Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 45

Chassepot (n.) (Mil.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun.

Chasseur (n.) (Mil.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

Chasseur (n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. -- W. Irving.

Chassis (n.) (Mil.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

Chassis (n.) (Mil.) The under part of an automobile or other motor vehicle, consisting of the frame (on which the body is mounted) with the wheels and machinery.

Chassis (n.) Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh].

Chassis (n.) A metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic Device.

Chassis (n.) The skeleton of a motor vehicle consisting of a steel frame supported on springs that holds the body and motor.

Chast (v. t.) to chasten. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Chaste (a.) 貞潔的，純潔的，樸素的 Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." -- Shak.

Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. -- Milton.

Chaste (a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

Chaste (a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.

That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. -- Macaulay.

Chaste (a.) Unmarried. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Syn: Undefiled; pure; virtuous; continent; immaculate; spotless.

Chaste tree. Same as Agnus castus.

Chaste (a.) Morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste" [ant: unchaste].

Chaste (a.) Pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers".

Chaste (a.) Abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse.

Chastely (adv.) In a chaste manner; with purity.

Chastely (adv.) In a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously].

Chastened (imp. & p. p.) of Chasten.

Chastening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chasten.

Chasten (v. t.) To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. -- Heb. xii. 6.

Chasten (v. t.) To purify from errors or faults; to refine.

They [classics] chasten and enlarge the mind, and excite to noble actions. -- Layard.

Syn: To chastise; punish; correct; discipline; castigate; afflict; subdue; purify.

Usage: To Chasten, Punish, Chastise. To chasten is to subject to affliction or trouble, in order to produce a general change for the better in life or character.

To punish is to inflict penalty for violation of law, disobedience to authority, or intentional wrongdoing.

To chastise is to punish a particular offense, as with stripes, especially with the hope that suffering or disgrace may prevent a repetition of faults.

Chasten (v.) Censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct].

Chasten (v.) Restrain [syn: chasten, moderate, temper].

Chasten (v.) Correct by punishment or discipline [syn: tame, chasten, subdue].

Chastened (a.) Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. -- Sir. W. Scott.

Of such a finished chastened purity. -- Tennyson.

Chastener (n.) One who chastens.

Chasteness (n.) Chastity; purity.

Chasteness (n.) (Literature & Art) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.

Chasteness (n.) Lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with great restraint" [syn: chasteness, restraint, simplicity, simpleness].

Chastisable (a.) Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. -- Sherwood.

Chastised (imp. & p. p.) of Chastise

Chastising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chastise

Chastise (v. t.) 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.

How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. -- Shak.

I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. -- Boyle.

Chastise (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. -- Thomson.

Chastise (v. t.) To criticize (a person) strongly and directly in order to correct behavior.

Syn: castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct, dress down.

Syn: See Chasten.

Chastise (v.) Censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct].

Chastise (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 嚴厲批評，譴責，斥責 To criticize someone severely.

// Charity organizations have chastised the government for not doing enough to prevent the latest famine in Africa.

Chastisement (n.) 懲罰 The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! -- Shak.

I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. -- Job xxxiv. 31.

Chastisement (n.) Verbal punishment [syn: castigation, chastisement].

Chastisement (n.) A rebuke for making a mistake [syn: correction, chastening, chastisement].

Chastiser (n.) One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. -- Jer. Taylor.

The chastiser of the rich. -- Burke.

Chastity (n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.

She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. -- T. Carew.

Chastity (n.) Moral purity.

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. -- Milton.

Chastity (n.) The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Chastity (n.) (Literature & Art) Chasteness.

Chastity (n.) Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention]

Chastity (n.) Morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue, chastity, sexual morality].

Chasuble (n.) (Eccl.) 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. [Written also chasible, and chesible.]

Chasuble (n.) A long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass.

Chatted (imp. & p. p.) of Chat

Chatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chat

Chat (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. -- Shak.

To chat a while on their adventures. -- Dryden.

Syn: To talk; chatter; gossip; converse.

Chat (v. t.) To talk of. [Obs.]

Chat (n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.

Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. -- Pope.

Chat (n.) (Zool.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.

Bush chat. (Zool.) See under Bush.

Chat (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

Chat (n.) pl. (Mining) Small stones with ore.

Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.]

Chat (n.) An informal conversation [syn: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose].

Chat (n.) Birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat, chat].

Chat (n.) Songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat, chat].

Chat (v.) Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit].

Chat, () Any system that allows any number of logged-in users to have a typed, real-time, on-line conversation via a network.

The medium of chat is descended from talk, but the terms (and the media) have been distinct since at least the early 1990s.  talk is prototypically for a small number of people, generally with no provision for channels.  In chat systems, however, there are many channels in which any number of people can talk; and users may send private (one-to-one) messages.

Some early chat systems (in use 1998) include IRC, ICQ and Palace.  More recent alternatives include MSN Messenger and Google Talk.

Chat systems have given rise to a distinctive style combining the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails.  It is difficult to communicate inflection, though conventions have arisen to help with this.

The conventions of chat systems include special items of jargon, generally abbreviations meant to save typing, which are not used orally.  E.g. BCNU, BBL, BTW, CUL, FWIW, FYA, FYI, IMHO, OT, OTT, TNX, WRT, WTF, WTH, , <gr&d></gr&d>, BBL, HHOK, NHOH, ROTFL, AFK, b4, TTFN, TTYL, OIC, re.

Much of the chat style is identical to (and probably derived from) Morse code jargon used by ham-radio amateurs since the 1920s, and there is, not surprisingly, some overlap with TDD jargon.  Most of the jargon was in use in talk systems.

Many of these expressions are also common in Usenet news and electronic mail and some have seeped into popular culture, as with emoticons.

The MUD community uses a mixture of emoticons, a few of the more natural of the old-style talk mode abbreviations, and some of the "social" list above.  In general, though, MUDders express a preference for typing things out in full rather than using abbreviations; this may be due to the relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to include many touch typists.  Abbreviations specific to MUDs include:

FOAD, ppl (people), THX (thanks), UOK? (are you OK?).

Some BIFFisms (notably the variant spelling "d00d") and aspects of ASCIIbonics appear to be passing into wider use among some subgroups of MUDders and are already pandemic on chat systems in general.

See also hakspek.

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Chateux (n. pl. ) of Chateau.

Chateau (n.) A castle or a fortress in France.

Chateau (n.) A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chateau of the Louvre; the chateau of the Luxembourg.

Note: The distinctive, French term for a fortified castle of the middle ages is ch[^a]teau-fort.

Chatelaine (n.) 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.

Chatelaine (n.) The mistress of a chateau or large country house.

Chatelaine (n.) A chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc.

Chatelet (n.) A little castle.

Chatellany (n.) Same as Castellany.

Chati (n.) (Zool.) A small South American species of tiger cat ({Felis mitis).

Chatoyant (a.) (Min.) Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

Chatoyant (n.) (Min.) A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

Chatoyant (a.) Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent" [syn: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot].
Chatoyment (n.) Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors. -- Cleaceland.

Chatspeak (n.) (uncountable) (Internet, informal) The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms.

Related terms Leetspeak Origin chat + -speak Leetspeak (Proper n.) (chiefly Internet slang) A form of chatspeak characterized most strongly by its alphanumeric substitutions. Origin leet +"Ž -speak.

Chattel (n.) (Law) 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.

Note: Chattels are personal or real: personal are such as are movable, as goods, plate, money; real are such rights in land as are less than a freehold, as leases, mortgages, growing corn, etc.

Chattel mortgage (Law), A mortgage on personal property, as distinguished from one on real property.

Chattel (n.) Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: chattel, personal chattel, movable].

Chattelism (n.) The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.

Chattered (imp. & p. p.) of Chatter.

Chattering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chatter.

Chatter (v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. -- Wordsworth.

Chatter (v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.

To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. -- Shak.

Chatter (v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.

With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. -- Dryden.

Chatter (v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.

Begin his witless note apace to chatter. -- Spenser.

Chatter (n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

Your words are but idle and empty chatter. -- Longfellow.

Chatter (n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.

Chatter (n.) Noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle].

Chatterer (n.) The rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine [syn: chatter, chattering].

Chatterer (n.) The high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) [syn: chatter, chattering].

Chatterer (v.) Click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth" [syn: chatter, click].

Chatterer (v.) Cut unevenly with a chattering tool.

Chatterer (v.) Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit].

Chatterer (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].

Chatterer (v.) Make noise as if chattering away; "The magpies were chattering in the trees".

Chatteration (n.) The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]

Chatterer (n.) A prater; an idle talker.

Chatterer (n.) (Zool.) A bird of the family Ampelidae -- so called from its monotonous note.

The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) Inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.

Chatterer (n.) An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker [syn: chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, magpie, spouter].

Chatterer (n.) Passerine bird of New World tropics [syn: cotinga, chatterer].

Chattering (n.) 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.

Chattering (n.) The rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine [syn: chatter, chattering]

Chattering (n.) The high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) [syn: chatter, chattering].

Chattiness (n.) The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

Chatty (a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative. -- Lady M. W. Montagu.

Chatty (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Chatty (a.) Full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky].

Chatty (a.) Prone to friendly informal communication [syn: chatty, gossipy, newsy].

Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. -- Johnson.

Chaud-medley (n.) (Law) 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. -- Burrill.

Chaudron (n.) See Chawdron. [Obs.]

Chauffeur (n.) (pl.) (F. Hist.) 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.

Chauffeur (n.) [C] （尤指私家車的）汽車司機；駕駛汽車的人 One who manages the running of an automobile or limousine; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.

Chauffeur (n.) A man paid to drive a privately owned car.

Chauffeur (v.) (v. t.) 開（汽車）；替……開車；開車運送 (v. i.) 當汽車司機 Drive someone in a vehicle [syn: drive around, chauffeur].

Chauffer (n.) 小爐；手提炭爐 A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

Chauffeur (n.) [ C ] （富豪或重要人物的）私人司機 Someone whose job is to drive a car for a rich or important person.

// A chauffeur-driven limousine.

Chauffeur mum (n.) [C] A mother who lives in an area with little or no public transport and spends a lot of time driving her children to and from school and other places.

Chauldron (n.) See Chawdron. [Obs.]

Chaun (n.) A gap. [Obs.] -- Colgrave.

Chaun (v. t. & i.) To open; to yawn. [Obs.]

O, chaun thy breast. -- Marston.

Chaunt (n. & v.) See Chant.

Chaunter (n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

Chaunter (n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.]

Chaunter (n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

Chaunterie (n.) See Chantry. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Chaus (n.) (Zool.) A lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa ({Lynx Lybicus).

Chausses (n. pl.) [F.] 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.

Chaussure (n.) [F.] A foot covering of any kind.

Chauvinism (n.) Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

Chauvinism (n.) exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause; -- as, male chauvinism, i.e. belief in the superiority of males. -- Chau"vin*ist, n. & adj. -- Chau`vin*is"tic, a.

Note: To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness. -- Prof. H. Tuttle.

Chauvinism (n.) Fanatical patriotism [syn: chauvinism, jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism].

Chauvinism (n.) Activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women [syn: male chauvinism, chauvinism, antifeminism].

Chavender (n.) (Zool.) The chub. -- Walton.

Chawed (imp. & p. p.) of Chaw.

Chawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaw.

Chaw (v. t.) To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. -- Surrey.

Chaw (v. t.) To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over. -- Dryden.

Note: A word formerly in good use, but now regarded as vulgar.

Chaw (n.) As much as is put in the mouth at once; a chew; a quid. [Law]

Chaw (n.) [Cf. Jaw.] The jaw. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Chaw (n.) A wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad].

Chaw (v.) Chew without swallowing; "chaw tobacco".

Chaw bacon, A rustic; a bumpkin; a lout. (Law)

Chaw tooth, A grinder. (Law)

Chawdron (n.) Entrails. [Obs.] [Written also chaudron, chauldron.] -- Shak.

Chay root () The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]

Chazy epoch () (Geol.) An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system; -- so named from a township in Clinton Co., New York. See the Diagram under Geology.

Cheap (n.) A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. -- Shak.

Cheap (a.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. -- Locke.

Cheap (a.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

You grow cheap in every subject's eye. -- Dryden.

Dog cheap, Very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

Cheap (adv.) Cheaply. -- Milton.

Cheap (v. i.) To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Cheap (a.) Relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants" [syn: cheap, inexpensive] [ant: expensive].

Cheap (a.) Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy].

Cheap (a.) Of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny].

Cheap (a.) Embarrassingly stingy [syn: cheap, chinchy, chintzy].

Cheapened (imp. & p. p.) of Cheapen.

Cheapening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheapen.

Cheapen (v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.]

Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. -- Swift.

Cheapen (a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. -- Pope.

My proffered love has cheapened me. -- Dryden.

Cheapen (v.) Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth [syn: degrade, cheapen].

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