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mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. -- Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is dug. -- Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. -- French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magne…

und in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.

eeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.

To subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence; to affect by magic. No witchcraft charm thee! Shak.

One who delights and attracts the affections.

Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaundy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.

To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

Affected by cold. "My veins are chill." Shak.

A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.

To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. "I was choked at this word." Swift.

Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun. The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. T. Hughes.

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or spec…

We go on chopping and changing our friends. L'Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. W. Irving.

Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.

t, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.