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Consisting of little links or chains.

Frivolous or sophistical objection. [Obs.] Hooker.

The act or art of engraving or embossing.

Cellular. Caldwell.

A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having a head.

An ancient wind instrument, resembling the bassoon in tone.

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.

Charlatanry.

Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.

Ciclatoun. [Obs.]

See Ciclatoun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Same as Cheliferous.

See Platinichloric.

beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate. -- Chocolate nut. See Cacao.

A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

rse which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.