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To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak.

One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

rass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat flelds, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's br…

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. Byron.

-- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. -- China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (S. China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the…

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

ry thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.

the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.

ts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.

A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.

In a civil manner; as regards civil rights and privileges; politely; courteously; in a well bred manner.

a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously. Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me. Smolett. The whole clan of the enlightened among us. Burke.

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." Henley.

Adroitly; dexterously. Middleton.

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.