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d an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. Cowpe.

One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.

om the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.…

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

ling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

The gall bladder.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

he upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell. Accidental, Common, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that…

A chronicle. L. Addison.

cription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.…

To shake or agitate with violence. Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose. Addison.

A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [West. U. S.]

orded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter. A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England. Hallam.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in histery. Addison.

opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion. Addison.