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Cerium oxide, CeO2, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle.

ls, by a lamp, or by hot water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.

- Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. -- Chalk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. -- Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period,…

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything real…

(Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. -- Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use un an electric light apparatus. -- Mineral char…

Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A kind of soft gauzy material used for ruches, trimmings, etc.

chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.

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

The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.

The material of which of which cloaks are made.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

. The larvæ eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.

A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.