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That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea. --Che*mot"ic (#), a.

To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n.

s [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize. Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. L'Estrange.

d, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

ially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

ven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic co…

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.