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The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver).

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

Covered with wax.

Sophistical.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.

A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipte…

A ceratohyal bone, or cartilage, which, in man, forms one of the small horns of the hyoid.

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity. R. Park.

An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.

A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

Same as Chaparajos. [Sp. Amer.]

The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]

An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.