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l and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

tite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone.

Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone. [Scot.]

Cassia. Cinnamon stone (Min.), a variety of garnet, of a cinnamon or hyacinth red color, sometimes used in jewelry. -- Oil of cinnamon, a colorless aromatic oil obtained from cinnamon and cassia, and consisting essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, C6H5.C2H2.CHO. -- Wild cinnamon. See Canella.

A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.

ircle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.

of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

hough the bishopric has been dissolved, as at Westminster, it yet remaineth a city. Blackstone When Gorges constituted York a city, he of course meant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law. Palfrey

The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

Qualyty of tone.

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

Fragmental; made up of brokas, sandstone is a clastic rock.