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Resembling chaos; confused.

Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay.

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous. [Obs.]

under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Resembling cholera.

Resembling cartilage.

resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n.

Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n.

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

tificial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoïdine proper.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane. Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from 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…

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.