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A casket; a small box for jewels. [Obs.] Shak.

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak.

A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole. -- Cau*lom"ic (#), a.

action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

ency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.…

nception which make the conception or the thing conceived to be what it is; or the idea viewed as a formative principle and coöperating with the matter. -- Material cause, that of which anything is made. -- Proximate cause. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaula…

, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.

o imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

A critic; a reviewer. Received with caution by the censors of the press. W. Irving.

To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.

sp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

on of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

tone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

nsmission. The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. Whewell.