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A red crystallizable tasteless substance, extracted from the carrot.

Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

(Med.), the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic, and sometimes, for the sake of its fragrance, mixed with smoking tobacco, when it is said to occasion vertigo and intoxication.

Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and extensive changes of the earth's surface.

lcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyalin) on starch.

Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

nd the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refra…

The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.

A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.

Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.

Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.

Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also chare.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. Shak.

To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak.…

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

ffice of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

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

A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcohol.