cherkt

i. See chirk1. cherlt, cherlisht. Middle English forms of churl, churlish. cher many (chèr'ma-ni), n. [Origin obscure.] In the southern United States, a variety of the game of base-ball. The Century. chermes (ker'mēz), n. [NL.: see kermes.] 11. An old spelling of kermes.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] IMG:content-0242.png:[ocr errors] Chermes abietic ole us . (Cro shows natural size.) A genus of bark-lice, of the family Aphididæ, species of which affect firs and larches. Chermes affords an example of heterogamy in that two different oviparous generations follow one another: a slender and winged summer generation, and an apterous generation which is found in autumn and spring and lives through the winter. Claus , Zoology (trans.), II. 543. Chermesinæ (ker-me-si'ne), n . pl . [N [NL., Chermes , 2, +-inæ.] A subfamily of bark-lice, of the family Aphididæ , typified by the genus Chermes , having only two discoidal veins on the fore wings, and the antennæ usually 5-jointed, but exceptionally 3-jointed. It consists of minute forms usually black or yellow, including the vine-pest, Phylloxera vastatrix. chermesine (ker'me-sin), a. Of or pertaining to the Cher mes in a. cherna (cher'nä), n. from the Portuguese and Spanish for various species of serranoid fishes. (a) Poly prion cernium, generally called stone - ba or wreck -fish. Also cherne. (b) Epinephelus morio, better known as the red grouper. cherne (cher'ne), n. [Same as cherna.] A local (Madeira) name of the stone-ba . See cherna, ( a ). [Sp.] A name adopted