Chrysology

[Gr. chrysos, and logos, discourse.] That department of political economy which refers to the production and accumulation of wealth. Chrysomelidæ, n . pl . (Zool.) An extensive family, embracing beetles which have an hemispherical or ovate form, small and sunken head, and antenuæ in tion of chick. (Turnery.) A piece of wood or metal affixed to the end of the mandril of a lathe for keeping fast the body to be turned. Chuck'aby, n. A term of childish fondne . Chuck'atuck, in Virginia , a post-village of Nanse- mond co., 10 m. N. of Suffolk. Chuck'-farthing, n . A game or play in which a farthing or other small coin is pitched into a hole in the ground. serted wide apart. They are blue, green, and golden. Chuck'-hole, n. A deep rut or hole made by the The genus Chrysomela is very gayly colored. the most elegant species found in the U. States is the C. scalar is , literally the Ladder-beetle, ( Fig . 596.) The head, thorax, and under side of its body are dark green, the wing-coverts silvery white, ornamented with small green spots on the sides, and the suture Among wheel of a wagon. Chuckle, ( chuk'l,) v. i. [From Icel. kok, quok, the throat; Scot. chouks , the throat, the jaw.] To laugh in the throat; to laugh so as to produce a guttural sound; expre ive of inward triumph or exultation. "Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." - Bunyan. Chu'mie, a range of mountains in S. Africa, Cape Colony, between Lat. 32° and 33° S., and near the meridian of 27° E. Lon. - A river of same name, rises in this range and empties into the Keiskamma, after a S. S.E. course.