Antæus could, by magick ebarms, Recover strength whene'er he fell. Swift. 2. Something of power to subdue opposition, and gain the affections; something that can please irresistibly.

Well sounding verses are the charm we use, Heroick thoughts and virtue to infuse. Roscom. Nor ever hope the queen of love Will e'er thy fav'rite's charins improve. Prior. To fam'dApelles when young Ammon brought The darling idol of his captive heart;

And the pleas'd nymph with kind attention

sat,

To have her charms recorded by his art. Waller. But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her vallies reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains? Addison. To CHARM. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To fortify with charms against evil. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I hear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

Shakspeare.

2. To make powerful by charms. 3. To summon by incantation. Upon my knees

I charm you by my once commended beauty, By all your vows of love, and that great vow Which did incorporate and make us one. Shaks. 4, To subdue by some secret power; to amaze; to overpower.

I, in mine own woe charm'd, Could not find death, where I did hear him groan; Nor feel him where he struck.

Shakspeare. Pope.

Musick the fiercest grief can charm. 5. To subdue the mind by pleasure.

"Tis your graces

That from my mutest conscience to my tongue Charms this report out.

Amoret! my lovely foe,

Shakspeare.

Tell me where thy strength does lie, Where the pow'r that charms us se;

In thy soul, or in thy eye?

Waller.

Charm by accepting, by submitting sway. Pope. Chloe thus the soul alarm'd, Aw'd without sense, and without beauty charm'd. Pope.

CHA'RMED. adj. Enchanted.

Arcadia was the charmed circle, where all his spirits for ever should be enchanted. Sidney. We implore thy powerful hand,

To undo the charmed band

Of true virgin here distressed. CHARMER. 22. s. [from charm.]

Milton.

1. One that has the power of charms or enchantments.

That handkerchief

Did an Egyptian to my mother give;

She was a charmer, and could almost read

She smiled very charmingly, and discovered as fine a set of teeth as ever eye beheld. Addison, CHARMINGNESS. n. s. [from charming.] The power of pleasing. CHARNEL. adj. (charnel, Fr.] Containing flesh, or carcasses.

Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft found in charnel vaults and sepulchres Ling'ring, and sitting by a new made grave. Milton. CHA'RNEL-HOUSE. n. s. [charnier, Fr. from caro, carnis, Latin.] The place under churches where the bones of the dead are reposited.

If charnel-bouses and our graves must send Those, that we bury, back; our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. Shakspeare. When they were in those charnel-bouses, every one was placed in order, and a black pillar or coffin set by him. Taylor CHART. n.s. [charta, Lat.] Adelineation or map of coasts, for the use of sailors. It is distinguished from a map, by representing only the consts.

The Portuguese, when they had doubled the Cape of Good Hope, found skilful pilots, using astronomical instruments, geographical charts, and compasses. Arbutbael.

CHARTER. n. s. [charta, Latin.]

1. A charter is a written evidence of things done between man and man. Charters are divided into charters of the king, and charters of private persons. Charters of the king are those, whereby the king passeth any grant to any person or more, or to any body politick; as a charter of exemption, that no man shall be em pannelled on a jury; charter of pardon, whereby a man is forgiven a felony, or other offence. Coswell.

2.

Any writing bestowing privileges or rights.

If you deny it, let the danger light Upon your charter, and your city'streedom. Shak.

It is not to be wondered, that the great char ter whereby God bestowed the whole earth upon Adam, and confirmed it unto the sons of Noah, being as brief in word as large in effect, hath bred much quarrel of interpretation. Raleigh's Essays. Here was that charter seal'd, wherein the

The thoughts of people.

The passion you

you pretended,

Was only to obtain;

South

Shakspeare.

3. Privilege; immunity; exemption. I must have liberty,

Dryden.

2. Word of endearment among lovers. CHARMING. particip. adj. [from charm.] Pleasing in the highest degree.

For ever all goodness will be charming, for ever all wickedners will be most odious. Spratt. O charming yeah! in the fist opening page, So many graces in so green an age. CHARMINGLY, adv. [from charming.] In such a manner as to please ex-' ecedingly.

Withal as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;
And they that are most galled with my folly,
They most must laugh.
Shakspeare.

My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me. Shaksp.
CHARTER-PARTY. n. s. [chartre-partie,
Fr.] A paper relating to a contract, of
which each party has a copy.

Charter parties, or contracts, made even upor the high sea, touching things that are not in their own nature maritime, belong not to the admiral's jurisdiction.

Hale

Shakspeare.

There is no chase more pleasant, methinks, than to drive a thought, by good conduct, from one end of the world to another, and never to lose sight of it tih it fall into eternity. Burnet. 3. Fitness to be hunted; appropriation to chase or sport.

Concerning the beasts of chase, whereof the buck is the first, he is called the first year a fawn. Shakspeare.

A maid I am, and of thy virgin train; Oh! let me still that spotless name retain, Frequent the forests, thy chaste will obey, And only make the beasts of chase my prey. Dryden. 4. Pursuit of an enemy, or of something

noxious.

The admiral, with such ships only as could suddenly be put in readiness, made forth with them; and such as came daily in, we set upon them, and gave them chase. Bacon.

He sallied out upon them with certain troops of horsemen, with such violence, that he overthrew them, and, having them in chase, did speedy execution. Knolles History of the Turks. They seek that joy, which us'd to glow Expanded on the hero's face,

When the thick squadrons prest the foe, And William led the glorious chase. Prier. 5. Pursuit of something as desirable.

Yet this mad chase of fame, by few pursued, Hal drawn destruction on the multitude. Dryd. 6. The game hunted.

She, secing the towering of her pursued ebase, went circling about, rising so with the less sense of rising,

Hold, Warwick! seek thee out some other

chase,

For I myself must put this deer to death. Shak. Honour's the noblest base; pursue that game, And recompense the loss of love with fame. Granville. 7. Open ground stored with such beasts as are hunted.

A receptacle for deer and game, of a middle nature between a forest and a park; being commonly less than a forest, and not endued with so many liberties; and yet of a larger compass, and stored with greater diversity of game, than a park. A chuse differs from a forest in this, because it may be in the hands of a subject, which a forest, in its proper nature, cannot: and from a park, in that it is not inclosed, and hath not only a larger compass, and more store of game, but likewise more keepers and overseers. Corvell

He and his lady both are at the lodge, Upon the north side of this pleasant chase. Shak 8. The CHASE of a gun, is the whole bore or length of a piece, taken withinside. Chambers CHASE-GUN. n. s. [from chase and gun.] Guns in the forepart of the ship, fired upon those that are pursued.

Mean time the Belgians tack upon our rear, And raking chase-guns through our stern they send.

CHAʼSER. n. s. [from chase.]
1. Hunter; pursuer; driver.
Then began

A stop i' th' chaser, a retire; anon
A rout, confusion thick.

Dryden

Shakspeare

So fast he flies, that his reviewing eye Has lost the chasers, and his ear the cry. Denk Stretch'd on the lawn, his second hope survey, At once the chaser, and at once the prey! Lo, Rufus, tugging at the deadly dart, Bleeds in the forest like a wounded hart! Peke. 2. An enchaser.

CHASM. n. s. [χάσμα.]

1. A breach unclosed; a cleft; a gap; an opening.

In all that visible corporeal world, we see no chasms or gaps. Locke

The water of this orb communicates with that of the ocean, by means of certain hiatuses or chasms passing betwixt it and the bottom of the Woodward. The ground adust her riven mouth disparts, Horrible chasm! profound. Philips

ocean.

2. A placed unfilled; a vacuity. Some lazy ages, lost in ease,

No action leave to busy chronicles; Such, whose supine felicity but makes In story chasms, in epochas mistakes. Dryden. CHA'SSELAS. n. s. [French.] A sort of

Sidney.

eis at home.

CHASTE-TREE. n. s. [vitex, Lat.

Miller.

This tree will grow to be eight or ten feet high, and produce spikes of flowers at the extremity of every strong shoot in autumn. CHA'STELY. adv. [from chaste.] Without incontinence; purely; without contamination.

Wotton.

You should not pass here; no, though it were as virtuous to lie as to live chastely. Shakspeare. Make first a song of joy and love, Which chastely flame in royal eyes. Succession of a long descent, Which chastely in the channels ran, And from our demi-gods began. Dryden. To CHA'STEN. v. a. [chastier, Fr. castigo, Lat.] To correct; to punish; to mortify.

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Proverbs.

I follow thee, safe guide! the path Thou lead'st me, and to the hand of heav'n sub

mit,

However chast'ning.

Milton's Paradise Lost. Some feel the rod,

And own, like us, the father's chast ning hand.

Rowe. From our lost pursuit she wills to hide Her close decrees, and chasten human pride. Prior.

To CHASTI'SE. v. a. [castigo, Lat. anciently accented on the first syllable, now on the last.]

1. To punish; to correct by punishment; to afflict for faults.

My breast I'll burst with straining of my

person that chastises; a punisher; a

corrector.

CHA'STITY. n. s. [castitas, Lat.] 1. Purity of the body.

Who can be bound by any solemn vow To force a spotless virgin's chastity? Shakspeare. Chastity is either abstinence or continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, of married persons: chaste marriages are ho nourable and pleasing to God. Toyler.

Ev'n here, where frozen chastity retires, Love finds an altar for forbidden fres. Poplo 2. Freedom from obscenity.

There is not chastity enough in language, Without offence to ufter them. Shakspeare. 3. Freedom from bad mixture of any kind; purity of language, opposed to barba risms. CHA'STNESS. n. s. [from chaste.]Chastity; purity.

To CHAT. v. n. [from caqueter, Fr. Skinner; perhaps from achat, purchase or cheapening, on account of the prate naturally produced in a bargain; or only, as it is most likely, contracted from chatter.] To prate; to talk idly; to prattle; to cackle; to chatter; to con

verse at ease.

Lords that can prate

As amply and unnecessarily

As this Gonzalo; I myself would make A chough of as deep chat.

Shakspeare.

The time between before the fire they sat, And shorten'd the delay by pleasing chat. Dryd. The least is good, far greater than the tickling of his palate with a glass of wine, or the idle chut of a soaking club. Locke.

Snuff, or the fan, supplies each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope.

CHAT. n. s. The keys of trees are called

chats; as, ash chats. CHATELLANY. n. s. [châtelenie, Fr.]The district under the dominion of a castle. Here are about twenty towns and forts of great importance, with their chatellanies and de pendencies. Dryden. CHA'TTEL. n. s. [See CATTLE.] Any moveable possession: a term now scarce used but in forms of law.

Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, not

fret;

I will be master of what is mine own; She is my goods, my chattels,

Honour's a lease for lives to come,

And cannot be extended from

The legal tenant; 't is a chattel
Not to be forfeited in battle.

Hudibras.

To CHATTER. v. n. [caqueter, Fr.] 1. To make a noise as a pie, or other unharmonious bird.

Nightingales seldom sing, the pie still chatteretb.

Sidney. So doth the cuckow, when the mavis sings, Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser. There was a crow sat chattering upon the back of a sheep: Well, sirrah, says the sheep, you durst not have done this to a dog. L'Estrange. Your birds of knowledge, that in dusky air Chatter futurity. Dryden. 2. To make a noise by collision of the teeth. Stood Theodore surpris'd in deadly fright, With chatt'ring teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.

Dip but your toes into cold water, Their correspondent teeth will chatter. Prior. 3. To talk idly or carelesly.

Suffer no hour to pass away in a lazy idleness, an impertinent chattering, or useless trites. Watts' Logick.

CHATTER. 12. s. [from the verb.]
1. Noise like that of a pie or monkey.
The mimick ape began his chatter,
How evil tongues his life bespatter.
2. Idle prate.

Swift.

CHATTERER. 7. s. [from chatter.] An idle talker; a prattler.

CHATWOOD. n. s. Little sticks; fuel. CHAVENDER. n. s. [chevesne, Fr.] A fish; the chub.

These a re a choice bait for the chub, or chavender, or indeed any great fish. Walton's Angler. CHAUMONTE'LLĒ. n. s. [French.] A sort of pear.

To CHAW. v. a. [karen, Germ.] To champ between the teeth; to masticate; to chew.

I home returning, fraught with foul despight, And chawing vengeance all the way I went. Spenser's Fairy Queen. They come to us, but us love draws; He swallows us, and never charvs; He is the tyrant pike, and we the fry. Donna.

Whether he found any use of charving little sponges, dipt in oil, in his mouth, when he was perfectly under water, and at a distance from his engine. Boyle. The man who laught but once to see an ass Mumbling to make the cross-grain'd thistles pass, Might laugh again, to see a jury chaw The prickles of unpalatable law. Dryden. CHAW. n. s. [from the verb.] The chap; the upper or under part of a beast's

mouth.

I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy barus, and will bring thee forth and all thine army. Ezekiel.

CHAWDRON. n. s. Entrails.

Add thereto a tyger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. Shakspeare. CHEAP. adj. [ceapan, Sax. koopen, Dut. to buy.]

1. To be had at a low rate; purchased for a small price.

Where there are a great many sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. On the other side, raise up a great many buyers for a few sellers, and the same thing will imme diately turn dear, Lucke.

2. Of small value; easy to be had; not

respected.

The goodness, that is cheap in beauty, makes beauty brief in goodness. Shakspeare.

Had I so lavish of my presents been,

So common hackney'd in the eyes of men, So stale and cheap to vulgar company. Shaksp. He that is too much in any thing, so that he giveth another occasion of society, maketli himself cheap. Bacon

May your sick fame still languish till it die, And you grow cheap in ev'ry subject's eye. Dryden.

The titles of distinction, which belong to us, are turned into terms of derision; and every way is taken, by profane men, towards rendering us cheap and contemptible. Atterbury. CHEAP. n. s. [cheaping is an old word for market; whence Eastcheap, Cheapside.] Market; purchase; bargain: as, good cheap; a bon marche, Fr.

The same wine which we pay so dear for nowa-days, in that good world was very good cheap. Sidney

It is many a man's case to tire himself out with hunting after that abroad, which he carries about him all the while, and may have it better cheap at home. L'Estrange. Some few insulting cowards, who love to va pour good cheap, may trample on those who give least resistance. Decay of Piety. To CHE'AFEN. v. a. [ceapan, Sax. to buy.]

1. To attempt to purchase; to bid for any thing; to ask the price of any commodity.

Rich she shall be, that 's certain; wise, or I none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her. Shak The first he cheapened was a Jupiter, which would have come at a very easy rate. L'Estrange She slipt sometimes to Mrs. Thody's, To cheapen tea.

Prior. To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.

2. To lessen in value.

Swift.

My hopes pursue a brighter diadem, Can any brighter than the Roman be? I find my proffer'd love has cheapen'd me. Dryden. CHEAPLY. adv. [from cheap.] At a small price; at a low rate.

By thcse I see So great a day as this is cheaply bought. Shaksp Blood, rapines, massacres, were cheaply bought, So mighty recompence your beauty brought. Dryden CHEAPNESS. n. s. [from cheap.] Lowness of price.

Ancient statutes incite merchant-strangers to bring in commodities; having for end cheapness. Bacons

The discredit which is grown upon Ireland, has been the great discouragement to other nations to transplant themselves hither, and prevailed farther than all the invitations which the cheapness and plenty of the country has made them.

Temple.

CHEAR. See CHEER. To CHEAT. v. a. [of uncertain derivation; probably from acheter, Fr. to purchase, alluding to the tricks used in making bargains. See the noun.] 1. To defraud; to impose upon; to trick. It is used commonly of low cunning.

To CHEER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To incite; to encourage; to inspirit. He complained that he was betrayed; yet, for all that, was nothing discouraged, but cheered up the footmen. Knolles.

He cheer'd the dogs to follow her who fled, And vow'd revenge on her devoted head. Dryd. 2. To comfort; to console.

I died, ere I could lend thee aid; But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd.

Shakspeare. Displeas'd at what, not suffering, they had seen, They went to cheer the faction of the green. Dryden.

3. To gladden.

Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers: Prepare the way; a god, a god appears! Pope. The sacred sun, above the waters rais'd, Thro' heaven's eternal brazen portals blaz'd, And wide o'er earth diffus'd his cheering ray.

Pope.

To CHEER. v. n. To grow gay or glad

Prime cheerer, light,

Temple.

'Of all material beings first and best. Thomson. CHEERFUL. adj. [from cheer and full.] 1. Gay; full of life; full of mirth.

The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chaunt sweet musick to delight his mind. Fairy Queen. 2. Having an appearance of gayety.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Proverbs.

CHEERFULLY. adv. [from cheerful.] Without dejection; with willingness; with gayety.

Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
Shakspeare.

To their known stations cheerfully they go.

Dryden. Doctrine is that which must prepare men for discipline; and men never go on so cheerfully, as when they see where they go. South. May the man,

That cheerfully recounts the female's praise, Find equal love, and love's untainted sweets Enjoy with honour. Philips. CHEERFULNESS. n. s. [from cheerful.] 1. Freedom from dejection; alacrity.

Barbarossa, using this exceeding cheerfulness and forwardness of his soldiers, weighed up the "fourteen gallies he had sunk. Knolles.

With what resolution and cheerfulness, with what courage and patience, did vast numbers of all sorts of people, in the first ages of christianity, encounter all the rage and malice of the world, and embrace torments and death! Tillotson.

They are useful to mankind, in affording them convenient situations of houses and villages, re flecting the benign and cherishing sunbeams, a so rendering their habitations both more com fortable and more cheerly in winter. 2. Not gloomy; not dejected. CHEERLY. adv. [from cheer.] Cheer fully.

R

Under heavy arms the youth of Rome Their long laborious marches overcome; Cheerly their tedious travels undergo. Dryd In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends, To reap the harvest of perpetual peace, By this one bloody trial of sharp war. Shaky. Oft listening how the hounds and horn Mit Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn. CHEERY. adj. [from cheer.] Gay; spright ly; having the power to make gay: a ludicrous word.

Come, let us hie, and quaff a cheery bowl; Let cyder new wash sorrow from thy soul Gay CHEESE. n. s. [caseus, Lat. cyre, Sax A kind of food made by pressing the curd of coagulated milk, and suffering the mass to dry.

I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, the Welshman with my cheese, than my we with herself.

Shakspeare CHEESECAKE. n. s. [from cheese and

cake.] A cake made

gar, and butter.

of soft curds, su

Effeminate he sat, and quiet;

Strange product of a cheesecake diet.

Prix.

Where many a man, at variance with his wife, With soft'ning mead and cheesecake ends the strife

Kit

CHEESEMONGER. n. s. [from cheese and monger.] One who deals in cheese. A true owl of London, That gives out he 's undone, Being a cheesemonger, By trusting. Ben Jo CHE'ESEPRESS. n. s. [from cheese and press.] The press in which the curdi are pressed.

The cleanly cheesepress she could never tur, Her aukward fist did ne'er employ the chura, Gay's Pastoral CHE ESEVAT. n. s. [from cheese and va The wooden case in which the curds are confined when they are pressed into