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noun
1.
A common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water).  Synonyms: atomic number 17, chlorine.
2.
A metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter.  Synonyms: centiliter, centilitre.






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... It is well known that the book of Psalms is divided, in the Hebrew and the Septuagint, into five books; viz. Psalms i-xli; xlii-lxxii; lxxiii-lxxxix; xc-cvi; cvii-cl; each of them ending with a doxology, which is now inserted in the text of the psalm. In the first book the name Elohim occurs 15 times, and Jehovah 272 times; in the second, Elohim 164 times, and Jehovah 30 times. This computation ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... the author's "high-low" method of esophagoscopy, fourth stage. Passing the hiatus. The head is dropped from the position of the 1st and 2nd stages, CL, to the position T, and at the same time the head and shoulders are moved to the right (without rotation) which gives the necessary direction for ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... question is now brought to a point, I am obliged to write to you upon it; though I cannot so easily say all I wish upon it in this manner. It is, shortly, to ask your advice whether, in consequence of Lord Orford's death, I should not exchange my reversion of Lord Cl.'s office, for the immediate appointment to the Rangership, which I apprehend it is clearly in the King's power to grant for life. The different reasons, pro and con, will as readily suggest themselves ...
— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... 'em both plum faithful. Rich didn't hev much to say, an' Harve didn't hev much to say. Nance was sorter quiet, an' Nance's mammy, ole Nance, jes grinned. Folks come in to ax atter 'em right peart. Abe Shivers come cl'ar 'cross the river—powerful frien'ly—an' ever' time Nance ud walk out to the fence with him. One time she didn't come back, an' ole Nance fotched the boys thar dinner, an' ole Nance fotched thar supper, an' then Rich he axed whut was the matter with young Nance. An' ole Nance jes snorted. ...
— 'Hell fer Sartain' and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

... him—caught Wanata with her wiles; All in vain his wife besought him—begged in vain his wonted smiles. Ape-duta ruled the teepee—all Wanata's smiles were hers; When the lodge was wrapped in sleep a star[CL] beheld the mother's tears. Long she strove to do her duty for the black-eyed babe she bore; But the proud, imperious beauty made her sad forevermore. Still she dressed the skins of beaver, bore the burdens, spread the ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... lawyer gumption, he can do it up smooth. You must strap 'em down, chain 'em, look vengeance at 'em; and now and then, when the varmin will squeal, spite of all the thrashin' ye can give 'em, box 'em up like rats, and put yer horses like Jehu until ye cl'ar the State. The more ye scars 'em the better-make 'em as whist as mice, and ye can run 'em through the rail-road, and sell ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

... into it; guide the tracer from R along a straight line to a point A on the boundary, round the boundary, [v.04 p.0978] and back from A to R; lastly, make again a mark with the knife-edge, and measure the distance c between the marks; then the area is nearly cl, where l QT. A nearer approximation is obtained by repeating the operation after turning QT through 180 deg. from the original position, and using the mean of the two values of c thus obtained. The greatest dimension ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various

... scout. "He's one of the most likely youngsters I've ever met, and I'll risk a good deal to fetch him along. I'm in hopes that we're purty well out of the woods, though we may have some trouble afore we get cl'ar of ...
— The Cave in the Mountain • Lieut. R. H. Jayne

... this salt is, that one eq. of chlorine withdraws from two eq. of the ferrocyanide of potassium, one eq. of potassium, forming chloride of potassium, which remains in the mother liquid. The reaction is explained by the following equation: 2(K{2}Cfy)ClK{3}Cfy{2}KCl. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 • Various

... mean by this "Come, I say"? And what is there so wonderful in what I tell you? I am handsome enough, I should think, to have more than one heart in subjection to my empire; and Dorante, Damis, Clonte, and Lycidas show well enough ...
— The Learned Women • Moliere (Poquelin)

... have dat mouf organ, little boy," said Sam, observing Laddie's harmonica. "I show yo' sumpin'. Now, cl'ar de way. I's goin' to work de mouf organ and ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's • Laura Lee Hope

... si vir cl. M. Mller, M.A., hodie linguarum modernarum Europ professor Taylorianus, eam professionem intra mensem post hoc statutum sancitum resignaverit, seque professoris philologi comparativ munus suscipere paratum esse scripto ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... "stand cl'ar of her heels, boys, and up with you. Don't miss your first holt of her mane, and mind ye get ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... CL "Have thou no hope to make me fly, or yield To thee my quarters, though a child I be; My life shalt thou take from me, if my shield; But I, in God, well hope the contrary. — This as it may! — shall none, in fighting field, Say that I ever ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... north-northeast, in the space of CL leagues, we came near the land which the Britons found in the past, by the Cabots,[8] which stands in fifty degrees, and having consumed all our naval stores and victuals, having discovered six hundred leagues and more of new land, furnishing ourselves ...
— Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. - Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 • Various



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