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Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.

Cheer"ly (?), a. Gay; cheerful. [Obs.] Shak.

Cheer"ly, adv. Cheerily. [Archaic] Tennyson.

Cheer"ry (?), a. Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person.

His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

Cheese (?), n. [OE. chese, AS. cēse, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.] 1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]

4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray.

Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zo÷l.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvŠ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zo÷l.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. -- Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. -- Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. -- Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.

Cheese"lep (?), n. [Cf. Keslop.] A bag in which rennet is kept.

Cheese"mon`ger (?), n. One who deals in cheese. B. Jonson.

Cheese"par`ing (?), n. A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

Chees"i*ness (?), n. The quality of being cheesy.

Chees"y (?), a. Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

Chee"tah (?), n. [Hind. chītā.] (Zo÷l.) A species of leopard (CynŠlurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written also chetah.]

||Chef (?), n. [F.] 1. A chief of head person.

2. The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

3. (Her.) Same as Chief.

||Chef`-d'ťuvre" (?), n.; pl. Chefs-d'ťuvre (#). [F.] A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.

{ Cheg"oe (?), Cheg"re (?) }, n. See Chigoe.

Chei"lo*plas`ty (?), n. [Gr. &?; a lip + -plasty.] (Surg.) The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

||Chei*lop"o*da (?), n. [NL.] (Zo÷l.) See Chilopoda.

Chei*rop"ter (?), n. (Zo÷l.) One of the Cheiroptera.

||Chei*rop"te*ra (k>isl/*r&obreve;p"t&etilde;r), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. chei`r hand + ptero`n wing.] (Zo÷l.) An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

Chei*rop"ter*ous (?), a. (Zo÷l.) Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

||Chei*rop`te*ryg"i*um (?), n.; pl. Cheiropterygia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; hand + &?;; &?; wing, fin.] (Anat.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

Chei*ros"o*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; hand + &?; knowledge.] The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.