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The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

ll ruminant of the family Tragulidæ a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.

w the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

ed in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

A country in Eastern Asia.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

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.

The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

logical enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

ited States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (1616). Clams, or clamps, is a shellfish not much…

oined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

ouded with passion; serene; cheerful. With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts. Shak.

ce between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valve…