English Dictionary: chary | by the DICT Development Group |
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Cameo \Cam"e*o\, n.; pl. {Cameos}. [It cammeo; akin to F. cam[82]e, cama[8b]eu, Sp. camafeo, LL. camaeus, camahutus; of unknown origin.] A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like. Note: Most cameos are carved in a material which has layers of different colors, such stones as the onyx and sardonyx, and various kinds of shells, being used. {Cameo conch} (Zo[94]l.), a large, marine, univalve shell, esp. {Cassis cameo}, {C. rua}, and allied species, used for cutting cameos. See {Quern conch}. | |
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C91sar \C[91]"sar\, n. [L.] A Roman emperor, as being the successor of Augustus C[91]sar. Hence, a kaiser, or emperor of Germany, or any emperor or powerful ruler. See {Kaiser}, {Kesar}. Malborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by C[91]sar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. --Macaulay. | |
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C91sura \C[91]*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. {C[91]suras}, L. {C[91]sur[91]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the c[91]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. Note: In the following line the c[91]sura is between study and of. The prop | er stud | y || of | mankind | is man. | |
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C91sura \C[91]*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. {C[91]suras}, L. {C[91]sur[91]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the c[91]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. Note: In the following line the c[91]sura is between study and of. The prop | er stud | y || of | mankind | is man. | |
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Car \Car\, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. {Chariot}.] 1. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. 2. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a goods wagon; a platform car a goods truck; a baggage car a van. But styles of car introduced into England from America are called cars; as, tram car. Pullman car. See {Train}. 3. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. --Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. --Tennyson. 4. (Astron.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. --Dryden. 5. The cage of a lift or elevator. 6. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. 7. A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.] {Car coupling}, or {Car coupler}, a shackle or other device for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.] {Dummy car} (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power or locomotive. {Freight car} (Railrood), a car for the transportation of merchandise or other goods. [U. S.] {Hand car} (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.] {Horse car}, or {Street car}, an omnibus car, draw by horses or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.] {Palace car}, {Drawing-room car}, {Sleeping car}, {Parlor car}, etc. (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers. | |
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Gauge \Gauge\, n. [Written also gage.] 1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard. This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. --Moxon. There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. --I. Taylor. 2. Measure; dimensions; estimate. The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt. --Burke. 3. (Mach. & Manuf.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge. 4. (Physics) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge. 5. (Naut.) (a) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it. (b) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water. --Totten. 6. The distance between the rails of a railway. Note: The standard gauge of railroads in most countries is four feet, eight and one half inches. Wide, or broad, gauge, in the United States, is six feet; in England, seven feet, and generally any gauge exceeding standard gauge. Any gauge less than standard gauge is now called narrow gauge. It varies from two feet to three feet six inches. 7. (Plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting. 8. (Building) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles. {Gauge of a carriage}, {car}, etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the {track}. {Gauge cock}, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. {Gauge concussion} (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. {Gauge glass}, a glass tube for a water gauge. {Gauge lathe}, an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge. {Gauge point}, the diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to that of a unit of a given measure; -- a term used in gauging casks, etc. {Gauge rod}, a graduated rod, for measuring the capacity of barrels, casks, etc. {Gauge saw}, a handsaw, with a gauge to regulate the depth of cut. --Knight. {Gauge stuff}, a stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet. {Gauge wheel}, a wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow. {Joiner's gauge}, an instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc. {Printer's gauge}, an instrument to regulate the length of the page. {Rain gauge}, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. {Salt gauge}, or {Brine gauge}, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. {Sea gauge}, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. {Siphon gauge}, a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a manometer. {Sliding gauge}. (Mach.) (a) A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc. (b) A gauge used only for testing other similar gauges, and preserved as a reference, to detect wear of the working gauges. (c) (Railroads) See Note under {Gauge}, n., 5. {Star gauge} (Ordnance), an instrument for measuring the diameter of the bore of a cannon at any point of its length. {Steam gauge}, an instrument for measuring the pressure of steam, as in a boiler. {Tide gauge}, an instrument for determining the height of the tides. {Vacuum gauge}, a species of barometer for determining the relative elasticities of the vapor in the condenser of a steam engine and the air. {Water gauge}. (a) A contrivance for indicating the height of a water surface, as in a steam boiler; as by a gauge cock or glass. (b) The height of the water in the boiler. {Wind gauge}, an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface; an anemometer. {Wire gauge}, a gauge for determining the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal; also, a standard of size. See under {Wire}. | |
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Car \Car\, n. [OF. car, char, F. cahr, fr. L. carrus, Wagon: a Celtic word; cf. W. car, Armor. karr, Ir. & Gael. carr. cf. {Chariot}.] 1. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart. 2. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad. [U. S.] Note: In England a railroad passenger car is called a railway carriage; a freight car a goods wagon; a platform car a goods truck; a baggage car a van. But styles of car introduced into England from America are called cars; as, tram car. Pullman car. See {Train}. 3. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. --Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. --Tennyson. 4. (Astron.) The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper. The Pleiads, Hyads, and the Northern Car. --Dryden. 5. The cage of a lift or elevator. 6. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc. 7. A floating perforated box for living fish. [U. S.] {Car coupling}, or {Car coupler}, a shackle or other device for connecting the cars in a railway train. [U. S.] {Dummy car} (Railroad), a car containing its own steam power or locomotive. {Freight car} (Railrood), a car for the transportation of merchandise or other goods. [U. S.] {Hand car} (Railroad), a small car propelled by hand, used by railroad laborers, etc. [U. S.] {Horse car}, or {Street car}, an omnibus car, draw by horses or other power upon rails laid in the streets. [U. S.] {Palace car}, {Drawing-room car}, {Sleeping car}, {Parlor car}, etc. (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers. | |
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Gauge \Gauge\, n. [Written also gage.] 1. A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard. This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. --Moxon. There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. --I. Taylor. 2. Measure; dimensions; estimate. The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt. --Burke. 3. (Mach. & Manuf.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge. 4. (Physics) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge. 5. (Naut.) (a) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it. (b) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water. --Totten. 6. The distance between the rails of a railway. Note: The standard gauge of railroads in most countries is four feet, eight and one half inches. Wide, or broad, gauge, in the United States, is six feet; in England, seven feet, and generally any gauge exceeding standard gauge. Any gauge less than standard gauge is now called narrow gauge. It varies from two feet to three feet six inches. 7. (Plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting. 8. (Building) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles. {Gauge of a carriage}, {car}, etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the {track}. {Gauge cock}, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. {Gauge concussion} (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. {Gauge glass}, a glass tube for a water gauge. {Gauge lathe}, an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge. {Gauge point}, the diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to that of a unit of a given measure; -- a term used in gauging casks, etc. {Gauge rod}, a graduated rod, for measuring the capacity of barrels, casks, etc. {Gauge saw}, a handsaw, with a gauge to regulate the depth of cut. --Knight. {Gauge stuff}, a stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet. {Gauge wheel}, a wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow. {Joiner's gauge}, an instrument used to strike a line parallel to the straight side of a board, etc. {Printer's gauge}, an instrument to regulate the length of the page. {Rain gauge}, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. {Salt gauge}, or {Brine gauge}, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. {Sea gauge}, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. {Siphon gauge}, a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicate pressure, as of steam, or the degree of rarefaction produced in the receiver of an air pump or other vacuum; a manometer. {Sliding gauge}. (Mach.) (a) A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc. (b) A gauge used only for testing other similar gauges, and preserved as a reference, to detect wear of the working gauges. (c) (Railroads) See Note under {Gauge}, n., 5. {Star gauge} (Ordnance), an instrument for measuring the diameter of the bore of a cannon at any point of its length. {Steam gauge}, an instrument for measuring the pressure of steam, as in a boiler. {Tide gauge}, an instrument for determining the height of the tides. {Vacuum gauge}, a species of barometer for determining the relative elasticities of the vapor in the condenser of a steam engine and the air. {Water gauge}. (a) A contrivance for indicating the height of a water surface, as in a steam boiler; as by a gauge cock or glass. (b) The height of the water in the boiler. {Wind gauge}, an instrument for measuring the force of the wind on any given surface; an anemometer. {Wire gauge}, a gauge for determining the diameter of wire or the thickness of sheet metal; also, a standard of size. See under {Wire}. | |
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Caraway \Car"a*way\ (k[acr]r"[adot]*w[asl]), n. [F. carvi (cf. Sp. carvi and al-caravea, al-carahueya, Pg. al-caravia) fr. Ar. karaw[c6][be], karw[c6][be] fr. Gr. ka`ron; cf. L. careum.] 1. (Bot.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family ({Carum Carui}). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative. 2. A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. Caraways, or biscuits, or some other [comfits]. --Cogan. | |
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Care \Care\ (k[acir]r), n. [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. {Chary}.] 1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. --Shak. 2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. The care of all the churches. --2 Cor. xi. 28. Him thy care must be to find. --Milton. Perplexed with a thousand cares. --Shak. 3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --Shak. 4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. --Spenser. Syn: Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- {Care}, {Anxiety}, {Solicitude}, {Concern}. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished degree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil. | |
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Care \Care\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caring}.] [AS. cearian. See {Care}, n.] To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure. I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. --Shak. Master, carest thou not that we perish? --Mark. iv. 38. {To care for}. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love. He cared not for the affection of the house. --Tennyson. | |
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Carraway \Car"ra*way\, n. See {Caraway}. | |
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Carrow \Car"row\, n. [Ir & Gael. carach cunning.] A strolling gamester. [Ireland] --Spenser. | |
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Carry \Car"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Carrying}.] [OF. carier, charier, F. carrier, to cart, from OF. car, char, F. car, car. See {Car}.] 1. To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. --Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. --Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. --Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. --Bacon. 2. To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child. If the ideas . . . were carried along with us in our minds. --Locke. 3. To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet. --Shak. He carried away all his cattle. --Gen. xxxi. 18. Passion and revenge will carry them too far. --Locke. 4. To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures. 5. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther. 6. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election. [bd]The greater part carries it.[b8] --Shak. The carrying of our main point. --Addison. 7. To get possession of by force; to capture. The town would have been carried in the end. --Bacon. 8. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply. He thought it carried something of argument in it. --Watts. It carries too great an imputation of ignorance. --Lacke. 9. To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns. He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious. --Clarendon. 10. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. {Carry arms} (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting against the hollow of the shoulder in a nearly perpendicular position. In this position the soldier is said to stand, and the musket to be held, at carry. {To carry all before one}, to overcome all obstacles; to have uninterrupted success. {To carry arms} (a) To bear weapons. (b) To serve as a soldier. {To carry away}. (a) (Naut.) to break off; to lose; as, to carry away a fore-topmast. (b) To take possession of the mind; to charm; to delude; as, to be carried by music, or by temptation. {To carry coals}, to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. --Halliwell. {To carry coals to Newcastle}, to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor. {To carry off} (a) To remove to a distance. (b) To bear away as from the power or grasp of others. (c) To remove from life; as, the plague carried off thousands. {To carry on} (a) To carry farther; to advance, or help forward; to continue; as, to carry on a design. (b) To manage, conduct, or prosecute; as, to carry on husbandry or trade. {To carry out}. (a) To bear from within. (b) To put into execution; to bring to a successful issue. (c) To sustain to the end; to continue to the end. {To carry through}. (a) To convey through the midst of. (b) To support to the end; to sustain, or keep from falling, or being subdued. [bd]Grace will carry us . . . through all difficulties.[b8] --Hammond. (c) To complete; to bring to a successful issue; to succeed. {To carry up}, to convey or extend in an upward course or direction; to build. {To carry weight}. (a) To be handicapped; to have an extra burden, as when one rides or runs. [bd]He carries weight, he rides a race[b8] --Cowper. (b) To have influence. | |
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Carry \Car"ry\, v. i. 1. To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry. 2. To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well. 3. To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck. 4. (Hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. --Johnson. {To carry on}, to behave in a wild, rude, or romping manner. [Colloq.] | |
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Carry \Car"ry\, n.; pl. {Carries}. A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. [U.S.] | |
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Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory ({Carya}), and their fruit. {Ash-leaved walnut}, a tree ({Juglans fraxinifolia}), native in Transcaucasia. {Black walnut}, a North American tree ({J. nigra}) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular. {English}, [or] {European}, {walnut}, a tree ({J. regia}), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts. {Walnut brown}, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut. {Walnut oil}, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc. {White walnut}, a North American tree ({J. cinerea}), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See {Butternut}. | |
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Cere \Cere\, n. [L. cera wax: cf. F. cire.] (Zo[94]l.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See {Beak}. | |
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Cere \Cere\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cering}.] [L. cerare, fr. cera wax: cf. F. cirer.] To wax; to cover or close with wax. --Wiseman. | |
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Ceria \Ce"ri*a\ (s[emac]"r[icr]*[adot]), n. (Chem.) Cerium oxide, {CeO2}, a white infusible substance constituting about one per cent of the material of the common incandescent mantle. | |
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Cero \Ce"ro\, n. [Corrupt. fr. Sp. sierra saw, sawfish, cero.] (Zo[94]l.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus {Scomberomorus}. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero ({Scomberomorus caballa}), called also {kingfish}, and spotted, or king, cero ({S. regalis}). | |
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d8M84nnerchor \[d8]M[84]n"ner*chor`\, n.; G. pl. {-ch[94]re}. [G.; m[84]nner, pl. of mann man + chor chorus.] A German men's chorus or singing club. | |
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Chair \Chair\, n. [OE. chaiere, chaere, OF. chaiere, chaere, F. chaire pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's or professor's chair, Gr. [?] down + [?] seat, [?] to sit, akin to E. sit. See {Sit}, and cf. {Cathedral}, {chaise}.] 1. A movable single seat with a back. 2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. --Whewell. A chair of philology. --M. Arnold. 3. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. 4. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. --Shak. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. --Pope. 5. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. {Chair days}, days of repose and age. {To put into the chair}, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. --Macaulay. {To take the chair}, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting. | |
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Chair \Chair\, v. t. [imp. & p. pr. {Chaired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chairing}.] 1. To place in a chair. 2. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. [Eng.] | |
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Char \Char\, n. [F.] A car; a chariot. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus {Salvelinus}, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout ({Salvelinus fontinalis}) is sometimes called a char. | |
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Char \Char\, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. k[89]rian, OHG. ch[89]ran, G. kehren. Cf. {Chore}, {Ajar}.] Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also {chare}.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. --Shak. | |
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Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d {Char}.] 1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. --Old Proverb. 2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss. | |
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Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. | |
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Char \Char\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Charring}.] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see {Char}, n.), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.] 1. To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder. 2. To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. | |
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Char \Char\, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. k[89]rian, OHG. ch[89]ran, G. kehren. Cf. {Chore}, {Ajar}.] Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also {chare}.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. --Shak. | |
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Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d {Char}.] 1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. --Old Proverb. 2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss. | |
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Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. | |
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Chare \Chare\, n. & v. A chore; to chore; to do. See {Char}. | |
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Chare \Chare\, n. A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Char \Char\, n. [OE. cherr, char a turning, time, work, AS. cerr, cyrr, turn, occasion, business, fr. cerran, cyrran, to turn; akin to OS. k[89]rian, OHG. ch[89]ran, G. kehren. Cf. {Chore}, {Ajar}.] Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore. [Written also {chare}.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. --Shak. | |
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Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. t. [See 3d {Char}.] 1. To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] --Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. --Old Proverb. 2. To work or hew, as stone. --Oxf. Gloss. | |
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Char \Char\, Chare \Chare\, v. i. To work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant; to do small jobs. | |
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Chare \Chare\, n. & v. A chore; to chore; to do. See {Char}. | |
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Chare \Chare\, n. A narrow street. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Char \Char\, Charr \Charr\, n. [Ir. cear, Gael. ceara, lit., red, blood-colored, fr. cear blood. So named from its red belly.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus {Salvelinus}, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout ({Salvelinus fontinalis}) is sometimes called a char. | |
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Charr \Charr\, n. See 1st {Char}. | |
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Charge \Charge\, n. [F. charge, fr. charger to load. See {Charge}, v. t., and cf. {Cargo}, {Caricature}.] 1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. 3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. --Shak. 4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. Harm. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. --2. Sam. xviii. 5. 7. An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy. 8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. --Whewell. 9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. 10. The price demanded for a thing or service. 11. An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book. 12. That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time 13. The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. --Holland. The charge of the light brigade. --Tennyson. 14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. 15. (Far.) A soft of plaster or ointment. 16. (Her.) A bearing. See {Bearing}, n., 8. 17. [Cf. {Charre}.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also {charre}. 18. Weight; import; value. Many suchlike [bd]as's[b8] of great charge. --Shak. {Back charge}. See under {Back}, a. {Bursting charge}. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. {Charge and discharge} (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. {Charge sheet}, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. {To sound the charge}, to give the signal for an attack. Syn: Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment. | |
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Charre \Charre\, n. [LL. charrus a certain weight.] See {Charge}, n., 17. | |
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Charge \Charge\, n. [F. charge, fr. charger to load. See {Charge}, v. t., and cf. {Cargo}, {Caricature}.] 1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. 3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty. 'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. --Shak. 4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. Harm. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction. The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. --2. Sam. xviii. 5. 7. An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy. 8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged. The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. --Whewell. 9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural. 10. The price demanded for a thing or service. 11. An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book. 12. That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time 13. The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge. Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. --Holland. The charge of the light brigade. --Tennyson. 14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge. 15. (Far.) A soft of plaster or ointment. 16. (Her.) A bearing. See {Bearing}, n., 8. 17. [Cf. {Charre}.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also {charre}. 18. Weight; import; value. Many suchlike [bd]as's[b8] of great charge. --Shak. {Back charge}. See under {Back}, a. {Bursting charge}. (a (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. {Charge and discharge} (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. {Charge sheet}, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. {To sound the charge}, to give the signal for an attack. Syn: Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment. | |
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Charre \Charre\, n. [LL. charrus a certain weight.] See {Charge}, n., 17. | |
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Charry \Char"ry\, a. [See 6th {Char}.] Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities. | |
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Chary \Char"y\, a. [AS. cearig careful, fr. cearu care. See {Care}.] Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. --Jeffrey. | |
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Chear \Chear\, n. & v. [Obs.] See {Cheer}. | |
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Cheer \Cheer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cheered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {cheering}.] 1. To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. --Cowpe. 2. To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered. --Dryden. 3. To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. {To cheer ship}, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging. Syn: To gladden; encourage; inspirit; comfort; console; enliven; refresh; exhilarate; animate; applaud. | |
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Cheer \Cheer\ (ch[emac]r), n. [OE. chere face, welcome, cheer, OF. chiere, F. ch[8a]re, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. [?] head; akin to Skr. [cced]iras, L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. cranium.] 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] [bd]Sweat of thy cheer.[b8] --Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. --Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer. --Holland. 3. Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. --Shak. 1. That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer. 5. A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc. Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street. --Tennyson. {Whzt cheer}? Now do you fare? What is there that is cheering? | |
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Cheer \Cheer\, v. i. 1. To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up. At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up. --A. Philips. 2. To be in any state or temper of mind. [Obs.] How cheer'st thou, Jessica? --Shak. 3. To utter a shout or shouts of applause, triumph, etc. And even the ranks of Tusculum Could scare forbear to cheer. --Macaulay. | |
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Cheerry \Cheer"ry\, a. Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. --Hawthorne. | |
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Bob \Bob\, v. i. 1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. [bd]Bobbing and courtesying.[b8] --Thackeray. 2. To angle with a bob. See {Bob}, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. --Saxe. {To bob at an apple}, {cherry}, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water. | |
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Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. [?], perh. fr. [?] horn, from the hardness of the wood.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from M[82]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird cherry). 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}. {Cherry bird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar. {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C. cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. {Cherry pit}. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone. {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the European spotted flycatcher ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper} {cherry snipe}. {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries. {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}. | |
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Cherry \Cher"ry\ (ch[ecr]r"r[ycr]), a. Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks. | |
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Bob \Bob\, v. i. 1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. [bd]Bobbing and courtesying.[b8] --Thackeray. 2. To angle with a bob. See {Bob}, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. --Saxe. {To bob at an apple}, {cherry}, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water. | |
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Cherry \Cher"ry\, n. [OE. chery, for cherys, fr. F. cerise (cf. AS. cyrs cherry), fr. LL. ceresia, fr. L. cerasus Cherry tree, Gr. [?], perh. fr. [?] horn, from the hardness of the wood.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus {Prunus} (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry ({Prunus Cerasus}), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from M[82]doc in France). (b) The wild cherry; as, {Prunus serotina} (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; {P. Virginiana} (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; {P. avium} and {P. Padus}, European trees (bird cherry). 2. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors. 3. The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc. 4. A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. {Barbadoes cherry}. See under {Barbadoes}. {Cherry bird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. {Cherry bounce}, cherry brandy and sugar. {Cherry brandy}, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry laurel} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Prunus Lauro-cerasus}) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. {Cherry pepper} (Bot.), a species of {Capsicum} ({C. cerasiforme}), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. {Cherry pit}. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. --Shak. (b) A cherry stone. {Cherry rum}, rum in which cherries have been steeped. {Cherry sucker} (Zo[94]l.), the European spotted flycatcher ({Musicapa grisola}); -- called also {cherry chopper} {cherry snipe}. {Cherry tree}, a tree that bears cherries. {Ground cherry}, {Winter cherry}, See {Alkekengi}. | |
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Cherry \Cher"ry\ (ch[ecr]r"r[ycr]), a. Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks. | |
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Chewer \Chew"er\, n. One who chews. | |
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Chirre \Chirre\, v. i. [Cf. G. girren, AS. corian to murmur, complain. [fb]24.] To coo, as a pigeon. [Obs.] | |
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Choir \Choir\, n. [OE. quer, OF. cuer, F. ch[d2]ur, fr. L. chorus a choral dance, chorus, choir, fr. Gr. [?], orig. dancing place; prob. akin to [?] inclosure, L. hortus garden, and E. yard. See {Chorus}.] 1. A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [Formerly written also {quire}.] 2. That part of a church appropriated to the singers. 3. (Arch.) The chancel. {Choir organ} (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. {Choir screen}, {Choir wall} (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. {Choir service}, the service of singing performed by the choir. --T. Warton. | |
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Chore \Chore\, n. [The same word as char work done by the day.] A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.] | |
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Chore \Chore\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Choring}.] To do chores. [U. S.] | |
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Chore \Chore\, n. A choir or chorus. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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d8Choreus \[d8]Cho*re"us\, Choree \Cho*ree"\, n. [L. choreus, Gr. [?], prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chor[82]e.] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach. | |
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Choree \Cho*ree"\, n. [F. chor[82]e.] See {Choreus}. | |
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d8Chaparral \[d8]Cha`par*ral"\, n. [Sp., fr. chaparro an evergeen oak.] 1. A thicket of low evergreen oaks. 2. An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. {Chaparral cock}; fem. {Chaparral hen} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of the cuckoo family ({Geococcyx Californianus}), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also {road runner}, {ground cuckoo}, {churea}, and {snake killer} | |
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Churr \Churr\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Churred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Churr"ing}.] To make a churr, as a cockchafer. That's the churring of the nightjar. --Hall Caine. | |
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Churr \Churr\, n. [Cf. {Chirr}.] A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc. | |
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Churr \Churr\, v. t. To utter by churring. | |
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Dunlin \Dun"lin\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.] (Zo[94]l.) A species of sandpiper ({Tringa alpina}); -- called also {churr}, {dorbie}, {grass bird}, and {red-backed sandpiper}. It is found both in Europe and America. | |
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Churr \Churr\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Churred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Churr"ing}.] To make a churr, as a cockchafer. That's the churring of the nightjar. --Hall Caine. | |
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Churr \Churr\, n. [Cf. {Chirr}.] A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc. | |
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Churr \Churr\, v. t. To utter by churring. | |
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Dunlin \Dun"lin\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.] (Zo[94]l.) A species of sandpiper ({Tringa alpina}); -- called also {churr}, {dorbie}, {grass bird}, and {red-backed sandpiper}. It is found both in Europe and America. | |
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d8Cirrus \[d8]Cir"rus\, n.; pl. {Cirri}. [L., lock, curl, ringlet.] [Also written {cirrhus}.] 1. (Bot.) A tendril or clasper. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri. (b) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See {Annelida}, and {Polych[91]ta}. Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca. 4. (Meteor.) See under {Cloud}. | |
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Coheir \Co*heir\, n. A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance. | |
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Cohere \Co*here"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cohered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cohering}.] [L. cohaerere, cohaesum; co- + haerere to stick, adhere. See {Aghast}, a.] 1. To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. --Locke. 2. To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent. They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. --Burke. 3. To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obs.] Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing. --Shak. Syn: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent. | |
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Coir \Coir\ (koir), n. [Tamil kayiru.] 1. A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. --Homans. 2. Cordage or cables, made of this material. | |
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Cor- \Cor-\ (k[ocr]r-). A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See {Com-}. | |
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Cor \Cor\ (k[ocir]r), n. [Heb. k[omac]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also {core}.] | |
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Cor- \Cor-\ (k[ocr]r-). A prefix signifying with, together, etc. See {Com-}. | |
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Cor \Cor\ (k[ocir]r), n. [Heb. k[omac]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also {core}.] | |
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Corah \Co"rah\, n. [Hind. k[omac]r[be] virgin, plain.] Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk. -- n. Corah silk. | |
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Core \Core\, n. (Elec.) A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound. | |
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Cor \Cor\ (k[ocir]r), n. [Heb. k[omac]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also {core}.] | |
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Core \Core\ (k[omac]r), n. [F. corps. See {Corps}.] A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. --Bacon. | |
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Core \Core\, n. [Cf. {Chore}.] (Mining.) A miner's underground working time or shift. --Raymond. Note: The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores. | |
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Core \Core\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cord} (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coring}.] 1. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. --Marston. 2. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. | |
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Core \Core\, n. [Heb. k[omac]r: cf. Gr. ko`ros.] A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. --Num. xi. 32 (Douay version). | |
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Core \Core\, n. [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. c[oe]ur, fr. L. cor heart. See {Heart}.] 1. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. --Byron. 2. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. 4. (Founding) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern. 5. A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 6. (Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. {Core box} (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. {Core print} (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core. | |
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Core \Core\, n. (Elec.) A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound. | |
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Cor \Cor\ (k[ocir]r), n. [Heb. k[omac]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also {core}.] | |
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Core \Core\ (k[omac]r), n. [F. corps. See {Corps}.] A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. --Bacon. | |
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Core \Core\, n. [Cf. {Chore}.] (Mining.) A miner's underground working time or shift. --Raymond. Note: The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores. | |
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Core \Core\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cord} (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coring}.] 1. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. --Marston. 2. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. | |
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Core \Core\, n. [Heb. k[omac]r: cf. Gr. ko`ros.] A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. --Num. xi. 32 (Douay version). | |
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Core \Core\, n. [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. c[oe]ur, fr. L. cor heart. See {Heart}.] 1. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. --Byron. 2. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. 4. (Founding) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern. 5. A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 6. (Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. {Core box} (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. {Core print} (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core. | |
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Core \Core\, n. (Elec.) A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound. | |
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Cor \Cor\ (k[ocir]r), n. [Heb. k[omac]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also {core}.] | |
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Core \Core\ (k[omac]r), n. [F. corps. See {Corps}.] A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. --Bacon. | |
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Core \Core\, n. [Cf. {Chore}.] (Mining.) A miner's underground working time or shift. --Raymond. Note: The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores. | |
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Core \Core\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cord} (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coring}.] 1. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. --Marston. 2. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. | |
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Core \Core\, n. [Heb. k[omac]r: cf. Gr. ko`ros.] A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. --Num. xi. 32 (Douay version). | |
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Core \Core\, n. [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. c[oe]ur, fr. L. cor heart. See {Heart}.] 1. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. --Byron. 2. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. 4. (Founding) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern. 5. A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 6. (Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. {Core box} (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. {Core print} (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core. | |
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Correi \Cor"rei\ (k?r"r?), n. [Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner.] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. [bd]Fleet foot on the correi.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Corrie \Cor"rie\ (k?r"r?), n. Same as {Correi}. [Scot.] --Geikie. | |
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Cower \Cow"er\ (kou"?r), v. t. To cherish with care. [Obs.] | |
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Cower \Cow"er\ (-?r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cowered} (-?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cowering}.] [Cf. Icel. kera to doze, liequiet, Sw. kura, Dan. kure, G. kauern to cower, W. cwrian.] To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. --Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. --Goldsmith. | |
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d8Kauri \[d8]Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis, [or] Dammara, australis}), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also {kaudi}, {cowdie}, and {cowrie}.] | |
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[ycr]), n. (Bot.) Same as {Kauri}. | |
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[ycr]), n.; pl. {Cowries} (-r[icr]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo[94]l.) A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[91]a}. Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly {C. moneta} and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The value is always trifling, and varies at different places. | |
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d8Kauri \[d8]Ka"u*ri\, n. [Native name.] (Bot.) A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand {Agathis, [or] Dammara, australis}), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also {kaudi}, {cowdie}, and {cowrie}.] | |
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ (-r[ycr]), n. (Bot.) Same as {Kauri}. | |
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[ycr]), n.; pl. {Cowries} (-r[icr]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo[94]l.) A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[91]a}. Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly {C. moneta} and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The value is always trifling, and varies at different places. | |
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Cowrie \Cow"rie\ Cowry \Cow"ry\(kou"r[ycr]), n.; pl. {Cowries} (-r[icr]z). [Hind. kaur[imac].] (Zo[94]l.) A marine shell of the genus {Cypr[91]a}. Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly {C. moneta} and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The value is always trifling, and varies at different places. | |
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Chrome \Chrome\, n. Same as {Chromium}. {Chrome alum} (Chem.), a dark violet substance, {(SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O}, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium. {Chrome green} (a) The green oxide of chromium, {Cr2O3}, used in enamel painting, and glass staining. (b) A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue. {Chrome red}, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. {Chrome yellow}, a brilliant yellow pigment, {PbCrO4}, used by painters. | |
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Craie \Craie\ (kr[amac]), n. See {Crare}. [Obs.] | |
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Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.] A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also {crayer}, {cray}, and {craie}.] --Shak. | |
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Craie \Craie\ (kr[amac]), n. See {Crare}. [Obs.] | |
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Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.] A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also {crayer}, {cray}, and {craie}.] --Shak. | |
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Craw \Craw\ (kr[add]), n. [Akin to D. kraag neck, collar, G. kragen, Sw. kr[aum]fva craw, Dan. kro, and possibly to Gr. [?][?][?][?] (E. bronchus), or bro`chqos throat. [root]25. Cf. {Crag} neck.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The crop of a bird. (b) The stomach of an animal. | |
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Cray \Cray\ (kr[amac]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[etil]r), n. See {Crare}. [Obs.] | |
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Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.] A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also {crayer}, {cray}, and {craie}.] --Shak. | |
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Cray \Cray\ (kr[amac]), Crayer \Cray"er\ (-[etil]r), n. See {Crare}. [Obs.] | |
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Crare \Crare\ (kr?r), n. [OF. craier, creer, croyer, ship of war, LL. craiera, creyera, perh. from G. krieger warrior, or D. krijger.] A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also {crayer}, {cray}, and {craie}.] --Shak. | |
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Crees \Crees\ (kr[emac]z), n. pl.; sing. {Cree}. (Ethnol.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay. | |
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Crow \Crow\ (kr?), v. i. [imp. {Crew} (kr[?]) or {Crowed} (kr[?]d); p. p. {Crowed} ({Crown} (kr?n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowing}.] [AS. cr[?]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[?]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. {Crake}.] 1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. [bd]The cock had crown.[b8] --Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. --Shak. 2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 3. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses. --Tennyson. {To crow over}, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Crew \Crew\ (kr?), n. [From older accrue accession, re[?]n[?]orcement, hence, company, crew; the first syllable being misunderstood as the indefinite article. See {Accrue}, {Crescent}.] 1. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng. There a noble crew Of lords and ladies stood on every side. --Spenser. Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew? --Milton. 2. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat. Note: The word crew, in law, is ordinarily used as equivalent to ship's company, including master and other officers. When the master and other officers are excluded, the context always shows it. --Story. Burrill. 3. In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew. Syn: Company; band; gang; horde; mob; herd; throng; party. | |
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Crew \Crew\ (kr?), n. (Zo[94]l.) The Manx shearwater. | |
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Crew \Crew\ (kr?), imp. of {Crow}. | |
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Chromic \Chro"mic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence. {Chromic acid}, an acid, {H2CrO4}, analogous to sulphuric acid, not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. {Chromic anhydride}, a brilliant red crystalline substance, {CrO3}, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known. | |
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Crow \Crow\ (kr?), v. i. [imp. {Crew} (kr[?]) or {Crowed} (kr[?]d); p. p. {Crowed} ({Crown} (kr?n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowing}.] [AS. cr[?]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[?]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. {Crake}.] 1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. [bd]The cock had crown.[b8] --Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. --Shak. 2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 3. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses. --Tennyson. {To crow over}, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Crow \Crow\, n. [AS. cr[?]we a crow (in sense 1); akin to D. kraai, G. kr[?]e; cf. Icel. kr[?]ka crow. So named from its cry, from AS. cr[?]wan to crow. See {Crow}, v. i. ] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A bird, usually black, of the genus {Corvus}, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See {Caw}. Note: The common crow of Europe, or carrion crow, is {C. corone}. The common American crow is {C. Americanus}. See {Carrion crow}, and Illustr., under {Carrion}. 2. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar. Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell. --Shak. 3. The cry of the cock. See {Crow}, v. i., 1. 4. The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers. {Carrion crow}. See under {Carrion}. {Crow blackbird} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Quiscalus quiscula}); -- called also {purple grackle}. {Crow pheasant} (Zo[94]l.), an Indian cuckoo; the common coucal. It is believed by the natives to give omens. See {Coucal}. {Crow shrike} (Zo[94]l.), any bird of the genera {Gymnorhina}, {Craticus}, or {Strepera}, mostly from Australia. {Red-legged crow}. See {Crough}. {As the crow flies}, in a direct line. {To pick a crow}, {To pluck a crow}, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one). | |
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Crows \Crows\ (kr?z), n. pl.; sing. {Crow}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians of the Dakota stock, living in Montana; -- also called {Upsarokas}. | |
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Cry \Cry\ (kr[imac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cried} (kr[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crying}.] [F. crier, cf. L. quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr. queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf. {Quarrel} a brawl, {Querulous}.] 1. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46. Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. --Shak. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps. xxviii. 2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. --Is. xl. 3. Some cried after him to return. --Bunyan. 2. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. --Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. --Shak. 3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. --Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. --Shak. {To cry on} [or] {upon}, to call upon the name of; to beseech. [bd]No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.[b8] --Shak. {To cry out}. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. (b) To complain loudly; to lament. {To cry out against}, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame. {To cry out on} [or] {upon}, to denounce; to censure. [bd]Cries out upon abuses.[b8] --Shak. {To cry to}, to call on in prayer; to implore. {To cry you mercy}, to beg your pardon. [bd]I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?[b8] --Shak. | |
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Cry \Cry\ (kr?), n.; pl. {Cries} (kr[?]z). [F. cri, fr. crier to cry. See {Cry}, v. i. ] 1. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves. --Milton. 2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. --Macaulay. 3. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. --Ex. xi. 6. An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. --Tennyson. 4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. --Swift. The cry went once on thee. --Shak. 5. Importunate supplication. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. --Shak. 6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. The street cries of London. --Mayhew. 7. Common report; fame. The cry goes that you shall marry her. --Shak. 8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. All now depends upon a good cry. --Beaconsfield. 9. A pack of hounds. --Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. --Shak. 10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? --Shak. 11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. {A far cry}, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cry \Cry\, v. t. 1. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. --Shak. The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! --Bunyan. 2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep. 3. To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. Love is lost, and thus she cries him. --Crashaw. 4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. --Judd. {To cry aim}. See under {Aim}. {To cry down}, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. --Tillotson. {To cry out}, to proclaim; to shout. [bd]Your gesture cries it out.[b8] --Shak. {To cry quits}, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest. {To cry up}, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cur \Cur\ (k[ucir]r), n. [OE. curre, kur; cf. dial. Sw. kurre dog, OD. korre watchdog, and Icel. kurra to murmur, grumble, Sw. kurra to rumble, croak, Dan. kurre to coo, whirr; prob. of imitative origin.] 1. A mongrel or inferior dog. They . . . like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do. -- Shak. 2. A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war? --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cura87ao \Cu`ra*[87]ao"\, Cura87oa \Cu`ra*[87]oa"\, (k??`r?-s?"), n. A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Cura[87]cao. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cura87ao \Cu`ra*[87]ao"\, Cura87oa \Cu`ra*[87]oa"\, (k??`r?-s?"), n. A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Cura[87]cao. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kneippism \Kneipp"ism\, n. Also Kneipp's \Kneipp's\, [or] Kneipp \Kneipp\, cure \cure\ Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cured} (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curing}.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See {Cure},.] 1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt. xvii. 18. 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. To cure this deadly grief. --Shak. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix. 1. 3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift. 4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cure \Cure\> (k[?]r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.] 1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller. 2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. --Spelman. 3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. 4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii. 32. 5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. --Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cure \Cure\, v. i. 1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.] 2. To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak. 3. To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Kneippism \Kneipp"ism\, n. Also Kneipp's \Kneipp's\, [or] Kneipp \Kneipp\, cure \cure\ Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cure \Cure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cured} (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Curing}.] [OF. curer to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L. curare to take care, to heal, fr. cura. See {Cure},.] 1. To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. The child was cured from that very hour. --Matt. xvii. 18. 2. To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; -- said of a malady. To cure this deadly grief. --Shak. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases. --Luke ix. 1. 3. To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. --Swift. 4. To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cure \Cure\> (k[?]r), n. [OF, cure care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L. cura care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to cavere to pay heed, E. cution. Cure is not related to care.] 1. Care, heed, or attention. [Obs.] Of study took he most cure and most heed. --Chaucer. Vicarages of greatcure, but small value. --Fuller. 2. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure. The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners. --Spelman. 3. Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure. 4. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury. Past hope! pastcure! past help. --Shak. I do cures to-day and to-morrow. --Luke xii. 32. 5. Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative. Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure. --Dryden. The proper cure of such prejudices. --Bp. Hurd. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Cure \Cure\, v. i. 1. To pay heed; to care; to give attention. [Obs.] 2. To restore health; to effect a cure. Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure. --Shak. 3. To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curio \Cu"ri*o\ (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. {Curios} (-[?]z). [Abbreviation of curiosity.] Any curiosity or article of virtu. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curr \Curr\ (k?r), v. i. [Prob. imitative.] To coo. [Scot.] The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. --Wordsworth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Golden-eye \Gold"en-eye`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A duck ({Glaucionetta clangula}), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called {whistler}, {garrot}, {gowdy}, {pied widgeon}, {whiteside}, {curre}, and {doucker}. Barrow's golden-eye of America ({G. Islandica}) is less common. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Currie \Cur"rie\ (k?r"r?), n. & v. See 2d & 3d {Curry}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curry \Cur"ry\, n. [Tamil kari.] [Written also {currie}.] 1. (Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices. 2. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. {Curry powder} (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Currie \Cur"rie\ (k?r"r?), n. & v. See 2d & 3d {Curry}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curry \Cur"ry\, n. [Tamil kari.] [Written also {currie}.] 1. (Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices. 2. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. {Curry powder} (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curry \Cur"ry\ (k?r"r?), v. t. To flavor or cook with curry. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curry \Cur"ry\ (k?r"r?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curried} (-r?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Currying}.] [OE. curraien, curreien, OF. cunreer, correier, to prepare, arrange, furnish, curry (a horse), F. corroyer to curry (leather) (cf. OF. conrei, conroi, order, arrangement, LL. conredium); cor- (L. com-) + roi, rei, arrangement, order; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. ready. See {Ready}, {Greith}, and cf. {Corody}, {Array}.] 1. To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather. 2. To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. Your short horse is soon curried. --Beau. & FL. 3. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons. I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely. --Beau. & FL. {To curry favor}, to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See {Favor}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Curry \Cur"ry\, n. [Tamil kari.] [Written also {currie}.] 1. (Cookery) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices. 2. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. {Curry powder} (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Czar \Czar\ (z[84]r), n. [Russ. tsare, fr. L. Caesar C[91]sar; cf. OPol. czar, Pol. car. ] A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia. [Written also {tzar} | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cairo, GA (city, FIPS 12400) Location: 30.87930 N, 84.20603 W Population (1990): 9035 (3551 housing units) Area: 23.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31728 Cairo, IL (city, FIPS 10383) Location: 36.99762 N, 89.17761 W Population (1990): 4846 (2251 housing units) Area: 15.4 sq km (land), 5.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62914 Cairo, MO (village, FIPS 10360) Location: 39.51199 N, 92.44070 W Population (1990): 282 (116 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65239 Cairo, NE (village, FIPS 7625) Location: 41.00162 N, 98.60773 W Population (1990): 733 (304 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68824 Cairo, NY (CDP, FIPS 11638) Location: 42.30544 N, 74.00990 W Population (1990): 1273 (709 housing units) Area: 11.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 12413 Cairo, OH (village, FIPS 10884) Location: 40.83130 N, 84.08455 W Population (1990): 473 (174 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Cairo, WV (town, FIPS 12124) Location: 39.20814 N, 81.15571 W Population (1990): 290 (145 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 26337 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Caraway, AR (town, FIPS 11410) Location: 35.75803 N, 90.33199 W Population (1990): 1178 (500 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72419 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Carey, ID Zip code(s): 83320 Carey, OH (village, FIPS 12112) Location: 40.95147 N, 83.38186 W Population (1990): 3684 (1472 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43316 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Caro, MI (village, FIPS 13420) Location: 43.48801 N, 83.40206 W Population (1990): 4054 (1785 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48723 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Carr, CO Zip code(s): 80612 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Carrie, KY Zip code(s): 41725 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cary, IL (village, FIPS 11592) Location: 42.20895 N, 88.24975 W Population (1990): 10043 (3539 housing units) Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60013 Cary, MS (town, FIPS 11820) Location: 32.80470 N, 90.92590 W Population (1990): 392 (139 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Cary, NC (town, FIPS 10740) Location: 35.78341 N, 78.79892 W Population (1990): 43858 (18008 housing units) Area: 80.7 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27511, 27513 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cheraw, CO (town, FIPS 13460) Location: 38.10779 N, 103.51065 W Population (1990): 265 (115 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Cheraw, SC (town, FIPS 13600) Location: 34.69642 N, 79.89530 W Population (1990): 5505 (2309 housing units) Area: 10.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29520 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cherry, IL (village, FIPS 12970) Location: 41.42956 N, 89.21361 W Population (1990): 487 (199 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cora, WY Zip code(s): 82925 | |
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Core, WV Zip code(s): 26529 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Corea, ME Zip code(s): 04624 | |
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Corry, PA (city, FIPS 16296) Location: 41.92590 N, 79.63734 W Population (1990): 7216 (2941 housing units) Area: 15.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16407 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cory, IN Zip code(s): 47846 | |
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Crewe, VA (town, FIPS 20160) Location: 37.18072 N, 78.13093 W Population (1990): 2276 (978 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 23930 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Cuero, TX (city, FIPS 18092) Location: 29.09408 N, 97.28740 W Population (1990): 6700 (2880 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77954 | |
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Currie, MN (city, FIPS 14320) Location: 44.07097 N, 95.66655 W Population (1990): 303 (148 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56123 Currie, NC Zip code(s): 28435 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
char /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'. Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms are quite current; `in core', for example, means `in memory' (as opposed to `on disk'), and both {core dump} and the `core image' or `core file' produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer {store}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
cray /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research. 2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine. The term is actually the lowercased last name of Seymour Cray, a noted computer architect and co-founder of the company. Numerous vivid legends surround him, some true and some admittedly invented by Cray Research brass to shape their corporate culture and image. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Cairo {Windows NT 4} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CCR 1. {condition code register}. 2. (Database) {concurrency control and recovery}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CER {Canonical Encoding Rules} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
char Especially used by {C} programmers, as "char" is {C}'s typename for character data. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CIR {Committed Information Rate} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
core 1. days of {ferrite core memory}; now archaic most places outside {IBM}, but also still used in the {Unix} community and by old-time {hackers} or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms are quite current; "in core", for example, means "in memory" ({paged in}, as opposed to "on disk", {paged out}), and both {core dump} and the "core image" or "core file" produced by one are terms in favour. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer {store}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-03) 2. {microprocessor}, which includes only the {CPU} and which is intended to form part of a complete circuit design which incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as {cache}, {memory management unit}, I/O ports and timers. The {ARM6}, {ARM7} and {ARM8} are examples. 3. features built into a language as opposed to those provided by {libraries}. (1995-03-03) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cr (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CR {Carriage Return} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
cr (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CR {Carriage Return} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
CSR {Control and Status Register} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Cor This Hebrew word, untranslated, denotes a round vessel used as a measure both for liquids and solids. It was equal to one homer, and contained ten ephahs in dry and ten baths in liquid measure (Ezek. 45:14). The Rabbins estimated the cor at forty-five gallons, while Josephus estimated it at about eighty-seven. In 1 Kings 4:22; 5:11; 2 Chr. 2:10; 27:5, the original word is rendered "measure." | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Careah, bald; ice |