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A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gum moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

rds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. -- Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to s…

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.…

or good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.

g which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. Milton.

A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.

A clog, or patten, having 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.

The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

Attentive to all the circustances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.

Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton.

A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

is yellowish white. The larvæ eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk.

One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic. Developing, in the axils of its skales, new bulbs, of what gardeners call cloves. Lindley.

An oblong case in which the silkworn lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

he codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial. They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin. Gen. 1. 26.

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