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The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction. A waiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose. Milton.

A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it. A leader and commander to the people. Is. lv. 4.

title given courtesy to the senior captain of a line of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a yachting or rowing club.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the (European) Eastern Question.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

Internal harmony or fitness; mutual adaptation of parts; elegance; -- used chiefly of style of discourse. [R.] An exact concinnity and eveness of fancy. Howell.

Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural. Events that came to pass within the confines of Judea. Locke. And now in little space The confines met of emryrean heaven, And of this world. Milton. On the confines of the city and the Temple. Macaulay.

ators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

A consolidated annuity (see Consols); -- chiefly in combination or attributively.

To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with. Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee Dryden.

faculties, and incapacitates for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

One of the two chief magistrates of the republic.

The chief hare.

A policeman. [Slang] Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly

m, and Hymenæa Courbaril), and dug from earth where forests have stood in Africa; -- used chiefly in making varnishes. Ur

To share. [Obs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).

e in the Vocabulary. -- Coral reefs (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as fringing reefs, when they border the land; barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad belt o…

A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic. Red corallin, a red dyestuff which is obtained by treating aurin or rosolic acid with ammonia; -- called also pæonin. -- Yellow corallin. See Aurin.

The chief ornament. [Obs.] Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.