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A weed with a sterm of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.

Sophistical.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.

A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.

A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.

Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon (Zoöl.), an African falcon (Melierax canorus or musicus). The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.

The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

The process of becoming chitinous.

Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.

See Platinichloric.

Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

A European bunting (Emberiza cirlus).

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

otice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke.

Privacy or secrecy. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St.Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

Mutually assisting. [Obs.] Drayton.