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Same as Chaparajos. [Sp. Amer.]

light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

n order; a mandate or command; an injunction. The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. 2. Sam. xviii. 5.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

Same as Chartist.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

Same as Castellany.

w the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

Same as Chief.

Same as Cheliferous.

Same as Checker.

Same as Checky.

; the most valuable portion. The chief of the things which should be utterly destroyed.1. Sam. xv. 21

condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2.

Same as Monkey-puzzle.

See Aster. -- China bean. See under Bean, 1. -- China clay See Kaolin. -- China grass, Same as Ramie. -- China ink. See India ink. -- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. -- China root (Med.), the rootstock of a s…

Same as Chopine, n.

A writing which, reguiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

Same as Hydrochloric.