| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| chabuk | noun | A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. |
| chacma | noun | A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); — called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.] |
| chafed | imp. & past participle | of Chafe |
| chafer | noun | One who chafes., A vessel for heating water; — hence, a dish or pan., A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. |
| chaffy | adjective | Abounding in, or resembling, chaff., Light or worthless as chaff., Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales., Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. |
| chaise | noun | A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse., a carriage in general. |
| chalet | noun | A herdsman’s hut in the mountains of Switzerland., A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages. |
| chalky | adjective | Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste. |
| chalon | noun | A bed blanket. |
| chamal | noun | The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora. |
| champe | noun | The field or ground on which carving appears in relief. |
| chance | noun | A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; — in this sense often personified., The operation or activity of such agent., The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty., A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; — with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him., Probability., To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation., To take the chances of; to venture upon; — usually with it as object., To befall; to happen to., Happening by chance; casual., By chance; perchance. |
| change | verb t. | 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., 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., To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; — followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another., Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill., To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better., To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night., Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles., A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons., A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon., Alteration in the order of a series; permutation., That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another., 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., A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions., A public house; an alehouse., Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. |
| chaped | past participle / adjective | Furnished with a chape or chapes. |
| chapel | noun | A subordinate place of worship, a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial, a small building attached to a church, a room or recess in a church, containing an altar., A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison., In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse., A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman., A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey., An association of workmen in a printing office., To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine., To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing. |
| chappy | Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open. | |
| charge | verb t. | To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill., To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent., To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for., To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples., To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one., To impute or ascribe; to lay to one’s charge., To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of., To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc., To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding., To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or., To call to account; to challenge., To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack., To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets., To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods., To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases., To squat on its belly and be still; — a command given by a sportsman to a dog., A load or burder laid upon a person or thing., A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust., Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty., Heed; care; anxiety; trouble., Harm., An order; a mandate or command; an injunction., An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy., An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged., Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; — usually in the plural., The price demanded for a thing or service., An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book., That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time, The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge., A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge., A soft of plaster or ointment., A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8., Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; — called also charre., Weight; import; value. |
| charon | noun | The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. |
| charre | noun | See Charge, n., 17. |
| charry | adjective | Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities. |
| charta | noun | Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper., A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta. |
| charte | noun | The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814. |
| chased | imp. & past participle | of Chase |
| chaser | noun | One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter., Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern., One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase., A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe. |
| chasmy | adjective | Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms. |
| chasse | noun | A movement in dancing, as across or to the right or left., To make the movement called chasse; as, all chasse; chasse to the right or left. |
| chaste | adjective | Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent., Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes., Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art., Unmarried. |
| chatty | adjective | Given to light, familiar talk; talkative., A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc. |
| chaunt | noun & verb | See Chant. |
| chawed | imp. & past participle | of Chaw |
| chebec | noun | See Chebacco., A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher. |
| checky | adjective | Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; — said of the field or of an armorial bearing. |
| cheeky | a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. | |
| cheese | noun | The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold., A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese., The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia)., A low courtesy; — so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman’s dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. |
| cheesy | adjective | Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese. |
| chegoe | noun | Alt. of Chegre |
| chegre | noun | See Chigoe. |
| chelae | plural | of Chela |
| chemic | noun | A chemist; an alchemist., A solution of chloride of lime., Chemical. |
| cheque | noun | See Check. |
| chequy | noun | Same as Checky. |
| cherif | noun | See Cherif. |
| cherry | noun | A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;, The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France)., The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry)., The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors., The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc., A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry., Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks. |
| cherty | adjective | Like chert; containing chert; flinty. |
| cherub | noun | A mysterious composite being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x., A symbolical winged figure of unknown form used in connection with the mercy seat of the Jewish Ark and Temple., One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge, as distinguished from the seraphim (see Seraph), and in later art the children’s heads with wings are generally called cherubs., A beautiful child; — so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children. |
| cherup | verb i. | To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup., To excite or urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup., A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket. |
| chetah | noun | See Cheetah. |
| cheval | noun | A horse; hence, a support or frame. |
| cheven | noun | A river fish; the chub. |
| chevet | noun | The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part. |
| chewed | imp. & past participle | of Chew |
| chewer | noun | One who chews. |
| chewet | noun | A kind of meat pie. |
| chiasm | noun | Alt. of Chiasma |
| chicha | noun | See Chica. |
| chicky | noun | A chicken; — used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls. |
| chider | noun | One who chides or quarrels. |
| chieve | verb i. | See Cheve, v. i. |
| chiffo | noun | Alt. of niere |
| chigoe | noun | Alt. of Chigre |
| chigre | noun | A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. |
| childe | noun | A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland. |
| chilli | noun | See Chili. |
| chilly | adjective | Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. |
| chimed | imp. & past participle | of Chime |
| chimer | noun | One who chimes. |
| chinch | noun | The bedbug (Cimex lectularius)., A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; — also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor. |
| chined | imp. & past participle | of Chine, Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; — used in composition., Broken in the back. |
| chinky | adjective | Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. |
| chinse | verb t. & i. | To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly. |
| chintz | noun | Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. |
| chippy | adjective | Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless., A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; — also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note. |
| chirre | verb i. | To coo, as a pigeon. |
| chisel | noun | A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; — usually driven by a mallet or hammer., To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue., To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. |
| chitin | noun | A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin. |
| chiton | noun | An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt., One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. |
| chitty | adjective | Full of chits or sprouts., Childish; like a babe. |
| choice | noun | Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election., The power or opportunity of choosing; option., Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination., A sufficient number to choose among., The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection., The best part; that which is preferable., Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable., Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; — used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money., Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. |
| choked | imp. & past participle | of Choke |
| choker | noun | One who, or that which, chokes., A stiff wide cravat; a stock. |
| choler | noun | The bile; — formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility., Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. |
| cholic | adjective | Alt. of Cholinic |
| chosen | past participle | of Choose, Selected from a number; picked out; choice., One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor. |
| choose | verb t. | To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils., To wish; to desire; to prefer., To make a selection; to decide., To do otherwise. |
| chopin | noun | A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart., See Chopine. |
| choppy | adjective | Full of cracks., Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea. |
| choral | adjective | Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony., A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. |
| chorda | noun | A cord. |
| chored | imp. & past participle | of Chore |
| chorea | noun | St. Vitus’s dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. |
| choree | noun | See Choreus., a trochee., A tribrach. |
| choric | adjective | Of or pertaining to a chorus. |
| chorus | noun | A band of singers and dancers., A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus., An interpreter in a dumb show or play., A company of singers singing in concert., A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices., Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts., The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls., To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. |
| choses | plural | of Chose |
| chouan | noun | One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution. |
| chough | noun | A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; — also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. |
| chouka | noun | The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara. |
| choule | noun | See Jowl. |
| chouse | verb t. | To cheat, trick, defraud; — followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money., One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull., A trick; sham; imposition., A swindler. |
| chowry | noun | A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. |
| chrism | noun | Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc., The same as Chrisom. |
| christ | noun | The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah. |
| chrome | noun | Same as Chromium. |
| chromo | noun | A chromolithograph. |
| chubby | adjective | Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. |
| chuffy | adjective | Fat or puffed out in the cheeks., Rough; clownish; surly. |
| chulan | noun | The fragrant flowers of the Chloranthus inconspicuus, used in China for perfuming tea. |
| chunam | noun | Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. |
| chunky | adjective | Short and thick. |
| church | noun | A building set apart for Christian worship., A Jewish or heathen temple., A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together., A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church., The collective body of Christians., Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm., The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil., To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women. |
| churly | adjective | Rude; churlish; violent. |
| churme | noun | Alt. of Chirm |
| chymic | Alt. of Chymistry |