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A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

The state or condition of being central; the combination of several parts into one whole; centralization.

The state of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.

The property or quality of being centrifugal. R. W. Emerson.

Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.

Quality of being ceremonial.

The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames.

ing; as, to chafe a cable. Two slips of parchment which she sewed round it to prevent its being chafed. Sir W. Scott.

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

d proportion, by which, when several ratios of equality are given, the consequent of each being the same as the antecedent of the next, the relation between the first antecedent and the last consequent is discovered. -- Chain shot (Mil.), two cannon balls united by a shot chain, formerly used in naval warfare on accou…

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.

The state of being chalky.

State of being champion; leadership; supremancy.

ophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society…

, 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.

The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

ering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.