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A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

t. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low f…

A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. [Low] S. Richardson.

Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]

he same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

h miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. Baron of the Cinque Ports. See under Baron.

Having the characteristics 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.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. The golden circuit on my head. Shak.

The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

An inscription written around anything. [R.] Ashmole.

The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

The process by which anything becomes of the color of a lemon; esp., in alchemy, the state of perfection in the philosopher's stone indicated by its assuming a deep yellow color. Thynne.

Anything that causes a clacking noise, as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority. Locke.