अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Aegean Sea.

The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.

The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.

A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro

Alt. of Chiasma

A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.

An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

A variety of andalusite; -- called also macle. The tessellated appearance of a cross section is due to the symmetrical arrangement of impurities in the crystal.

See Cibol.

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

Alt. of Chibouk

Good form; style.

A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.

The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.

To use shifts, cavils, or artifices.

One who uses chicanery.

Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.