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A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine. Cheidonic acid, a weak acid extracted fron the celandine (Chelidonium majus), as a white crystalline substance.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.

One who chides or quarrels. Shak.

She who chides. [Obs.]

A female scold. [Obs.]

In a chiding or reproving manner.

Related to, or like, the chimæra.

See Quinodine.

A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.

To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.

A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.…

Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.

See Chloridate.

A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.

Choleriform.