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like appearance. The Achilla millcfolium 

 has also been called by this name. 



CHKYSOC'RAPHY, %gu;o;, gold, and 

 y$cc<ftu, I write. The art of writing in 

 letters of gold. 



CURTS'OUTE, from %qve-6f, gold, and 

 \i8of, a stone; a mineral, the Peridot of 

 Hatty, and Krisolith and Olivin of Wer- 

 ner. Chrysolite is of a preen colour, in- 

 clined to yellow; its texture is foliate 

 and fracture conchoidal. It causes double 

 refraction, and loses its transparency 

 when heated to 150 Fah., and becomes 

 dark grey. The chrysolites of commerce 

 come from Upper Egypt, the Brazils, Cey- 

 lon, and Bohemia. The stone consists of 

 magnesia and silica, coloured with oxide 

 of iron. 



C'HRYSOL'OGY, %cutraf, gold, and Xj")?, 

 discourse. A continental term applied to 

 that part of political economy which re- 

 lates to the production of wealth. 



CHRYS'OPRASE, from ^vs-os, gold, and 

 Tfoifov, a leek. A precious stone of a 

 leek-preen colour. It is a variety of cal- 

 cedony, and owes its colour to the pre- 

 sence of nickel and iron in small quanti- 

 ties. Found chiefly in Silesia. 



CHt;i'.,a river fish, a species of cyprinus, 

 called also the cheveit. Named from the 

 size of its head. 



CHUCK (for a turning-lathe), an appen- 

 dage to fix any material for the purpose 

 of turning it into any determinate form. 

 The term therefore includes all those 

 tools which serve to connect the mate- 

 rial to be operated upon to the mandril 

 of the lathe. Those which are capable only 

 of communicating a motion round a de- 

 terminate axis, such as they themselves 

 receive, are called simple chucks. Those 

 airain which are of such a character that 

 the axis of the work can be changed at 

 pleasure, so as to throw the centre of 

 motion to any point, and make the work 

 revolve round any axis, form a large 

 class of complicated chucks which are 

 individualised by particular names, as 

 eccentric chucks, oval chucks, segment, 

 engine, geometric chuck, &c., according 

 to the kind of work for which they are 

 suited. 



CHC'XAM, the name given in India to 

 lime obtained by the calcination of shells. 



CHYAZ'IC ACID, a name of hydrocyanic 

 or prussic acid, formed of the initial 

 letters of carbon, hydrogen, and azote. 



CHYLE, from i/X?, juice ; the milk- 

 like liquor observed, some hours after 

 eating, in the lacteal Tessols of the me- 

 sentery, and in the thoracic duct. It is 

 separated by digestion from the chyme, 

 and is that fluid substance from which 

 the blood is formed. 



CHYLUICA'TION, from chylut and fa to 



become ; the process carried on in the 

 small intestines, and principally in the 

 duodenum, by which the chyle is sepa- 

 rated from the chyme. 



CHY'LOPOKT'IC, concerned in the forma- 

 tion of chyle vAo? and TOHU, to make. 



CHYME, from %'j : u,ot , humour or juice ; 

 the indigested mass of food from which 

 the chyle is prepared. 



CHYMIFICA'TION, from chymus and^Jo, to 

 make; the conversion of food into chyme. 



CIBO'RIUM, %iueicy. In architecture, 

 an insulated erection, opening on each side 

 with arches, and having a dome, of a cup 

 form, earned by four columns. It also 

 denotes the case which contains the Host. 



CICA'DA, thefrotj-hopper,balm-cricktt, or 

 flea-locust. A genus of hemipterous in- 

 sects of many species. They live on 

 trees and shrubs, of which they suck the 

 juices. Name from xixxe; or x } x adui. 

 Plentiful in the south of Europe. 



CICADA'RIS:, a family of hemipterous 

 insects, of which the genus Cicada is the 

 type. 



CICAT'RICLE, Lat. cicatricida, from cica- 

 trix ; the germinating or foetal point in 

 the embryo of a seed or yelk of an egg. 



Cic'ELY,a popular name, common to all 

 the plants of the genus Scandix, but espe- 

 cially applied to the S. odorata, or Great 

 Chervil. The name is also given to a 

 species of Cheerophyllum. 



CI'CER, the vetch or chirk-pea; a genus 

 of one species. Diadelphia Decandria. 

 " Cicer nomen habeta forma, qua? orbicu- 

 laris, ut plerumque in leguminibus." The 

 Cicerones took their name from this pulse, 

 as the Pisones did from the pisum or pea, 

 and the Lentwli from the lens or lentil. 



CICERO'NE (Ital.) Any individual who 

 acts as a guide. 



CICHO'RIDM, the succory or endive; a 

 genus of plants. Syngenesia Polyg. ceqva- 

 lis. British type a perennial. Name, ac- 

 cording to Pliny, is of Egyptian origin, 

 written Kt^o^tcv and xi%o$ioy. 



CICHORY, the cichorium intybus or wild 

 succory. 



CICINDE'LA, the glow-worm ; from can- 

 dela, a candle. Order, Colcoptera Penta- 

 mera ; family, Carnivara, Cuv. 



CICINDELE'T-E, a tribe of carnivorous 

 coleoptera, comprising the genus Cicin- 

 dela, Lin., now divided into various sub- 

 genera, as Cicindela, ILarticora, Meyn- 

 cephala, &c. 



CICIS'BEO (Ital.). Synonymous with 

 cavalier servente, and applied to a class of 

 persons in Italy who attend on married 

 ladies with all the respect and devotion 

 of lovers. 



CICO'KIA, a genus of birds, the Stork, of 

 which there are several species. Order, 

 Gr(illat<iri<e ; family, Cultriroslres. Nam 

 of doubtful origin. 



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