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Encouragement; comfort. [Obs.] Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.

See Kermes.

See Cony.

An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.

A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) Th…

ded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

ol and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. I knew that they were the cherubim. Ezek. x. 20. He rode upon a cherub and did fly. Ps. xviii. 10.

Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic. "The cherubic host." Milton.

The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.

Cherubic; angelic. [Obs.] Shak.

To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup. "Cheruping birds." Drayton.

A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.

Penuriousness. [Obs.] By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer.

See chirographist, 2. Chirographer of fines (Old Eng. Law), an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines.

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

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

A chromosphere. [R.]