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Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. Chalmers.

nts, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

ng suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize. Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. L'Estrange.

rs and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. [U. S.]

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

ls often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.