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A cabbage.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

ong, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

See Jowl. Sir W. Scott.

See Choltry.

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath.

s of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also cal…

See Caoutchin.

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

In a distichous manner.

Having smooth, or nearly smooth, hair.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.

Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.

Stout; sullen; obstinate. [Obs.] With stern looks and stomachous disdain. Spenser.