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An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.

A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild…

Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.

An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. The king [John, a.d. 1215], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the "Great Charter," ei…

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Dryden.

ss the curd into a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.

ld's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherry stone. -- Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry sucker (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries. -- Ground cherry, W…

A small ruminant of the family Tragulidæ a allied to the musk deer. It inhabits Africa and the East Indies. See Kanchil.

To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.…

The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments. Instruments that made melodius chime. Milton.

parilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum). -- China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, com…

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

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

The string of a musical instrument. Milton.

An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.