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A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of th…

Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.

Varicose. Cirsoid aneurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

to vociferate; to complain; to make importunate demands. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.

An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

al, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known. Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master. Prescott. This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate. Shak.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

att. i. 18. -- To come true, to happen as predicated or expected. -- To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class. -- To come up (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. -- To c…