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To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.

A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms. Ray Lankester.

To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

cillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. -- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastroin…

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases…

l evil. Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

Styrene (which was formerly called cinnamene because obtained from cinnamic acid). See Styrene.

name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit. Circulating pump. See under Pump.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion. Herrick.

e and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.

Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.

To produce, in bell ringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. Nares.

To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains.

her of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.