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A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. Johnson.

A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

hich are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.

To make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.

A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

one who clips off the edges of coin. The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. Locke.

he air, weather, etc. If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal. Bacon.

To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense. To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

p; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft.

Headstrong; obstinate. [Obs.] Brockett.

The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20).

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

l collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.