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A member of the denomination called Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic.

stricts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division. They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world. Locke.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

te and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

n to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

. . But where there is true friendship there needs none. Shak. Al ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet a man of the world should know them. Chesterfield.

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

n groups, looking in an end view like links of a chain. When perfect, the calicles show twelve septa. -- Chain coupling. (a) A shackle for uniting lengths of chain, or connecting a chain with an object. (b) (Railroad) Supplementary coupling together of cars with a chain. -- Chain gang, a gang of convicts chained toge…

y French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. G. Eliot.

Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence. "Twelve cipher bishops." Milton.

cular numbers (Arith.), those whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pa…

ous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

mong them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.

all room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.