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

A kind of wig. [Obs.] Lamb.

A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

A species of the Myriapoda; esp. the large, flattened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (

A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

a; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer.

an, esp. an astrologer; -- so called among the Eastern nations, because astrology and the kindred arts were much cultivated by the Chaldeans.

A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.

A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

t out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.

A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

ver is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness. She did ill then to refuse her a charity. L'Estrange.

A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

A foot covering of any kind.