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by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.

. [A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. B. Jonson.

A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.

See Quinone.

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide. Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

A yellow crystalline substance, (C6H5.C2H2)2CO, the ketone of cinnamic acid.

See Clarinet.

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Greenland whale. It is sometimes incorrectly called Clio.

A coalitionist.

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

Cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.]

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

tance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret.

The clavicle.

One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]

The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

The office, rank, or commission of a colonel.