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One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Capheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabuolous king of Ethiopia. Cassiopeia's Chair, a group of six stars, in Cassiopeia, somewhat resembling a chair.

To vomit. These verses . . . make me ready to cast. B. Jonson.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

Gay; easy; offhand; frank. The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, from a complete contrast. Hazlitt.

One versed in cetology.

around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

matronize. Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More.

To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.] Dryden.

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

er of certain orders of knighthood. Chevalier d'industrie ( Etym: [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St.…

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.