kind of paste prepared by calcination and trituration from a hard stony substance, and afterwards washing the powder in large quantities of fair water. The Chinese use the chekao in drawing the elegant figures we see in the wholly white china-ware, which they afterwards varnish in the common way. See China-ware.

Chekaim, a province of China, bounded by that of Narkin on the north, and by the ocean on the east.

Chelaeancrororum, in the materia medica. See Crab's claws.