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- English Word Chelonian Definition Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.
- English Word Chelonian Definition One of the Chelonia.
- English Word Chelura Definition A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.
- English Word Chely Definition A claw. See Chela.
- English Word Chemic Definition A chemist; an alchemist.
- English Word Chemic Definition A solution of chloride of lime.
- English Word Chemic Definition Chemical.
- English Word Chemical Definition Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.
- English Word Chemical Definition A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
- English Word Chemically Definition According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.
- English Word Chemiglyphic Definition Engraved by a voltaic battery.
- English Word Chemiloon Definition A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.
- English Word Chemise Definition A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.
- English Word Chemise Definition A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.
- English Word Chemisette Definition An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.
- English Word Chemism Definition The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.
- English Word Chemist Definition A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.
- English Word Chemistry Definition That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.
- English Word Chemistry Definition An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo.
- English Word Chemistry Definition A treatise on chemistry.
- English Word Chemitype Definition One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.
- English Word Chemolysis Definition A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
- English Word Chemosmosis Definition Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.
- English Word Chemosmotic Definition Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis.
- English Word Chemung period Definition A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.
- English Word Cheng Definition A chinese reed instrument, with tubes, blown by the mouth.
- English Word Chenille Definition Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.
- English Word Chenomorphae Definition An order of birds, including the swans, ducks, geese, flamingoes and screamers.
- English Word Chepster Definition The European starling.
- English Word Cheque Definition See Check.