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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.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds. Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid.

A character in general, as a figure or letter. [Obs.] This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

Compass; circuit; inclosure. In the circle of this forest. Shak.

circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

to write or engare around. [R.] Thereon is circumscribed this epitaph. Ashmole.

A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.

On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.

, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

lization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke

ma, and reform the stage. Byron. Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of making clear. The better clearing of this point. South.

to cry out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

ded 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 Regular, n., and Secular, a.

h is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul. This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us. T. Burnet.

ommodities are clogged with impositions. Addison. You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer. Shak.

Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box. From a close bower this dainty music flowed. Dryden.

o the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous n…