Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 48
Cherisher (n.) One who cherishes.
The cherisher of my flesh and blood. -- Shak.
Cherishment (n.) Encouragement; comfort. [Obs.]
Rich bounty and dear cherishment. -- Spenser.
Compare: Kermes
Kermes (n.) (Zool.) The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect ({Kermes ilices formerly Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean; also, the dye obtained from them. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine. [Written also chermes.]
Kermes (n.) (Bot.) A small European evergreen oak ({Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect ({Kermes ilices}, formerly Coccus ilicis) feeds. -- J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
Kermes (n.) (Zool.) [NL.] A genus of scale insects including many species that feed on oaks. The adult female resembles a small gall.
Kermes mineral. (Old Chem.) An artificial amorphous trisulphide of antimony; -- so called on account of its red color.
Kermes mineral. (Med. Chem.) A compound of the trioxide and trisulphide of antimony, used in medicine. This substance occurs in nature as the mineral kermesite.
Chermes (n.) See Kermes.
Chernozem (n.) (Soil Science) 【地】肥沃的黑土 ；黑鈣土 A fertile black soil rich in humus, with a lighter lime-rich layer beneath. Such soils typically occur in temperate grasslands such as the Russian steppes and North American prairies.
‘It contains soil types, such as podzols, chernozems, brown earths, chestnut soils, etc., familiar to many people.’
Cony (n.) [Written also coney.] (Zool.) A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit ({Lepus cuniculus).
Cony (n.) (Zool.) The chief hare.
Note: The cony of Scripture is thought to be Hyrax Syriacus, called also daman, and cherogril. See Daman.
Cony (n.) (Zool.) A simpleton. [Obs.]
It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher. -- Diet's Dry Dinner (1599).
Cony (n.) (Zool.) An important edible West Indian fish ({Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
Cony (n.) (Zool.) A local name of the burbot. [Eng.]
Cherogril (n.) (Zool.) See Cony.
Cherokees (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes.
Cheroot (n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.
Bob (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "Bobbing and courtesying." -- Thackeray.
Bob (v. i.) 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.
Cherry (a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
Cherry (n.) (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;
Cherry (n.) 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 Medoc in France).
Cherry (n.) 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).
Cherry (n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
Cherry (n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
Cherry (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes.
Cherry bird (Zool.), 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 ({Capsicum cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit.
Cherry pit. A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. -- Shak.
Cherry pit. A cherry stone.
Cherry rum, Rum in which cherries have been steeped.
Cherry sucker (Zool.), 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.
Cherry (a.) Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet].
Cherry (n.) Wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black Cherry.
Cherry (n.) Any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood [syn: cherry, cherry tree].
Cherry (n.) A red fruit with a single hard stone.
Cherry (n.) A red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry, cherry red].
Cherry (n.) -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 6148
Housing Units (2000): 3220
Land area (2000): 5960.522867 sq. miles (15437.682699 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 49.019880 sq. miles (126.960902 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6009.542747 sq. miles (15564.643601 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.651785 N, 101.147203 W
Headwords:
Cherry
Cherry, NE
Cherry County
Cherry County, NE
Cherry (n.) IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 509
Housing Units (2000): 220
Land area (2000): 0.538056 sq. miles (1.393559 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.538056 sq. miles (1.393559 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12970
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.426628 N, 89.212422 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cherry, IL
Cherry
Pop the cherry (slang) Means to "lose one's virginity" or "do something one has never done before."
Chersonese (n.) A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; The Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.
Chert (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
Cherty (a.) Like chert; containing chert; flinty.
Cherubs (n. pl. ) of Cherub
Cherubim (n. pl. ) of Cherub
Cherub (n.) A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x.
Cherub (n.) A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple.
Cherub (n.) One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children's heads with wings are generally called cherubs.
Cherub (n.) A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
Cherubic (a.) Alt. of Cherubical
Cherubical (a.) Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic.
Cherubim (n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.
Cherubin (a.) Cherubic; angelic.
Cherubin (n.) A cherub.
Cherup (v. i.) To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup.
Cherup (v. t.) To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup.
Cherup (n.) A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.
Chervil (n.) A plant (Anthriscus cerefolium) with pinnately divided aromatic leaves, of which several curled varieties are used in soups and salads.
Ches () pret. of Chese.
Chese (v. t.) To choose
Chesible (n.) See Chasuble.
Cheslip (n.) The wood louse.
Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
Chess (n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
Chess-apple (n.) The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).
Chessboard (n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Chessel (n.) The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed.
Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
Chessil (n.) Gravel or pebbles.
Chessmen (n. pl. ) of Chessman
Chessman (n.) A piece used in the game of chess.
Chessom (n.) Mellow earth; mold.
Chesstree (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.
Chessy copper () The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
Chest (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
Chest (n.) A coffin.
Chest (n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
Chest (n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
Chest (n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
Chested (imp. & p. p.) of Chest
Chest (v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.
Chest (n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Chested (a.) Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.
Chesterlite (n.) A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
Chesteyn (n.) The chestnut tree.
Chest founder () A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
Chestnut (n.) (Bot.) 栗子 C]；【植】栗樹 [C]；栗木 [U] The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
Chestnut (n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.
Chestnut (n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut.
Chestnut (n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England).
Chestnut (n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.
Chestnut (n.) An old joke or story. [Slang]
Chestnut tree, A tree that bears chestnuts.
Chestnut (a.) 栗色的 Of or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
Chestnut (a.) (Of hair or feathers) Of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair".
Chestnut (n.) Wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea.
Chestnut (n.) Any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur [syn: chestnut, chestnut tree].
Chestnut (n.) Edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea.
Chestnut (n.) The brown color of chestnuts.
Chestnut (n.) A small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg.
Chestnut (n.) A dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse.
Chetah (n.) See Cheetah.
Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.
Chevachie (n.) See Chivachie.
Chevage (n.) See Chiefage.
Chevaux (n. pl. ) of Cheval
Cheval (n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame.
Cheval glass, A mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full length figure.
Cheval, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 7602
Housing Units (2000): 3659
Land area (2000): 6.683276 sq. miles (17.309605 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.160658 sq. miles (0.416102 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.843934 sq. miles (17.725707 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11912
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.146418 N, 82.515623 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cheval, FL
Cheval
Chevaux-de-frise (n. pl. ) of Cheval-de-frise
Cheval-de-frise (n.) (Mil.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. -- W. Irving.
Cheval-de-frise (n.) Defensive structure consisting of a movable obstacle composed of barbed wire or spikes attached to a wooden frame; used to obstruct cavalry [syn: cheval-de-frise, chevaux-de-frise].
Chevalier (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms." -- Shak.
Chevalier (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood.
Chevalier d'industrie[F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper.
The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender."
The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.
Chevalier (n.) French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972) [syn: Chevalier, Maurice Chevalier].
Chevalier (n.) A gallant or courtly gentleman [syn: cavalier, chevalier].
Chevaux (n. pl.) See Cheval.
Cheval (n.; pl. Chevaux.) A horse; hence, a support or frame.
Cheval glass, A mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full length figure.
Cheve (v. i.) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed; as, to cheve well in a enterprise. [Prov. or Obs.] -- Holland.
Chevelure (n.) A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. -- Sir. W. Hershel.
Cheven (n.) (Zool.) A river fish; the chub. -- Sir T. Browne.
Cheventein (n.) A variant of Chieftain. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Cheveril (n.) Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility. [Obs.]
Here's wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad. -- Shak.
Cheveril (a.) Made of cheveril; pliant. [Obs.]
A cheveril conscience and a searching wit. --Drayton.
Cheverliize (v. i.) To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] -- Br. Montagu.
Chevet (n.) (Arch.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
Cheviot (n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.
Cheviot (n.) A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.
Cheviot (n.) Hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool.
Cheviot, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 9015
Housing Units (2000): 4338
Land area (2000): 1.162702 sq. miles (3.011384 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000556 sq. miles (0.001439 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.163258 sq. miles (3.012823 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14128
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.157659 N, 84.612594 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cheviot, OH
Cheviot
Chevisance (n.) Achievement; deed; performance. [Obs.]
Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance. -- Spenser.
Chevisance (n.) A bargain; profit; gain. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Chevisance (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A making of contracts.
Chevisance (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
Chevisance (n.) (O. Eng. Law) An unlawful agreement or contract.
Chevisance, () contracts, torts. This is a French word, which signifies in that language, accord, agreement, compact. In the English statutes it is used to denote a bargain or contract in general. In a legal sense it is taken for an unlawful bargain or contract.
Chevrette (n.) (Mil.) A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.
Compare: Ordinary
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) (Law) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) (Law) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
Ordinary (c) (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) (Law) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. -- Shak.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. -- Bacon.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. -- Shak.
All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. -- Swift.
He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. -- Bancroft.
Ordinary (n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).) (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
In ordinary. In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.
In ordinary. (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel.
Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), The part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass.
Chevron (n.) (Her.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
Chevron (n.) (Mil.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
Chevron (n.) (Arch.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.
Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.
Chevron (n.) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: chevron, stripe, stripes, grade insignia].
Chevron (n.) An inverted V-shaped charge.
Chevroned (p. a.) Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.
[A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. -- B. Jonson.
Chevronel (n.) (Her.) A bearing like a chevron, but of only half its width.
Chevronwise (adv.) (Her.) In the manner of a chevron; as, the field may be divided chevronwise.