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To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

To fill up, as a cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints." Fuller.

e- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk,…

the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.

The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

s or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

hyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

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

To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

all intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.