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Same as Chaparajos. [Sp. Amer.]

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

See Chrysoprase. Rev. xxi. 20.

A messenger or servant wearing an official badge. [Anglo- Indian]

erence, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.

effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants. -- n. (Med.)

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

The corporal, or communion cloth. [Obs.] Fuller.

The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.

Corrosive. [Obs.] Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh. Holland.

See Quitch grass.

To break in pieces; to crack. [Obs.] "The pot was crased." Chaucer.

pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. [R.] He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

The hydroid or naked-eyed medusæ. See Hydroidea.

Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.

Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.