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The secret science of the cabalists.

To use cabalistic language. [R] Dr. H. More.

An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a calendar of state papers; a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

aving an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the…

To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel. Prince John caracoled within the lists. Sir W. Scott.

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or a…

A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

An abbreviation for Confédération Générale du Travail (the French syndicalist labor union).

heck hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they may be checked. -- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the f…

The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.

d by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

th. -- Civil engineering. See under Engineering. -- Civil law. See under Law. -- Civil list. See under List. -- Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution. -- Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaini…

to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.