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A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

Same as Castellany.

A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.

See Clavate.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak.

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larvæ feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

One of the shells or valves of a cockle.

A genus of univale shells, abundant in tropical seas. Some species, as Columbella mercatoria, were formerly used as shell money.

A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columnella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

Shaped like a little column, or columella.

Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.

By compulsion.