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The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with.

A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.

A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

The hedge sparrow.

A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.]

ying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a larg…

A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. Bartlett.

e. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

d as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.] Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. Shak.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

The act of chirping; a chirp. The sparrows' chirrup on the roof. Tennyson.

g from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

In a literal, limited, or narrow manner. [R.] Milton.

Circuit; space; inclosure. [R.] The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. Byron.