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An inclosing frame; esp. the framework around a door or a window. See Case, n., 4.

To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. Weigh anchor, cast to starboard. Totten.

Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.

increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States

An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

h which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel. Tennyson. -- Chancel table, the communion table.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.

To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. Shak.

box, usually for holding gas, steam, liguids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ. Bomb chest, See under Bomb. -- Chest of drawers, a case or movable frame containing drawers.

Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. Milton.

A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.

Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

A swindler. B. Jonson.

ia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.