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ng odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from…

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift.

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

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

The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.

Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.…

The state of being chubby.

The quality of being chuffy.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

State of being a church. South.

ists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.

The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round. Swift.

Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering ou every side.

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.