Chancroid Chan"croid noun [
Chancre +
-oil .]
(Medicine) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre .
Chancrous Chan"crous adjective [ Confer French
chancreux .]
(Medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.
Chandelier Chan`de·lier" noun [ French See
Chandler .]
1. A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. 2. (Fort.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. [ Obsolete]
Chandler Chan"dler noun [ French
chandelier a candlestick, a maker or seller of candles, Late Latin
candelarius chandler, from Latin
candela candle. See
Candle , and confer
Chandelier .]
1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne,
With tallow spots thy coat.
Gay.
2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler , corn chandler .
Chandlerly Chan"dler·ly adjective Like a chandler; in a petty way. [ Obsolete]
Milton.
Chandlery Chan"dler·y noun Commodities sold by a chandler.
Chandoo Chan·doo" noun An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.
Chandry Chan"dry noun Chandlery. [ Obsolete] "Torches from the
chandry ."
B. Jonson.
Chanfrin Chan"frin noun [ French
chanfrein . Confer
Chamfron .]
The fore part of a horse's head.
Change Change (chānj)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Changed (chānjd);
present participle & verbal noun Changing .] [ French
changer , from Late Latin
cambiare , to exchange, barter, Latin
cambire . Confer
Cambial .]
1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Hosea. iv. 7.
2. To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention. They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
Peele.
3. To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with ; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another. Look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition.
Jer. Taylor.
4. Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change ) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it.
Goldsmith.
To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.) ,
to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to the left. --
To change hands ,
to change owners. --
To change one's tune ,
to become less confident or boastful. [ Colloq.] --
To change step ,
to take a break in the regular succession of steps, in marching or walking, as by bringing the hollow of one foot against the heel of the other, and then stepping off with the foot which is in advance. Syn. -- To alter; vary; deviate; substitute; innovate; diversify; shift; veer; turn. See
Alter .
Change Change intransitive verb 1. To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better. For I am Lord, I change not.
Mal. iii. 6.
2. To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
Change Change noun [ French
change , from
changer . See
Change .
transitive verb ]
1. Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles. Apprehensions of a change of dynasty.
Hallam.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job xiv. 14.
2. A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair.
Dryden.
The ringing grooves of change .
Tennyson.
3. A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon. 4. Alteration in the order of a series; permutation. 5. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another. Thirty change (R.V. changes ) of garments.
Judg. xiv. 12.
6. Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due. 7. [ See
Exchange .]
A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [ Colloq. for Exchange.]
8. A public house; an alehouse. [ Scot.]
They call an alehouse a change .
Burt.
9. (Mus.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
Holder.
Change of life ,
the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. --
Change ringing ,
the continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above. --
Change wheel (Mech.) ,
one of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc. --
To ring the changes on ,
to present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways. Syn. -- Variety; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; vicissitude; innovation; novelty; transmutation; revolution; reverse.
Change gear Change gear (Machinery) A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear .
Change key Change key A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks; -- distinguished from a master key .
Changeability Change`a·bil"i·ty noun Changeableness.
Changeable Change"a·ble adjective [ Confer French
changeable .]
1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable; variable; inconstant; fitful; vacillating; capricious; fickle; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; erratic; giddy; volatile.
Changeableness Change"a·ble·ness noun The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
Changeably Change"a·bly adverb In a changeable manner.
Changeful Change"ful adjective Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful .
Motley.
--
Change"ful*ly ,
adverb --
Change"ful*ness ,
noun
Changeless Change"less adjective That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. --
Change"less*ness ,
noun
Changeling Change"ling noun [
Change +
-ling .]
1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft.
Spenser.
The changeling [ a substituted writing] never known.
Shak.
2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.
Wildly we roam in discontent about.
Dryden.
3. One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle
changelings ."
Shak.
Changeling Change"ling adjective 1. Taken or left in place of another; changed. "A little
changeling boy."
Shak. 2. Given to change; inconstant. [ Obsolete]
Some are so studiously changeling .
Boyle.
Changer Chan"ger noun 1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person.
Chank Chank" (chănk)
noun [ Sanskrit
ça&ndot;kha . See
Conch .]
(Zoology) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum . Called also chank shell .
Channel Chan"nel (chăn"nĕl)
noun [ Middle English
chanel ,
canel , Old French
chanel , French
chenel , from Latin
canalis . See
Canal .]
1. The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run. 2. The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels. 3. (Geology) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel . 4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels . The veins are converging channels .
Dalton.
At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know.
Burke.
5. A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column. 6. plural [ Confer
Chain wales .]
(Nautical) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks. Channel bar ,
Channel iron (Architecture) ,
an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel. --
Channel bill (Zoology) ,
a very large Australian cuckoo ( Scythrops Novæhollandiæ . --
Channel goose .
(Zoology) See Gannet .
Channel Chan"nel transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Channeled , or
Channelled ;
present participle & verbal noun Channeling , or
Channelling .]
1. To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
Shak.
2. To course through or over, as in a channel. Cowper.
Channeling Chan"nel·ing noun 1. The act or process of forming a channel or channels. 2. A channel or a system of channels; a groove.
Chanson Chan"son noun [ French, from Latin
cantion song. See
Cantion ,
Canzone .]
A song. Shak.
Chanson de geste Chan`son" de geste" [ French, prop., song of history.]
Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland . Langtoft had written in the ordinary measure of the later chansons de geste .
Saintsbury.
Chansonnette Chan`son·nette" noun ;
plural Chansonnettes . [ French, dim. of
chanson .]
A little song. These pretty little chansonnettes that he sung.
Black.
Chant Chant transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Chanted ;
present participle & verbal noun Chanting .] [ French
chanter , from Latin
cantare , intens. of
canere to sing. Confer
Cant affected speaking, and see
Hen .]
1. To utter with a melodious voice; to sing. The cheerful birds . . . do chant sweet music.
Spenser.
2. To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters.
Bramhall.
3. (Mus.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
Chant Chant intransitive verb 1. To make melody with the voice; to sing. "
Chant to the sound of the viol."
Amos vi. 5. 2. (Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses ,
to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter . Thackeray.
Chant Chant noun [ French
chant , from Latin
cantus singing, song, from
canere to sing. See
Chant ,
transitive verb ]
1. Song; melody. 2. (Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music. 3. A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting. 4. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [ R.]
His strange face, his strange chant .
Macaulay.
Ambrosian chant , See under
Ambrosian .
Chant royal [ French],
in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. --
Gregorian chant .
See under Gregorian .
Chantant Chan`tant" adjective [ French singing.]
(Mus.) Composed in a melodious and singing style.
Chanter Chant"er (chȧnt"ẽr)
noun [ Confer French
chanteur .]
1. One who chants; a singer or songster. Pope. 2. The chief singer of the chantry. J. Gregory. 3. The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe . 4. (Zoology) The hedge sparrow.
Chanterelle Chan`te·relle" noun [ French]
(Botany) A name for several species of mushroom, of which one ( Cantharellus cibrius ) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
Chantey Chant"ey noun [ Confer French
chanter to sing, and
Chant .
noun ]
A sailor's song. May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea?
Kipling.
Chanticleer Chan"ti·cleer (chăn"tĭ*klēr)
noun [ French
Chanteclair , name of the cock in the
Roman du Renart (
Reynard the Fox );
chanter to chant +
clair clear. See
Chant , and
Clear .]
A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Chanting Chant"ing (chȧnt"ĭng)
noun Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon (Zoology) ,
an African falcon ( Melierax canorus or musicus ). The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.
Chantor Chant"or noun A chanter.
Chantress Chant"ress noun [ Confer Old French
chanteresse .]
A female chanter or singer. Milton.
Chantry Chant"ry noun ;
plural Chantries . [ Old French
chanterie , from
chanter to sing.]
1. An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder. 2. A chapel or altar so endowed. Cowell.
Chaomancy Cha"o·man`cy noun [ Greek ... the atmosphere +
-mancy .]
Divination by means of appearances in the air.
Chaos Cha"os (kā"ŏs)
noun [ Latin
chaos chaos (in senses 1 & 2), Greek
cha`os , from
cha`inein (root
cha ) to yawn, to gape, to open widely. Confer
Chasm .]
1. An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [ Archaic]
Between us and there is fixed a great chaos .
Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans.).
2. The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms. 3. Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.
Chaotic Cha·ot"ic (ka*ŏt"ĭk)
adjective Resembling chaos; confused.
Chaotically Cha·ot"ic·al·ly adverb In a chaotic manner.
Chap Chap (chăp
or chŏp)
transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Chapped (chăpt
or chŏpt);
present participle & verbal noun Chapping .] [ See
Chop to cut.]
1. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,
Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
Blackmore.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
Lyly.
2. To strike; to beat. [ Scot.]
Chap Chap intransitive verb 1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps ; the hands chap . 2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [ Scot.]
Chap Chap noun [ From
Chap ,
transitive verb & i. ]
1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. 2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [ Obsolete]
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
T. Fuller.
3. A blow; a rap. [ Scot.]
Chap Chap (chŏp)
noun [ Middle English
chaft ; of Scand. origin; confer Icel
kjaptr jaw, Swedish
Käft , Dutch
kiæft ; akin to German
kiefer , and English
jowl . Confer
Chops .]
1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
Cowley.
He unseamed him [ Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps .
Shak.
2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
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