CPage 155
- English Word Chef Definition Same as Chief.
- English Word Chef-d'oeuvre Definition A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.
- English Word Chefs-d'oeuvre Definition of Chef-d'oeuvre
- English Word Chegoe Definition Alt. of Chegre
- English Word Chegre Definition See Chigoe.
- English Word Cheiloplasty Definition The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.
- English Word Cheilopoda Definition See Ch/lopoda.
- English Word Cheirepter Definition One of the Cheiroptera.
- English Word Cheiroptera Definition An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.
- English Word Cheiropterous Definition Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.
- English Word Cheiropterygia Definition of Cheiropterygium
- English Word Cheiropterygium Definition The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.
- English Word Cheirosophy Definition The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.
- English Word Cheirotherium Definition A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Chekelatoun Definition See Ciclatoun.
- English Word Chekmak Definition A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.
- English Word Chela Definition The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
- English Word Chelae Definition of Chela
- English Word Chelate Definition Same as Cheliferous.
- English Word Chelerythrine Definition An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.
- English Word Chelicera Definition One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.
- English Word Chelicerae Definition of Chelicera
- English Word Chelidon Definition The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
- English Word Chelidonic Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.
- English Word Chelidonius Definition A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.
- English Word Chelifer Definition See Book scorpion, under Book.
- English Word Cheliferous Definition Having cheliform claws, like a crab.
- English Word Cheliform Definition Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.
- English Word Chelone Definition A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.
- English Word Chelonia Definition An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.