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Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

le; a concentric layer. [Obs.] "The circinations and spherical rounds of onions." Sir T. Browne.

A round body; an orb. Pope. Fairest of stars . . . that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet. Milton.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. The golden circuit on my head. Shak.

The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.

To include in a circular space; to bound. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

rom glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.

m, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne.

ounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk. The clerk of the crown . . . withdrew the bill. Strype.

a place for retirement from the world for religious duties. Fitter for a cloister than a crown. Daniel. Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.

A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.

; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

rses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.

Joint help; coöperation. Sir T. Browne.

A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

t line of. Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. Sir T. Browne.

A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! Shak.

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.

lity with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.