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ants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihot utilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated by boiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.

A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.

, esp. C. annuum and C. Frutescens; -- Called also red pepper. It is used chiefly as a condiment.

An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery.

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.

is Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and b…

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. My companion . . . left the way clear for him. Addison.

That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.

A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. Dr. H. More.

ric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

was Into two parties, is now conjoined in one. Shak. If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined. Shak. Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already. Locke.

act; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. Contractile vacuole (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan,…

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.