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A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

rivate properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

able, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check. Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.

olical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple. Ez. xxv. 18.

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A distinguishing mark, above the elow, on the sleeve of a noncommisioned officer's coat.

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

A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.

ppendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and…

ilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

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.

Same as Chromium. Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium. -- Chrome green (a) The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining. (b) A pigment mad…

h assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

eru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.