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In the Philippines, a light, two-wheeled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.

er; also, sometimes applied to the long reel line. Casting net, a net which is cast and drawn, in distinction from a net that is set and left. -- Casting voice, Casting vote, the decisive vote of a presiding officer, when the votes of the assembly or house are equally divided. "When there was an equal vote, the govern…

determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science o…

Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and of the eel.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

fied check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two- wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Pope.

ith a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

perficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances. -- Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon. -- Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.…

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

ch player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.

Coolness; coldness; a chill. Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn. Longfellow.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook.

, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.