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Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram und…

texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

A hot iron for searing or cauterizing. Minsheu.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

nal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous e…

Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

tify 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 is draw…

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

A movable single seat with a back.

A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.

of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7.

The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.