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A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

en; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2.

w living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.

select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.

A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

See Chay root.

Nothingness. [R.] Goodwin.

Having a cloven foot.

A room, attached to any place of public resort, where cloaks, overcoats, etc., may be deposited for a time.

To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.

One of the divisions of a cleft hoof, as in the ox; also, the whole hoof.

A little hoof.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

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

Having a clubfoot.

The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.