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Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.

An impression or mold, taken from a thing or person; amold; a pattern.

The Spanish language as spoken in Castile.

Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

ye, to interrupt captiously while speaking. [Colloq.] "You catch me up so very short." Dickens. -- To catch up, to snatch; to take up suddenly.

ng to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Dickens.

Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.…

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

blic occasion. -- Not to stand on ceremony, not to be ceremonious; to be familiar, outspoken, or bold.

A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.

whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. -- Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. -- Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain number of jurors (fixed by statute in different States) without assigning an…

One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. Shak.

To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shal be charged by any lien. Kent.

A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation. My high charms work. Shak.

ful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

titute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.