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A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.

ng made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves. -- Chi*as"mal (, a..

To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses. Ex. xvii. 2.

A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

ything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. Choice word measured phrase. Wordsworth.

A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

Pertaining to a chronometer; measured by a chronometer.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to, or held in, the Circus, In Rome. The pleasure of the Circensian shows. Holyday.

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

The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area. The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. J. Stow.

The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.