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An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans.

Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines and worship.

A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindos. [Written also Brahma-samaj.]

The religious system of Brahmo-somaj. Balfour.

A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the me…

A namber of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

f an American shrub (Chiococca racemosa), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison.

Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. recemosa; as, cahincic acid.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

ecies of leopard (Cynælurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written also chetah.]

See Cheetah.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties. [Obs.] Mede.

Corah silk.

Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.

A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

Same as Dacotas. Longfellow.

A nile boat