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The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. Knight. Chill and fever, fever and ague.

The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

aris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

t has its higher valence. Chromic acid, an acid, H2CrO4, analogous to sulphuric acid, not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride…

A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. [Anglo-Indian]

to write all his letters to England in cipher. Bp. Burnet. Cipher key, a key to assist in reading writings in cipher.

rmation. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse. [WordNet 1.5]

To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit. Circulating pump. See under Pump.

To pour round; to spread round. His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.

Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

elebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

ms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

riminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Reg…

A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters. [Obs.] "Every one that could read . . . being accounted a clerk." Blackstone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke.

To direct; to guide, as by a thread. [Obs.] Direct and clew me out the way to happiness. Beau. && Fl.