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black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

Coming without regularity; occasional; incidental; as, casual expenses. A constant habit, rather than a casual gesture. Hawthorne.

Connection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. Ex. xvi. 4.

. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between the chalaza and micropyle. --Chal`a*zo*gam"ic (#), a.

become less confident or boastful. [Colloq.] -- To change step, to take a break in the regular succession of steps, in marching or walking, as by bringing the hollow of one foot against the heel of the other, and then stepping off with the foot which is in advance.

To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs.

A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

e planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line. Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo. -- Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape. -- Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3. -- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potat…

ed and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism (#), n.

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

ceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.