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and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. -- Christmas day. Same as Christmas. -- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration…

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.

Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [Slang, Eng.] There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

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

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.

Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.] "Civilizing adultery." Milton.

To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]

An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

ree from ambiquity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. One truth is clear; whatever is, is right. Pop

Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy. "A clerical education." Burke.

Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness. "T would sound more clever To me and to my heirs forever. Swift.

f the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.] G. W. Curtis.

One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.