Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
Chasseur (n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.
Chasseur (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.
Chassis (n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
Chast (v. t.) to chasten.
Chaste (a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
Chaste (a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
Chaste (a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
Chaste (a.) Unmarried.
Chastely (adv.) In a chaste manner; with purity.
Chastened (imp. & p. p.) of Chasten
Chastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chasten
Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
Chasten (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.
Chastened (a.) Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
Chastener (n.) One who chastens.
Chasteness (n.) Chastity; purity.
Chasteness (n.) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.
Chastisable (a.) Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
Chastised (imp. & p. p.) of Chastise
Chastising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chastise
Chastise (v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
Chastise (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Chastisement (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
Chastiser (n.) One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
Chastity (n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
Chastity (n.) Moral purity.
Chastity (n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
Chastity (n.) Chasteness.
Chasuble (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
Chatted (imp. & p. p.) of Chat
Chatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chat
Chat (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
Chat (v. t.) To talk of.
Chat (n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
Chat (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
Chat (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
Chat (n.) Small stones with ore.
Chateux (pl. ) of Chateau
Chateau (n.) A castle or a fortress in France.
Chateau (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.
Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
Chatelet (n.) A little castle.
Chatellany (n.) Same as Castellany.
Chati (n.) A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
Chatoyant (a.) Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
Chatoyant (n.) A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Chatoyment (n.) Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
Chattel (n.) Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
Chattelism (n.) The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.
Chattered (imp. & p. p.) of Chatter
Chattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chatter
Chatter (v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
Chatter (v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
Chatter (v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
Chatter (v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
Chatter (n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
Chatter (n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
Chatteration (n.) The act or habit of chattering.
Chatterer (n.) A prater; an idle talker.
Chatterer (n.) A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.
Chattering (n.) The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
Chattiness (n.) The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
Chatty (a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
Chatty (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
Chaud-medley (n.) The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.
Chaudron (n.) See Chawdron.
Chauffer (n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron.
Chaun (n.) A gap.
Chaun (v. t. & i.) To open; to yawn.
Chaunt (n. & v.) See Chant.
Chaunter (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.
Chaunter (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.
Chaunterie (n.) See Chantry.
Chaus (n.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
Chausses (n. pl.) The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
Chaussure (n.) A foot covering of any kind.
Chauvinism (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
Chavender (n.) The chub.
Chawed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaw
Chawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaw
Chaw (v. t.) To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.
Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
Chaw (v. t.) As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
Chaw (v. t.) The jaw.
Chawdron (n.) Entrails.
Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff.
Chazy epoch () An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.
Cheap (n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
Cheap (n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
Cheap (n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
Cheap (adv.) Cheaply.
Cheap (v. i.) To buy; to bargain.
Cheapened (imp. & p. p.) of Cheapen
Cheapening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheapen
Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
Cheapen (a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.