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electing; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

ly, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye,…

One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area. The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. J. Stow.

arities that may take A virgin captive. Massinger. Circular are, any portion of the circumference of a circle. -- Circular cubics (Math.), curves of the third order which are imagined to pass through the two circular points at infinity. -- Circular functions. (Math.) See under Function. -- Circular instruments, math…

le for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

tially; accidentally. Of the fancy and intellect, the powers are only circumstantially different. Glanvill.

On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.