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A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

cies are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North American tree, with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods, and the C. speciosa, of the Mississipi valley; -- called also Indian bean.

One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystaline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.

been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

kind of noseband used in breaking and training horses. [Written also caveson, causson.] White.

A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Calumn.

in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is remove…

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

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

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by the distillation of cerotin.

A white crystalline substance, C27H55.OH, obtained from Chinese wax, and regarded as an alcohol of the marsh gas series; -- called also cerotic alcohol, ceryl alcohol.

White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

Native lead carbonate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.

A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part of spermaceti.