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A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.

An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.

A fortune teller.

Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

elect; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.

A thing; personal property. Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to…

Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

A chromosphere. [R.]

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.