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Capias
- - A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.
Capizs
- noun - marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell
Caries
- noun - soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth
Cavies
- noun - short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
Cavils
- noun - an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- raise trivial objections
Chains
- noun - (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- a linked or connected series of objects; "a chain of daisies"
- a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
- a unit of length
- anything that acts as a restraint
- British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
Chairs
- noun - a particular seat in an orchestra; "he is second chair violin"
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back; "he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years"
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"
- Part of a railway fastening system. The chair secures the track to the sleeper.
- preside over; "John moderated the discussion"
- Tallest fence on the Aintree course
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;
- the position of professor; "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"
Choirs
- noun - a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- a family of similar musical instrument playing together
- sing in a choir
- the area occupied by singers; the part of the chancel between sanctuary and nave
Cirios
- noun - candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers