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A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.

A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. Carrier pigeon (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to convey letters from a distant point to to its home. -- Carrier shell (Zoöl.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called bec…

A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge.

r decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge.

or holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

nd dog; quarrelsome; inharmonius. "I am sure we have lived a cat and dog life of it." Coleridge. -- Cat block (Naut.), a heavy iron-strapped block with a large hook, part of the tackle used in drawing an anchor up to the cathead. -- Cat hook (Naut.), a strong hook attached to a cat block. -- Cat nap, a very short sl…

To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. Coleridge.

Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge.

ain attached for drawing it out of position. -- Chain bond. See Chain timber. -- Chain bridge, a bridge supported by chain cables; a suspension bridge. -- Chain cable, a cable made of iron links. -- Chain coral (Zoöl.), a fossil coral of the genus Halysites, common in the middle and upper Silurian rocks. The tubula…

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

yss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

t red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

sisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.

Of or pertaining to a chorus. I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba. Coleridge.

octrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

Their heads are circled with a short turban. Dampier. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

Promoting circulation; circulating. [R.] Coleridge.

read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827). -- Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.