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To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.

ey 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 strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.

ossession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.

ist. 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.

To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.

A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [Slang, Eng.] There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

One who shows strangers the curiosities 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.

eeping the refuse pomace in water. Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

er, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

nscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. Gwilt.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began. This continual circulation of human things. Swift.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

To place in a particular situation; to suppy relative incidents. The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner. Addison.