A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.
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One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.
A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
to chasten.
In a chaste manner; with purity.
To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down.
One who chastens.
Chastity; purity.
Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
having bad behavior criticised and punished; as, the chastised child sat humbly in the corner.
The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector.
The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
same as chastise; -- a variant spelling; as, She chastized him for his insensitive remarks.
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.
A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
A castle or a fortress in France.
a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918.
a double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin, broiled and served with a sauce and potatoes.
An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
A little castle.
Same as Castellany.
A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.
The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.
Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
The act or habit of chattering.
A prater; an idle talker.
The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.
A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.
The killing of a person in an affray, in the heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance-medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray.
See Chawdron.
A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.
Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; -- so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.
A woman chauffeur.
See Chawdron.
To open; to yawn.
See Chant.
A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
See Chantry.
a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus).
The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
A foot covering of any kind.
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
fanatically patriotic.
The chub.
As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid.
Entrails.
To buy; to bargain.
A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
One who cheapens.
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
See Cheer.
Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Capable of being cheated.
Capability of being cheated.
One who cheats.
A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia; a Czechoslovakian.
Checkered; designed in checks.
To register as a guest at a hotel, inn, motel. etc. Converse of check out.
To inspect or examine.
The act of registering as a guest at a hotel, inn, motel. etc; the act of checking in. Used also attributively, as the check-in counter at a hotel.
The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
Held back from some action especially by force.
A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
a perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of West North America (Sidalcea malviflora) that is also cultivated.
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.
Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
A game, called also draughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Ciclatoun.
That can not be checked or restrained.
To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.
a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases.
the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.
a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance.
A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.
To be impudent or saucy to.
the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.
Having a cheek; -- used in composition.
having no cheek. Opposite of cheeked.
A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.
To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.
One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.
Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
In a cheerful manner, gladly.
Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
In a cheery manner.
The state of being cheery.
In a manner to cheer or encourage.
Cheerfulness.
Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
Cheerily.
Displaying evident cheerfulness; cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person; a cheery hello.
The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
a board on which cheeses are served.
a hamburger with melted cheese on it.
an erect or decumbent Old World perennial (Malva sylvestris) with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.
A bag in which rennet is kept.
One who deals in cheese.
A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.
The quality of being cheesy.
Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
A species of leopard (Cyn/lurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is Cyn/lurus laneus. It runs very fast in short spurts while hunting.
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