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Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

or steel projecting downward on the shoe of a nore or an ox, to prevent the animal from slipping; -- called also calker, calkin.

In the Philippines, a light, two-wheeled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Philips.

To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.

gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up. At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up. A. Philips.

The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

In the Philippines, the sapodilla or its fruit; also, the marmalade tree or its fruit.

sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.

extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

See Phillipsite.

To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. [Obs.] J. Philips.

To clip with scissors. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Anything put together or made in a careless or slipshod way; hence, a sluttish or slipshod woman.

w. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. -- Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.