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To variegate or diversify with different qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Médoc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry)…

thriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.

he tesselated apperance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

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

First or foremost; chief; principal. [Archaic] "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.

ia officinarum). -- China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies. -- China shop, a shop or stor…

A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

The tied end of a cartridge.

of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. -- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera.…

A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] S. W. Williams.

A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion. Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp.

The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

hat in chromic compounds. Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid.

genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

ine substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

livine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.

worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities, which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts.