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Charon
CHARON, noun In fabulous history, the son of Erebus and Nox, whose office was to ferry the souls of the deceased over the waters of Acheron and Styx, for a piece of money.
Charr
CHARR, noun A fish, a species of Salmo.
Charring
CHARRING, participle present tense Reducing to coal; depriving of volatile matter.
Charry
CHARRY, adjective [See Char.] Pertaining to charcoal; like charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.
Chart
CHART, noun A hydrographical or marine map; a draught or projection of some part of the earths superficies on paper, with the coasts, isles, rocks, banks, channels or entrances into harbors, rivers, and bays, the points of compass, soundings or depth of water, etc., to regulate the courses of ships in their voyages. The term chart is applied to a marine map; map is applied to a draught of some portion of land.
A plan chart is a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which the meridians are supposed parallel to each other, the parallels of latitude at equal distances, and of course the degrees of latitude and longitude are every where equal to each other.
Mercators chart is one on which the meridians are straight lines, parallel and equidistant; the parallels are straight lines and parallel to each other, but the distance between them increases from the equinoctial towards either pole, in the ratio of the secant of the latitude to the radius.
Globular chart is a meridional projection in which the distance of the eye from the plane of the meridian, on which the projection is made, is supposed to be equal to the sine of the angle of forty-five degrees.
Selenographic charts, represent the spots and appearances of the moon.
Topographic charts, are draughts of particular places, or small parts of the earth.
Charter
CHARTER, noun
1. A written instrument, executed with usual forms, given as evidence of a grant, contract, or whatever is done between man and man. In its more usual sense, it is the instrument of a grant conferring powers, rights and privileges, either from a king or other wovereign power, or from a private person, as a charter of exemption, that no person shall be empannelled on a jury, a charter of pardon, etc. The charters under which most of the colonies in America were settled, were given by the king of England, and incorporated certain persons, with powers to hold the lands granted, to establish a government, and make laws for their own regulation. These were called charter-governments.
2. Any instrument, executed with form and solemnity, bestowing rights or privileges.
3. Privilege; immunity; exemption.
My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me.
CHARTER, verb transitive
1. To hire or to let a ship by charter [See Charter-party.]
2. To establish by charter
Charter-Land
CHARTER-LAND, noun Land held by charter, or in soccage.
Charter-Party
CHARTER-PARTY, noun In commerce, an agreement respecting the hire of a vessel and the freight. This is to be signed by the proprietor or master of the ship and by the merchant who hires or freights it. It must contain the name and burden of the vessel, the names of the master and freighter, the price or rate of the freight, the time of loading and unloading, and other stipulated conditions.
Chartered
CHARTERED, participle passive
1. Hired or let, as a ship.
2. Invested with privileges by charter; privileged.
3. Granted by charter; as chartered rights; chartered power.
Chartering
CHARTERING, participle present tense
1. Giving a charter; establishing by charter.
2. Hiring or letting by charter.
Chartless
CHARTLESS, adjective Without a chart; of which no chart has been made; not delineated on paper; as the charless main.
Chartulary
CHARTULARY, noun An officer in the ancient Latin church, who had the care of charters and other papers of a public nature. Blackstone uses this word for a record or register, as of a monastery.
Chary
CHARY, adjective [Sax. Cearig. See Care.] Careful; wary; frugal.
Chasable
CHASABLE, adjective That may be chased; fit for the chase.
Chase
CHASE, verb transitive
1. Literally to drive, urge, press forward with vehemence; hence, to pursue for the purpose of taking, as game; to hunt.
2. To purse, or drive, as a defeated or flying enemy. . .
3. To follow or pursue, as an object of desire; to pursue for the purpose of taking; as, to chase a ship.
4. To drive; to pursue.
CHASEd by their brothers endless malice.
To chase away, is to compel to depart; to disperse.
To chase metals. [See Enchase.]
CHASE, noun
1. Vehement pursuit; a running or driving after; as game, in hunting; a flying enemy, in war; a ship a sea, etc.
2. Pursuit with an ardent desire to obtain, as pleasure, profit, fame, etc.; earnest seeking.
3. That which may be chased; that which is usually taken by chase; as beasts of chase
4. That which is pursued or hunted; as, seek some other chase So at sea, a ship chased is called the chase
5. In law, a driving of cattle to or from a place.
6. An open ground, or place of retreat for deer and other wild beasts; differing from a forest, which is not private property and is invested with privileges, and from a park which is inclosed. A chase is private property, and well stored with wild beasts or game.
7. An iron frame used by printers to confine types, when set in columns.
8. chase of a gun, is the whole length of the bore.
9. A term in the game of tennis.
CHASE guns, in a ship of war, guns used in chasing an enemy or in defending a ship when chased. These have their ports at the head or stern. A gun at the head is called a bow-chase; at the stern, a stern-chase.
Chased
CHASED, participle passive Pursed; sought ardently; driven.
Chaser
CHASER, noun
1. One who chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
2. An enchaser. [See Enchase.]
Chasideans
ASSIDE'ANS or CHASIDE'ANS, [Heb. pious.]
A sect of Jews who resorted to Mattathias to fight for the laws of their God and the liberties of their country. They were men of great zeal, and observed the traditions of the elders. From these sprung the Pharisees and Essenes.
Chasing
CHASING, participle present tense Pursuing; driving; hunting.
Chasm
CHASM, noun
1. A cleft; a fissure; a gap; properly, an opening made by disrupture, as a beach in the earth or a rock.
2. A void space; a vacuity.
Between the two propositions, that the gospel is true and that it is false, what a fearful chasm! The unsettled reason hovers over it in dismay.
Chasmed
CHASMED, adjective Having gaps or a chasm.
Chasselas
CHASSELAS, noun A sort of grape.
Chaste
CHASTE, adjective
1. Pure from all unlawful commerce of sexes. Applied to persons before marriage, it signifies pure from all sexual commerce, undefiled; applied to married persons, true to the marriage bed.
2. Free from obscenity.
While they behold your chaste conversation. .
3. In language, pure; genuine; uncorrupt; free from barbarous words and phrases, and from quaint, affected, extravagant expressions.
Chaste-Eyed
CHASTE-EYED, adjective Having modest eyes.
Chaste-Tree
CHASTE-TREE, noun The agnus castus, or vitex; a tree that grows to the highth of eight or ten feet, producing spikes of flowers at the end of every strong shoot in autumn.
Chastely
CHASTELY, adverb In a chaste manner; without unlawful commerce of sexes; without obscenity; purely; without barbarisms or unnatural phrases.
Chasten
CHASTEN, verb transitive
1. To correct by punishment; to punish; to inflict pain for the purpose of reclaiming an offender; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
I will chasten him with the rod of men. .
2. To afflict by other means.
As many as I love I rebuke and chasten .
3. To purify from errors or faults.
Chastened
CHASTENED, participle passive Corrected; punished; afflicted for correction.
Chastener
CHASTENER, noun One who punishes, for the purpose of correction.
Chasteness
CHASTENESS, noun Chastity; purity.
Chastening
CHASTENING, participle present tense Correcting; afflicting for correction.
CHASTENING, noun Correction; punishment for the purpose of reclaiming.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous. .
Chastisable
CHASTISABLE, adjective Deserving of chastisement.
Chastise
CHASTISE, verb transitive
1. To correct by punishing; to punish; to inflict pain by stripes, or in other manner, for the purpose of punishing an offender and recalling him to his duty.
I will chastise you seven times for your sins. .
2. To reduce to order or obedience; to restrain; to awe; to repress.
The gay social sense, By decency chastisd.
3. To correct; to purify by expunging faults; as, to chastise a poem.
Chastised
CHASTISED, participle passive Punished; corrected.
Chastisement
CHASTISEMENT, noun Correction; punishment; pain inflicted for punishment and correction, either by stripes or otherwise.
Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastisement
I have borne chastisement I will not offend any more. .
The chastisement of our peace, in Scripture, was the pain which Christ suffered to purchase our peace and reconciliation to God. .
Chastiser
CHASTISER, noun One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
Chastising
CHASTISING, participle present tense Punishing for correction; correcting.
Chastity
CHASTITY, noun
1. Purity of the body; freedom from all unlawful commerce of sexes. Before marriage, purity from all commerce of sexes; after marriage, fidelity to the marriage bed.
2. Freedom from obscenity, as in language or conversation.
3. Freedom from bad mixture; purity in words and phrases.
4. Purity; unadulterated state; as the chastity of the gospel.
Chat
CHAT, verb intransitive
1. To talk in a familiar manner; to talk without form or ceremony.
2. To talk idly; to prate.
CHAT, verb transitive To talk of.
CHAT, noun Free, familiar talk; idle talk; prate.
CHAT, noun A twig, or little stick. [See Chit.]
Chateau
CHATEAU, noun A castle; a seat in the country.
Chatelet
CHATELET, noun A little castle.
Chatellany
CHATELLANY, noun The lordship or jurisdiction of a castellan, or governor of a castle. [See Castellany.]
Chatoyant
CHATOYANT, adjective A hard stone, a little transparent, which being cut smooth presents on its surface and in the interior, an undulating or wavy light. It is of a yellowish gray color or verging to an olive green. It rarely exceeds the size of a filbert.
Chatoyment
CHATOYMENT, noun Changeable colors, or changeableness of color, in a mineral; play of colors.
Chattel
CHATTEL, noun chatl. [See Cattle.] Primarily, any article of movable goods. In modern usage, the word chattels comprehends all goods, movable or immovable, except such as have the nature of freehold. Chattels are real or personal. Chattels real, are such as concern or savor of the realty, as a term for years of land, ward-ships in chivalry, the next presentation to a church, estates by statute merchant, elegit and the like. Chattels personal, are things movable, as animals, furniture of a house, jewels, corn, etc.
Chatter
CHATTER, verb intransitive [See Chat.]
1. To utter sounds rapidly and indistinctly, as a magpie, or a monkey.
2. To make a noise by collision of the teeth. We say, the teeth chatter when one is chilly and shivering.
3. To talk idly, carelessly or rapidly; to jabber.
CHATTER, noun Sounds like those of a pie or monkey; idle talk.
Chatter-Box
CHATTER-BOX, noun One that talks incessantly.
Chatterer
CHATTERER, noun A prater; an idle talker.
Chattering
CHATTERING, participle present tense Uttering rapid, indistinct sounds, as birds; talking idly; moving rapidly and clashing, as the teeth.
CHATTERING, noun Rapid, inarticulate sounds, as of birds; idle talk; rapid striking of the teeth, as in chilliness.
Chatting
CHATTING, participle present tense Talking familiarly.
Chatty
CHATTY, adjective Given to free conversation; talkative.
Chatwood
CHATWOOD, noun Little sticks; fuel.
Chaumontelle
CHAUMONTELLE, noun A sort of pear.
Chaun
CHAUN, noun A gap.
CHAUN, verb intransitive To open; to yawn.
Chavender
CHAVENDER,
CHAW, verb transitive
1. To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to ruminate, or to chew as the cud.
2. To ruminate in thought; to revolve and consider.
CHAW, noun
1. The jaw. . But in modern editions of the Bible it is printed jaw.
2. In vulgar language, a cud; as much as is put in the mouth at once.
Chaw
CHAW, v.t. 1. To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to ruminate, or to chew as the cud.2. To ruminate in thought; to revolve and consider. CHAW, n. 1. The jaw. . But in modern editions of the Bible it is printed jaw.2. In vulgar language, a cud; as much as is put in the mouth at once.
Chawdron
CHAWDRON, noun Entrails.
Chay
CHAY, noun Chaya-root; the root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, used in dyeing red.
Cheap
CHEAP, adjective
1. Bearing a low price, in market; that may be purchased at a low price; that is, at a price as low or lower than the usual price of the article or commodity, or at a price less than the real value. The sense is always comparative; for a price deemed cheap at one time is considered dear at another.
It is a principle which the progress of political science has clearly established; a principle that illustrates at once the wisdom of the creator and the blindness of human cupidity, that it is cheaper to hire the labor of freemen than to compel the labor of slaves.
2. Being of small value; common; not respected; as cheap beauty.
Make not yourself cheap in the eyes of the world.
CHEAP, noun Bargain; purchase; as in the phrases, good cheap better cheap; the original phrases from which we have cheap
Cheapen
CHEAPEN, verb transitive
1. To attempt to buy; to ask the price of a commodity; to chaffer.
To shops in crowds the daggled females fly,
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
2. To lessen value.
Cheapener
CHEAPENER, noun One who cheapens or bargains.
Cheaply
CHEAPLY, adverb At a small price; at a low rate.
Cheapness
CHEAPNESS, noun Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
Chear
CHEAR, [See Cheer.]
Cheat
CHEAT, verb transitive
1. To deceive and defraud in a bargain; to deceive for the purpose of gain in selling. Its proper application is to commerce, in which a person uses some arts, or misrepresentations, or withholds some facts, by which he deceives the purchaser.
2. To deceive by any artifice, trick or device, with a view to gain an advantage contrary to common honesty; as, to cheat a person at cards.
3. To impose on; to trick. It is followed by of or out of, and colloquially by into, as to cheat a child into a belief that a medicine is palatable.
CHEAT, noun
1. A fraud committed by deception; a trick; imposition; imposture.
2. A person who cheats; one guilty of fraud by deceitful practices.
Cheat-Bread
CHEAT-BREAD, noun Fine bread purchased, or not made in the family.
Cheatableness
CHEATABLENESS, noun Liability to be cheated.
Cheated
CHEATED, participle present tense Defrauded by deception.
Cheater
CHEATER, noun One who practices a fraud in commerce.
Cheating
CHEATING, participle present tense Defrauding by deception; imposing on.
CHEATING, noun The act of defrauding by deceitful arts.
Check
CHECK, verb transitive
1. To stop; to restrain; to hinder; to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement; to moderate.
2. To rebuke; to chide or reprove.
3. To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity; to compare corresponding papers; to control by a counter-register.
4. In seamenship, to ease of a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended; also, to stopper the cable.
CHECK, verb intransitive
1. To stop; to make a stop; with at.
The mid checks at any vigorous undertaking.
2. To clash or interfere.
I love to check with business.
3. To strike with repression.
CHECK, noun
1. A stop; hindrance; rebuff; sudden restraint, or continued restraint; curb; control; government.
2. That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person; any stop or obstruction.
3. In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight.
4. The correspondent cipher of a bank note; a corresponding indenture; any counter-register.
5. A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king.
6. An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer.
This is a sense derived from that in definition 4.
7. In popular use, checkered cloth; check for checkered.
CHECK or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants.
Clerk of the check in the British Kings household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, etc.
Clerk of the check in the British Royal Dock-Yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majestys ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled.
Check-Mate
CHECK-MATE, noun
1. The movement on a chess board or in the game of chess that kills the opposite men, or hinders them from moving, so that the game is finished.
2. Defeat; overthrow.
CHECK-MATE, verb transitive To finish.
Checked
CHECKED, CHECKT, participle passive Stopped; restrained; repressed; curbed; moderated; controlled; reprimanded.
Checker
CHECKER, verb transitive
1. To variegate with cross lines; to form into little squares, like a chess board, by lines or stripes of different colors. Hence,
2. To diversify; to variegate with different qualities, scenes, or events.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
CHECKER, noun
1. One who checks or restrains; a rebuker.
2. A chess-board.
Checker-Work
CHECKER-WORK, noun Work varied alternately as to its colors or materials; work consisting of cross lines.
Checkers
CHECKERS, n plural A common game on a checkered board.
Checking
CHECKING, participle present tense Stopping; curbing; restraining; moderating; controlling; rebuking.
Checkless
CHECKLESS, adjective That cannot be checked, or restrained.
Checkt
CHECKED, CHECKT participle passive Stopped; restrained; repressed; curbed; moderated; controlled; reprimanded.
Checky
CHECKY, noun In heraldry, a border that has more than two rows of checkers, or when the bordure or shield is checkered, like a chess-board.
Cheek
CHEEK, noun
1. The side of the face below the eyes on each side.
2. Among mechanics, cheeks are those pieces of a machine which form corresponding sides, or which are double and alike; as the cheeks of a printing press, which stand perpendicular and support the three sommers, the head, shelves and winter; the cheeks of a turners lathe; the cheeks of a glaziers vise; the cheeks of a mortar, and of a gun-carriage; the cheeks of a mast, which serve to sustain the trestle trees, etc.
CHEEK by jowl, closeness, proximity.
Cheek-Bone
CHEEK-BONE, noun The bone of the cheek.
Cheek-Tooth
CHEEK-TOOTH, noun The hinder tooth or tusk. .
Cheeked
CHEEKED, adjective Brought near the cheek.
Cheep
CHEEP, verb intransitive To chirp, as a small bird.
Cheer
CHEER, verb transitive
1. To salute with shouts of joy, or cheers.
2. To dispel gloom, sorrow, silence or apathy; to cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; as, to cheer a lonely desert; the cheering rays of the sun; good news cheers the heart.
3. To infuse life; spirit, animation; to incite; to encourage; as, to cheer the hounds.
CHEER, verb intransitive To grow cheerful; to become gladsome, or joyous.
At sight of thee my gloomy soul cheers up.
CHEER up, my lads.
CHEER, noun
1. A shout of joy; as, they gave three cheers.
2. A state of gladness or joy; a state of animation, above gloom and depression of spirits, but below mirth, gayety and jollity.
Son, be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee. .
Then were they all of good cheer and they also took some meat. .
3. Mirth; gayety; jollity; as at a feast.
4. Invitation to gayety.
5. Entertainment; that which makes cheerful; provisions for a feast.
The table was loaded with good cheer
6. Air of countenance, noting a greater or less degree of cheerfulness.
His words their drooping cheer Enlightened.
Cheered
CHEERED, participle passive Enlivened; animated; made glad.
Cheerer
CHEERER, noun One who cheers; he or that which gladdens.
Thou cheerer of our days.
Prime cheerer light.
Cheerful
CHEERFUL, adjective
1. Lively; animated; having good spirits; moderately joyful. This is the most usual signification of the word, expressing a degree of animation less than mirth and jollity.
2. Full of life; gay; animated; mirthful; musical; as the cheerful birds.
3. Expressive of good spirits or joy; lively; animated.
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. .
Cheerfully
CHEERFULLY, adverb In a cheerful manner; with alacrity or willingness; readily; with life, animation or good spirits.
Cheerfulness
CHEERFULNESS, noun Life; animation; good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
He that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness .
Cheerily
CHEERILY, adverb With cheerfulness; with spirit.
Cheering
CHEERING, participle present tense Giving joy or gladness; enlivening; encouraging; animating.
Cheerishness
CHEERISHNESS, noun State of cheerfulness.
Cheerless
CHEERLESS, adjective Without joy, gladness, or comfort; gloomy; destitute of any thing to enliven or animate the spirits.
Cheerly
CHEERLY, adjective Gay; cheerful; not gloomy.
CHEERLY, adverb Cheerfully; heartily; briskly.
CHEERLY, adjective Gay; sprightly; having power to make gay.
Come, let us hie, and quaff a cheery bowl.
Cheese
CHEESE, noun
1. The curd of milk, coagulated by rennet, separated from the serum or whey, and pressed in a vat, hoop or mold.
2. A mass of pumice or ground apples placed on a press.
Cheese-Cake
CHEESE-CAKE, noun A cake made of soft curds, sugar and butter.
Cheese-Monger
CHEESE-MONGER, noun One who deals in or sells cheese.
Cheese-Paring
CHEESE-PARING, noun A press, or engine for pressing curd in the making of cheese.
Cheese-Press
CHEESE-PRESS, noun A press, or engine for pressing curd in the making of cheese.
Cheese-Rennet
CHEESE-RENNET, noun A plant, ladies bed-straw, Galium verum.
Cheese-Vat
CHEESE-VAT, noun The vat or case in which curds are confined for pressing.
Cheesy
CHEESY, adjective Having the nature, qualities, taste or form of cheese.
Chegoe
CHEGOE, noun A tropical insect that enters the skin of the feet and multiplies incredibly, causing an itching.
Cheiropter
CHEIROPTER, noun An animal whose anterior toes are connected by a membrane, and whose feet thus serve for wings, as the bat.
Chelidon
CHELIDON, noun A brown fly with silvery wings.
Cheliferous
CHELIFEROUS, adjective Furnished with claws, as an animal.
Cheliform
CHELIFORM, adjective Having the form of a claw.
Chelmsfordite
CHELMSFORDITE, noun A mineral arranged as a subspecies of schaalstein; found in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Chelonian
CHELONIAN, adjective Pertaining to or designating animals of the tortoise kind.
Chely
CHELY, noun The claw of a shell-fish.
Chemical
CHEMICAL. [See Chimical.]
Chemically
CHEMICALLY. [See Chimically.]
Chemise
CHEMISE, noun
1. A shift, or under garment worn by females.
2. A wall that lines the face of any work of earth.
Chemist
CHEMIST. [ See chimist.]
Chemistry
CHEMISTRY. [See Chimistry.]
Chequer
CHEQUER. [See Checker.]
Cheriff
CHERIFF, noun Written also Sheriff. The prince of Mecca; a high priest among the Mohammedans.
Cherish
CHERISH, noun The prince of Mecca; a high priest among the Mohammedans.
CHERISH, verb transitive
1. To treat with tenderness and affection; to give warmth, ease or comfort to.
We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. .
The damsel was fair and cherished the king. .
2. To hold as dear; to embrace with affection; to foster, and encourage; as, to cherish the principles of virtue; to cherish religion in the heart.
3. To treat in a manner to encourage growth, by protection, aid, attendance, or supplying nourishment; as, to cherish tender plants.
4. To harbor; to indulge and encourage in the mind; as, to cherish ill will, or any evil passion.
Cherished
CHERISHED, participle passive Treated with tenderness; warmed; comforted; fostered.
Cherisher
CHERISHER, noun One who cherishes; an encourager; a supporter.
Cherishing
CHERISHING, participle present tense Warming; comforting; encouraging; fostering; treating with affection.
Cherishment
CHERISHMENT, noun Encouragement; comfort.
Chermes
CHERMES. [See Kermes.]
Cherry
CHERRY, noun The fruit of a tree, a species of Prunus, of which there are many varieties, as the red or garden cherry the red heart, the white heart, the black cherry the black heart, and several others. The fruit is a pulp inclosing a kernel. It is related that this fruit was brought from Cerasus in Pontus to Italy, after the defeat of Mithridates by Lucullus, A R. 680., and introduced into England by the Romans, about 120 years afterwards, adjective D. 55.
Barbadoes cherry is the genus Malpighia, of several species. The berries are red, cherry-shaped, acid and eatable.
Bird cherry is a species of Prunus, the common laurel or lauro-cerasus.
Also, the Prunus padus.
Cornelian cherry is the fruit of the Cornus, cornel-tree or dogwood. It is a small, acid, cherry-like, eatable berry.
Dwarf cherry is the fruit of a species of Lonicera, or honey-suckle.
Hottentot-cherry, is the fruit of a species of Cassine. The fruit is a trispermous berry of a dark purple color.
Winter-cherry, is a name of the fruit of the Physalis, a genus of many species. It is a berry of the size of a small cherry inclosed in an inflated, bladder-like calyx. This name is also given to a species of Solanum.
CHERRY, adjective Like a red cherry in color; red, ruddy, blooming; as a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.
CHERRY, noun A cordial composed of cherry juice and spirit, sweetened, and diluted. The wild cherry is most generally used for this purpose, being steeped for some days in spirit, which extracts the juice of the fruit; the tincture is then sweetened and diluted to the taste. This cordial is moderately bitter and astringent. It is sometimes made of the mazzard.
Cherry-Cheeked
CHERRY-CHEEKED, adjective Having ruddy cheeks.
Cherry-Pit
CHERRY-PIT, noun A childs play, in which cherry stones are thrown into a hole.
Cherry-Tree
CHERRY-TREE, noun A tree whose fruit is cherries, in the more appropriate sense of the word. The name is mostly given to the common cultivated trees, and to that which produces the black wild cherry. The wood of the latter is valued for cabinet work.
Chersonese
CHERSONESE, noun A peninsula; a tract of land of any indefinite extent, which is nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as the Cimbric chersonese or Jutland; the Tauric chersonese or Crimea.
Chert
CHERT, noun In mineralogy, a subspecies of rhomboidal quartz; called also hornstone, petrosilex or rock flint. It is less hard than common quartz; its fracture usually dull and splintery, sometimes more or less conchoidal. It is more or less translucent, sometimes at the edges, and sometimes the whole mass, if thin, has the strong translucency of certain horns. Its colors are numerous and usually dull. It is usually amorphous, sometimes globular, or in nodules. It occurs often in veins, especially metallic, in primitive mountains.
CHERT is also applied to other minerals besides hornstone. Aikin calls a variety of flint, flinty chert and the Derbyshire miners apply the term, black chert to a fusible mineral, whereas the hornstone above described is infusible.
Cherty
CHERTY, adjective Like chert; flinty.
Cherub
CHERUB, noun plural Cherubs, but the Hebrew plural cherubim is also used.
A figure composed of various creatures, as a man, an ox, an eagle or lion. The first mention of cherubs is in , where the figure is not described, but their office was, with a flaming sword, to keep or guard the way of the tree of life. The two cherubs which Moses was commanded to make at the ends of the Mercy seat, were to be of beaten work of gold; and their wings were to extend over the Mercy seat, their faces towards each other, and between them was the residence of the Deity. . The cherubs, in Ezekiels vision, had each four heads or faces, the hands of a man and wings. The four faces were, the face of a bull, that of a man, that of a lion, and that of an eagle. They had the likeness of a man. , and 10. In , and , Jehovah is represented as riding on a cherub and flying on the wings of the wind. In the celestial hierarchy, cherubs are represented as spirits next in order to seraphs. The hieroglyphical and emblematical figures embroidered on the vails of the tabernacle are called cherubs of curious or skilful work. .
Cherubic
CHERUBIC,
CHERUBIC, adjective Pertaining to cherubs; angelic.
Cherubim
CHERUBIM, noun The Hebrew plural of cherub.
Cherubin
CHERUBIN, adjective Cherubic; angelic.
CHERUBIN, noun A cherub.
Cherup
CHERUP, a corruption of chirp, which see.
Chervil
CHERVIL, noun A genus of plants, two species of which are called cow-weed.
Chesapeak
CHESAPEAK, noun A bay of the United States, whose entrance is between Cape Charles and Cape Henry, in Virginia, and which extends northerly into Maryland 270 miles. It receives the waters of the Susquehannah, Potomack, Rappahannock, York, and James Rivers.
Chesible
CHESIBLE, noun A short vestment without sleeves, worn by a popish priest at mass.
Cheslip
CHESLIP, noun A small vermin that lies under stones and tiles.
Chess
CHESS, noun An ingenious game performed by two parties with different pieces, on a checkered board, that is, a board divided into sixty four squares or houses. The success of the game depends almost entirely on skill. Each gamester has eight dignified pieces, called a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, and two rooks or castles; also eight pawns. The pieces of the parties are of different colors.
CHESS, noun In New England, that weed which grows among wheat, and is supposed to be wheat degenerated or changed, as it abounds most in fields where the wheat is winter-killed. It bears some resemblance to oats. This fact is mentioned by Pliny, Nat. Hist. Lib. 18. Ca 17. Primum omnium frumenti vitium avena est: et hordeum in eam degenerat. This change of wheat and barley into oats, he ascribes to a moist soil, wet weather, bad seed, etc. This opinion coincides with observations in America, as wheat is most liable to perish in moist land, and often in such places, almost all the wheat is killed, and instead of it chess often appears.
Chess-Apple
CHESS-APPLE, noun A species of wild service.
Chess-Board
CHESS-BOARD, noun The board used in the game of chess, and from the squares of which chess has its name.
Chess-Man
CHESS-MAN, noun A piece or puppet, for the game of chess.
Chess-Player
CHESS-PLAYER, noun One who plays chess; one skilled din the game of chess.
Chess-Tree
CHESS-TREE, noun In ships, a piece of wood bolted perpendicularly on the side to confine the clews of the main sail.
Chessom
CHESSOM, noun Mellow earth.
Chest
CHEST, noun
1. A box of wood or other material, in which goods are kept or transported. It differs from a trunk in not being covered with skin or leather.
2. The trunk of the body from the neck to the belly; the thorax. Hence, broad-chested, narrow-chested, having a broad or narrow chest
3. In commerce, a certain quantity; as a chest of sugar; a chest of indigo; etc.
CHEST of drawers is a case of movable boxes called drawers.
CHEST, verb transitive To reposit in a chest; to hoard.
Chest-Foundering
CHEST-FOUNDERING, noun A disease in horses, like the pleurisy or peripneumony in the human body.
Chestnut
CHESTNUT, noun The fruit, seed or nut of a tree belonging to the genus Fagus. It is inclosed in a prickly pericarp, which contains two or more seeds.
CHESTNUT, adjective Being of the color of a chestnut; of a brown color. It is perhaps rarely used as a noun.
Chestnut-Tree
CHESTNUT-TREE, noun The tree which produces the chestnut. This tree grows to a great size, with spreading branches. It is one of the most valuable timber trees, as the wood is very durable, and forms in America the principal timber for fencing. The timber is also used in building, and for vessels of various kinds.
Dwarf-chestnut, or chinkapin, is another species of Fagus.
Horse-chestnut, is a tree of the genus Aesculus. The common tree of this sort is a native of the North of Asia, and admired for the beauty of its flowers. It is used for shade and ornament, and its nuts are esteemed good food for horses. The scarlet-flowering horse-chestnut is a native of Carolina, Brazil and the East, and is admired for its beauty.
The Indian Rose-chestnut, of the genus Mesua, bears a nut, roundish, pointed and marked with four elevated longitudinal sutures.
Cheston
CHESTON, noun A species of plum.
Chevachie
CHEVACHIE, noun An expedition with cavalry.
CHEVAL DE FRISE, generally used in the plural, chevaux de frise, pronounced shevo de freez.
1. A piece of timber traversed with wooden spikes, pointed with iron, five or six feet long; used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or make a retrenchment to stop cavalry.
2. A kind of trimming.
Chevage
CHEVAGE, noun A tribute by the head.
Chevalier
CHEVALIER, noun
1. A knight; a gallant young man.
2. In heraldry, a horseman armed at all points.
CHEVEN, noun A river fish, the chub.
Cheven
CHEVEN, noun The chub, a fish.
Cheveril
CHEVERIL, noun A kid, or rather leather made of kid-skin; used as a noun or adjective.
Cheverilize
CHEVERILIZE, verb transitive To make as pliable as kid-leather.
Chevisance
CHEVISANCE, noun
1. Achievement; deed; performance; enterprize accomplished.
2. In law, a making of contracts; a bargain.
3. An unlawful agreement or contract. .
4. An agreement or composition, as an end or order set down between a creditor and his debtor.
Chevron
CHEVRON, noun In heraldry, an honorable ordinary, representing two rafters of a house meeting at the top.
Chevroned
CHEVRONED, adjective Having a chevron, or the form of it.
Chevrotain
CHEVROTAIN, noun The smallest of the antelope kind.
Chew
CHEW, verb transitive
1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food, to prepare it for deglutition and digestion.
2. To ruminate in the thoughts; to meditate; as, to chew revenge.
3. To champ; to bite, hold or roll about in the mouth; as, to chew tobacco.
4. To taste, without swallowing.
CHEW, verb intransitive To champ upon; to ruminate.
Old politicians chew on wisdom past.
CHEW, noun That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.
Chewed
CHEWED, participle passive Ground by the teeth; masticated.
Chewet
CHEWET, noun A kind of pie, made with chopped substances.
Chewing
CHEWING, participle present tense Grinding with the teeth; masticating; ruminating; meditating; champing.
Chia
CHIA, noun A beautiful Mexican plant.
Chian
CHIAN, adjective Pertaining to Chios, an isle in the Levant.
CHIAN earth, a medicinal, dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent, and a cosmetic.
CHIAN turpentine, or Cyprus turpentine, is procured from the Pistacia Terebinthus. It is of the consistence of honey, clear and of a yellowish white.
Chiastolite
CHIASTOLITE, noun A mineral, called also macle, whose crystals are arranged in a peculiar manner. The form of the crystals is a four-sided prism, whose bases are rhombs, differing little from squares. But each crystal, when viewed at its extremities, or on a transverse section, is obviously composed of two very different substances; and its general aspect is that of a black prism, passing longitudinally through the axis of another prism which is whitish. The term macle, as the name of a distinct species, applies to the whitish prisms only.
Chibbal
CHIBBAL, noun A small sort of onion.
Chicane
CHICANE, noun
1. In law, shift; turn; trick; cavil; an abuse of judiciary proceedings, by artifices, unfair practices, or idle objections, which tend to perplex a cause, puzzle the judge, or impose on a party, and thus to delay or pervert justice.
2. In disputes, sophistry; distinctions and subtleties, that tend to perplex the question and obscure the truth.
3. Any artifice or stratagem.
CHICANE, verb intransitive To use shafts, cavils or artifices.
Chicaner
CHICANER, noun One who uses shifts, turns, evasions or undue artifices, in litigation or disputes; a caviller; a sophister; an unfair disputant.
Chicanery
CHICANERY, noun Sophistry; mean or unfair artifices to perplex a cause and obscure the truth.
Chiches
CHICHES, noun Dwarf peas.
Chichling
CHICHLING,
CHICK, verb intransitive To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Chick
CHICK, v.i. To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Chick-Pea
CHICK-PEA, noun A plant or pea, constituting the genus Cicer; a native of Spain, where it is used in olios. It is smaller than the common pea.
Chick-Weed
CHICK-WEED, noun A plant of the genus Alsine, which includes many species. The common chick-weed with white blossoms, affords a remarkable instance of the sleep of plants; for, at night, the leaves approach in pairs, and inclose the tender rudiments of the young shoots. The leaves are cooling and nutritive, and are deemed excellent food for persons of a consumptive habit. They are deemed useful also for swelled breasts.
Chicken
CHICKEN, noun
1. The young of fowls, particularly of the domestic hen, or gallinaceous fowls.
2. A person of tender years.
3. A word of tenderness.
Chicken-Hearted
CHICKEN-HEARTED, adjective Timid; fearful; cowardly.
Chicken-Pox
CHICKEN-POX, noun A mild contagious eruptive disease, generally appearing in children.
Chickling
CHICKLING, noun A small chick or chicken.
Chickling-Vetch
CHICKLING-VETCH, noun A vetch or pea, of the genus Lathyrus, used in Germany for food, but inferior to other kinds.
Chide
CHIDE, verb transitive
1. To scold at; to reprove; to utter words in anger, or by way of disapprobation; to rebuke; as, to chide one for his faults.
2. To blame; to reproach; as, to chide folly or negligence.
To chide from or chide away, is to drive away by scolding or reproof.
CHIDE, verb intransitive
1. To scold; to clamor; to find fault; to contend in words of anger; sometimes followed by with.
The people did chide with Moses. .
2. To quarrel.
3. To make a rough, clamorous, roaring noise; as the chiding flood.
CHIDE, noun Murmur; gentle noise.
Chider
CHIDER, noun One who chides, clamors, reproves or rebukes.
Chideress
CHIDERESS, noun A female who chides.
Chiding
CHIDING, participle present tense Scolding; clamoring; rebuking; making a harsh or continued noise.
CHIDING, noun A scolding or clamoring; rebuke; reproof.
Chidingly
CHIDINGLY, adverb In a scolding or reproving manner.
Chief
CHIEF, adjective
1. Highest in office or rank; principal; as a chief priest; the chief butler. .
Among the chief rulers, many believed on him. .
2. Principal or most eminent, in any quality or action; most distinguished; having most influence; commanding most respect; taking the lead; most valuable; most important; a word of extensive use; as a country chief in arms.
The hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. .
Agriculture is the chief employment of men.
3. First in affection; most dear and familiar.
A whisperer separateth chief friends. .
CHIEF, noun
1. A commander; particularly a military commander; the person who heads an army; equivalent to the modern terms, commander or general in chief captain general, or generalissimo. .
2. The principal person of a tribe, family, or congregation, etc.
. . Math. 20.
3. In chief in English law, in capite. To hold land in chief is to hold it directly from the king by honorable personal services.
4. In heraldry, chief signifies the head or upper part of the escutcheon, from side to side, representing a mans head. In chief imports something borne in this part.
5. In Spenser, it seems to signify something like achievement, a mark of distinction; as, chaplets wrought with a chief
6. This word is often used, in the singular number, to express a plurality.
I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you. .
These were the chief of the officers, that were over Solomons work. .
In these phrases, chief may have been primarily an adjective, that is, chief men, chief persons.
7. The principal part; the most or largest part, of one thing or of many.
The people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed. .
He smote the chief of their strength. .
The chief of the debt remains unpaid.
CHIEF, adverb Chiefly.
Chiefage
CHIEFAGE,
CHIEFDOM, noun Sovereignty.
Chiefless
CHIEFLESS, adjective Without a chief or leader.
Chiefly
CHIEFLY, adverb
1. Principally; eminently; in the first place.
It chiefly concerns us to obey the divine precepts.
2. For the most part.
In the parts of the kingdom where the estates of the dissenters chiefly lay.
Chiefrie
CHIEFRIE, noun A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.