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oky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

Of camel's hair. Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials. -- Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a cashmere shawl. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

hief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

n inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

See Chiaroscuro.

Act of hearing, or the ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, clairaudience.

A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

n attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

The beneficiary of a concession or grant.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

as"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. Dryden.

The business of conducting a dairy.