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Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.] He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor.

One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hudred years before.

ing to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

on. "Things that chance daily." Robynson (More's Utopia). If a bird's nest chance to be before thee. Deut. xxii. 6. I chanced on this letter. Shak.

The fore part of a horse's head.

change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7.

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and order forms.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles. Jacob.

cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland. The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson.

nister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

A miraculously given power, as of healing, speaking foreign languages without instruction, etc., attributed to some of the early Christians.

fruitful field. Libanus shall be turned into charmel, and charmel shall be esteemed as a forest. Isa. xxix. 17 (Douay version).

unting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]

ame, and fly after other birds. And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. Shak.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesce) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.