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An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with. Upbraided, chid, and rated at. Shak.

A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.

The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine. Bouvier.

See chirographist, 2. Chirographer of fines (Old Eng. Law), an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines.

A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of a pianist.

One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.

of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." Shak.

One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

ellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.

A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.

A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

The name of several different species of the genus Potentilla; -- also called five-finger, because of the resemblance of its leaves to the fingers of the hand.

er downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

th a short turban. Dampier. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.