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To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. To checkmate and control my just demands. Ford.

y have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

on of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil. Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism. Jer. Taylor.

A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.

A salt of chromic acid.

Relating to color, or to colors.

Chromatic. [Obs.]

In a chromatic manner.

The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

Producing color.

A treatise on colors

A treatise on colors.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.