Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 40
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.) 【動】變色龍；善變的人；輕浮的人 A lizardlike reptile of the genus {Cham[ae]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. [Also sometimes spelled {chamaeleon}.]
Note: Its color changes more or less with the color of the objects about it, or with its temper when disturbed. In a cool, dark place it is nearly white, or grayish; on admitting the light, it changes to brown, bottle-green, or blood red, of various shades, and more or less mottled in arrangment. The American chameleons belong to {Anolis} and allied genera of the family {Iguanid[ae]}. They are more slender in form than the true chameleons, but have the same power of changing their colors.
Chameleon (n.) A person who changes opinions, ideas, or behavior to suit the prevailing social climate; an opportunist.
{Chameleon mineral} (Chem.), the compound called {potassium permanganate}, a dark violet, crystalline substance, {KMnO4}, which in formation passes through a peculiar succession of color from green to blue, purple, red, etc.
See {Potassium permanganate}, under {Potassium}.
Chameleon (n.) A changeable or inconstant person.
Chameleon (n.) A faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa [syn: {Chamaeleon}, {Chameleon}].
Chameleon (n.) Lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue [syn: {chameleon}, {chamaeleon}].
Chameleon (n.) A species of lizard which has the faculty of changing the colour of its skin. It is ranked among the unclean animals in Lev. 11:30, where the Hebrew word so translated is _coah_ (R.V., "land crocodile"). In the same verse the Hebrew _tanshemeth_, rendered in Authorized Version "mole," is in Revised Version "chameleon," which is the correct rendering. This animal is very common in Egypt and in the Holy Land, especially in the Jordan valley.
Chameleonize (v. t.) To change into various colors.
Chamfer (n.) 【建】（柱子、門檻的）面；凹槽 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.) (Carp.) 去角；取面；挖槽；倒角 To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
Chamfer (v. t.) To make a chamfer on.
Chamfer (n.) Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees [syn: {bevel}, {cant}, {chamfer}].
Chamfer (v.) Cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface" [syn: {bevel}, {chamfer}].
Chamfer (v.) Cut a furrow into a columns [syn: {furrow}, {chamfer}, {chase}].
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.
Chamomile (n.) [ U ] (Mainly US) (UK usually Camomile) 甘菊，春黃菊 A plant whose white and yellow flowers are used to make tea.
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.
Champion (n.) [ C ] (Winner) (B1) (Informal champ) （尤指人或動物）冠軍，獲勝者 Someone or something, especially a person or animal, that has beaten all other competitors in a competition.
// An Olympic champion.
// She is the world champion for the third year in succession.
// The defending champion will play his first match of the tournament tomorrow.
// Who are the reigning European football champions?
Champion (n.) [ C ] (Supporter) (C2) 擁護者；衛士，捍衛者；鬥士 A person who enthusiastically supports, defends, or fights for a person, belief, right, or principle.
// She has long been a champion of prisoners' rights/the disabled/free speech.
Champion (v.) [ T ] 支持，聲援，捍衛（人、信仰、權利或原則），為…鬥爭 To support, defend, or fight for a person, belief, right, or principle enthusiastically.
// He has championed constitutional reform for many years.
Champion (a. , Exclamation) (Northern English informal) 優秀的，第一流的，很好的 Excellent.
Championness (n.) A female champion.
Championship (n.) State of being champion; leadership; supremacy.
Championship (n.) (Competition) (B1) [ C ] （尤指體育比賽的）冠軍賽，錦標賽 A high-level competition to decide who is the best, especially in a sport.
// The British Diving Championship.
// The world championships will be held in Scotland next year.
// He has been playing championship tennis for three years now.
Championship (n.) (Competition) [ C ] 冠軍地位；冠軍稱號 The position of being a champion.
// She has held the championship for the past three years.
Championship (n.) (Support) [ U ] 擁護者；衛士，捍衛者；鬥士 The support someone gives to a person, belief, right, or principle.
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.
Chance (n.) (Opportunity) (B1) [ C ] 機遇；機會；時機 An occasion that allows something to be done.
// I didn't get/ have a chance to speak to her.
// [ + to infinitive ] If you give me a chance to speak, I'll explain.
// Society has to give prisoners a second chance when they come out of jail.
// He left and I missed my chance to say goodbye to him.
// I'd go now given half a chance (= if I had the slightest opportunity).
Synonym:
Opportunity (n.) (B1) [ C or U ] 機遇；時機；機會；可能性 An occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of doing something.
// Everyone will have an opportunity to comment.
// I was never given the opportunity of going to college.
// [ + to infinitive ] The exhibition is a unique opportunity to see her later work.
// An ankle injury meant she missed the opportunity to run in the qualifying heat.
// (Formal) Please contact us at the earliest opportunity (= as soon as possible).
// He goes fishing at every opportunity (= as often as possible).
// I used to love going out dancing, but I don't get much opportunity now.
// He had a golden (= an extremely good) opportunity to score in the first half but squandered it.
Opportunity (n.) (B2) [ C ] 就業機會 The chance to get a job.
// Employment/ job opportunities.
// Opportunities for young graduates.
There are some great opportunities now for engineers trained in computer-aided design.
Chance (n.) (Possibility) (B1) [ S or plural ] 可能性；機會 The level of possibility that something will happen.
// You'd have a better chance/more chance of passing your exams if you worked a bit harder.
// [ + (that) ] There's a good chance (that) I'll have this essay finished by tomorrow.
// There's a slim/slight chance (that) I might have to go to Manchester next week.
// If we hurry, there's still an outside (= very small) chance of catching the plane.
// "Is there any chance of speaking to him?" "Not a/No chance, I'm afraid."
// I don't think I stand/have a chance of winning.
// (UK) John thinks they're in with a chance (= they have a possibility of doing or getting what they want).
// Her resignation has improved my chances of promotion.
// What are her chances of survival?
// [ + that ] What are the chances that they'll win?
Synonym:
Likelihood (n.) [ U ] (C2) 可能，可能性 The chance that something will happen.
// This latest dispute greatly increases the likelihood of a strike.
// [ + that ] There is every likelihood that more jobs will be lost later this year.
// There is little likelihood now that interest rates will come down further.
Chance (n.) (Risk) (B2) [ C ] （不好的事情發生的）危險，風險；冒險 A possibility that something negative will happen.
// I'm delivering my work by hand - I'm not taking any chances.
// There's a chance of injury in almost any sport.
Synonym:
Risk (n.) (B2) [ C or U ] 風險；危險 The possibility of something bad happening.
// In this business, the risks and the rewards are high.
// There's a high risk of another accident happening in this fog.
// [ + (that) ] The risk (that) we might fail made us work twice as hard.
// [ + -ing verb ] It's always a risk starting up a new business.
// The company is quite a good risk (= safe to lend money to).
// We want clean rivers and lakes, where you can swim without risk to your health.
// It's a low/ high-risk strategy (= one that is safe/ not safe).
Risk (n.) (C1) [ C ] 潛在危險；隱患 Something bad that might happen.
// This wire is a safety/fire risk.
// His employers thought he was a security risk (= he might tell their secrets to a competitor).
At risk (B2) 處境危險，冒風險 In a dangerous situation.
// All houses within 100 metres of the seas are at risk of flooding.
At your own risk (C2) 自擔風險；責任自負 Used to mean that you are responsible for any damage, loss, or difficulty.
// Drivers are reminded that they leave their cars here at their own risk.
Run/take a risk (B2) 冒風險；做冒險的事情 To do something that might be dangerous.
// Don't take any risks - just call the police.
// You're running a big risk if oil prices drop sharply.
Idiom:
At the risk of doing sth （表示自己說的話可能造成冒犯或聽起來很蠢）冒著…的風險 Used before you say something that may seem offensive or stupid.
// At the risk of seeming rude, I'm afraid I have to leave now.
// At the risk of sounding stupid, how do I send this email?
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Run the risk of doing sth 冒…的危險；冒險做… To do something although something bad might happen because of it.
// If you tell him the truth, you run the risk of hurting his feelings.
Risk (v.) [ T ] (B2) 擔…的風險，冒險做 To do something although there is a chance of a bad result.
// "It's dangerous to cross here." "I'll just have to risk it."
// [ + -ing verb ] He risked losing his house when his company went bankrupt.
Risk (v.) [ T ] (B2) 使遭受危險 If you risk something important, you cause it to be in a dangerous situation where you might lose it.
// I'm not risking my life (informal neck) in that old car.
// He risked life and limb to get the cat down from the tree.
// She was prepared to risk everything on a last throw of the dice.
Chance (n.) (Luck) (B1) [ U ] 偶然，碰巧；巧合 The force that causes things to happen without any known cause or reason for doing so.
// Roulette is a game of chance.
// I got this job completely by chance.
// [ + (that) ] It was pure/sheer chance (that) we met.
// We must double-check everything and leave nothing to chance.
By any chance (C2) （用於詢問或禮貌地請求）也許，可能 Used to ask a question or request in a polite way.
// Are you Hungarian, by any chance?
// Could you lend me a couple of pounds, by any chance?
// You wouldn't, by any chance, have a calculator on you, would you?
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Chance would be a fine thing (UK informal) 可惜沒有機會，要是有機會就好了 Said when you would very much like something to happen but there is no possibility that it will.
// "You should relax a bit more." "Chance would be a fine thing."
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(The) Chances are (Informal) (C2) 很有可能 It is likely.
// Chances are (that) they'll be late anyway.
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Not give much for sb's chances 不太相信（某人）會成功 To not believe someone will succeed.
// I wouldn't give much for his chances in the next race.
Chance (v.) (Risk) [ T ] 冒險 To risk something.
// You'd be a fool to chance your life savings on a single investment.
Chance (v.) (Luck) [ I ] (old-fashioned or literary) 偶然發生；碰巧 To happen or do something by chance.
// [ + to infinitive ] They chanced to be in the restaurant when I arrived.
// I chanced on/upon (= found unexpectedly) some old love letters in a drawer.
// Ten years after leaving school, we chanced on/upon (= unexpectedly met) each other in Regent Street.
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Chance your arm (UK) 冒險一試；碰運氣 To take a risk in order to get something that you want.
// Aren't you chancing your arm a bit giving up a secure job to start up a business?
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.
Chancellor (n.) [ C ] (C2)（政府）大臣，總理，大法官；（大學）校長 A person in a position of the highest or high rank, especially in a government or university.
// Helmut Kohl became the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1990.
// A former politician has been appointed Chancellor of the university.
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.) 衡平法院；衡平法；大法官法庭 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.
Note: A court of chancery, so far as it is a court of equity, in the English and American sense, may be generally, if not precisely, described as one having jurisdiction in cases of rights, recognized and protected by the municipal jurisprudence, where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy can not be had in the courts of common law. In some of the American States, jurisdiction at law and in equity centers in the same tribunal. The courts of the United States also have jurisdiction both at law and in equity, and in all such cases they exercise their jurisdiction, as courts of law, or as courts of equity, as the subject of adjudication may require. In others of the American States, the courts that administer equity are distinct tribunals, having their appropriate judicial officers, and it is to the latter that the appellation courts of chancery is usually applied; but, in American law, the terms equity and court of equity are more frequently employed than the corresponding terms chancery and court of chancery. -- Burrill.
Inns of chancery. See under Inn.
To get (or to hold) In chancery (Boxing), To get the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will; hence, to have wholly in One's power. The allusion is to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court, where he was helpless, while the lawyers lived upon his estate.
Chancery (n.) A court with jurisdiction in equity [syn: chancery, court of chancery].
Chancery (n.) An office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records.
Chancery. () The name of a court exercising jurisdiction at law, but mainly in equity.
Chancery. () It is not easy to determine how courts of equity originally obtained the jurisdiction they now exercise. Their authority, and the extent of it, have been subjects of much question, but time has firmly established them; and the limits of their jurisdiction seem to be in a great degree fixed and ascertained. 1 Story on Eq. ch. 2; Mitf. Pl. Introd.; Coop. Eq. Pl. Introd. See also Butler's Reminiscences, 38, 40; 3 Bl. Com. 435; 2 Bin. 135; 4 Bin. 50; 6 Bin. 162; 2 Serg. & R. 356; 9 Serg. & R. 315; for the necessity, origin and use of courts of chancery.
Chancery. () The judge of the court of chancery, often called a court of equity, bears the title of chancellor. The equity jurisdiction, in England, is vested, principally, in the high court of chancery. This court is distinct from courts of law. "American courts of equity are, in some instances, distinct from those of law, in others, the same tribunals exercise the jurisdiction both of courts of law and equity, though their forms of proceeding are different in their two capacities. The supreme court of the United States, and the circuit courts, are invested with general equity powers, and act either as court's of law or equity, according to the form of the process and the subject of adjudication. In some of the states, as New York, Virginia, and South Carolina, the equity court is a distinct tribunal, having its appropriate judge, or chancellor, and officers. In most of the states, the two jurisdictions centre in the same judicial officers, as in the courts of the United States; and the extent of equity jurisdiction and proceedings is very various in the different states, being very ample in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, and more restricted in Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania. But the salutary influence of these powers on the judicial administration generally, by the adaptation of chancery forms and modes of proceeding to many cases in which a court of law affords but an imperfect remedy, or no remedy at all, is producing a gradual extension of them in those states where they have been, heretofore, very limited."
Chancery. () The jurisdiction of a court of equity differs essentially from that of a court of law. The remedies for wrongs, or for the enforcement of rights, may be distinguished into two classes those which are administered in courts of law, and those which are administered in courts of equity. The rights secured by the former are called legal; those secured by the latter are called equitable. The former are said to be rights and remedies at common law, because recognized and enforced in courts of common law. The latter are said to be rights and remedies in equity, because they are administered in courts of equity or chancery, or by proceedings in other courts analogous to those in courts of equity or chancery. Now, in England and America, courts of common law proceed by certain prescribed forms, and give a general judgment for or against the defendant. They entertain jurisdiction only in certain actions, and give remedies according to the particular exigency of such actions. But there are many cases in which a simple judgment for either party, without qualifications and conditions, and particular arrangements, will not. do entire justice, ex aequo et bono, to either party. Some modification of the rights of both parties is required; some restraints on one side or the other; and some peculiar adjustments, either present or future, temporary or perpetual. Now, in all these cases, courts of common law have no methods of proceeding, which can accomplish such objects. Their forms of actions and judgment are not adapted to them. The proper remedy cannot be found, or cannot be administered to the full extent of the relative rights of all parties. Such prescribed forms of actions are not confined to our law. They were known in the civil law; and the party could apply them only to their original purposes. In other cases, he had a special remedy. In such cases, where the courts of common law cannot grant the proper remedy or relief, the law of England and of the United States (in those states where equity is administered) authorizes an application to the courts of equity or chancery, which are not confined or limited in their modes of relief by such narrow regulations, but which grant relief to all parties, in cases where they have rights, ex aequo et bono, and modify and fashion that relief according to circumstances. The most general description of a court of equity is, that it has jurisdiction in cases where a plain, adequate and complete remedy cannot be had at law that is, in common law courts. The remedy must be plain; for, if it be doubtful and obscure at law, equity will assert a jurisdiction. So it must be adequate at law; for, if it fall short of what the party is entitled to, that founds a jurisdiction in equity. And it must be complete; that is, it must attain its full end at law it must reach the whole mischief and secure the whole right of the party, now and for the future otherwise equity will interpose, and give relief. The jurisdiction of a court of equity is sometimes concurrent with that of courts of, law and sometimes it is exclusive. It exercises concurrent jurisdiction in cases where the rights are purely of a legal nature, but where other and more efficient aid is required than a court of law can afford, to meet the difficulties of the case, and ensure full redress. In some of these cases courts of law formerly refused all redress but now will grant it. But the jurisdiction having been once justly acquired at a time when there was no such redress at law, it is not now relinquished. The most common exercise of concurrent jurisdiction is in cases of account, accident, dower, fraud, mistake, partnership, and partition. The remedy is here often more complete and effectual than it can be at law. In many cases falling under these heads, and especially in some cases of fraud, mistake and accident, courts of law cannot and do not afford any redress; in others they do, but not always in so perfect a manner. A court of equity also is assistant to the jurisdiction of courts of law, in many cases, where the latter have no like authority. It will remove legal impediments to the fair decision of a question depending at law. It will prevent a party from improperly setting up, at a trial, some title or claim, which would be inequitable. It will compel him to discover, on his own oath, facts which he knows are material to the rights of the other party, but which a court of law cannot compel the party to discover. It will perpetuate the testimony of witnesses to rights and titles, which are in danger of being lost, before the, matter can be tried. It will provide for the safety of property in dispute pending litigation. It will counteract and control, or set aside, fraudulent judgments. It will exercise, in many cases, an exclusive jurisdiction. This it does in all cases of morely equitable rights, that is, such rights as are not recognized in courts of law. Most cases of trust and confidence fall under this head. Its exclusive jurisdiction is also extensively exercised in granting special relief beyond the reach of the common law. It will grant injunctions to prevent waste, or irreparable injury, or to secure a settled right, or to prevent vexatious litigations, or to compel the restitution of title deeds; it will appoint receivers of property, where it is in danger of misapplication it will compel the surrender of securities improperly obtained; it will prohibit a party from leaving the country in order to avoid a suit it will restrain any undue exercise of a legal right, against conscience and equity; it will decree a specific performance of contracts respecting real estates; it will, in many cases, supply the imperfect execution of instruments, and reform and alter them according to the real intention of the parties; it will grant relief in cases of lost deeds or securities; and, in all cases in which its interference is asked, its general rule is, that he who asks equity must do equity. If a party, therefore, should ask to have a bond for a usurious debt given up, equity could not decree it, unless he could bring into court the money honestly due without usury. This is a very general and imperfect outline of the jurisdiction of a court of equity; in respect to which it has been justly remarked, that, in matters within its exclusive jurisdiction, where substantial justice entitles the party to relief, but the positive law is silent, it is impossible to define the boundaries of that jurisdiction, or to enumerate, with precision, its various principles." Ency. Am. art. Equity. Vide Fonb. Eq.; Story on Eq.; Madd. Ch. Pr.; 10 Amer. Jur. 227; Coop. Eq. Pl.; Redesd. Pl.; Newl. Cb. Practice; Beame's Pl. Eq.; Jeremy on Eq.; Encycl. Amer. article Equity, Court.
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.
Therefore will I change their glory into shame. -- Hosea. iv. 7.
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.
They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! -- Peele.
Change (v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.
Look upon those thousands with whom thou wouldst not, for any interest, change thy fortune and condition. -- Jer. Taylor.
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.
For I am Lord, I change not. -- Mal. iii. 6.
Change (v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
Change (n.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
Apprehensions of a change of dynasty. -- Hallam.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. -- Job xiv. 14.
Change (n.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
Our fathers did for change to France repair. -- Dryden.
The ringing grooves of change. -- Tennyson.
Change (n.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
Change (n.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
Change (n.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
Thirty change (R.V. changes) of garments. -- Judg. xiv. 12.
Change (n.) 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 (n.) [See {Exange}.] A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.]