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Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.

Belonging to, or resembling, a city. "Smoky, citied towns" [R.] Drayton.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

Belonging to the Coelentra. -- n.

Having wings covered with a case or sheath; belonging to the Coleoptera.

One of a class of organic bases, C8H11N, usually pungent oily liquids, belonging to the pyridine series, and obtained from bone oil, coal tar, naphtha, and certain alkaloids.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

Belonging or relating equally, or similary, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property. Though life and sense be common to men and brutes. Sir M. Hale.

Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. [Rare, except in legal usage.] That is the privillege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being. Locke.

Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.

Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. [R.] Darwin.

To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips.

ht. I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.

Belonging to, or associated in, the same province. [Obs.] -- n.

Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision. Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them. Rogers. Conclusive evidence (Law), that of which, from its nature, the law allows no contradiction or…

Belonging to the confervae.