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A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

h are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly. Chinsing iron, a light calking iron.

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

ng and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemi…

-- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil. Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism. Jer. Taylor.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

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

made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.

rt, thick, heavy piece of wood. Morton. Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.

The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.

An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

ingle curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.