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ther place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherry stone. -- Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry sucker (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. Cherry…

A bright brown color, like that of the nut.

A river fish; the chub. Sir T. Browne.

Like a child. Mrs. Browning.

A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

er) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.

Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease. Sir. T. Browne.

To shoot out; to sprout. I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer.

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

o describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

pping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

it called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.

To tame. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Made, or consisting, of hair. [Obs.] A Cilicious or sackcloth habit. Sir T. Browne.

A scale thrown off in forging metal.

The base of the crown of a tooth.