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haste style in composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.

der on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer. -- Check book, a book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they…

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

See Book scorpion, under Book.

n in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

ipally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook.

space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimn…

A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it. Hooker.

bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

The whole body of Christians. Hooker.

The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.

Chubby. [R.] H. Brooke.

an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]