requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.
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A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.
A bed blanket.
Of or pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient people of Pontus in Asia Minor, celebrated for working in iron and steel.
Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient.
Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
Native iron carbonate; -- usually called siderite.
The sovereign prince of Tartary; -- now usually written khan.
A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.
a genus of small late-flowering trees or subshrubs having yellow to red flowers and leathery or woody pods; -- often used especially for those formerly included in genus Cytisus.
a genus consisting of only one species, the leatherleaf.
the type genus of the Chamaeleontidae.
a lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue.
a small constellation in the southern skies between Hydrus and Musca.
a natural family comprising the Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria.
a small genus of plants sometimes included in genus Anthemis; chamomile.
a perennial plant that sets its dormant vegetative buds just at or above the surface of the ground.
The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
To shut up, as in a chamber.
Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid.
Lewdness.
An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
Office of a chamberlain.
A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
A red wine from Chambertin near Dijon, in Burgundy.
An ornamental bordering or framelike decoration around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.
A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.
Same as Gambrel.
A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.
A lizardlike reptile of the genus Cham/leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; it has eyes which can move separately, the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. It is remarkable for its ability to change the color of its skin to blend with its surroundings.
To change into various colors.
The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.
A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.
See Camlet.
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.
See Camomile.
A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, Anthemis nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.
a greenish gray or black silicate of iron and aluminum.
To bite or chew impatiently.
A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.
Flat; open; level.
The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
One who champs, or bites.
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.
Partnership in power; equal share of authority.
An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).
One who engages in any contest; especially one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another's honor or rights; or one who now acts or speaks in behalf of a person or a cause; a defender; an advocate; a hero.
A female champion.
State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. A piece of champlev/ enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlev/ work.
See Kamsin.
a thorny shrub or small tree (Geoffroea decorticans) common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries.
By chance; perchance.
The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.
Fortuitous; casual.
By chance.
Hazardous.
That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
Chancellorship.
A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.
The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
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.
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.
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.
of or pertaining to a chancroid.
Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.
depending on chance.
A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
to perform a chandelle, as of an airplane.
the malevolent aspect of Devi: "the fierce".
A maker or seller of candles.
Like a chandler; in a petty way.
Commodities sold by a chandler.
An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking.
Chandlery.
The fore part of a horse's head.
the capital of the ancient Chinese empire.
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 baseball pitch thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball; -- called also change-up.
ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing. See change{9}, n.
same as change-of-pace.
Changeableness.
Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
In a changeable manner.
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.
That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose.
Taken or left in place of another; changed.
an event that results in a transformation.
One who changes or alters the form of anything.
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.
To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
A song.
A little song.
Song; melody.
Composed in a melodious and singing style.
One who chants; a singer or songster.
A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
A sailor's song.
A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.
A chanter.
A female chanter or singer.
An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
same as Hanukka; -- a variant spelling.
Divination by means of appearances in the air.
An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
Resembling chaos; confused.
In a chaotic manner.
To bargain; to buy.
Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps.
Same as Chaparajos.
A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
a flat pancakelike bread cooked on a griddle, originating in India.
Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.
The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
A hat or covering for the head.
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