Chilblain (n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
Chilblain (v. t.) To produce chilblains upon.
Children (pl. ) of Child
Child (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.
Child (n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.
Child (n.) One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place, occupation, character, etc.; as, a child of God; a child of the devil; a child of disobedience; a child of toil; a child of the people.
Child (n.) A noble youth. See Childe.
Child (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc.
Child (n.) A female infant.
Childed (imp. & p. p.) of Child
Childing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Child
Child (v. i.) To give birth; to produce young.
Childbearing (n.) The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
Childbed (n.) The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
Childbirth (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Childcrowing (n.) The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
Childe (n.) A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.
Childed (a.) Furnished with a child.
Childermas day () A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.
Childhood (n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
Childhood (n.) Children, taken collectively.
Childhood (n.) The commencement; the first period.
Childing (v. i.) Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.
Childish (a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
Childish (a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.
Childishly (adv.) In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
Childishness (n.) The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
Childlessness (n.) The state of being childless.
Childlike (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Childly (a.) Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.
Childly (adv.) Like a child.
Childness (n.) The manner characteristic of a child.
Children (n.) pl. of Child.
Childship (n.) The state or relation of being a child.
Chili (n.) A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum
Chiliad (n.) A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
Chiliagon (n.) A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
Chiliahedron (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces
Chilian (a.) Of or pertaining to Chili.
Chilian (n.) A native or citizen of Chili.
Chilian (n.) Alt. of Chiliarch
Chiliarch (n.) The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Chiliarchy (n.) A body consisting of a thousand men.
Chiliasm (n.) The millennium.
Chiliasm (n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.
Chiliast (n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.
Chiliastic (a.) Millenarian.
Chill (n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Chill (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
Chill (n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
Chill (n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Chill (n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Chill (a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Chill (a.) Affected by cold.
Chill (a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
Chill (a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
Chilled (imp. & p. p.) of Chill
Chilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chill
Chill (v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
Chill (v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
Chill (v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
Chill (v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Chilled (a.) Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.
Chilled (a.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."
Chilli (n.) See Chili.
Chilliness (n.) A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.
Chilliness (n.) A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air.
Chilliness (n.) Formality; lack of warmth.
Chilling (a.) Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.
Chillness (n.) Coolness; coldness; a chill.
Chilly (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
Chilognath (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.
Chilognatha (n. pl.) One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.
Chiloma (n.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.
Chilopod (n.) A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.
Chilopoda (n. pl.) One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.
Chilostoma (n. pl.) Alt. of Chilostomata
Chilostomata (n. pl.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.
Chilostomatous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.
Chiltern Hundreds () A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats.
Chimaera (n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.
Chimaeroid (a.) Related to, or like, the chimaera.
Chimango () A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.
Chimb (n.) The edge of a cask, etc; a chine. See Chine, n., 3.
Chimb (v. i.) Chime.
Chime (n.) See Chine, n., 3.
Chime (n.) The harmonious sound of bells, or of musical instruments.
Chime (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions.
Chime (n.) Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound.
Chimed (imp. & p. p.) of Chime
Chiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chime
Chime (n.) To sound in harmonious accord, as bells.
Chime (n.) To be in harmony; to agree; to suit; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with.
Chime (n.) To join in a conversation; to express assent; -- followed by in or in with.
Chime (n.) To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Chime (v. i.) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
Chime (v. i.) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
Chimer (n.) One who chimes.
Chimeras (pl. ) of Chimera
Chimera (n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.