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ave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stat…

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

n of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

ron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.

To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. Made its great boughs chafe together. Longfellow. The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores. Shak.

A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.

The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

nts, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs. - the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632.

To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college. [U. S.]

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.