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{ } n. [ Per. bāzar market. ] 1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable purpose. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Bombazine. ] A sort of thin woolen cloth. It is of various colors, and may be plain or twilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bombasin, LL. bombacinium, bambacinium, L. bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx silk, silkworm, Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Bombast, Bombycinous. ] A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [ Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine. ] Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. chabazi`os one of twenty species of stones mentioned in the poem Peri` li`qwn, ascribed to Orpheus. ] (Min.) A mineral occuring in glassy rhombohedral crystals, varying in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Carbon + azo + -ol. ] (Chem.) A white crystallized substance, C12H8NH, derived from aniline and other amines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate. [ 1913 Webster ]