chesublet

An obsolete form of chasuble. chesten), chestnuts are obtained from Spain and and are larger though le sweet than the American variety. 2. The tree Castanea vesca, natural order Cupu lifer a, a native of western Asia, southern Europe, and the United States east of the Mi i ippi. It is a stately tree, attaining a height of from 80 to 100 feet, bearing staminate flowers in long slender Flowering Branch and Nut of Chestnut (Castanea vesca). chetah, cheeta, cheetah (che'tä), n. [ Chetah (Gueparda jubata). Gueparda jubata or Cynælur us jubatus, a large spotted cat, somewhat like a dog in shape, with long legs, non-retractile claws, and the upper sectorial tooth without an internal lobe. It is the type of the subfamily Gue pardine. It is called jubata (maned or crested) from the short mane-like crest of hairs pa ing from the back of the head to the shoulders. When used for hunting, it is hooded and transported on a car. When a herd of deer or other game is chevalet seen, its keeper turns its head in the proper direction and removes the hood, the chetah slips from the car, and, approaching its prey in a stealthy manner, springs on it at one bound. chettik (chet'ik), n. [Native name.] A tree of Java, the Strychnos Tieuté, and the poison obtained from it, called upas tieuté, which is the principal ingredient of an arrow-poison. Chettusia (ke- (ke-tū'si-ä), n. [NL. (Bonaparte, 1839); also written Chetusia, Chœtusia, Chat us i a, the last appar. based on Gr. χαίτη, long, flowing hair, a mane: see chat a.] A genus of plovers, of the subfamily Charadriina; the spur-winged plovers. The wing is armed with a horny tubercle or IMG:content-0245.jpg:[graphic][subsumed] Spur-winged Plover ( Chettusia gregaria ). spine, sometimes rudimentary; the base of the bill in most species is wattled; and the toes are four in number. There are about 15 species, all inhabitants of the old world, and chiefly of warm countries. Those with the spines and wattles best developed constitute the section Lobi van ell us. The type of the genus is C. gregaria.