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Act of cutting by strokes. Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

The whole body of Christians. Hooker.

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.

Chubby. [R.] H. Brooke.

To laugh in a suppressed or broken manner, as expressing inward satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

Circular; illogical. [Obs. & .] "Cross and circulary speeches." Hooker.

A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] Hooker.

Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. What, fifty of my followers at a clap! Shak.

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

t clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwell tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylin…

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

m the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

Having cliffs; broken; craggy.

Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger.

A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

ved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." Ezek. viii. 11.