CPage 166
- English Word Chilli Definition See Chili.
- English Word Chilliness Definition A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
- English Word Chilliness Definition A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.
- English Word Chilliness Definition Formality; lack of warmth.
- English Word Chilling Definition of Chill
- English Word Chilling Definition Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.
- English Word Chillness Definition Coolness; coldness; a chill.
- English Word Chilly Definition Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
- English Word Chilognath Definition A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.
- English Word Chilognatha Definition One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
- English Word Chiloma Definition The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.
- English Word Chilopod Definition A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.
- English Word Chilopoda Definition One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.
- English Word Chilostoma Definition Alt. of Chilostomata
- English Word Chilostomata Definition An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.
- English Word Chilostomatous Definition Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.
- English Word Chiltern Hundreds Definition A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
- English Word Chimaera Definition A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
- English Word Chimaeroid Definition Related to, or like, the chimaera.
- English Word Chimango Definition A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.
- English Word Chimb Definition The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.
- English Word Chimb Definition Chime.
- English Word Chime Definition See Chine, n., 3.
- English Word Chime Definition The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
- English Word Chime Definition A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
- English Word Chime Definition Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
- English Word Chime Definition To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
- English Word Chime Definition To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
- English Word Chime Definition To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
- English Word Chime Definition To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.