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A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

f or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.

In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

stitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick. "Pray, chuck, come hither." Shak.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

A kind of haircloth undergarment. Southey.

n Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

cteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught.

urrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

To pour round; to spread round. His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.

A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.

To cover round, as woth a garment; to invest. [Obs.] Circumvested with much prejudice. Sir H. Wotton.

les and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

o as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

See King-at-arms.

from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. The roll of cannon and clash of arms. Tennyson.