same as chock-full.
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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.
Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.
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.
To form into chyme.
Of or pertaining to chyme.
An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.
Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.
Pertaining to food; edible.
The act of taking food.
A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.
A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.
Any species of the genus Cicada or of the family Cicadidae. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (Cicada septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.
a natural family comprising the leafhoppers.
a family of insects comprising the cicadas.
A cicada. See Cicada.
A cicatrix.
Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix.
The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.
Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.
The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.
A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.
The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.
To heal; to have a new skin.
Full of scars.
Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.
Pica type; -- so called by French printers.
One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.
Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression.
The chick-pea.
Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.
The state or conduct of a cicisbeo.
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages.
a natural family of birds comprising the storks.
an order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet, including the herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; and ibises.
To tame.
The act of taming.
a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.
The active principle of the water hemlock (Cicuta) extracted as a poisonous gummy substance.
The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
A maker of cider.
A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.
A wax candle used in religous rites.
A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
cylindrical, tapering at each end; having the shape of a cigar.
same as cigarette.
A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
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