en threads, with the warp of which are intermixed about five times
the quantity of woollen threads, of different colors.

_Bulb_, a root with a round body, like the onion, turnip, or hyacinth.
_Bulbous_, having a bulb.

_Byron_, (George Gordon,) _Lord_, a celebrated Poet, who was born in
London, January 22, 1788, and died in Missolonghi, in Greece, April 18,
1824.

_Calisthenics_, see page 56, note.

_Camwood_, a dyewood, procured from a leguminous (or pod-bearing) tree,
growing on the Western Coast of Africa, and called _Baphia nitida_.

_Cankerworm_, a worm which is very destructive to trees and plants. It
springs from an egg deposited by a miller that issues from the ground,
and in some years destroys the leaves and fruit of apple and other
trees.

_Carbon_, a simple inflammable body, forming the principal part of wood
and coal, and the whole of the diamond.

_Carbonic acid_, a compound gas, consisting of carbon and oxygen. It has
lately been obtained in a solid form.

_Carmine_, a crimson color, the most beautiful of all the reds. It is
prepared from a decoction of the powdered cochineal insect, to which
alum and other substances are added.

_Caster_, a small phial or vessel for the table, in which to put
vinegar, mustard, pepper, &c.

_Chancellor of the Exchequer_, the highest judge of the law; the
principal financial minister of a government, and the one who manages
its revenue.

_Chateau_, a castle, a mansion.

_Chemistry_, the science which treats of the elementary constituents of
bodies.

_Chinese belle_, deformities of. In China, it is the fashion to compress
the feet of female infants, to prevent their growth; in consequence of
which, the feet of all the females of China are distorted, and so small,
that the individuals cannot walk with ease.

_Chloride_, a compound of chlorine and some other substance. _Chlorine_
is a simple substance, formerly called oxymuriatic acid. In its pure
state, it is a gas, of green color, (hence its name, from a Greek word,
signifying green.) Like oxygen, it supports the combustion of some
inflammable substances. _Chloride of lime_ is a compound of chlorine and
lime.

_Cholera infantum_, a bowel complaint, to which infants are subject.

_Chyle_, a white juice, formed from the chyme, and consisting of the
finer and more nutritious parts of the food. It is afterwards converted
into blood.

_Chyme_, the result of the first process which food undergoes in the
s