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A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

sian blue. -- Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.

e with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.

The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, gemera, etc.

d works of a like character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

A member of a class; a classmate.

d therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand. -- Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay. -- Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill. -- Cla…

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

To acclimate or become acclimated.

A description of climates.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

A climate. [Obs.] Shak.

A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. Turn we to sutvey, Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith.