Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.

One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion.

An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.

See Chrysalis.

The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).

A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.

A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

A bitter, yellow substance forming the essential constituent of Goa powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid proper; hence formerly called also chrysphanic acid.

An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.

A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring massive, of a blue or greenish blue color.

A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.

The art of writing in letters of gold.

An artificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chryso/dine proper.

A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.

A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane.

a genus of fishes consisting of the australian snapper.

a class of yellow-green algae, all of which have flagella of unequal length.

a genus of tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs.

a division of mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms, including the Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta.

a pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae.

a natural family of flies comprising the green lacewings.

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

See Chrysoprase.

The seed of gold; a means of creating gold.

a genus of widely distributed semiaquatic herbs with minute greenish-yellow apetalous flowers.

a genus of low branching shrubs of West North America.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.

Designating, or pertaining to, gods or spirits of the underworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.

A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid/ or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.

Having a plump, short face.

Chubby.

The state of being chubby.

Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.

same as chock-full.

A large whippoorwill-like bird (a species of goatsucker) (Caprimulgus carolinensis, formerly Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting; a bouncer{5}.

a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering especially in a road surface.

To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce.

Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid.

To champ; to bite.

Minced meat.

A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

Stupid; churlish.

Clownishly; surlily.

The quality of being chuffy.

Fat or puffed out in the cheeks.

The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.

having the relationship of friends or pals.

A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.

Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar.

The Argentinian cariama (Chunga burmeisteri).

A short, thick piece of anything.

Short and thick.

A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India.

A messenger or servant wearing an official badge.

To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.

A seat in the porch of a church.

Churchyard.

The institution, government, or authority of a church.

One who attends church.

Habitually attending church.

Strict adherence to the forms or principles of some church organization; sectarianism.

Without a church.

Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman.

Regard for the church.

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

An ecclesiastic or clergyman.

Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

State of being a church.

One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.

The office of a churchwarden.

Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.

Churlish; rough; selfish.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

In a churlish manner.

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Rude; churlish; violent.

To perform the operation of churning.

agitated vigorously; -- of a liquid.

The act of one who churns.

To utter by churring.

A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket.

See Choose.

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, such as chopped fruits or green tomatoes, etc., often cooked with sweets and acids such as sugar and vinegar, with ginger and spices.

aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; gall; as, he had the chutzpah to question my decision.

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

producing or converting into chyle.

Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Chylifactive.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

Bearing or containing chyme.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.