Chambering (n.) Lewdness.
Chamberlain (n.) An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
Chamberlain (n.) An upper servant of an inn.
Chamberlain (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
Chamberlain (n.) A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.
Chamberlainship (n.) Office of a chamberlain.
Chambermaid (n.) A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
Chambermaid (n.) A lady's maid.
Chambertin (n.) A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
Chambrel (n.) Same as Gambrel.
Chameck (n.) A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.
Chameleon (n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.
Chameleonize (v. t.) To change into various colors.
Chamfer (n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
Chamfered (imp. & p. p.) of Chamfer
Chamfering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chamfer
Chamfer (v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
Chamfer (v. t.) To make a chamfer on.
Chamfret (n.) A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Chamfret (n.) A chamfer.
Chamfron (n.) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.
Chamlet (n.) See Camlet.
Chamois (n.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.
Chamois (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.
Chamomile (n.) See Camomile.
Champed (imp. & p. p.) of Champ
Champing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Champ
Champ (v. t.) To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.
Champ (v. t.) To bite into small pieces; to crunch.
Champ (v. i.) To bite or chew impatiently.
Champ (n.) Alt. of Champe
Champe (n.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
Champagne (n.) A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.
Champaign (n.) A flat, open country.
Champaign (a.) Flat; open; level.
Champer (n.) One who champs, or bites.
Champertor (n.) One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.
Champerty (n.) Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
Champerty (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance.
Champignon (n.) An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).
Chappion (n.) One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
Chappion (n.) One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England.
Championed (imp. & p. p.) of Champion
Championing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Champion
Champion (v. t.) To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.
Championness (n.) A female champion.
Championship (n.) State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
Champlain period () A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.
Chamsin (n.) See Kamsin.
Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
Chance (n.) The operation or activity of such agent.
Chance (n.) 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.
Chance (n.) 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.
Chance (n.) Probability.
Chanced (imp. & p. p.) of Chance
Chancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chance
Chance (v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
Chance (v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
Chance (v. t.) To befall; to happen to.
Chance (a.) Happening by chance; casual.
Chance (adv.) By chance; perchance.
Chanceable (a.) Fortuitous; casual.
Chanceably (adv.) By chance.
Chanceful (a.) Hazardous.
Chancel (v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
Chancel (v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
Chancellery (n.) Chancellorship.
Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
Chancellorship (n.) The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
Chance-medley (n.) The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.
Chance-medley (n.) Luck; chance; accident.
Chancery (n.) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
Chancery (n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
Chancre (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
Chancroid (n.) 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 (a.) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.
Chandelier (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
Chandelier (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.
Chandler (n.) A maker or seller of candles.
Chandler (n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.
Chandlerly (a.) Like a chandler; in a petty way.
Chandlery (n.) Commodities sold by a chandler.
Chandoo (n.) An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.
Chandry (n.) Chandlery.
Chanfrin (n.) The fore part of a horse's head.
Changed (imp. & p. p.) of Change
Changing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Change
Change (v. 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.
Change (v. t.) 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.
Change (v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.
Change (v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.
Change (v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.
Change (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
Change (v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
Change (v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
Change (v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
Change (v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
Change (v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
Change (v. t.) 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.
Change (v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.