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ich, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.

n the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

ribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.

reating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.

omic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.

Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin- hydrochloric acid.

A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It…

he chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

ertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

nd imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

f Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also ay…

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.