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hina, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.

Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

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.

n an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from 1/3500 to 1/3200 of an inch in diamet…

An administrative subdivision of a fu, or department, or of an independent chow; also, the seat of government of such a district.

The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.] Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with three cheek by jole." Shak. " Sits cheek by jowl." Dryden.

Lit., culture war; -- a name, originating with Virchow (1821 -- 1902), given to a struggle between the the Roman Catholic Church and the German government, chiefly over the latter's efforts to control educational and ecclesiastical appointments in the interest of the political policy of centralization. The struggle beg…

ation and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. Virchow.

One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. Lyon Playfair.

The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation. Virchow.