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ceptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

ates. It is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framewor…

by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

emonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.

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

vy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. -- To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.…

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.

A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

decorative object worn on the person, as a seal, a key, a silver whistle, or the like. Bunches of charms are often worn at the watch chain.

gs. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.

The branches of a bridle bit. Knight.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

ldings, common in Norman architecture. Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc.

An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.