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A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

One of the Chromidæ, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.

A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

A picture made by any of the processes for reproducing photographs in colors. --Chro`mo*pho`to*graph"ic (#), a.

A photographic picture in the natural colors.

Chronic. Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method. J. A. Alexander.

An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.…

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

s of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz.

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.…

combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or de…

One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

rs citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.

The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.