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.

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.

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.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.

See Bilirubin.

See Bilirubin.

A Hindoo caravansary.

Stoppage; cessation (of labor).

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

a fish in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified; a cartilaginous fish.

the class of fishes comprising the cartilaginous fishes, which includes the sharks.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

Affording chondrin.

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin. See also chondroitin sulfate.

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

An inflammation of cartilage.

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

Same as Chondrigen.

The development of cartilage.

Resembling cartilage.

A colorless, amorphous, mucopolysaccharide having N-acetyl chondrosine as the repeating unit with one sulfate group per disaccharide. Typical preparations have a molecular weight of about 50,000. Preparations are sold over-the-counter, often referred to as chondroitin, with the putative ability to relieve pain in joints and assist joint cartilage growth or regeneration; such claims are, as of 2001, yet unproven.

The science which treats of cartilages.

A cartilaginous tumor or growth.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

Having a cartilaginous skeleton. One of the Chondropterygii.

A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter.

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

The dissection of cartilages.

A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

a train or a locomotive; -- a child's word.

To make a selection; to decide.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.

difficult to please, especially in details.

A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

One who bandies words or is very argumentative.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.

A customhouse where transit duties are levied.

See Chopine.

A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.

A kind of spade.

One who, or that which, chops.

Act of cutting by strokes.

Full of cracks.

The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in restaurants serving oriental food.

Of or pertaining to a choragus.