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The act or process of making cast or impressions, or of shaping metal or plaster in a mold; the act or the process of pouring molten metal into a mold.

A forked stick with elasti band for throwing small stones, etc.

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

Lasting or aged a hundred years. Thet opened through long lines Of sacred ilex and centennial pines. Longfellow.

or external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

the same as the antecedent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last consequent is discovered. -- Chain shot (Mil.), two cannon balls united by a shot chain, formerly used in naval warfare on account of their destructive effect on a ship's rigging. -- Chain stitch. See in the Vocabulary. --…

licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. Lyly.

A soft of plaster or ointment.

obosa) and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla (Sapota zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.

Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw. Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. Milton.

The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine. Bouvier.

Same as Chloroplastid.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

usly spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

alestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

A chromoplastid.