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A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

rved by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."

shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery. -- China ware, porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europa at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general. -- Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.

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.

ained by treating 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.