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Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]

Lively; cheerful; in good spirits. [Colloq. New Eng.]

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.

One who chirps, or is cheerful.

Cheerful; joyous; chatty.

A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

sonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.…

and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

gans included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from…

A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

line substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known.

The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).

uding the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.

To perform the operation of churning.

A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species (C. septendecim) is called the seventeen year locust. Another common species is the dogday cicada.

Perfect; complete. [Obs.] A man so absolute and circular In all those wished-for rarities that may take A virgin captive. Massinger. Circular are, any portion of the circumference of a circle. -- Circular cubics (Math.), curves of the third order which are imagined to pass through the two circular points at infinity.…

One who performs circumcision. Milton.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.