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age has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.

A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

thors, or alphabetically. -- Catalogue raisonné Etym: [F.], a catalogue of books, etc., classed according to their subjects. Syn. -- List; roll; index; schedule; enumeration; inventory. See List.

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were inte…

ice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.

ne whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

e family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

ng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

p of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

Capable of being classed.

In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.

Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial.

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. Landon.

alth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. Hallam.