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Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a nam…

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

e as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. Dana.

(Astron.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

arnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

ocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.

ion of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

thusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.

The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.

Very intimate, near, or close. [Obs.] A whisperer separateth chief friends. Prov. xvi. 28.

To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

s segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.

A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

plasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.…