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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.

A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction.

Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography. -- Chem`i*graph"ic (#), a.

Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimimg of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of chenille rugs.

To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

Principal or most eminent in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; taking the lead; most important; as, the chief topic of conversation; the chief interest of man.

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.

In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.

Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

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.

laginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

r of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.

ed, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.