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find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. Tillotson.

wrought iron directly from the ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

rpedo bat. The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne, 1804, were called catamarans. Knight.

ially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers. The Jews, even till this day, have their catechisms. Hooker. The Larger Catechism, The Shorter Catechism. See Westminster Assembly, under Assembly.

The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

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

rehensions of a change of dynasty. Hallam. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job xiv. 14.

e. [Written also chare.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. Shak.

To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.

ly tree (Mimusops globosa) and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla (Sapota zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.

A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).

ition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

r Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

c acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline, deliquescent substance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.