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A radical, C27H55 supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from Chinese wax, beeswax, etc.

Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

end each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

ferent sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. -- To ring the changes on, to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.

A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.

A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.

izable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot.

To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.

Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.

A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).

The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3. [Written also hime.]

See Chine, n., 3.

A native of China; a Chinese.

Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.

recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is wid…

A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.