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To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.

An inflammation of cartilage.

A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

The development of cartilage.

Resembling cartilage.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

A cartilaginous tumor or growth.

Having a cartilaginous skeleton. -- n.

A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

The dissection of cartilages.

The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

A small village containing a church. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott Sitting at the clachon alehouse. R. L. Stevenson.

furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuosly. A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots. Macaulay.

volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where [Written also coak.] Gas coke, the coke formed in gas retorts, as distinguished from that made in ovens.