Search the Dictionary

in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.

spaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. -- Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

Celebration; solemnization. [Obs.] The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon.

The act or operation of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

A commemoration or celebration of an event which occurred a hudred years before.

Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.

A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof…

A written declaration legally authenticated. Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal.…

To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal. The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. Certified check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it i…

Washed with a preparation of white lead; as, cerused face. Beau. & Fl.

An abbreviation for Confédération Générale du Travail (the French syndicalist labor union).

sed chain, Open chain (Chem.), terms applied to the chemical structure of compounds whose rational formulæ are written respectively in the form of a closed ring (see Benzene nucleus, under Benzene), or in an open extended form. -- Endless chain, a chain whose ends have been united by a link.

or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. -- Chalk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. -- Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is dug. -- Drawing chalk…

An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.