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A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the g…

o softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also cænozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius.

Lasting or aged a hundred years. Thet opened through long lines Of sacred ilex and centennial pines. Longfellow.

revent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States

r Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

Relating to the long axis of the body.

Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods.

A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiïdæ; -- so called from its hornlike form.

tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

pical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. Balfour.

ther so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak.

A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.

texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. -- Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk line, a cord rubbed wit…

lic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.