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ceiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.

To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.

To course through or over, as in a channel. Cowper.

To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

ted with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak.

To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

holic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle. [Written also chasible,…

To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. Dryden.

ction; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff. Useful check upon the administration of government. Washington. A man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

ent] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. B. Jonson.

A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assemblly.