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.

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.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

the old imp. of chide. See Chide.

See Cunner.

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

Making choices; fickle.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

a boy who sings in a choir.

the musical director of a choir.

A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

To provide with a chokebore.

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

A watchman; an officer of customs or police.

One who, or that which, chokes.

Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

A station, as for collection of customs, for palanquin bearers, police, etc.

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.

A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

The gall bladder.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.

In a choleric manner; angrily.

Resembling cholera.

The precursory symptoms of cholera. The first stage of epidemic cholera. A mild form of cholera.

Choleriform.

Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

See Neurine.