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To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.

An ornamental foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. Boyle.

To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.

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

or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense. Syn. - Stronghold. See Fortress.

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

s. -- Civil service reform, the substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civ…

In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members, not more than two of whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).…

itical methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.

.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

ee from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. Prior.

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 cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the b…

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

The highest point; the greatest degree. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. I. Taylor. To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear." Dryden.