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ments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.

at or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.

y, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

h a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

A photographic picture in the natural colors.

on in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

us, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. --…

To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. [U. S.]

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

r. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

s are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general st…