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A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

The side of the face below the eye.

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [Slang.]

The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif.

A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces [Spelt also chiliaëdron.]

A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).

science which treats 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 the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [R.]

An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

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

Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. "Chubby faces." I. Taylor.

A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

h church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

Chylifactive.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.