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urned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] Drayton. Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. Chapman.

A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

corated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from. [A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. B. Jonson.

n of Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.

not resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.

set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

erican Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals. [Written also chlorophyl.]

A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.

nol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

s approved and selected in preference to others; selection. The common wealth is sick of their own choice. Shak.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

ne of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.

r system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.

suring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

sities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.