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Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. Carlyle. They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed. Wordsworth.

Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea. --Che*mot"ic (#), a.

y; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.

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

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid. "The deep, circumfluent waves." Pope.

Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Addison. Not a circumstance, of no account. [Colloq.] -- Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration.

Standing or placed around; surrounding. [R.] "Circumstant bodies." Sir K. Digby.

Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular. Tedious and circumstantial recitals. Prior. Circumstantial evidence (Law), evidence obtained from circumstances, which necessarily or usually attend facts of a particular nature, from which arises presumption. According to…

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

gether so as to produce a ringing metallic sound. The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.

collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.