Archelogy :: Archelogy (n.) The science of, or a treatise on, first principles..

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A man of any age who has not been married.

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) An unmarried woman.

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts..

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight..

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member..

Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States..

Bachelor''s Button :: Bachelor's button () A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena)..

Bachelordom :: Bachelordom (n.) The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Bachelorhood :: Bachelorhood (n.) The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

Bachelorism :: Bachelorism (n.) Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors..

Bachelorship :: Bachelorship (n.) The state of being a bachelor.

Bachelry :: Bachelry (n.) The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

Brachelytra :: Brachelytra (n. pl.) A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles..

Chela :: Chela (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

Chelae :: Chelae (pl. ) of Chel.

Chelate :: Chelate (a.) Same as Cheliferous.

Chelerythrine :: Chelerythrine (n.) An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine..

Chelicera :: Chelicera (n.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects..

Chelicerae :: Chelicerae (pl. ) of Chelicer.

Chelidon :: Chelidon (n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

Chelidonic :: Chelidonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine..

Chelidonius :: Chelidonius (n.) A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

Chelifer :: Chelifer (n.) See Book scorpion, under Book..

Cheliferous :: Cheliferous (a.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab..

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Chelone :: Chelone (n.) A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc..

Chelonia :: Chelonia (n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix..

Chelonian :: Chelonian (a.) Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind.

Chelonian :: Chelonian (n.) One of the Chelonia.

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