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Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang] Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. -- Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the fase; esp., the malar bone. -- Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. -- Cheek pouch (Zoöl.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding fo…

sions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

s so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

n, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

e. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster.

e points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

nd cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.

To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation. The imperfections which you have cited. Shak.

aps, as the tongue of a bell, or the piece of wood that strikes a mill hopper, etc. See Illust. of Bell. Clapper rail (Zoöl.), an Americam species of rail (Rallus scepitans).

veloped on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimæra.

ring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.

chet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

ction by means of clinics. -- Clinical lecture (Med.), a discourse upon medical topics illustrared by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.…

A pert of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.