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To make hollow; to scoop out. [Obs.] The mouldred earth cav'd the banke. Spenser.

A kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

to bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

ion of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. Certified check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.

or rights, to another person; the act of ceding. A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft.

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. Martin.

A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron.

Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.

To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.

The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.

ssed into the lockers or tiers. -- Chain plate (Shipbuilding), one of the iron plates or bands, on a vessel's side, to which the standing rigging is fastened. -- Chain pulley, a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain. -- Chain pumps. See in the…

A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

er denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to t…

ndian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.

nish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

A fruitful field. Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).

Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.