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A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or a…

ses to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and h…

Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc.

ving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a certain geographical area. The area within which one transmitter may service such portable telephones is called its "cell.

. -- The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.

The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.

pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

nstitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules.…

The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.

called also macle. The tesselated apperance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

it or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.

A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.

To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrnge in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

A figure of which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each sicceeding one rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore.

ther in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.