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A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

The business of a butcher.

Butchery quality.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

The business of a butcher. [Obs.]

One who practices calcography.

One who makes calendars. [R.]

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

One who make charts or maps.

One who, or that which, catches.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.

e nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

See Cherif.

A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.

ion; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.

One who cherishes. The cherisher of my flesh and blood. Shak.