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To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

Carbuncle. [Written also Charboncle.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

The cheek bone. [Obs.] Caucer.

or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corr…

The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.

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

Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. Beau. & Fl.

uban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.

dwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to napthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]

A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. [Obs.]

A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.