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 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.

Furnished with a chape or chapes.

To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

Without a chape.

A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.

A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.

To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen.

A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

The office, position, or station of a chaplain.

The office or business of a chaplain.

Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.

To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

provided with a chaplet; wearing a chaplet.

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.

Short for Chaparajos.

To divide into chapters, as a book.

An impost.

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.

A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae; -- also called characin.

a natural family of tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and southern and central America.

any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae; -- also called characid.

former name of the family Characidae.

A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.

A distinction of character; a characteristic.

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

Characteristic.

In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.

The act or process of characterizing.

To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.

stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts.

Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.

A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

a natural family of birds comprising the plovers.

large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters; shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on animal life.

the type genus of the Charadriidae; the plovers.

a small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis; the stoneworts.

Carbuncle.

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.