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Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.

She who chides. [Obs.]

One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook.

A chromosphere. [R.]

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

One who ciphers.

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous. Parkhurst.

So as to surround or encircle.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.…

Furnished with tendrils.

One who clatters.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

Same as Clearstory.

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.