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Tea; -- the Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

e to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. Balfour.

See 3d Chase, n., 3.

The texan guan (Ortalis vetula). [written also chiacalaca.]

A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon.

An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

See Shad. [Obs.]

A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.

Bearing setæ.

A marine fish of the family Chætodontidæ. The chætodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors.

Of or pertaining to the Chætognatha.

An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head.

Pertaining to the Chætopoda. -- n.

A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setæ, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochæta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychæta, including most of the marine species.

The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

at in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. To rub her temples, and to chafe her skin. Spenser.

One who chafes.