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A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.

g a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

lso olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

mon European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, 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)…

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

Cassia. Cinnamon stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

ll, 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.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

cidents. The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. Paley.

The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.

Varicose. Cirsoid aneurism, a disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.

Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. Dunglison.

d and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.

A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.

A citron melon. Citron melon. (a) A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh. (b) A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves. -- Citron tree (Bot.), the tree which bears citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be…

Variant of Clasp [Obs.] Chaucer.