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The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.

One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.

ink. -- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. -- China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (S. China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Al…

A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

orny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

g a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

mon European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc. Chub mackerel (Zoöl.), a species of mackerel (Scomber colias)…

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

ll, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. Gwilt.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

g, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.

The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.

Marked with veins or sports of dark or various hues, as marble.

ed for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.

in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.

The common tissue which unites the various zooids of a bryozoan.