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ails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

acter or belief of a Christian; to become Christian. The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. [Obs.] Hammond.

To champ; to bite. [Obs.] A. Stafford.

To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. [U. S.]

Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish royalty, in the 11th century.

One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [Obs.] Derham.

ion; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. Feltham. To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.]

fering or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings. Denham.

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. Tatham.

Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

nt; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear. Denham. Fair as the moon, clear as the sun. Canticles vi. 10.

To part or divide by force; to split or rive; to cut. O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain. Shak.

ch were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York.

A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended. Clew garnet (Naut.), one of the ropes by which the clews of the courses of square-rigged vessels are drawn up to the lower yards. -- Clew line (Naut.), a rope by which a clew of one of the smaller square sails, as topsail, topgallant sail, or royal, is…

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

The common chamber into which the intestinal, urinary, and generative canals discharge in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and many fishes.