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A horse; a nag. [Obs.] Chaucer. Holland.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also, a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

udy of leading or selected cases, with or without the use of textbooks for reference and collateral reading.

Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet- shaped upper petal, as in aconite.

tc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.] Holland.

emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland.

utter or channel. -- Channel bill (Zoöl.), a very large Australian cucko (Scythrops Novæhollandiæ. -- Channel goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.

To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples.

d or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer. Holland.

to an issue; to turn out; to succed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] Holland.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

ons, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially f…

A permit or clearance. Chop dollar, a silver dollar stamped to attest its purity. -- chop of tea, a number of boxes of the same make and quality of leaf. -- Chowchow chop. See under Chowchow. -- Grand chop, a ship's port clearance. S. W. Williams.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]