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That part of military force which serves on horseback.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

th powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.

ound which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

he parts near the center; equidistant or equally accessible from certain points. Central force (Math.), a force acting upon a body towards or away from a fixed or movable center. -- Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the…

Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. Centrifugal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is from a center.

ing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone. R. Owen. Centripetal force (Mech.), a force whose direction is towards a center, as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system, See Centrifugal force, under Centrifugal. -- Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (s…

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

A yielding to physical force. [Obs.] Bacon.

A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon.

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything real…

Chandlery. [Obs.] "Torches from the chandry." B. Jonson.

A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

o deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. Shak.

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction.

The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.

China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. China aster (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See Aster. -- China bean. See under Bean, 1. -- China clay See Kaolin. -- China grass, Same as Ramie. -- China ink. See India ink. -- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species…

The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.