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The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand. -- Chei*ros"o*phist (, n.

A fortune teller.

A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.

lucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane. Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin…

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

See Chrysoprase. Rev. xxi. 20.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Circumesophagal.

The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. [Obs.] Pope.

e operation of the masculine faculties of the soul were, for a while, well slacked and consopited. Dr. H. More.

Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.

An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei.

One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

To clear from sophism or error. [R.] Hare.

Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

To open. [Obs.] Holland.

Esophageal.

Pertaining to the esophagus. [Written also .]

Esophageal.