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A steelyard for weighting grain.

The dissection of cartilages.

The art of surveying a region or district.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

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

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

tism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak.

See Chrisom. [Obs.] Shak.

An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

A salt of chromic acid.

Relating to color, or to colors.

Chromatic. [Obs.]

In a chromatic manner.

The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

Producing color.

A treatise on colors

A treatise on colors.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.