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an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the…

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

lism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

geable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence. "Twelve cipher bishops." Milton.

conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak.

ce obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to some authorities circumstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a party; but the prevale…

Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.

Good-natured; obliging. [U. S.]

That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

Indicating gloom, anxiety, sullenness, or ill-nature; not open or cheerful. "A cloudy countenance." Shak.

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney.

Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

Of the nature of a codicil.

Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. [Obs.] The cogent force of nature. Prior.

Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.

Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.

Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. The very concurrence and coincidence of ao many evidences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.…