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The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

mall furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

To crack; to open.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.] Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.

One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.

he tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.

who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), removable cover of the opening through which access is had to a pump valve. -- Clack valve (Mach.), a valve; esp. one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.

ucted with secrecy; clandestine; concealed. [Obs.] Not close and clancular, but frank and open. Barrow.

A soft, sweet stop, or set of open wood pipes in an organ.