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in three-four time, resembing the bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (.] The orchestra plays the cachucha. Logfellow.

A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

ency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

A chest to hold ammunition.

The sulter's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.

An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.

A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak.

A genus of nut-bearing trees or shrubs including the chestnut and chinquapin.

rs along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Philips.

ceptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

emonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

vy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. -- To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.…

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.] Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub o…

A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.