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A social gathering; usually, one for dancing.

ated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or b…

An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.

A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.

A hydrous chloride of potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.

The goldilocks (Chrysocoma linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has given rise, in modern times,…

in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.

Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society. "The cement of our love."

a communty which permits promiseuous sexual intercourse among its members, as in certain societies practicing communism.

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form. The gorgeous ceremonial of the Burgundian court. Prescott.

A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

ut they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. Milton.

An association of workmen in a printing office. Chapel of ease.

Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.