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A morbid condition of the system resulting from excessive use of chloral.

An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.

A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.

A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

See Aurochloride.

Of or pertaining to a choragus. Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.

ining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony. Choral service, a service of song.

A singer or composer of chorals.

In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

Adjointing the shore.

See Collaborator.

The act ofworking together; united labor.

An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.

Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense for infidility." Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

division of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.