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A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

One of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

Hundredfold.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [R.] Howell.

Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.] Holland.

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

An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.

Obs.] Disrobe the images, If you find them decked with ceremonies. . . . Let no images Be hung with Cæsar's trophies. Shak.

A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

ther forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

t, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc. Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street. Tennyson. Whzt cheer Now do you fare What is there that is cheering

A species of leopard (Cynælurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written also chetah.]

drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild…

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.

Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

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