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A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

ceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.

ified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.

An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot. Clodded in lumps of clay. G. Fletcher.

Having an irregular, convulsive motion. Dunglison. Clonic spasm. (Med.) See under Spasm.

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.

To clot or coagulate, as blood. [Obs.] Holland.

The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of bloot.

pographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.