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The chub sucker.

A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

The Syrian bear. See under Bear. [Written also dhubb, and dub.]

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

n order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

To carve or cut up, as a chub.

A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages the rear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotated forwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rear sprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards. Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes, opera…

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

The hub of a wheel. See Hub. Washington.

n American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub. -- Horned frog (Zoöl.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. -- Horned grebe (Zoöl.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of…

Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.

A fish of the genus Leuciscus; the blue chub of the Danube.

A North American river chub (Hybopsis biguttatus).

the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. -- Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex Patientia).

a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

m Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. -- Poll evil (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. -- Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar…