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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

rse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

e common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.

f a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

s, title, or dignity of an earl. He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. Chesterfield.

st; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton.

voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country. That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

d another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.

A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]

distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to Ant: contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.