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The manner characteristic of a child. [Obs.] "Varying childness." Shak.

Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

The art of judging character by the shape and apperance of the hand.

The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry. Shak.

A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

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

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

ections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Com…

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

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…

To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

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

orship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.

Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions. [The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus. Max Müller.

A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix. Dunglison.

One of the orders of Infusoria, characterized by having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.