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cess of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

Am alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts, It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of su…

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

ary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.…

xceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common p…

Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.

sen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. The common wealth is sick of their own choice. Shak.

In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.

A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

ioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc. Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

A salt of chromic acid.

ographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

logous to sulphuric acid, not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers k…

A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. [R.]