may infect birds and mammals; it causes infections of eyes and lungs and the genitourinary tract.
A natural family of gram-negative bacteria which are parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates.
A natural family of green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome.
The type genus of the Chlamydomonadaceae; they are solitary biflagellated plantlike algae common in fresh water and damp soil. They multiply freely and are often a pest around filtration plants.
a genus of frilled lizards.
A small South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus, and Chlamyphorus retusus) allied to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.
A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.
A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.
a chemical substance (CCl3.CH(OH)2) which is a hydrate of trichloroacetaldehyde. It crystallizes as white monoclinic plates, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically, and is used in medicine as a hypnotic and sedative; -- called also chloral
A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.
An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.
A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.
See Aurochloride.
Same as Hydrochloric.
One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.
A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.
See Chloridate.
See Chlorometry.
To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.
The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt (Sodium chloride). It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.
A compound of chlorine and iodine.
Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.
Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.
A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.
A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.
Same as Chloroplastid.
An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.
Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.
A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.
See Platinichloric.
The green sickness; an an/mic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.
a genus of deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka.
A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
a drug derived from phenothiazine and used as a sedative and tranquilizer.
a yellow crystalline antibacterial antibiotic used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases. Aureomycin is one common trademark for chlortetracycline.
one of the genera of birds which comprise the towhees.
A chloride.
See Choke.
any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around base of the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.
Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
chocolate; a colloquial British abbreviation; as, a box ov chocs.
colloquial British abbreviation for chocolate ice cream.
The chough.
An encounter.
Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Quite full; full to capacity; choke-full; as, chowder chock-full of clams.
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