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A short piece of ornance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. Air chamber. See Air chamber, in the Vocabulary. -- Chamber of commerce, a board or association to protect the interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and…

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest. -- Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth. -- Butment cheek. See under Butment.

courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piop…

A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. I knew that they were the cherubim. Ezek. x. 20. He rode upon a cherub and did fly. Ps. xviii. 10.

, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc. When I was child. I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1. Cor. xii. 11.

Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.

d as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late.

lover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.