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Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

Making choices; fickle. [Obs.] His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

The act of taking food.

The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.…

tions. Addison. Not a circumstance, of no account. [Colloq.] -- Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

ry 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 the typical form of Citrus Medica.

the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.

Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]

f the beak of a hawk. Clap dish. See Clack dish, under Clack, n. -- Clap net, a net for taking birds, made to close or clap together.

Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gaining applause; deceptive; unreal.

The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.