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One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.

thalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

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

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.

ke animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

curring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.

ing to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

ng cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. Gwilt.

To make a circle around; to encompass. [Obs.] Bailey.