— steel, 114 _n_ Catalan forge, 102 _n_, 111; furnace, 107 Catamaran (Tasmania), 40 Catapults (of Roman army), 248 _sq._ Cateia (boomerang club), 35, 269 — meaning of the word, 35 _n_ _Catoblepas Gnu_, 9 Cats (domestic, among the Nile-dwellers), 3 _n_ Cavalier and Roundhead, 277 _n_ Cavalry, Hittite, 176 — in Ancient Egypt, 154 — Roman, 246 _n_, 248 Caverns (as dwellings, storehouses, sepulchres), 15 _n_ — French and Belgian, 1 _n_ Cave-temples (Indian), the Sword in, 216 Celestial Empire, the annals of the, 112 _sq._ _n_ Celt, of gold, 212; expanding, 270; transition from, to paddle-spear and Sword forms, 41 Celte (in Job), 20 _n_ Celtiberian iron Swords, 107; weapons, 265 Celtis (or _celtes_ = a chisel), 20 _n_ Celts (the proper orthography), 20 _n_; celts of copper, 57; of stone, 154 Census, Hebrew, 185 Centre of percussion, 129 Centurion’s cuirass, 248 Ceramics in Ancient Egypt, 148 Cerbotana, 14 _n_ Ceretolo, sepulchre at, 196 Cestus (knuckle-duster of the classics), 7 Cestus-play, 254 Cetian or Keteian (in Homer), 172 Cetra (Roman shield), 246 Chætodon (archer fish of Japan), 7 Chakarini (war-quoit), 39 _n_ Chakrá (war-quoit), 39 Chalcitic (copper and bronze) Age, 5 _n_ Chalcedony dagger-blade, 46; splinters for wooden Swords, 47 Chalcolibanon, 85 Chalcos (= Sword, in Homer), 222 Chaldæan gods, 207 Χαλκός (meaning of the word), 58 Χάλκεος οὐδός (‘copper threshold’), 55 Chalybes (iron-workers), 76 ‘Chalybian stranger’ (= the Sword), 97 Chalybs (river), 97 _n_ Chalyps (steel), 221 Character of Ancient Gauls, 269 _sq._ Charay (Afghan Sword), 212 Charms (Chinese) of copper, 64 Chape of a Sword, 124; of a dagger, 124 _n_ Charay (one-edged knife: Afghan), 161 _n_ Charcoal in iron-smelting, 107 Chariot-corps (Ancient Egypt), 154 Chariots of iron, 103 Chairs in Ancient Egypt, 148 Charonion of Antioch, 241 _n_ Chasing (of metals), 81 Chayantanka (tin: Peruvian), 83 Chelidonian sabre (χελιδόνιος ξίφος), 141 Chemosh (Moabite god), 192 _n_ Chereb (Hebrew weapon), 180, 183, 184 Chert arrow-heads, 25 Chert-splinters for wooden Swords, 47 Cherubim (etymology of the word), 183 Cherusci (ancient German tribe), 271 Chess (showing Hindú form of attack), 218, 273 _n_ Chess in Ancient Egypt, 148 ‘Chevaucher,’ meaning of, and Greek equivalents, 242 _n_ Chevaux-de-frise, 14 Chile copper the toughest, 68 Chinese (ancient) arms of metal, 63 — form of Sword-staff, 273 — iron-works, 115 — language, 113 — methods of working iron, 114 — sabre-knife, 139 — steel for Swords and knives, 115 — Sword of copper (afterwards of iron), 64 — words for iron, 112 _sq._ Chisels of chalcos, 63; of stone and copper, 67 — of iron (Etruscan), 197 Chittim (= Cyprus: Hebrew), 187
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