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India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line. Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo. -- Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape. -- Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3. -- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potat…

d to the armadillo. It is covered with a leathery shell or coat of mail, like a cloak, attached along the spine.

Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.

A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases…

One was is attached to, or attends, church.

Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. [Obs.] The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.

A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. [Obs.]

, that gravity is a quality whereby a heavy body descends, is an impertinent circle and teaches nothing. Glanvill.

d journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane.

out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

teering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion. As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog. Hudibras. A clog of lead was round my feet. Tennyson.

ird. Bayonet clutch (Mach.), a clutch in which connection is made by means of bayonets attached to arms sliding on a feathered shaft. The bayonets slide through holes in a crosshead fastened on the shaft.

public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. [Colloq.] I coached him before he got his scholarship. G. Eliot.

ccupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.