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esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

To chew. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. More.

To bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.

To work or hew, as stone. Oxf. Gloss.

ion of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

terant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.

small pieces from; to diminsh or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. Shak.

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.

ansmission. The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular circulation. Whewell.

situated. The proposition is, that two bodies so circumstanced will balance each other. Whewell.

The act of freeing from obscurities. The clarification of men's ideas. Whewell.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

That which coexists with another. The law of coexistent vibrations. Whewell.

n not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison.

rved positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. J. S. Mill.

ct or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

r's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.