CPage 194
- English Word Chuse Definition See Choose.
- English Word Chute Definition A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
- English Word Chute Definition See Shoot.
- English Word Chutnee Definition A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.
- English Word Chutney Definition Alt. of Chutnee
- English Word Chylaceous Definition Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.
- English Word Chylaqueous Definition Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.
- English Word Chyle Definition A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
- English Word Chylifaction Definition The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
- English Word Chylifactive Definition Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
- English Word Chyliferous Definition Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.
- English Word Chylific Definition Chylifactive.
- English Word Chylification Definition The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.
- English Word Chylificatory Definition Chylifactive.
- English Word Chylify Definition To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.
- English Word Chylopoetic Definition Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.
- English Word Chylous Definition Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
- English Word Chyluria Definition A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.
- English Word Chyme Definition The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
- English Word Chymic Definition Alt. of Chymistry
- English Word Chymiferous Definition Bearing or containing chyme.
- English Word Chymification Definition The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
- English Word Chymify Definition To form into chyme.
- English Word Chymist Definition Alt. of Chymistry
- English Word Chymistry Definition See Chemic, Chemist, Chemistry.
- English Word Chymous Definition Of or pertaining to chyme.
- English Word Chyometer Definition An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.
- English Word Ci-devant Definition Former; previous; of times gone by; as, a ci-devant governor.
- English Word Cibarious Definition Pertaining to food; edible.
- English Word Cibation Definition The act of taking food.