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Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

d usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.

ar, allied to napthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [West. U. S.]

place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission. The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. Whewell.

unding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid. Citric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, C3H4OH.(CO2H)3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberies, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.

Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

l pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

Strong pinchers or forceps.

es; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. Gen. ii. 24. Cleave unto the Lord your God. Josh. xxiii. 8.

himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.

Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

Headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.] Brockett.

A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinæ, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus)…

To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.