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Coloq. Chowchow chop , the last lighter containing the small sundry packages sent off to fill up a ship. S. W. Williams.
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Chowchow (chouchou), n. (Com.) A kind of mixed pickles.
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Chowder (choudẽr), n. [F. chaudière a kettle, a pot. Cf. .] 1. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
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2. A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Coloq. Chowder beer , a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.
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Chowder, v. t. To make a chowder of.
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Chowry (chour�), n. [Hind. chaunri.] A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.
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Chowter (choutẽr), v. t. [Cf. OE. chowre, and Prov. E. chow, to grumble.] To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.
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Choy root (choi r�t). See .
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Chrematistics (?), n. [Gr. � 9sc. �) the art of traffic, fr. � goods, money, fr. � to use.] The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
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Chreotechnics (?), n. [Gr. � useful + � art.] The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [R.]
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Chrestomathic (?), a. Teaching what is useful. “A chrestomathic school.” Southey.
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Chrestomathy (?), n. [Gr. �; � useful + �, �, to learn.] A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
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Chrism (?), n. [OE. crisme, from AS. crisma; also OE. creme, fr. OF. cresme, like the AS. word fr. LL. chrisma, fr. Gr. �, fr. � to anoint; perh. akin to L. friare, fricare, to rub, Skr. gharsh, E. friable, friction. Cf. .] (Gr. & R. C. Church�s)
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1. Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.
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2. The same as .
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Chrismal (?), a. [LL. chrismalis.] Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
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Chrismation (?), n. [LL. chrismatio.] The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.
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Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism. Jer. Taylor.
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Chrismatory (?), n. [LL. chrismatorium.] A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.
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Chrisom (?), n. [See .]
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1. A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]
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2. A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.
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Christ (?), n. [L. Christus, Gr. �, fr. � anointed, fr. chriein to anoint. See .] The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew .
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Christcross (?), n. 1. The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.
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The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.
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2. The beginning and the ending. [Obs.] Quarles.
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Christcross-row (?), The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
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From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.
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christella n. any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds.
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Christen (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Christened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Christening.] [AS. cristnian to make a Christian, fr. cristen a Christian.]
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1. To baptize and give a Christian name to.
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2. To give a name; to denominate. “Christen the thing what you will.” Bp. Burnet.
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3. To Christianize. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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4. To use for the first time. [Colloq.]
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Christendom (?), n. [AS. cristendōm; cristen a Christian + -dom.] 1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] Shak.
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2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.]
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Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak.
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3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.
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The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton
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A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.
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4. The whole body of Christians. Hooker.
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Christian (?), n. [L. christianus, Gr. �; cf. AS. cristen. See .]
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1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.
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The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26.
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2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
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3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
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☞ In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, krīschan.
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Christian (?), a. 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
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3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone.
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4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
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The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson.
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Coloq. Christian Commission . See under . -- Coloq. Christian court . Same as . -- Coloq. Christian Endeavor, Young People's Society of . In various Protestant churches, a society of young people organized in each individual church to do Christian work; also, the whole body of such organizations, which are united in a corporation called the United Society of Christian Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society was founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E. Clark, a Congregational minister. [Webster Suppl.] -- Coloq. Christian era , the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Coloq. Christian name , the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.
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Christian Era. The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a. d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late.
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Christianism (?), n. [L. christianismus, Gr. �: cf. F. christianisme.] 1. The Christian religion. [Obs.] Milton.
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2. The Christian world; Christendom. [Obs.] Johnson
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Christianite (?), n. [In sense (a) named after Christian Frederic, of Denmark; in sense (b) after Christian VII., of Denmark.] (Min.) (a) Same as . [R.] (b) See .
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Christianity (?), n. [OE. cristiente, OF. cristienté, F. chrétienté, fr. L. christianitas. ]
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1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
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2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion
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3. The body of Christian believers. [Obs.]
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To Walys fled the christianitee
Of olde Britons. Chaucer.
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Christianization (?), n. The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.
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Christianize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Christianized (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Christianizing.] [Cf. F. christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. �.] 1. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.
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2. To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.
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Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor.
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Christianize, v. i. To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.
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The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.
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Christianlike (?), a. Becoming to a Christian.
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.
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Christianly, adv. In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.
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Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp.
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Christianly, a. Christianlike. Longfellow.
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Christianness, n. Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Christian Science. A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.
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Christian Scientist. A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.
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Christian Seneca. Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.
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Christian Socialism. Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist.
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Christless (?), a. Without faith in Christ; unchristian. Tennyson.
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Christlike (?), a. Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christlikeness, n.
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Christly, a. Christlike. H. Bushnell.
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Christmas (?), n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.
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Coloq. Christmas box . (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Coloq. Christmas carol , a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. -- Coloq. Christmas day . Same as . -- Coloq. Christmas eve , the evening before Christmas. -- Coloq. Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Coloq. Christmas flower , Coloq. Christmas rose , the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Coloq. Christmas tree , a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.
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Christmasberry n. 1. a spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern U. S. (Lycium carolinianum) having spreading branches with usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries.
Syn. -- Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum.
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2. an ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of US Pacific coast (Photinia arbutifolia) having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia.
Syn. -- toyon, tollon, Christmas berry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia.
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Christmastide (?), n. [Christmas + tide time.] The season of Christmas.
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Christocentric (?), a. [Christ + centric.] Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.
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Christology (?), n. [Crist + -logy.] A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.
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Christom (?), n. See . [Obs.] Shak.
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Christophany (?), n. [Christ + Gr. � to show.] An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.
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Christ's-thorn (?), n. (Bot.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Zizyphus vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.
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Chromascope (?), n. [Gr. � color + -scope.] An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.
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Chromate (?), n. [Cf. F. chromate. See .] (Chem.) A salt of chromic acid.
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Chromatic (?), a. [L. chromaticus, Gr. �, suited for color, fr. �, �, color; akin to � color, � skin, color of the skin.] 1. Relating to color, or to colors.
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2. (Mus.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.
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☞ The intermediate tones were formerly written and printed in colors.
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Coloq. Chromatic aberration . (Opt.) See , . -- Coloq. Chromatic printing , printing from type or blocks covered with inks of various colors. -- Coloq. Chromatic scale (Mus.), the scale consisting of thirteen tones, including the eight scale tones and the five intermediate tones.
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Chromatical (?), a. Chromatic. [Obs.]
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Chromatically, adv. In a chromatic manner.
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chromaticity n. the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength.
Syn. -- hue.
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Chromatics (?), n. The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.
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chromatid n. (Cell Biol.) one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis.
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Chromatin (?), n. [Gr. �, �, color.] 1. (Biol.) Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes. [archaic]
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Chromatin (?), n. (Biol.) The deeply staining substance of the nucleus and chromosomes of eukaryotic cells, composed of DNA and basic proteins (such as histones), the DNA of which comprises the predominant physical basis of inheritance. It was, at the beginning of the 20th century, supposed to be the same substance as was then termed idioplasm or germ plasm. In most eukaryotic cells, there is also DNA in certain plasmids, such as mitochondria, or (in plant cells) chloroplasts; but with the exception of these cytoplasmic genetic factors, the nuclear DNA of the chromatin is believed to contain all the genetic information required to code for the development of an adult organism. In the interphase nucleus the chromosomes are dispersed, but during cell division or meiosis they are condensed into the individually recognizable chromosomes. The set of chromosomes, or a photographic representation of the full set of chromosomes of a cell (often ordered for presentation) is called a karyotype.
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Chromatism (?), n. [Gr. � a coloring.]
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1. (Optics) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.
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2. (Bot.) An abnormal coloring of plants.
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Chromatogenous (?), a. [Gr. �, �, color + -genous.] Producing color.
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chromatogram n. 1. the paper strip, column, gel, or TLC plate on which subsances have been separated by a process of chromatography{2}.
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2. the record of the results of a process of chromatography{2}, produced by an instrument which measures some property related to the concentration of substances over the course of a chromatographic process. The record may be printed, for example, on a piece of paper, showing the concentration of some substance as a function of time or volume; or it may be retained in a computer and displayed on a video display terminal. The analytical methods for determining which substances have moved to which point on the chromatogram are very varied, and the records of the results of a visualization techique, such as autoradiography, may itself be referred to as a chromatogram.
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chromatograph n. a piece of equipment used to perform chromatography{2}.
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chromatographic chromatographical adj. of or pertaining to chromatography.
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Chromatography (?), n. [Gr. �, �, color + -graphy.] 1. A treatise on colors [archaic]
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2. (Chem.) an analytical and preparative technique for separating substances by differences in their selective adsorption to solids, by passing a liquid over the solid, to which the substances to be separated have usually been adsorbed in a preliminary step. The major variations are column chromatography, in which the substances to be separated are adsorbed to a column with any of a wide variety of adsorbing solids in powdered or granulated form; paper chromatography, in which the solids are applied as a spot at one end of a strip of absorbent paper (such as filter paper), and the liquid is percolated through the paper by capillary action; and thin-layer chromatography (TLC), which is similar to paper chromatography, but the adsorbent material is, instead of paper, a thin layer of finely powdered material, such as cellulose or silica, on a backing of glass or plastic, called a TLC plate. A modern version of column chromatography is high-performance liquid chromatography, usually referred to as HPLC.
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Chromatology (?), n. [Gr. �, �, color + -logy.] A treatise on colors.
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Chromatophore (?), n. [Gr. �, �, color + ferein to bear.] 1. (Zoöl.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.
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2. (Bot.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.
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Chromatoscope (?), n. [Gr. �, �, color + -scope.] (Astron.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
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Chromatosphere (?), n. A chromosphere. [R.]
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Chromatrope (?), n. [Gr. � color + � turn, rotation, � to turn.] 1. (Physics) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.
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2. A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.
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Chromatype (?), n. [Gr. � color + � type.]
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1. (Photog.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.
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2. The process by which such picture is made.
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Chrome (?), n. Same as .
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Coloq. Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2.K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium. -- Coloq. Chrome green (a) The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining. (b) A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue. -- Coloq. Chrome red , a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Coloq. Chrome yellow , a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.
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Chrome (krōm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chromed (krōmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Chroming.] [From , n.] To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing.
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chromesthesia n. a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations. [Also spelled chromaesthesia.]
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Chrome steel. Same as Chromium steel, under .
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Chromic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chromium; -- said of the compounds of chromium in which it has its higher valence.
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Coloq. Chromic acid , an acid, H2CrO4, analogous to sulphuric acid, not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Coloq. Chromic anhydride , a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known.
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Chromid (?), n. [Gr. � a kind of fish.] (Zoöl.) One of the Chromidæ, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fishes, as the bulti of the Nile.
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Chromidrosis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � color + � sweat.] (Med.) Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.
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Chromism (?), n. Same as .
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Chromite (?), n. 1. (Min.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.
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2. (Chem.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid. [R.]
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Chromium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � color.] (Chem.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.
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Chromo (?), n.; pl. Chromos (#). [Abbrev. from chromolithograph.] A chromolithograph.
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Chromoblast (?), n. [Gr. � color + -blast.] An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
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Chromogen (?), [Gr. � color + -gen.]
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1. (Biol.) Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.
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2. (Chem.) Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
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Chromogenic (?), a. (Biol.) Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.
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Chromograph (?), n. [Gr. � color + -graph.] An apparatus by which a number of copies of {ritten katter, kaps, plons, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.
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