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division of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

- Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.

aining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton.

To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. Thomson.

o a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool 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.

ce, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

A genus of hemipterous insects of which the bedbug is the best known example. See Bedbug.

The bedbug. [Obs.] Wright.

A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

Capable of being circumscribed.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.