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e consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden.

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or spec…

e act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

tain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo.

e. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

umber of persons. -- Circular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory…

Standing or placed around; surrounding. [R.] "Circumstant bodies." Sir K. Digby.

To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw. "Clawing [in ash barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

Digestion. [Obs.]

the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

A collection or digest of laws; a code. Burrill.

o coeliac axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.

Turkey a drink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.

Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.

nson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar, to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement. Spenser.

of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.