CER SUPPLEMENT. CHL 



CERACEOUS, waxy ; applied in botany to I missions under Louis XIV. and the Regent 



Orleans for dealing with certain offences. 



CllAMFKON, or CUAMP-FREIN, plate 



annonr for protecting the faces of horses. 



CHAMPIONSHIP, the office of public cham- 

 pion, at one time in the family of Marmion. 

 It was a condition of the tenure of the 

 manor of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire. It 

 became extinct on the death of Henry 



pans with the texture and appearance of 

 wax. 



CERAMICS, all varieties of kiln-burnt 

 potter's work. 



CERATIUM, a Burterioroue-eelled and many- 

 Bided fruit, with two dehiscent valves separa- 

 ting from the replum, differing from the 

 silique by the lobes of the stigma alternating 

 with the placenta. Dymock, whose last appearance in the 



CEREALS, or CEREAL GRASSES, the bread i office was at the coronation of William 

 corn plants, including maize, rice, millet, IV. ; he having left no male heirs. It 

 and all the British grain plants. was in the Dymock family from the time of 



CEREBRAL LOBES, the several divisions of Edward I. 

 the brain. | CHANTAREI.LE, a hi?hly esteemed esculent 



CEREBRIC ACID, a fatty acid found in the ( fungus, cantharellus cibarius, found corn- 

 matter of brain, and containing phosphorus i mou in the woods of England. 

 and nitrogen. I CHARLOCK, the Sinapis arvensig, and 



CERINE, a brownish black variety of .Raphanus Raphanistrum, two of our com- 

 allanite, found in crystalline masses along monest corn weeds. They have flowers and 

 with cerite, copper pyrites, and hornblende, seeds similar to those of the turnip and cab- 

 at Bastnas, Sweden. I bage plants. 



CERINUS, a term employed in botany to 1 CHATOYANT, the changeable light reflected 

 distinguish anything having the colour of by various minerals is so called, 

 yellow, or of a red lish brown yellow wax. i CHEL.E, the claws or forceps-armed ex- 



CEROLEIN, a soft fat found in bees'-wax. itremities of crustaceans, as the lobster, 



CEROSIN, a waxy body exuded from sugar crab, 4c. 

 cane. I CHERIMOTER, the fruit of Anona Cheri- 



CERULIXE, indigo, after it has been dis- molia, celebrated iu Peru for its delicious 



solved in sulphuric acid. 



CERUMEN, the waxy matter secreted by 

 the ear, composed of an oily matter, titter 



qualities. 



CHIARO-SCURO, that disposition of the 

 lights and shadows of a picture, whether 



colouring matter, and albumen. 'positive or reflected, by which the objects 



CERVIX, an obsolete synonym of the are made to stand out in natural relief. 



botanical term Rhizoma. I CHILOMA, the tumid upper lip of certain 



CESTROTUM, pictures painted by the ' quadrupeds in continuity with the nostril, 



cestrum. I exemplified in the camel, &c. 



CESTRCM, an instrument used by the CHINA INK, or INDIAN INK, a mixture 



Greek and Roman painters, pointed at one of finely divided carbon and gelatine, said 



end and flat at the other, and thereby quali- 

 fied both to outline and spread the colour on 

 their pictures, 



to be sometimes composed of the ink of the 

 cuttle-fish desiccated. The finest kinds have 

 no grit, and are tested on the teeth todeter- 



CESTVAEN, Kistvaen, or Cistvaen, a place mine their quality. It is now frequently 

 or enclosure formed of stone for receiving imitated in Europe by various mixtures of 

 the bodies of those therein interred, found lamp black, burnt beans, &c. 



in the barrows or burial mounds of th 

 ancients. They are usually three stones 



CHINA ROOT, the root of Smilax China, 

 now almost superseded in medicine by sarsa- 



forming sides, and a stone cover at the east I parilla. 



end of the barrow. | CHINESE SWALLOWS' NESTS, the edible 



CETYL, the radical of a series of organic nests formed by a secretion from the mouth 

 compounds. It forms salts in combination of the Chinese swallow, at one time SUD- 

 with negative radicals. posed to be made by the bird from some of 



CHALCOTRICHITE, a red fibrous copper ore, the sea lichens. 

 or plush copper. CHIP, a plaiting fibre for hats, obtained 



CHALK LIME, that lime distinctively from the leaves of the palm, Thrinax 

 which is made from the upper strata of the ' Aryentea. 



or 



chalk formations. It is verv pure, but de- 

 ficient in hydraulic qualities, and therefore 

 cannot be used alone. 



CHAMBERS OF GUNS, the cavity made in 

 the breeches of some ordnance at the bottom 

 of the bore for receiving the charge. 



CHAMBRE ARDENTE, a tribunal instituted 



by Francis I. in France for the condemna- dillo, analogous in its plate covering and 

 tion and burning of heretics : also several | skeleton to the ex'.inct megatherium, 

 tribunals appointed by extraordinary com- ' CHLOR-IODOFORM, a liquid derived by ono 

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CHIRAGRA, gout in the hands. 



CHIRETTA, or CHIRATA, an Indian tonic, 

 obtained from Agathopes Chirata, one 

 the gentian family. 



CHITINE, the substance of the shells and 

 wing covers or elytra of insects. 



CHLAMYPHORUS, a small species of anna- 



