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te color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

arty that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone

ce formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.

Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --…

To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss.

nt. -- Charcoal blacks, the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances. -- Charcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present ma…

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

ngicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.

A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

To give expression to in a chirping tone. Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

ub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted…

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

t of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

ng off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

tting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. Blackstone.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.