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A small crested passerine bird (Phaïnopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.

An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.

A chain sheet cable.

emselves complex. Complex molecules react with one another through certain of their side chains, but only when these side chains have a definite correspondence in structure (this account for the specific action of antitoxins).

A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.

To free from chains or slavery; to let loose. Prior.

of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.

A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

r place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benzene nucleus, Benzene ring (Chem.), a closed chain or ring, consisting of six carbon atoms, each with one hydrogen atom attached, regarded as the type from which the aromatic compounds are derived. This ring formula is provisionally accepted as representing the probable const…

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight.

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.