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ress a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.] "Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer." Beau. & Fl.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [R.] Howell.

recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium.

ich he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit. Cowell.

p. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

ety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. -- Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or o…

to venture upon; -- usually with it as object. Come what will, I will chance it. W. D. Howells.

A chapel or altar so endowed. Cowell.

and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

son or thing really is; nature; disposition. The character or that dominion. Milton. Know well each Ancient's proper character; His fable, subject, scope in every page; Religion, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

to charge an agent. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak.

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.

Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea. --Che*mot"ic (#), a.

he Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

To come to an issue; to turn out; to succed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] Holland.

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

Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.