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Relating to a hundred. Cental system, the method of buying and selling by the cental, or hundredweight.

The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

ally authenticated. Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.…

The act of certifying.

The act of killing deer; deer-slaying. [R.]

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying, in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

xation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. Spenser. He will chafe at the doctor's marrying my daughter. Shak.

as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. Driven down To chains of darkness and the undying worm. Milton.

nd; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings.…

Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

aving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography. -- Chem`i*graph"ic (#), a.