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A company of singers singing in concert.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

dy of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.

A scale thrown off in forging metal.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.

ds in which the vocal muscles are but little developed, so that they lack the power of singing.

To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.

Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]

A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

Good-natured; obliging. [U. S.]

al, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.