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Having a movable joint or finger closing againts a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

See Cherif.

A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

Resembling cholera.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Chylifactive.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Bearing or containing chyme.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

To form into chyme.

Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.

See Cirriferous.