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To give birth; to produce young. This queen Genissa childing died. Warner. It chanced within two days they childed both. Latimer.

hich was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

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

The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.

To baptize and give a Christian name to.

or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.

. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. -- Christmas day. Same as Christmas. -- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christ…

One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

truck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to. Chucked the barmaid under the chin. W. Irving.

See Scion. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

Indirect form of words; circumlocution. [R.] Has he given the lie, In circle, or oblique, or semicircle. J. Fletcher.

perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

metry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

-- Civil law. See under Law. -- Civil list. See under List. -- Civil remedy (Law), that given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution. -- Civil service, all service rendered to and paid for by the state or nation other than that pertaining to naval or military affairs. -- Civil service…

, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. "A bar to all claims upon land." Hallam.

isula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. You shall scarce find any bay or shallow shore, or cove of sand, where you may not take many clampes, or lobsters, or both, at your pleasure. Capt. John Smith (16…

To give out a clang; to resound. "Clanging hoofs." Tennyson.