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One of a numerous family of hymenopterous insects (Chalcididæ. Many are gallflies, others are parasitic on insects.

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

e, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster. [Formerly written chalcosine.]

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

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

Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of opper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.

Of or pertaining to Chaldes. -- n.

An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.

Of or pertaining to Chaldea. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Chaldea. -- n.

A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.

An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up, or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle. Now used exlusively for coal and coke.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Having a calyx or cup; cupshaped. "Chaliced flowers." Shak.

Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a…

A man who digs chalk.

The state of being chalky.

A mass of chalk. As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. Isa. xxvii. 9.

Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.