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rds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly on ants.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

position in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords. The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments. Prescott. I'll prove it in my shackles, with these hands Void of appoinment, that thou liest. Beau. & Fl.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

An arch. [Obs.] Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs. Milton.

Chief; eminent; greatest; principal. The most arch act of piteous massacre. Shak.

A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.

A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy. Milton.

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

iction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. P. Cyc.

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.