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Producing or containing carbon or coal. Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegatation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. --…

Bearing or producing cells.

Bearing or producing little cells.

Producing wax.

Bearing setæ.

A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.

An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. To chaffer for preferments with his gold. Dryden.

One who chaffers; a bargainer.

A vessel for heating water. [Obs.] Johnson.

Traffic; bargaining. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having or bearing chalazas.

To make a chamfer on.

A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottem, and an open top.

See Book scorpion, under Book.

Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

[Chyle + -ferous: cf. F. chylifère.] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Bearing or containing chyme.

To bear or carry round. [Obs.] Bacon.

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.