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To act as, or produce the effect of, a charm; to please greatly; to be fascinating.

The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction.

Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis. [R.]

ce 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 bromus. [U. S.]

The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.

en attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]

A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

To give birth; to produce young. This queen Genissa childing died. Warner. It chanced within two days they childed both. Latimer.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful. [R.] Shak.

To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

o each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

loral hydrate, a white crystalline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.

A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.

e and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.