Hunting cattle is a dreadful chore, remarked one of our neighbors, after threading the country for three weeks in search of his best ox.- Mrs. Clavers's Forest Life. Radney comes down and milks the cow, and does some of my other little chores. -Margaret, p. 388.

Girl hunting is certainly among our most formidable chores. Western Clearings.

Mrs. Kirkland,

The editor of the Boston Daily Star, in recently relinquishing his charge, gives the following notice:

Any one wishing corn hoed, gardens weeded, wood sawed, coal pitched in, paragraphs written, or small chores done with despatch and on reasonable terms, will please make immediate application to the retiring editor.

CHOWDER. A favorite dish in New England, made of fish, pork, onions, and biscuit stewed together. Cider and champagne are sometimes added. Pic-nic parties to the sea-shore generally have a dish of chowder, prepared by themselves in some grove near the beach, from fish caught at the same time. Grose describes the same as a sea-dish.

CHRISTIAN (pron. with the first i long). A name assumed by a sect which arose from the great revival in 1801.

CHRISTIANIZATION. This substantive is to be found occasionally in our religious publications. The verb to christianize, which is in the dictionaries, is in use among the English writers; but the substantive is never employed by them. - Pickering, Vocabulary.

CHUB. A name sometimes given to the Blackfish.

CHUB SUCKER. A sea-fish, otherwise called the Horned Sucker.

CHUCK-FULL. Entirely full. Common in familiar language, as well as chock-full, which see for other examples.

[At dinner] the sole labor of the attendants was to keep the plates chuck-full of something. — Carlton, The New Purchase, Vol. I. p. 181.

I'll throw that in, to make chuck-full the "measure of the country's glory.". Crockett, Tour, p. 86.

CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW. The common name of a bird of the whippoorwill family. (Caprimulgus carolinensis.) Mr. Audubon says: "About the middle of March, the forests of Louisiana are heard to echo with the well-known notes of this interesting bird. No sooner has the sun disappeared, and the nocturnal insects emerge from their burrows, than the sound Chuck-will's-widow,' repeated with great clearness and power six or seven times in as many seconds, strike the ear."— Ornithology, Vol. I. p. 273.

CHUFA. (See Earth Almond.)

CHUCK-A-LUCK. A Western game, played with dice.

At Holly Fork, Tennessee, any one can be accommodated. Cards or chuck-aluck, old corn or cider, a fight or a foot-race, mattered not, it was to be had at a moment's notice. - Southern Sketches, p. 160.

CHUK! A noise made in calling swine. Always repeated at least three times.

CHUNK. A short, thick piece of wood, or of any thing else; a chump. The word is provincial in England, and colloquial in the United States.

I rode an all-fired smart chunk of a poney- real creole- - cane raised - walk six miles an hour, and run like a scared deer in a prairie a-fire.-N. Y. Spirit of the Times, Frontier Incident.

It is true that now and then a small chunk of sentiment or patriotism or philanthropy is thrown in awkwardly among the crudities and immoralities [of the stage] - but it evidently has no business there. New York in Slices, The Theatre. Southern and Western.

To CHUNK. To throw sticks or chips at one.

CHUNK-YARD or CHUNKEE-YARD. A name given by the white traders to the oblong four-square yards adjoining the high mounts and rotundas of the modern Indians of Florida. In the centre of these stands the obelisk, and at each corner of the further end stands a slave post, or strong stake, where the captives that are burnt alive are bound. - Bartram.

The pyramidal hills or artificial mounts, and highways or avenues, leading from them to artificial lakes or ponds, vast tetragon terraces, chunk-yards, and obelisks or pillars of wood, are the only monuments of labor, ingenuity, and magnificence, that I have seen worthy of notice. · Bartram, Travels in Florida, (1773,) p. 518. This is doubtless an Indian term, and the enclosure a place where the natives played a game called chunkee, as will appear by the following extract from Du Pratz:

"The warriors practise a diversion which they call the game of the pole, at which only two play at a time. Each pole is about eight feet long, resembling a Roman f, and the game consists in rolling a flat, round stone, about three inches in diameter and one inch thick, and throwing the pole in such a manner, that when the stone rests the pole may be at or near it. Both the antagonists throw their poles at the same time, and he whose pole is nearest the stone counts one, and has the right of rolling the stone." History of Louisiana, 1720.

CHUNKED. Any person who is impudent or bold, at the South-west, is said to be chunked.

CHUNKY. Short and thick. Often applied to the stature of a person, as "he is a chunky little fellow."

CHURCH. Mr. Pickering has the following remarks on this word: "A church, as a body of persons, is distinguished, in New England, from a

congregation, by the privileges which the former in general reserve to themselves of receiving exclusively in that church the sacrament and baptism, in consequence of their having publicly declared their assent to the creed which that church maintains. Marriage, burial, and public worship, are open to the members of the congregation at large, according to the forms and methods employed in each church; as are also catechizing for children and visits to the sick." - Vocabulary.

CIDER. All talk and no cider is a phrase equivalent to "great cry and little wool."

CIDER BRANDY. See Apple Brandy.

CIDER OIL. Cider concentrated by boiling, to which honey is subsequently added.

CIENEGA. (Span.) A marsh. New Mexico and Texas. A small marsh is called a cieneguita.

CIMLIN. A squash, so called in the Middle and Southern States.

TO CIRCULATE. To travel. Used in this sense many times in a pamphlet on the "Frauds, Extortions, and Oppressions of the Railroad Monopoly in New Jersey." In comparing the rates of travel in various States, by which it is shown that the rates in New Jersey are the highest in the world, the author says of the traveller:

Arriving in Maryland, a slave State, he circulates at a cost of from three to five cents per mile.

CIRCUMSTANCE. Not a circumstance, in the sense of a thing of no account, nothing in comparison, is a vulgarism which has become popular within the last few years.

I never saw so lean and spare a gall as Miss A- since I was raised. Pharaoh's lean kine war n't the smallest part of a circumstance to her. I had to look twice before I could see her at all. Sam Slick, Human Nature, p. 184.

CISCO. The popular name of a fish of the herring kind which abounds in Lake Ontario, particularly in Chaumont Bay at the east end, where thousands of barrels are annually caught and salted. I do not find this name mentioned by Dr. DeKay, in his work on the fishes of New York, in the Natural History of the State.

TO CITIZENIZE. To make a citizen, to admit to the rank and privileges of a citizen.-Webster. Rarely used.

Talleyrand was citizenized in Pennsylvania, when there in the form of an emigrant.-T. Pickering.

CITESS. This word, as well as citizeness, was used in America during the first years of the French Revolution, as a translation of the revolutionary

title, citoyenne; but it has, for several years, been wholly disused. Pickering's Vocabulary.

It is unnecessary to recite the discussions on this word by the British critics, the Quarterly Review, etc., as it was never adopted into our language. Dr. Webster and the English lexicographers have the word citess in their dictionaries, but only in the sense of " a city voman.” CIVISM. Love of country; patriotism. Webster. This, like the preceding word, is one of the productions of the French Revolution; and, though frequently used several years ago, is now obsolete here as well as in France. -Pickering's Vocabulary.

CIVILIZEE.

A civilized man; one advanced in civilization. The word has never obtained currency.

The barbarian likes his seraglio; the civilizee admires the institution of marriage. The barbarian likes a roving, wandering life; the civilizee likes his home and fireside. New York Observer.

CLABBER. See Bonny-Clabber.

CLAIM. A piece of public land which a squatter marks out for himself and settles upon, with the intention of purchasing it when the government will offer it for sale.

CLAIM-JUMPER. One who violently seizes on another's land claim.

CLAIM-JUMPING. Violently seizing on another's claim.

CLAM. The popular name of certain shell-fish, highly esteemed for food. They are of two principal kinds :

1. The Hard Clam (Venus mercenaria), a very common mollusk, found buried in the sand or shores of marine districts at half-tide.

2. The Soft Clam, or Mananosay (Mya arenaria), obtained from the shores of tidal rivers by digging one or two feet in the loose sand. It has a long, extensible, cartilaginous snout, or proboscis, through which it ejects water; whence it is also called Stem-clam and Piss-clam. CLAM-BAKE. Clams, baked in the primitive style of the Indians, furnish one of the most popular dishes on those parts of the coast where they abound, and constitute a main feature in the bill of fare at pic-nics and other festive gatherings. The method of baking is as follows: A cavity is dug in the earth, about eighteen inches deep, which is lined with round stones. On this a fire is made; and, when the stones are sufficiently heated, a bushel or more of hard clams (according to the number of persons who are to partake of the feast) is thrown upon them. On this is put a layer of rock-weed gathered from the beach, and over this a second layer of sea-weed. Sometimes the clams are simply placed close together on the ground, with the hinges uppermost, and over them is

made a fire of brush. This is called an Indian bed of clams. Clams baked in this manner are preferred to those cooked in the usual way in the kitchen.

Parties of ten or twenty persons, of both sexes, are the most common. Often they extend to a hundred, when other amusements are added; and on one occasion, that of a grand political mass-meeting in favor of Gen. Harrison on the 4th of July, 1840, nearly 10,000 persons assembled in Rhode Island, for whom a clambake and chowder were prepared. This was probably the greatest feast of the kind that ever took place in New England. CLAM-SHELL. The lips, or mouth. There is a common though vulgar expression in New England, of "Shut your clam-shell," that is, “Shut your mouth, hold your tongue." The padlock now used on the United States mail-bags is called the "Clam-shell padlock.”

CLAPBOARD. A thin, narrow board, used to cover the sides of houses, and placed so as to overlap the one below it. In England, according to Bailey's Dictionary, a clapboard is a thin board formed ready for the cooper's use, in order to make casks or vessels.

TO CLAPBOARD. To cover with clapboarding.

The house was neat and comfortable. It was a small frame building, clapboarded on the sides and roof. - Margaret, p. 18.

CLAPE. The common name of the Golden-winged Woodpecker, in the State of New York. Dr. DeKay thinks it "a provincial word, introduced by the early English colonists." It is elsewhere called High-hole, Yucker, Flicker, Wake-up, and Pigeon Woodpecker; in Louisiana, Piquebois jaune. Nat. Hist. of New York. CLATTERWHACKING. A clatter, racket.

When we went a bar hunting, I heard the darndest clatterwhacking and noise in the road behind us. -Southern Sketches, p. 32.

CLAY-EATERS. A miserable set of people inhabiting some of the Southern States, who subsist chiefly on turpentine whiskey, and appease their craving for more substantial food by filling their stomachs with a kind of aluminous earth which abounds everywhere. This gives them a yellowish, drab-colored complexion, with dull eyes, and faces whose idiotic. expression is only varied by a dull despair or a devilish malignity. They are looked down upon by the negroes with a contempt which they return by a hearty hatred. - Ida May.

THE CLEAN THING. A low expression, denoting propriety, or what is honorable.

It is admitted, that sending out ships to plunder your neighbor or adversary is as much as mere words in making war. I don't like it. It is n't the clean thing. — Crockett, Tour, p. 193.