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Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.

A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup.]

A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

principle and coöperating with the matter. -- Material cause, that of which anything is made. -- Proximate cause. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay.

Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.

The cry made by the crow, rook, or raven.

capsicum (C. frutescens) with small and intensely pungent fruit. (b) A very pungent spice made by drying and grinding the fruits or seeds of several species of the genus Capsicum, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

eople, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

A small visorless cap, worn by members of German student corps. It is made in the corps colors, and usually bears the insignia of the corps.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

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

(Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak.

The warp threads of a web. Knight. Chain belt (Mach.), a belt made of a chain; -- used for transmitting power. -- Chain boat, a boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc. -- Chain bolt (a) (Naut.) The bolt at the lower end of the chain plate, which fastens it to the vessel's side. (b) A bolt with a chai…

by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. -- Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arra…