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A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.

persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

is; or the idea viewed as a formative principle and coöperating with the matter. -- Material cause, that of which anything is made. -- Proximate cause. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Censorial. [R.] Bacon.

A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting.

erium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.

A written declaration legally 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.…

upon complaint of a party that he has not received justice, or can not have an impartial trial in the inferior court.

by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.

A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.

alk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. -- Chalk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. -- Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, und…

competent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything real…

a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial;

The territorial disrict legally assigned to a chapel.

e Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. -- Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use un an electric light apparatus. -- Mineral charcoal…

e deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.