Webster's Dictionary 1913

2944

Cheerishness

Cheer″ish‐ness, n. Cheerfulness.There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness.Milton.

2945

Cheerless

Cheer″less, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.— Cheer″less‐ly, adv. — Cheer″less‐ness, n.My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.Spenser.Syn. — Gloomy; sad; comfortless;...

2946

Cheerly

Cheer″ly (?), a. Gay; cheerful. Shak.

2947

Cheerly (2)

Cheer″ly, adv. Cheerily. Tennyson.

2948

Cheerry

Cheer″ry (?), a. Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person.His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly.Hawthorne.

2949

Cheese

Cheese (?), n. [OE. chese, AS. cēse, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.] 1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a sol...

2950

Cheese cloth

Cheese″ cloth′ (?). A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.

2951

Cheeselep

Cheese″lep (?), n. [Cf. Keslop.] A bag in which rennet is kept.

2952

Cheesemonger

Cheese″mon′ger (?), n. One who deals in cheese. B. Jonson.

2953

Cheeseparing

Cheese″par′ing (?), n. A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. — a. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

2954

Cheesiness

Chees″i‐ness (?), n. The quality of being cheesy.

2955

Cheesy

Chees″y (?), a. Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

2956

Cheetah

Chee″tah (?), n. [Hind. chītā.] (Zoöl.) A species of leopard (Cynælurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written a...

2957

Chef

‖Chef (?), n. 1. A chief of head person.2. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.3. (Her.) Same as Chief.

2958

Chef-d'œuvre

‖Chef′–d'œuvre″ (?), n.; pl.Chefs-d'œuvre (#). A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.

2959

Chegoe

{ Cheg″oe (?), Cheg″re (?) }, n. See Chigoe.

2960

Cheiloplasty

Chei″lo‐plas′ty (?), n. [Gr. � a lip + -plasty.] (Surg.) The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from...

2961

Cheilopoda

‖Chei‐lop″o‐da (kī̍‐lŏp″ō̍‐dȧ), n.(Zoöl.) See Chilopoda.

2962

Cheiropter

Chei‐rop″ter (kī̍‐rŏp″tẽr), n.(Zoöl.) One of the Cheiroptera.

2963

Cheiroptera

‖Chei‐rop″te‐ra (kī̍‐rŏp″tē̍‐rȧ), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. χείρ hand + πτερόν wing.] (Zoöl.) An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs...

2964

Cheiropterous

Chei‐rop″ter‐ous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

2965

Cheiropterygium

‖Chei‐rop′te‐ryg″i‐um (?), n.; pl.Cheiropterygia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. χείρ hand + πτέρυξ, πτέρυγοσ wing, fin.] (Anat.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

2966

Cheirosophy

Chei‐ros″o‐phy (?), n. [Gr. χείρ hand + � knowledge.] The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.— Chei‐ros″o‐phist (�), n.

2967

Cheirotherium

‖Chei′ro‐the″ri‐um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. χείρ hand + θηρίον beast.] (Poleon.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the hu...

2968

Chekelatoun

Chek′e‐la‐toun″ (?), n. See Ciclatoun. Chaucer.

2969

Chekmak

‖Chek″mak (chĕk″măk), n. A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

2970

Chela

‖Che″la (?), n.; pl.Chelæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. χηλή claw.] (Zoöl.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.