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Chro`mo*lith"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + E. lithograph.] A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

Chro`mo*li*thog"ra*pher (?), n. One who is engaged in chromolithography.

Chro"mo*lith`o*graph"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.

Chro"mo*li*thog"ra*phy (?), n. Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

Chro"mo*phane (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + &?; to show.] (Physiol.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

Chro"mo*phore (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + &?; to bear.] (Chem.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2; N2; or O2) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

Chro`mo*pho*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + E. photography.] The art of producing photographs in colors.

Chro"mo*pho`to*lith"o*graph (?), n. A photolithograph printed in colors.

Chro`mo*plas"tid (?), n. [Gr. &?; + E. plastid.] (Bot.) A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

Chro"mo*some` (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + &?; the body.] (Biol.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

Chro"mo*sphere (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + E. sphere.] (Astron.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

Chro`mo*spher"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.

Chro"mo*type (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + -type.] 1. A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See Chromolithograph.

2. A photographic picture in the natural colors.

Chro"mous (?), a. Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.

Chromous acid, a bluish gray powder, CrO.OH, of weak acid properties and regard as an acid.

Chro"mule (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + &?; matter.] (Bot.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

Chron"ic (?), a. [L. chronicus, Gr. &?; concerning time, from &?; time: cf. F. chronique.] 1. Relating to time; according to time.

2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.

Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.

Chron"ic*al (?), a. Chronic.

Partly on a chronical, and partly on a topical method. J. A. Alexander.

Chron"i*cle (?), n. [OE. cronicle, fr. cronique, OF. cronique, F. chronique, L. chronica, fr. Gr. &?;, neut. pl. of &?;. See Chronic.] 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.

2. A narrative of events; a history; a record.

3. pl. The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.

Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History.

Chron"i*cle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chronicled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chronicling (?).] To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register. Shak.

Chron"i*cler (?), n. A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian.