Churchwardenship noun The office of a churchwarden.

Churchy adjective Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms. [ Colloq.]

Churchyard noun The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.

Like graves in the holy churchyard .
Shak.

Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.

Churl noun [ Anglo-Saxon ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man, husband; akin to Dutch karel , kerel , German kerl , Dan. & Swedish karl , Icelandic karl , and to the E. proper name Charles (orig., man , male ), and perhaps to Sanskrit jāra lover. Confer Carl , Charles's Wain .]
1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl ." Spenser.

Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls.
Emerson.

2. A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.

A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood.
Sir P. Sidney.

3. A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.

Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
Drayton.

Churl adjective Churlish; rough; selfish. [ Obsolete] Ford.

Churlish adjective
1. Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. " Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh.

Half mankind maintain a churlish strife.
Cowper.

2. Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals. Boyle.

Churlishly adverb In a churlish manner.

Churlishness noun Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Churly adjective Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow.

Churme, Chirm noun [ See Chirm .] Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. [ Obsolete]

The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches.
Bacon.

Churn (chûrn) noun [ Middle English chirne , cherne , Anglo-Saxon ceren , cyrin ; akin to Dutch karn , Danish kierne . See Churn , transitive verb ] A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

Churn transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Churned (chûrnd); present participle & verbal noun Churning .] [ Middle English chernen , Anglo-Saxon cernan ; akin to LG. karnen , German kernen , Dutch karnen , Danish kierne , Swedish kärna , and also to English corn , kernel , the meaning coming from the idea of extracting the kernel or marrow. See Kernel .]
1. To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter.

2. To shake or agitate with violence.

Churned in his teeth, the foamy venom rose.
Addison.

Churn intransitive verb To perform the operation of churning.

Churning noun
1. The act of one who churns.

2. The quantity of butter made at one operation.

Churr noun [ Confer Chirr .] A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

Churr intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Churred ; present participle & verbal noun Churr"ing .] To make a churr, as a cockchafer.

That's the churring of the nightjar.

Hall Caine.

Churr transitive verb To utter by churring.

Churrus noun [ Hind. charas .] A powerfully narcotic and intoxicating gum resin which exudes from the flower heads, seeds, etc., of Indian hemp.

Churrworm noun [ Anglo-Saxon cyrran , cerran , to turn.] (Zoology) An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket . Johnson.

Chuse transitive verb See Choose. [ Obsolete]

Chute noun [ French chute , prop. a fall.]
1. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

2. See Shoot .

Chutney, Chutnee noun [ Hind. chatnī .] A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

Chylaceous adjective (Physiol.) Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

Chylaqueous adjective [ Chyle + aqueous .] (Zoology) Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.

Chyle noun [ New Latin chylus , Greek ... juice, chyle, from ... to pour: confer French chyle ; probably akin to English fuse to melt.] (Physiol.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

Chylifaction noun [ Chyle + Latin facere to make.] (Physiol.) The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Chylifactive adjective (Physiol.) Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

Chyliferous adjective [ Chyle + -ferous : confer French chylifère .] (Physiol.) Transmitting or conveying chyle; as, chyliferous vessels.

Chylific adjective Chylifactive.

Chylification noun (Physiol.) The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction .

Chylificatory adjective Chylifactive.

Chylify transitive verb & i. [ Chyle + -ly .] (Physiol.) To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

Chylopoetic adjective [ Greek chylopoiei^n to make into juice, chylo`s juice, chyle + poiei^n to make.] (Physiol.) Concerned in the formation of chyle; as, the chylopoetic organs.

Chylous adjective [ Confer French chyleux .] (Physiol.) Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.

Chyluria noun [ New Latin from Greek ... chyle + ... urine.] (Medicine) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

Chyme noun [ Latin chymus chyle, Greek ... juice, like ..., from ... to pour: confer French chyme . See Chyle .] (Physiol.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle .

Chymic, Chymist Chym"is*try [ Obsolete] See Chemic , Chemist , Chemistry .

Chymiferous adjective [ Chyme + -ferous .] (Physiol.) Bearing or containing chyme.

Chymification noun [ Chyme + Latin facere to make: confer French Chymification .] (Physiol.) The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

Chymify transitive verb [ Chyme + -fy : confer French chymifier .] (Physiol.) To form into chyme.

Chymous adjective Of or pertaining to chyme.

Chyometer noun [ Greek ... to pour + -meter .] (Chemistry) An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.

Cibarious adjective [ Latin cibaruus , from cibus food.] Pertaining to food; edible. Johnson.

Cibation noun [ Latin cibatio , from cibare to feed.]
1. The act of taking food.

2. (Alchemy) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material. B. Jonson.

Cibol noun [ French ciboule , Late Latin cepula , cepola , dim. of Latin cepa , caepa , caepe , an onion. Confer Chibbal , Cives .] A perennial alliaceous plant ( Allium fistulosum ), sometimes called Welsh onion . Its fistular leaves areused in cookery.

Ciborium noun : plural Ciboria . [ Late Latin , from Latin ciborium a cup, from Greek ... a seed vessel of the Egyptian bean; also, a cup made from its largeleaves, or resembling its seed vessel in shape.]
1. (Architecture) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

2. (R. C. Ch.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

Cicada (sĭ*kā"dȧ) noun ; plural English Cicadas (- dȧz), Latin Cicadæ (-dē). [ Latin ] (Zoology) Any species of the genus Cicada . They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen, consisting of a pair of stretched membranes, acted upon by powerful muscles. A noted American species ( C. septendecim ) is called the seventeen year locust . Another common species is the dogday cicada .

Cicala (che*kä"lȧ) noun [ Italian , from Latin cicada .] A cicada. See Cicada . "At eve a dry cicala sung." Tennison.

Cicatrice noun [ French, from Latin cicatrix .] A cicatrix.

Cicatricial adjective (Medicine) Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix. Dunglison.