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A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial.

A rope used in hoisting the anchor to the cathead. Totten.

aving the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

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 tribute by the head; a capitation tax. [Written also chevage and chivage.] [Obs.]

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

Having a plump, short face.

A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]

f different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

Familiar talk or conversation. [Colloq.]

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation. Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire in winter. Burton.

Of the nature of familiar talk; in the form of a dialogue. Weever.

One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.

A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses.

Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.

The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.