CPage 175
- English Word Chlorometry Definition The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
- English Word Chloropal Definition A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
- English Word Chloropeptic Definition Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
- English Word Chlorophane Definition A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.
- English Word Chlorophane Definition The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.
- English Word Chlorophyll Definition Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
- English Word Chloroplastid Definition A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.
- English Word Chloroplatinic Definition See Platinichloric.
- English Word Chlorosis Definition The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
- English Word Chlorosis Definition A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
- English Word Chlorotic Definition Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.
- English Word Chlorous Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.
- English Word Chlorous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.
- English Word Chlorpicrin Definition A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
- English Word Chloruret Definition A chloride.
- English Word Choak Definition See Choke.
- English Word Choanoid Definition Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
- English Word Chocard Definition The chough.
- English Word Chock Definition To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
- English Word Chock Definition To fill up, as a cavity.
- English Word Chock Definition A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
- English Word Chock Definition A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
- English Word Chock Definition Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
- English Word Chock Definition To encounter.
- English Word Chock Definition An encounter.
- English Word Chock-full Definition Quite full; choke-full.
- English Word Chockablock Definition Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
- English Word Chocked Definition of Chock
- English Word Chocking Definition of Chock
- English Word Chocolate Definition A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.