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Divination by written paper or by cards.

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

nstrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

thing circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.

Surrounded by a ridle or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillæ, near the base of the tongue.

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document. The usual attestation clause to a will. Bouvier.

, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. -- To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement. -- To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as…

ric, and other cleargy. Guy of Warwick. Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515).

A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

That which is clipped off or out of something; a piece separated by clipping; as, newspaper clippings.

. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

rness; to pamper. How many of our English princes have been coddled at home by their fond papas and mammas! Thackeray. He [Lord Byron] never coddled his reputation. Southey.

A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

can herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose roostock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.