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A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).

flammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [Written also hime.]

See Chine, n., 3.

To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is wid…

de of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

t in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.

A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] S. W. Williams.

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.

A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.

Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.