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e of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3. Chloric ether (Chem.), ethylene dichloride. See Dutch liquid, under Dutch.

Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

ily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

estines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.

Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression. "Great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford." Sir P. Sidney.

applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

usly; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

o set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials. Boyle.

bstance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.