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The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

Cherry-colored; a light bright red; --- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

ight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and ductile. It tarnishes readily in the air.

o fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. Chained behind the hostile car. Prior.

A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamæleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.

e where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.]

ument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either und…

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

mbling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, perculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

ed; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

trument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.

A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.

A genus of exinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.

near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke.

emial crest, a crestlike prominence on the proximal end of the tibia of birds and some reptiles.

inly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.