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one's occupation; to change one's intention. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Peele.

To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.

d (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.

pt the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.] Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift.

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

in of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

y fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

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.

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

Designating, or pertaining to, gods or spirits of the underworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic n…

urrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

litary affairs. -- Civil service reform, the substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical st…

The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.

es, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. Thackeray.