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se, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

In a free, fantastic style.

To perform a capriole. Carlyle.

A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceæ.

Form; appearence; mien; air; style; as, a pecullar cast of countenance. "A neat cast of verse." Pope. An heroic poem, but in another cast and figure. Prior. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Shak.

Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.

One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.

One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.

An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti.

-- Chain molding (Arch.), a form of molding in imitation of a chain, used in the Normal style. -- Chain pier, a pier suspended by chain. -- Chain pipe (Naut.), an opening in the deck, lined with iron, through which the cable is passed into the lockers or tiers. -- Chain plate (Shipbuilding), one of the iron plates o…

to the embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of entering through the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub in Casuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in the families Betulaceæ and Juglandaceæ. Partial chalazogamy is found in Ulmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway be…

summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] Some are so studiously changeling. Boyle.

Composed in a melodious and singing style.

Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

m glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. Boyle.

Good form; style. [Slang]