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sons My voice or hands deny, These hands let useful skill forsake, This voice in silence die. Dwight.

n." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jig…

, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.

hat which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

k. -- China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (S. China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum). -- China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieti…

metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.

ed by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which t…

A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.

ake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

erized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely…

by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.

To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott.

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late.…

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

ble desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.