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A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

lish cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, h…

Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson. Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owi…

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to napthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

A yellow crystalline substance extracted from crude anthracene.

m rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin, etc.

ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

iddle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

ss; brightness; splendor. Floods, in whose more than crystal clarity, Innumerable virgin graces row. Beaumont.

To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.

now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

act or region of the earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.

To embrace, hence; to encompass. O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. Shak.

ision in equity, or legislation. -- To be under a cloud, to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. -- In the clouds, in the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.

Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made, misshapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully d…

n preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.

An educating together, as of persons of different sexes or races. Co*ed`u*ca"tion*al (, a.

edicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is sometimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

To embrace. [Obs.] "They coll and kiss him." Latimer.