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A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.

A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

A sort of sweet wine. [Obs.] Shak.

Small stones with ore. Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.]

The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.

A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

The name firat given in England to the red wines of M

s of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.

r or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup. "Boiled and clarified." Ure.

Wine with a mixture of honey and species. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To surround and cling to; to entwine about. "Clasping ivy." Milton.

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

ssociation supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and…

on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Bouvier.

the communion. Close communion. See under Close, a. -- Communion elements, the bread and wine used in the celebration of the Lord's supper. -- Communion service, the celebration of the Lord's supper, or the office or service therefor. -- Communion table, the table upon which the elements are placed at the celebratio…

A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. Addison.

A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.

The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.