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The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.

One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]

disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the…

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

ith Prussian blue. -- Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.

The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.

inate; luxurious. [Obs.] I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. Shak.

A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer. [Obs.]

A musical instrument, formerly in use, in form of a spinet; -- called also manichord and clavichord.

The harpsichord.

Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. [Scot. & North of Eng.] Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray.

ails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.

A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

cents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

One confined to the bed by sickness.

Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.