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Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

ivided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc.

orine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

ing-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoögyroscope, zoöpraxiscope, etc.…

A territorial division or district.

d, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit. The circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Johnson. I would not my unhoused, free condition Put into circumscription and confine. Shak.

nutely. To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials. Boyle.

nt to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. State Trials (1661).

on or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill. He sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle. E. Everett.

lating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage. Byron. Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. Arbuthnot.