CPage 190
- English Word Chrysolite Definition A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.
- English Word Chrysology Definition That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.
- English Word Chrysopa Definition A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.
- English Word Chrysophane Definition A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.
- English Word Chrysophanic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane.
- English Word Chrysoprase Definition An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.
- English Word Chrysoprasus Definition See Chrysoprase.
- English Word Chrysosperm Definition The seed of gold; a means of creating gold.
- English Word Chrysotype Definition A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold.
- English Word Chrysotype Definition 2process, invented by Sir J.Herschel.
- English Word Chthonic Definition Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.
- English Word Chthonophagia Definition Alt. of Chthonophagy
- English Word Chthonophagy Definition A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
- English Word Chub Definition A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
- English Word Chub-faced Definition Having a plump, short face.
- English Word Chubbed Definition Chubby.
- English Word Chubbedness Definition The state of being chubby.
- English Word Chubby Definition Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.
- English Word Chuck Definition To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
- English Word Chuck Definition To chuckle; to laugh.
- English Word Chuck Definition To call, as a hen her chickens.
- English Word Chuck Definition The chuck or call of a hen.
- English Word Chuck Definition A sudden, small noise.
- English Word Chuck Definition A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
- English Word Chuck Definition To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
- English Word Chuck Definition To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
- English Word Chuck Definition To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
- English Word Chuck Definition A slight blow or pat under the chin.
- English Word Chuck Definition A short throw; a toss.
- English Word Chuck Definition A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.