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Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals.

A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

gment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.

A native of Cathay or China; a foreigner; -- formerly a term of reproach. Shak.

A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch. [Archaic] Addison. The common and the canon law . . . lie at catch, and wait advantages one againt another. T. Fuller.

A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.

Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.

sisting in, asking questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.

Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.

China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

t," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

A centrifugal machine.

near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

le or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax or Chinese wax; as, cerotic acid or alcohol.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.