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A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot,

ted times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage…

coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for th…

carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer.

n contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.

The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic.

y of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [Archaic.] And on it said a century of prayers. Shak.

Blue; cerulean. [Obs.] Dyer.

A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.] If you want to sell, here is your chap. Steele.

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

e un an electric light apparatus. -- Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.

mposition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

mpared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

d, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.