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A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

The act business of forming chart's or maps.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

A tasteless and odorless crystalline substance, extracted from cloves, polymeric with common camphor.

Caryophyllaceous.

sts . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.

A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

A cenotaph. [R.] Lord Cobham honored him with a cenotaphy. Macaulay.

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal in the hyoid arch. -- n.

A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.

The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand. -- Chei*ros"o*phist (, n.

depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography. -- Chem`i*graph"ic (#), a.

A body consisting of a thousand men. Mitford.

The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.