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ale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very sudden in choler. Shak.

hea, rice- 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 po…

A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

A description or record of past time; history. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

gh which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

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.…

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

See Scion. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

To make a circle around; to encompass. [Obs.] Bailey.

Compass; circuit; inclosure. In the circle of this forest. Shak.

of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area. The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles. J. Stow.

of a circle. -- Circular cubics (Math.), curves of the third order which are imagined to pass through the two circular points at infinity. -- Circular functions. (Math.) See under Function. -- Circular instruments, mathematical instruments employed for measuring angles, in which the graduation extends round the whol…

to to pass around, as information. Syn. -- circulate, circularize, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse. [WordNet 1.5]